But even if potty talk grosses you out, flushing and running isn't the best strategy either.

Given both of Handler's well-documented scatological fixations, it wasn't surprising that the interview included a lot of potty talk.

Nevertheless, ANA has apparently decided to spare its non-Japanese-speaking customers the potential embarrassment of pre-boarding potty talk.

At what point does a parent of young children stop condemning potty talk and simply throw up his or her hands and let the scatological speech spill forth?

Actor Mark Wahlberg was all about the parenthood and potty talk during his Monday morning visit to TODAY.

PROFANITY - Some potty talk.

His book, which offers alternatives to public potty talk, also features the kind of advice that could have altered the Michigan tale of the tainted tongue - which Mr. O'Connor, in an interview, called "ridiculous."

A running gag here is that Elmyra continually washes Brain's mouth whenever he says either something that she would find offensive or merely scientific jargon that she can't understand (she calls it "naughty-waughty potty talk").

The "Paranormal Activity" concept spawns yet another comic variation (after "A Haunted House" and "Scary Movie V") with "Ghost Team One," a rude and somewhat crude effort in which typewriter-font intertitles, a mobile camera and staccato surveillance video intersect with a stream of slacker potty talk.