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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDoes anyone else think the whole toilet paper over thing is a myth created by cats?
Zambero
(8,979 posts)htuttle
(23,738 posts)Tech
(1,777 posts)sl8
(13,980 posts)Mr. Wheeler had a lot of patents related to toilet paper and this one was far from the first, the first would have been at least 20 years earlier.
Some of the patents show the roll going the other way:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US511983
https://patents.google.com/patent/US422866A
Short piece on this patent argument:
http://www.bpmlegal.com/w-overunder.html
Blurb on Mr. Wheeler & perforated paper:
http://www.albanyinstitute.org/perforated-toilet-paper.html
shraby
(21,946 posts)there are many hands, they worked outside on the farm as a rule and had grubby hands to grab the toilet paper.
MaryMagdaline
(6,859 posts)Bayard
(22,228 posts)In the very first apartment I ever had, I owned a cat. I came home from work one day to find a whole roll of toilet paper wrapped around every piece of furniture.
Golden Raisin
(4,615 posts)with a full, new roll of toilet paper in the bathroom. Came home that evening to an empty cardboard spindle in the bathroom and toilet paper streamed/strewn over, under, around furniture, book cases, everything. I just had to laugh.
keithbvadu2
(37,034 posts)UTUSN
(70,781 posts)Therefore, the roll hangs with the leaf *OVER* the top towards one.
Yes, my attention has been called to me by cat companions that this orientation is facilitating for cats.