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Reader: XX marks the spot for ladies’ restrooms

If you were looking for a restaurant restroom and found one labeled "Wags," would you assume it was a ladies' room? Would it help you if you knew that the other restroom was named "Ballers"? Those are the bathroom titles at Three Lions, but they're far from the only odd...
By Patricia CalhounFebruary 3, 2012
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If you were looking for a restaurant restroom and found one labeled “Wags,” would you assume it was a ladies’ room? Would it help you if you knew that the other restroom was named “Ballers”?

Those are the bathroom titles at Three Lions, but they’re far from the only odd monikers.

Says nd:

I ate at a restaurant in Spain that XX and XY on the bathroom doors. My wife said some guy came waltzing into the women’s room, saw my wife at the sink and goes, “damn, I never was good at biology.”

What are the strangest bathroom names you’ve seen around town?

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com

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