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Hotel toilet paper folding is a common practice performed by hotels worldwide as a way of assuring guests that the bathroom has been cleaned.〔Feldman, David, When Do Fish Sleep? and other Imponderables of Everyday Life", p 4, "Why Do Many Hotels and Motels Fold Over the Last Piece of Toilet Paper in the Bathroom?" New York: Harper & Row, 1989〕 The common fold normally involves creating a triangle or "V" shape out of the first sheet or square on a toilet paper roll. Commonly, the two corners of the final sheet are tucked behind the paper symmetrically, forming a point at the end of the roll. More elaborate folding results in shapes like fans, sailboats, and even flowers. Toilet paper folding (also known as "toilet paper origami" or "toilegami") has attracted the attention of observers within the hotel industry and beyond it, involving both sober discussion of the practice as a marketing move as well as wry commentary with various degrees of seriousness. The practice has been considered an emblematic example of a meme copied across the world from a hotel to another until the point that most of them now do it.〔Randerson, James, science correspondent, ("The meme-ing of life" ), blog post, February 22, 2006, "News Blog", ''The Guardian'', retrieved March 31, 2009〕 ==Extent== The practice is followed by hotels all over the world, according to Stephen Gill, a British photographer who published a book of pictures of folded hotel toilet paper from various nations.〔Barnett, Laura, ("The loo roll that says I love you: Stephen Gill explains why he spent three years taking pictures of hotel toilet paper" ), article, ''The Guardian'', September 26, 2007, retrieved March 31, 2009〕 Dr. Susan Blackmore, who uses the example of hotel toilet paper folding to illustrate the use of memes, pointed out in the 2006 Darwin Day Lecture before the British Humanist Association that even a remote guesthouse she visited in rural Assam in India folded the first sheet on its rolls of toilet paper.〔 Hotel toilet paper folding is such an institution that in the horror movie ''1408'' it is used as one of the eerie happenings noticed by the main character—after using the toilet paper, he finds it mysteriously has been freshly folded over.〔Salles, Steve, movie critic, "Roaches, bedbugs the least of your worries in '1408'", movie review, The Standard-Examiner of Ogden, Utah, June 22, 2007, retrieved via NewsBank.com, March 31, 2009〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hotel toilet paper folding」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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