How Many Here Have Used A Outhouse?
I know theres a bunch of you that probably never used one. Boy did you miss a treat. Some probably never even seen one.
Yep, they were fun. Cold outside in the middle of the night and you hold it as long as you can and then take off running to hurry and try to get back to bed to get warm. Twist just right and get a splinter. [:D] If you were lucky you only had to do #1 and could just go off the porch.
My folks were up to date, we had a two-holer..[;)]
Yep, they were fun. Cold outside in the middle of the night and you hold it as long as you can and then take off running to hurry and try to get back to bed to get warm. Twist just right and get a splinter. [:D] If you were lucky you only had to do #1 and could just go off the porch.
My folks were up to date, we had a two-holer..[;)]
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Sure, single and multi-holers. Two bedrooms and a path was a standard nationwide joke at the time. Never did learn to appreciate the spiders, wasps, ants, corncobs, and slick catalog paper. I don't know which was worse in the winter, a wooden seat in the outhouse, or a porcelain coated steel chamberpot in an unheated room inside the house.
There were a few pages of that old catalog it just seemed a sin to wipe with![}:)]0 -
Sanitary toilets......Glad they are mostly gone. Don't miss em a bit.
Never cleaned one out...just dug a new hole and moved it. Threw the dirt in the old hole.
DONT use the slick pages..they will skid. [:(]
Newspaper leaves ink stains.
Kroger pokes are too rough.
DON'T use the ladies undies section....it has other uses. (your big bother won't tell you what but he'll smack you in the head for it.)
Always check for wasp nests BEFORE setting down.
If your a kid DON'T set on the big hole...don't ask
DON'T drop anything....its gone forever.
Never try to snatch a outhouse without checking to see if its empty first!...Again don't ask. [}:)]
Never leave the door unfastened...or it'll swing open and let your pals make fun of you....and there will be someone to see! I don't care if your 30 miles from town and on private property someone will walk by and look in!
Women still hadda go in groups!....whatsup with that?
And guys if your hunting and camping dig a lil hole. Those clusters of white TP all over the place look really really nasty! [V]
Allen
It was not so long ago
That I went trippin thru the snow
Out to that house behind my old hound dog
It was just a simple hut
But the door was never shut
And a man could get inside without a dime
Where I'd lay me down to rest
Like a snowbird on it's nest
And read the Sears and roebuck catalog0 -
I have and dont care for them. Im in my 30's but always think there is something down there. There are always a bunch of wasps in them to. I would rather dig a hole. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by minitruck83
Sanitary toilets......Glad they are mostly gone. Don't miss em a bit.
Never cleaned one out...just dug a new hole and moved it. Threw the dirt in the old hole.
DONT use the slick pages..they will skid. [:(]
Newspaper leaves ink stains.
Kroger pokes are too rough.
DON'T use the ladies undies section....it has other uses. (your big bother won't tell you what but he'll smack you in the head for it.)
Always check for wasp nests BEFORE setting down.
If your a kid DON'T set on the big hole...don't ask
DON'T drop anything....its gone forever.
Never try to snatch a outhouse without checking to see if its empty first!...Again don't ask. [}:)]
Never leave the door unfastened...or it'll swing open and let your pals make fun of you....and there will be someone to see! I don't care if your 30 miles from town and on private property someone will walk by and look in!
Women still hadda go in groups!....whatsup with that?
And guys if your hunting and camping dig a lil hole. Those clusters of white TP all over the place look really really nasty! [V]
Allen
One of lifes unanswered questions.[:D][:D][:D]0 -
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Women still hadda go in groups!....whatsup with that?One of lifes unanswered questions.[:D][:D][:D]
I just knew it was one of those things I didn't want to know! [:D]
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Did'nt Jimmy Dean have a hit single about a two-story outhouse? Was'nt it called Big Bad John? 0 -
I work for Kohler Company. We do not use the "O" word here...... 0 -
an outhouse is no challange comapred to a boat toilet with a stright pipe to the water...every swell has the potential to give you the badai treatment...salt water on yur parts aint fun. 0 -
Yep...I've used an outhouse...not that bad[:D] 0 -
OK here is a peice of true trivia for you all. The incidence of black widow spider bites declined dramatically in the US during the last half of the 20th Century. Why? Indoor plumbing. The majority of bites were recieved on the genitals and buttocks while using the outhouse.
Think about that next time.0 -
YUP used one daily for about 5 years as a kid. Lets just say I didn't waste any time reading while I was getting the job done. Especially in the winter. My great uncle had an "attached" outhouse for years. The modern ones are pretty much stink free because they finally put big enought vent pipes( usually abot 12") into the hole to carry the smell out.I've helped fill and dig a couple holes too.
I recall a few dance halls that up till about 15 years ago still had outhose type facilities often with multiple holes and a troth for the men to go in.0
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