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Toilet seat museum named wackiest in U.S.

ALAMO HEIGHTS, Texas (UPI) -- A Texas museum dedicated to a retired plumber's artwork -- decorated toilet seats -- has been named the Wackiest Attraction in America by a popular Web site.

TripAdvisor.com bestowed that designation on the Toilet Seat Museum, in the garage of Alamo Heights artist and retired plumber Barney Smith. The museum features 900 hand-carved, painted and decorated toilet seats for the viewing pleasure of the public, KSAT-TV, San Antonio, Texas, reported Thursday.

Smith has toilet seats decorated as tributes to celebrities, famous historical scenes and even lids with relics attached from the space shuttle Challenger explosion and Nazi concentration camps.

Running the museum, which Smith said has been visited by people from all 50 states and 64 foreign countries, has grown into a full-time job.

"I get so tired until I'll be a drilling in somebody's name and I will drop my drill onto the toilet seat, and I'll pick it up and rub my eyes and wake up and get busy there," he said. "I'll work a few more hours before I ever turn off the light and go to bed."

Copyright 2009 by United Press International

This news arrived on: 10/16/2009

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