On 2005-05-31, running dogg wrote:

The inventor of toilet paper had a hell of a time selling his invention.
People thought, why waste clean paper when a page from last year's Sears
catalog would do just as well? That was about a hundred years ago. Plus
the toilet paper had splinters (ouch).

Toilet paper got its big break when the Wilson War Department decided to
issue toilet tissue to the doughboys, much to the amazement of the
Tommies and Poilus. Fritz's attitude is unrecorded. I dunno how well
a roll of tissue did in the mud of France.