Ah, the weekend front page....

I got bit by a spider using my great aunt's outhouse in the early '60s in Oklahoma. I never sat at one again. She also had an ice box and a huge hearing aid that she wore around her neck. She held the earpiece of the phone to her chest when talking. I haven't seen one of those since then, either.

Hey OutHouses rock. No need for a plunger and always free and easy. Just ave to remember to put some clorox down the hole once in a while.

Larry Mohr

She also had an ice box and a huge hearing aid that she wore around her neck.

Posted by goatman at 2008-06-08 06:39 PM


got any pics of the ice box?

Back in the day (before mine anyways) my dad and my uncle decide, after a few beers, that they would see who could shoot their initials into my uncle's outhouse door better.

My uncle Bill was half-way through a "w" when it struck them that maybe they should make sure the outhouse wasn't in use at the time. Fortunatley for them, and various family members, it wasn't.

Larry, an outhouse in summer is the best conspipator known to man.

got any pics of the ice box?

No. She died when I was 12 or 13. My dad might. Why? I remember that it was a wooden thing with iron or steel braces on the outside. That's about all I remember about it except her yelling at us for opening it all the time looking for snacks.

Just ave to remember to put some clorox down the hole once in a while.

DOesn't that kill the fauna the breaks down the solid matter?

A few years ago I was in the Black Hills, SD. There was one place we stopped at The Needles that had a high teck outhouse. I say high tech, but it was just not smelly. There was a long pipe painted black coming from the toilet that heated up and kept gently pulling air through the toilet seat -- just enough to keep the fumes from entering the bathroom. I wasn't nasty at all. It was a lot better than port-a-potties in fact

Oh I hate porta potties. I went into one once to do My thing about 4 Years ago. I leaned back against the wall and the fucking thing tipped over on it's back. THANK GOD no fecal matter made it's journey onto Me. I hate shit. I finally got out of there. Cheap assed plastic things.

Larry Mohr

PS Goatman I wouldn't dump a whole gallon of clorox down an outhouse just a cup or 2 full is all.

I still don't understand why you say to pour some clorox down the hole Larry, I've lived in 3 different residences where there was only an outhouse and no one ever said to do that.

O D O R DUH

O D O R DUH

If you have a healthy fauna, odors are kept at a minimum. If you kill them with clorox, shit stinks more because it's not being broken down.

This has been a very informative thread and I am glad that I have learned all I need to know about out houses. Thank you.

Well, Danni, when the economy collapses as the libs keep on predicting and seemingly hoping, you will know how to dispose of your bodily wasstes. With this knowledge, learn to compost, grow, build a root cellar, and can and you'll be ready for the new dark age. Evolution will be tested. Only the fittest will survive.

This has been a very informative thread and I am glad that I have learned all I need to know about out houses. Thank you.

Posted by danni at 2008-06-08 08:29 PM

You got that right. Are you guys done now so anyone else reading this thread
can finally take the clothespin off their nose?

Hey could be worse. You could be forced to go in a coffee can.

Larry Mohr

Danni,

You haven't lived until you've entered a raw untreated outhouse.

In the summer, you open the door and first the heat hits you.

Then you step in and the smell is something else.

And don't even glance down into the hole.

Living in the country is interesting. At night you may not want to go outside. That's why there are chamber pots.

Depending on where you're sleeping in the house and the location of other bedrooms, you might wake up to a disturbing odor.

God bless the indoor toilet.

Bill;You forgot the whole fighting through a solid wall of flies part. You can hear an outhouse as well as smell one from a hundred yards.

Too bad this guy does'nt live in Iraq. If he did, our government would hook him up with a p-diddy style bathroom. Over here though, you goit to settle for the wood box.

I got bit by a spider using my great aunt's outhouse in the early '60s in Oklahoma. I never sat at one again.

Posted by Senor Goat

Spiders.. heh they ain't nothing compared to having yellowjackets tickle your boys. I never moved so fast in my life after one big bee landed on my johnson.
Always lift the seat first or you may end up lame.

big bee landed on my johnson

Oh, and it really wasn't a big bee, just looked big by comparison...

