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To: Tuanedge

Very impressive...quantity AND quality. A hoot...thank yew!


199 posted on 09/21/2012 7:43:59 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Pharmboy

A couple people mention the “so poor you don’t have a pot to pee in” saying, and it has a kind of interesting story.

It comes from Old England, and the poorest people in town had to live near the leather works, which always stank, partly because they used urine to treat the leather and remove the hair, by soaking skins in pits filled with urine for days and days. The leather company would buy peoples urine, and they would send a man around once a week to collect it. If you were poor, you could sell your pee, but you needed to buy a pot big enough to store all that you’d produced all week... especially if you were a household.

So basically, being so poor you didn’t have a pot to pee in, meant that you lived in the nastiest part of town and were reduced selling your urine to survive, but you didn’t even have anything to store it in, in order to sell it in the first place.


213 posted on 09/21/2012 9:10:52 PM PDT by Tuanedge
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