U-bend

Last comment should have read: “Is that when you got your name”, implying that Stargazer also spent time gazing up somebodys ‘star’ when he didn ` t have his arm round a U-bend.

What A Load Of Pants! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

Because it is well known to those of us close to insiders that Wayne Rooney's catastrophic lack of form in South Africa was not caused by impending tabloid revelations, but by severe constipation resulting from an irrational fear that crocodiles living in the Rustenberg sewage system might dart round the U-bend and bite his bottom during a "sit-down".

All cisterns must be go for England's team at Euro 2012 | Harry Pearson 2011

As half of Europe is sucked round the fiscal U-bend, now seems a good time to look at the whole "capitalism is bum, so what now?" issue.

It's a good week for … Money 2011

Laksen started to look for PVC pipe cement to reattach it but I thought I remembered that gluing a U-bend in place would be bad -- you need to be able to get it off to clean out the trap -- and that it should be possible to just finger-tighten the joint.

Liveblogging Mars (updated) 2010

It turned out that the U-bend under the sink in the science lab had come loose -- someone in some previous crew had put a bucket under it, but we'd been using it unawares and it had filled up and spilled over.

Liveblogging Mars (updated) 2010

Clusters of heavy industry have spread up from Shanxi, Ningxia, and Gansu, clogging the U-bend of the Yellow River, which is here so contaminated the water is consistently ranked as unhealthy even to touch.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

Clusters of heavy industry have spread up from Shanxi, Ningxia, and Gansu, clogging the U-bend of the Yellow River, which is here so contaminated the water is consistently ranked as unhealthy even to touch.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

Clusters of heavy industry have spread up from Shanxi, Ningxia, and Gansu, clogging the U-bend of the Yellow River, which is here so contaminated the water is consistently ranked as unhealthy even to touch.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

Inside was a thick pipe with a U-bend and a grease trap outlet at its base.

TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009

An ipod would probably get sucked right down the U-bend.

Off-Topic: Which is less likely to fall into a toilet, an MP3 player or disc player? David Campbell 2007