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Article: Designer supersizes toilet seats for big
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- August 15, 2004
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Designer supersizes toilet seats for big, tall
By NICOLE SUNKES Los Angeles Daily News
Sunday, August 15, 2004
Aitan Levy's customers were fed up with their standard-size toilet
seats. Too small, they complained. And too flimsy. Bottom line --
they were bummed out.
So the plumbing-fixture designer from Sherman Oaks, Calif., came
up with a novel solution: a king-size seat for the plus-size crowd.
He calls his invention the Big John Toilet Seat.
"The people that complained weren't just overweight," he says.
"They are big because they are tall, big because they're athletes,
larger-framed, bigger-boned. And also because the way toilet seats
are made, they are very flimsy."
Big John Toilet Seats ...