Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/17

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Subject: [Leica] re: Toilets
From: msmall at infionline.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Fri Feb 17 15:11:50 2006
References: <008e01c63414$af62dd00$2ee76c18@ted>

When my charming bride and I visited my son in Alaska last Fourth of July
(that's a religious festival in the US of A, Ted), she picked up a photo
book entitled OUTHOUSES OF ALASKA, a most worthy volume.  But, then, in
Alaska, all you have to do is take a camera out for an afternoon and you
can have a book-worth of outhouse shots PDQ.  They still have a lot of them. 
 

Outhouses are less common here in the Appalachians, where they have been
replaced by septic systems (as seems to be the case in Canada, as witness
the success of Winston Rothschild's Septic Sucking Service on the Red Green
Show).  But, as a youth, I used many of them when my mother hauled me about
visiting my relatives with one leg shorter than the other from chasing the
cow around the mountain too many times.

I go camping every summer at a former CCC project about thirty miles north
of here, and they've had flush toilets since the early 1950's.  There's not
much respect for quaintness alive at our National Forest Service, I fear.

Ted, do a book on outhouses.  Just stay away from Possum Lake, as Winston
has that market locked up.

Marc

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