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the Omrud
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:48 pm
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Mike Lyle <mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> spake thusly:
| Quote: | William wrote:
Of course that's the more normal pattern. I was just attempting to
reinforce your point by stating that, when a UK school does have
bathrooms, what is found in them is - unsurprisingly - baths.
Did you do that thing of blocking up the overflow with softened
Lifebuoy so the bath got really full? (Actually, we were cheap: it
was Premiere lookalike, not real Lifebuoy.)
And the fart-catching in those plastic beakers?
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All my life, I've been grateful to the providence which steered me
away from the places I'd gained at Warwick School and Bablake, to an
extraordinarily good local grammar school, when my family had to move
towns just before I was 11. I have not changed my mind.
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William
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:09 pm
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Mike Lyle wrote:
| Quote: | Did you do that thing of blocking up the overflow with softened
Lifebuoy so the bath got really full? (Actually, we were cheap: it
was Premiere lookalike, not real Lifebuoy.)
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Lifebuoy? Lifebuoy! We had big blocks of pink carbolic, which we had to
carve lumps from with a butter-knife. That stuff just flaked up.
Useless for blocking anything.
Anyway, the tap-flow was so poor that a full bath would have taken a
fortnight. I suppose it would all be power-showers these days.
<Yorkshire Accent>
"We used to dream of a full bath with a block of fake-Lifebuoy"
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| Quote: | And the fart-catching in those plastic beakers?
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That, I will not comment on.
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Maria Conlon
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:08 am
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R H Draney wrote:
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Again, only for the female version...when we fellas aren't feeling
well, the toilet is the preferred destination, and we don't need
anyone to hold our hair as we throw up into it....r
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 2:28 pm
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Maria Conlon filted:
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R H Draney wrote:
Again, only for the female version...when we fellas aren't feeling
well, the toilet is the preferred destination, and we don't need
anyone to hold our hair as we throw up into it....r
Quite a trick, throwing up into one's hair, r.
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Maybe you just weren't drunk enough....r |
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the Omrud
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:38 pm
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Maria Conlon <maria.c-b@sbcglobal.net> spake thusly:
| Quote: | R H Draney wrote:
Again, only for the female version...when we fellas aren't feeling
well, the toilet is the preferred destination, and we don't need
anyone to hold our hair as we throw up into it....r
Quite a trick, throwing up into one's hair, r.
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Nor for girls. I've been there.
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brians@wsu.edu
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 12:27 am
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Maria Conlon wrote:
| Quote: | Again, only for the female version...when we fellas aren't feeling
well, the toilet is the preferred destination, and we don't need
anyone to hold our hair as we throw up into it....r
R H Draney wrote
Quite a trick, throwing up into one's hair, r.
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I used to have hair long enough that it definitely could have been in
the way if I was leaning over barfing. Don't remember that happening,
though. Or maybe you were just commenting on the incongruity of
throwing "up"?
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Maria Conlon
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| Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:18 am
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[Attributions fixed]
brians@wsu.edu wrote:
| Quote: | Maria Conlon wrote:
R H Draney wrote:
Again, only for the female version...when we fellas aren't feeling
well, the toilet is the preferred destination, and we don't need
anyone to hold our hair as we throw up into it....r
Quite a trick, throwing up into one's hair, r.
I used to have hair long enough that it definitely could have been in
the way if I was leaning over barfing. Don't remember that happening,
though. Or maybe you were just commenting on the incongruity of
throwing "up"?
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No, "throwing up" is the term commonly used (in the US).
My comment concerned only the wording of Ron's sentence. (What the
fellas were throwing up into was, presumably, the toilet, not their
hair.)
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Mike Barnes
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| Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:11 pm
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In alt.usage.english, Evan Kirshenbaum wrote:
| Quote: | Many men's rooms
were designed to have two toilets and one or two urinals. When
requirements were put in place that at least one of the toilet stalls
had to be wide enough to accommodate a wheelchair, it would be found
that there wasn't enough room to simply widen one of the stalls, so
the second toilet was removed, often to be replaced by an extra
urinal.
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I visited a bar in Colorado Springs where the partitions had simply been
removed from around the men's toilet(s). Apparently that satisfied the
regulations.
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Mike Barnes
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| Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:14 pm
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In alt.usage.english, Don Phillipson wrote:
| Quote: | "KS" <ks@ks.pll> wrote in message news:dkagbf$djj$1@atlantis.news.tpi.pl...
I am just wondering if a "rest room" can be anything else than a
"lavatory/toilet". Can it be a room where you rest (like a rest area?) or
a
cloakroom, or is its meaning restricted to the water closet facility?
The general problem is that all varieties of English
prefer euphemisms. Literally a lavatory is a place
where you wash, a toilet is a place where you arrange your
hair and finish dressing, a bathroom is where you wash all
over, and so on: and Britain has chosen bathroom and the
USA chose rest room (and both use toilet) as a general
euphemism for latrine.
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Britain certainly hasn't chosen "bathroom" as a euphemism for "latrine".
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Sara Lorimer
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:30 am
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brians@wsu.edu <brians@wsu.edu> wrote:
| Quote: | Speaking of euphemisms, science fiction author Ursula Le Guin expressed
her exasperation with this sort of thing by inventing the word
"shitstool" for "toilet" in "The Dispossessed." All other English terms
are euphemisms.
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Aren't all word euphemisms, if we're getting that picky? "Pipe" isn't
_actually_ a pipe...
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brians@wsu.edu
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:09 am
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I think that's exactly what the original poster meant; that people with
longer hair, bending over, intending to throw up into the toilet, would
instead wind up throwing up into their hair hanging down instead.
Paul
Maria Conlon wrote:
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My comment concerned only the wording of Ron's sentence. (What the
fellas were throwing up into was, presumably, the toilet, not their
hair.)
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Maria Conlon
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:57 am
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[Top posting switched to the more customery style for aue.]
brians@wsu.edu wrote:
| Quote: | Maria Conlon wrote:
My comment concerned only the wording of Ron's sentence. (What the
fellas were throwing up into was, presumably, the toilet, not their
hair.)
I think that's exactly what the original poster meant; that people
with longer hair, bending over, intending to throw up into the
toilet, would instead wind up throwing up into their hair hanging
down instead.
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If you read R H Draney's post again, you may change your mind about
that. (Only Ron can say for sure what he meant, though. I'm only
guessing.)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/msg/af2a579923efc832?hl=en&
or
http://tinyurl.com/9jcfz
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:06 am
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Maria Conlon filted:
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[Top posting switched to the more customery style for aue.]
brians@wsu.edu wrote:
Maria Conlon wrote:
My comment concerned only the wording of Ron's sentence. (What the
fellas were throwing up into was, presumably, the toilet, not their
hair.)
I think that's exactly what the original poster meant; that people
with longer hair, bending over, intending to throw up into the
toilet, would instead wind up throwing up into their hair hanging
down instead.
If you read R H Draney's post again, you may change your mind about
that. (Only Ron can say for sure what he meant, though. I'm only
guessing.)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/msg/af2a579923efc832?hl=en&
or
http://tinyurl.com/9jcfz
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I think you pretty much nailed it....r |
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