Excuse me, I need to powder my nose!

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  </b></div> <div>   </div> <div> Have students come up with as many ways to say "I have to go to the bathroom" as possible.</div> <div> Use the answers to discuss euphemism, slang, appropriateness of language, context.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>These are some of my students answers</b></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="561" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 30 WIDTH="274"><div> <B>Euphemism</b></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="268"><div> <B>Slang</b></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 971 ><NOBR><div> pee </div> <div> pee pee</div> <div> wee wee</div> <div> tinkle</div> <div> number one and two</div> <div> make a puddle</div> <div> visit the water closet</div> <div> powder my nose</div> <div> go to the ladies room</div> <div> go to the little boy's room</div> <div> may I be excused</div> <div> I'll be right back</div> <div> potty</div> <div> piddle</div> <div> go to the toilet</div> <div> use the restroom</div> <div> take a bathroom break</div> <div> need to excuse myself</div> <div> make a pit stop</div> <div> go to the ladies/men's room</div> <div> the lavetory</div> <div> the BC (bathroom comode)</div> <div> business to take care of</div> <div> relieve some stress</div> <div> tinkle</div> <div> empty my bladder</div> <div> loo</div> <div> potty room</div> <div> pardon me</div> <div> go to the washroom</div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="268"><div> wiz</div> <div> drain my veins</div> <div> leak the lizard</div> <div> go to the John</div> <div> let a river run through it</div> <div> piss</div> <div> go to the soundbox</div> <div> go to the head</div> <div> go to the can</div> <div> drop the kids off at the pool</div> <div> go visit John</div> <div> go to banjo</div> <div> going to the outhouse</div> <div> doing my doodie</div> <div> go visit johnny</div> <div> I goota go poop</div> <div> the pisser</div> <div> take a leak</div> <div> my back teeth are floating</div> <div> my eyes are turning yellow</div> <div> hen/roosters house</div> <div> break the seal</div> <div> drop the chalupa</div> <div> gotta dump</div> <div> take a mad grumpy</div> <div> pinch a loaf</div> <div> shake the dew off the lily</div> <div> Johnny on the spot</div> <div> bona</div> <div> goint to paint a picture</div> <div> take a leak</div> <div> hershey squirt</div> <div> visit the litter box</div> <div> I need to read the newspaper</div> <div> sit on the throne</div> <div> baking a cake</div> <div> dump some garbage</div> <div> ride the white mule</div> <div> gotta pee like a race horse</div> <div> kidneys are between my shoulderblades</div> <div> my eyes are floating</div> <div> necessito el bano</div> <div> get rid of waste</div> <div> gotta pee dangle</div> <div> see a man about a horse</div> <div> gotta turtle head a pokin</div> <div> make sock puppets</div> <div> make water</div> <div> drop an anchor</div> <div> lay pipe</div> <div> going to my office to do paperwok</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>