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Dawn thanks the two readers sending news about the upcoming "World Toilet Expo 2005" to be held in Shanghai, May 8-10, 2005. According to www.worldtoilet.org, "Gracious Living for a Model City" is the theme of this first-ever event. Co-organized by the World Toilet Organisation, the World Toilet Expo is a "dedicated industry platform" to be held concurrently with the long-standing World Toilet Forum: "Besides a showcase of the latest products and services, a large array of innovative solutions for the restroom and hygiene industry will be on display, and the Forum will offer an outstanding distinguished panel of speakers."

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(Those unable to get to Shanghai on such short notice may want to plan for the September 2005 "World Toilet Summit" to be held in Belfast, "the first major world conference devoted to toilet provision and standards ever held in the West. With a wide ranging audience of 'away from home' toilet providers, suppliers and user groups all eager to raise the standards by sharing best practice, the event will be a platform for the discussion of new ideas and the way forward for toileting needs." Dawn wonders, however, about the juxtaposition of Irish cuisine and its inevitable by-product: "A major product and service support exhibition will take place alongside the Conference in St. George's Market, where a Gala Awards Dinner and Irish themed evening will also be held....")

Those surfing www.worldtoilet.org may want to click on "contests." There, you will be invited to pen essays on: A) Why you think people draw graffiti in toilets? B) Why you think people dirty the toilet? C) What do you think the government should do about toilets? and, D) If you see someone splashing water all over, what should you do? (Dawn detects a certain authoritarianism inherent in some of these queries, perhaps stemming from the organization's Asian roots? The somewhat quirky English suggests such, though the website's creators had sufficient grasp of Shakespeare's native tongue to note that host of the 2004 toilet confab, Beijing, is the "world's number one-- and number two!-- toilet spot....")

Additionally, browsers are offered the chance to wax rhapsodic on the theme "Ever dream about, 'If they should have this thing in the toilet, I would be having a much wonderful experience.'" Surely, Dawn's readers have useful suggestions in this category. Dawn personally advances the notion that all public men's toilets should have stalls equipped with "honeymoon gloryholes" wherein a dick-level, well-padded hole between stall walls is shielded by sliding doors on both sides; to be operable, both neighbors must open their sliding door, thus protecting prudes (or those with pressing intestinal concerns) from unwanted attention.

Should your essay in any category be selected (there are to be 20 winners in each!), you will receive a "mysterious toilet gift." Hmmmm.