Last Updated on March 21, 2015 by Red Nomad OZ
At first glance, this public toilet in Gunnedah, Central NSW seems unremarkable, right?
Especially when compared to the wonders and delights of the Australian public toilets already on display in these pages …
BUT … Gunnedah’s offering can hold its head high in the public toilet pantheon, because it offers a complete poetry-themed amenities experience!
At the end of Gunnedah’s ‘Poets Drive’ featuring 16 Aussie poets, the brochures encourage tourists to visit the ‘Lyrical Loos’! If you think, as I first did, that this is just a cutesy way of describing a convenience block, you’d be wrong! It’s a literal description – the continuous loop recording of famous Australian poems plays throughout the building to match the external silhouettes of poetic scenes!
But wait! There’s more!!
Then, when seated inside doing what comes naturally, take the time for quietly reflecting on your selected poem, against the backdrop of the recorded recitation.
How nice!
Half in jest, half in earnest,
I wish to go Australia for sitting in this toilet.
@jersuji – well come on down! There’s plenty more scenic toilets – and the other fantastic scenery will make it even more worthwhile! Thanx for visiting!!
Hey Jim! Well, what’s the difference, anyway?!?! Glad you dropped by!!
Laughed about this. This thread is sure gonna get a lot of grafiti , oops sorry, I mean comments!
Nice one Red
@Betty – Lots more weird stuff where that came from!
@The Novelist – Welcome! Sadly, the tourist pamplets don’t run to intellectual property credits. Maybe they decided to see how it went first!!!
Thanx both for visiting!!
I wonder who came up with that idea! Even more I wonder who ok’d it! That is too funny. It takes bathroom literature to a whole new level.
That’s great ! Thanks for sharing it!
Have a fabulous weekend!
B xx
Hi River, welcome back! I’m glad you were wrong too! ANYTHING on the back of the toilet door will get at least some attention!
When you said lyrical loos I immediately thought of the verses usually scratched, inked, lipsticked on the doors and walls of public toilets. I’m so glad I was wrong. Seems like a lovely way to learn a little poetry.
Years ago when my kids were school age we had the times tables poster up on the back of the loo door along with an alphabet one.
@Cathy – yes, but is it a world first??!!
@Marshall-Stacks – welcome! I couldn’t believe the tourist brochures actually promote it! Only in Oz …
@Andrew – QLD has ‘Mango’ and ‘Nomango’ – thats probably the most creative I’ve seen! I’m like you, so no further suggestions!!
@Chris – welcome, oh virgin commenter!! Sadly, lesser known poets/poems only, I believe! But one of the silhouettes depicts a scene from TMFSR!
@KAth – yep, there’s a whole ‘nother series of blog posts on PT graffiti just waiting to see the light of day! Not me, though, this is scatalogical enough for me …
@Toni – I get some odd looks when I ask around for the most scenic PTs! But look at the pix – it’s SO worth it …
Public toilets are usually something I avoid till avoidance is no longer possible, but I think I could almost enjoy this one!
What a great idea – every public toilet needs to have something that isn’t ‘F**K you’ scrawled on their doors!
Brilliant! Did Snowy River get a guernsey? I’ve just (finally) finished learning it by <3
BTW told you I might, erm, drop a comment one of these days… and the lyrical loos seemed like the perfect place. 😀
Pretty good. Pity they did not come up with some imaginative names instead of males and females. I am not imaginative and so I can think of none.
oh it’s fabulous – thank you so much for sharing.
Well, that’s interesting. It is a little odd, but why not!