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The Best Hand Dryer in Toronto

Posted by Jerrold Litwinenko / February 26, 2008

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20080226_bacon.jpgOk, so this wasn't a category in our "Best of Toronto" reader survey, and debatably it may not even be the best hand dryer in the city, but it certainly deserves a nod for being one of the funniest contributions we've seen in the blogTO Flickr pool in quite some time.

This photo, taken by blogTO reader Gloria Nieto, got a genuine LOL out of me.

The cleverly-defaced hand dryer, which she dubbed "Popular wisdom: The bacon machine" was found and photographed in a restroom at Toronto's Eglinton Mall.

Thanks for sharing this one with us, Gloria!

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james a / February 26, 2008 at 10:50 pm
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That joke is as old as the bacon hand dryer itself!

<a href="http://images.google.ca/images?q=press+button+receive+bacon&;ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1">Check it!</a>
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Jerrold / February 26, 2008 at 11:07 pm
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Thanks for the link, James. I had no idea there was a global bacon hand dryer phenomenon. :)
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greeg / February 26, 2008 at 11:07 pm
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just another copycat
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james a / February 26, 2008 at 11:16 pm
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Copycat or not though, I still laugh every time I see it.
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Gloria / February 26, 2008 at 11:27 pm
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Ah, who says it was a copy-cat? It's bacon; the joke was inevitable!
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Denis / February 27, 2008 at 12:47 am
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Hilarious? Yes. Original? No. This is also in the men's bathroom on the first floor of the University of Guelph library.
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Aaron / February 27, 2008 at 09:02 am
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Who cares how many times it's posted?
It's hilarious!
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Dan Misener / February 27, 2008 at 10:39 am
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Also seen in the men's washroom at the Queen Mum.
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g-ram / February 27, 2008 at 12:28 pm
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i personally prefer the "clap for bacon" variation.
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bob / February 27, 2008 at 02:23 pm
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My father pointed one of those dryers out to me one time and translated it as, "put finger in hole, do magic tricks, receive infinite wisdom."
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Chris Orbz / February 28, 2008 at 06:10 pm
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http://flickr.com/photos/orbz/2299244886/in/photostream/

A challenger appears!
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