Good-Bye WC, Hello Toilet

It's about time.

No more jokes about being a toilet aimed at me in China. My name. W.C. Belew.

Leading up to the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games, Beijing has decided to change all the names on the public commodes, pots, crappers…from WC to the more standard…toilet.

WC is old Victorian English for water closet…kind of like an outhouse.

Whew! Thank goodness…no more being called "Outhouse Belew."

Also on the list of changes is using the actual meanings on road signs instead of the romanized pinyin version of names…East Changan instead of Dong Changan.

Menus…still working on that one. Instead of 69…it will be Beef and Broccoli…or something else that is edible or something like "mixed elbow with garlic mud".

What's the worst nickname you have ever received?