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| Thread ID: 42046 | 2004-01-30 08:11:00 | WFTWE #87....Obdormition....If you read PC World there, you may encounter.. | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 211308 | 2004-01-30 08:11:00 | Obdormition The numbness or 'going to sleep' of a limb or limbs, etc Given the prediliction of some readers to ascend the throne (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) to read their PC World, and knowing that some like to read it all at the trot (if you will pardon the unfortunate duality of meaning there) I thought that they ought to know the correct term for that peculiar sensation that makes them fall head-first into the door when they attempt to rise after their paperwork is completed. Cheers Billy 8-{) :D Throne, thunderbox, comfort station, bog, loo, gas chamber, thunderpot, dunny, lav, great white telephone, conference room, little girl's room, little boy's room, powder room. Add your favourite (clean) euphemism here: :D |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 211309 | 2004-01-30 09:01:00 | Porcelain, as in point Percy at.... Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 211310 | 2004-01-31 09:47:00 | > Throne, thunderbox, comfort station, bog, > loo, gas chamber, > thunderpot, dunny, lav, great white telephone, > conference room, > little girl's room, little boy's room, powder room. > > Add your favourite (clean) euphemism here: > :D It ain't my favourite but quite a few people still make reference to "the John". :D Incidentally does anyone else think it ridiculous how some people with a separate toilet room in their house refer to it as the "bathroom" ? Like, there is no bath in there.... :D |
Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 211311 | 2004-01-31 13:57:00 | Forget about the euphanisims - You've forgotten about the basic name for the facility in: (1) All of our pioneering houses. (2) Many of our others until about mid-20th century - depending on whether you lived in town or in the country.. (3) Still existing in the cribs ( i.e. baches for you North Islanders) around New Zealand. Technically, it's called a LONG DROP. Now, we won't go into its problems - or the fund of stories related to it - or we'd be here all night. But I can assure you it is alive & well. My family owns 2 of them in 2 different NZ islands. All its survival needs is an absence of health inspectors - plus people with strong arms & long shovels to keep digging & moving the little house to a new spot. Hey, it's a Kiwi tradition! |
Laura (43) | ||
| 211312 | 2004-01-31 16:23:00 | Sorry for the spelling. That should be euphemisms.... I was half -asleep when I wrote it. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 211313 | 2004-02-01 04:41:00 | > Technically, it's called a LONG DROP. > All its survival needs is an absence of health inspectors - plus people > with strong arms & long shovels to keep digging & moving the little > house to a new spot. Ah......That takes me back to family bach days Laura! It was my job to dig the upper reaches with a spade, then use a post-hole borer to get the full required depth. It took hour and hours, and then there was the repositioning of the overhead structure, with Mum asking if it was ready yet, once every five minutes as the day wore on. :D It was an odiferous and spider infested nightmare. :( When I grew older and commenced my apprenticeship I built a crude extraction fan from a retired record-player motor and created a negative pressure zone below the seat. The fan extracted to an outside vent pipe. The whole thing was powered by two old car-radio vibrator transformers, one in the kitchen that we plugged into the stove and fed 12 volts out over an aerial line to the other in the extractor box which stepped it back up to 230v for the fan motor (and we had a small 12 volt light bulb as well to save on torch batteries as Mum refused to switch the torch off at night). Plugged in a few minutes before trekking outside, it provided an odour-free experience for many years until the whole shebang blew over in a storm and was replaced by an indoor chemical jobbie while we sold the place. None of us could afford to buy it, and my parents were aging & needed the money, so it sold for $19,000 when a reasonable but not flash house in a modest city suburb cost $50,000, and just two weeks ago a section alone in the same road sold for over $500,000. X-( Talk about lost opportunities! :( Cheers Billy 8-{) :| |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 211314 | 2004-02-01 06:45:00 | As a an aficionado of language Billy, how about "lavatory"? Lovely word of Middle English origin (latin root - lavatorium) which seems to be slipping away in favour of bog standard "toilet" - as it were. How boring. Or the loquacious "water closet". There's an image to ponder while developing obdormition. ;) |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 211315 | 2004-02-01 08:50:00 | Hey Billy Love your invention... ( Thinks - Must ask Mr Laura whatever happened to that old record player we had in the shed? ) Have you taken out a patent & will expect royalties? |
Laura (43) | ||
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