To: BP2
Gardez Loo! What does Gardez L'eau mean? In the Middle Ages, from about AD 500 to about 1500 people pooped in chamber pots. When people dumped the contents out their window they often warned unsuspecting pedestrians by shouting "gardy loo!" - a term borrowed from the French gardez l'eau, meaning 'watch out for the water'. below image is from the book Toilets of the World by Morna E. Gregory & Sian James
parsy, the well read
1,545 posted on
02/26/2010 4:35:27 PM PST by
parsifal
(Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
To: parsifal
Chamber pot. Pffft! It was a Thunder Mug!
1,547 posted on
02/26/2010 4:39:20 PM PST by
DJ MacWoW
(Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
To: parsifal
parsy, the well read
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Parsy the well read my as*. Parsy who rushed to Google.com.
1,687 posted on
02/26/2010 9:14:38 PM PST by
mojitojoe
(“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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