What’s so funny about this? This joke is based on an old biblical saying from the book of Matthew. The original saying is : The spirit may be willing but the flesh is weak. It’s a warning about not giving in to physical temptation. It could be about food, sex, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, even rock and roll - all the physical pleasures that we tend to overdo or abuse. We all have good intentions but these can go right out the window when something which attracts our basic needs presents itself. This joke is a play in the expression because instead of the flesh, or the body, being weak, it’s the FLUSH. Flushing is the action you perform to wash down the waste matter you deposit into a toilet. The verb can refer to both the toilet itself and the person pressing down the handle to flush the toilet. The mechanism for flushing a toilet is relatively simple. Water is stored in a tank above the toilet. When it’s time to flush, pushing down the handle pulls a chain connected to a rubber plug or