;-)

I used one at my grandmas house when I was really young. There were still a handful of partially used Sears catalogs - the toilet paper of necessity until the 1920's around those parts.

I had cousins who were missionaries in Peru. One old lady got quite a shock in the outhouse when a boa constrictor nudged her on the butt.

Technically, I think that counts as involuntary beestiality.

Posted by BobSF_94117

Now that gets the "phunniest phlag" of the day....

An oil exploration company buys a lease on an old couple's farm and begins drilling a well.

While the well is being drilled, the oil company man gets in the habit of stopping by the farmer's house for coffee every morning and becomes quite fond of the pair.

Unfortunately, the well turns out to be a dry hole. The company man, as a gesture of friendship, builds an outhouse over the well.

One day a few months later, he is driving by the farm and stops by to see how the outhouse is working for them.

He opens the door and sees the old lady sitting on the seat. Her face is blue and she is shaking violently.

He runs to the farmhouse for help and tells the farmer what he has seen.

The farmer says, "Don't worry about Ma, she just likes to hold her breath till she hears the spash."

splash

At one time I thought it would be a good idea to publish a coffee table book called "Outhouses of America" and their sometimes funny history.

I was soon disabused of that idea but I ended up with a couple hundred pictures of outhouses I gathered in my travels.

Old stagecoach stops/layovers had 3-seaters. (Becha' ya' all didn't know that.)

I have a picture of a civil war era outhouse that has a brass memorial plaque on the door ~ "On July 12, 1864 absolutely nothing happened here."

Some people had the ingenuity to build their outhouse over a running stream . . . no holes, no smell.

So many stories . . . so little time.

I'd love to invent a carseat that had a potty embedded into it. Instead of having to either pull over and stop somewhere or using a wide mouthed one liter bottle/Laundry soap bottle. You would just Set Your cruise control set steering control and Pull Your stuff down and go. The wee would land up on the highway/street and the solid waste would be bagged up ready for disposal once You have reached Your destination. No more wasted pit stops.

Larry Mohr

"I got bit by a spider using my great aunt's outhouse in the early '60s in Oklahoma. I never sat at one again."


And yet you're called....Goatman.

Some people had the ingenuity to build their outhouse over a running stream . . . no holes, no smell.

Read a story about some eastcoasters who built their's over the ocean. Apparently, the fish and crab were always waiting under it.

Just ave to remember to put some clorox down the hole once in a while.

DOesn't that kill the fauna the breaks down the solid matter?

Posted by goatman at 2008-06-08 07:19 PM




Hydrated lime....as kids we had one down by the swimming pond.

No more wasted pit stops.

Posted by Larry"Out, damned spot"Mohr

Where would you wash your hands, Larry?

Posted by Larry"Out, damned spot"Mohr

Where would you wash your hands, Larry?


Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2008-06-09 10:17 AM | Reply | Flag: Flag: (Choose)
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First of all I am not responsible for the Iraq War in ANY way shape or form. Please do try again. Oh and as far as Your question where would I wash My hands that's easy. Purell and wet ones. THAT is where.

Larry Mohr

First of all I am not responsible for the Iraq War in ANY way shape or form.
Posted by LarryMohr

I know, I know... you wrote your congressman.

"Where would you wash your hands, Larry?

Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2008-06-09 10:17 AM"

What? Wash your hands? Whatever for?

Larry

Technically, I think that counts as involuntary beestiality.

Posted by BobSF_94117

Now that gets the "phunniest phlag" of the day....

Posted by frankf55 at 2008-06-09 12:54 AM | Reply | Flag:

Too bad your not qualified to be a judge of humor.....

your=you're....at least someone will laugh at the stupidity of that grammar/spelling error.......

DX,

"Always lift the seat first or you may end up lame."

Your seat was hinged?

ooohhh....that's high-class!!