Leaving out the hole in the ground stuff, the outhouse is alive and well today. As are the spiders, snakes, et al 
Posted on 01/25/2007 5:06:58 PM PST by SJackson
Don't fergit about the corncobs...............
Who hasn't had to use the outhouse growing up at home ?
Oh yah all you young whippernsnapers.
"..the two-holer, is a thing of the past in most places."
Maybe so, but the one-holer is still in good use in our corner of the world. That would be Alaska.
Leaving out the hole in the ground stuff, the outhouse is alive and well today. As are the spiders, snakes, et al
Glad to see you found a photo that shows my good side!
I still like indoor plumbing, though.
Thanks for that ping SJackson.
It was a good place to encounter a snake, or so we believed. And wasp nests, they were a real problem, for some reason wasps liked to build their nests in outhouses, and I have been run out of an outhouse by wasps.
Gotta be pretty durn borin in the privy seein as how you don't know how to read no writtin.
"You could try to brace yourself with your hands and sort of hover over the hole like a helicopter without touching down..."
ROFLMAO! My Mother-in-law has perfected "the hover." She and I have traveled together many times, and she's taught me how to basically pee standing up, her fear of sitting on anyone's toilet seat but her own is that great.
Thanks for the laugh. I can't wait to send this to her!!
Ping.
Just guessing, --- Maybe less than half our Freepers.
I'm 48. We bid the outhouse farewell about 1965. We couldn't have been poor because we would buy a new car every four or five years. We thought we were much better off than our neighbors. {Back when everyone had outhouses} We could bathe indoors, whilst our neighbors had the "bath house" separate from the residence.
Come to think of it, they bought a new car every four or five years, too.
Thank God I was born in 1972.
Have you ever ready any of Pearl Swiggum's missives from 'Stump Ridge Farm?' She's a hoot!
I'm sure you could get her books from the Library. I think she has two collections of her columns, one was called 'The Barn Came First.' :)
some funny potty humour for ya sweetie! :)
There were still a few around when I was a kid but I never had to use one. As late as the early 80s an old farmer across the road from us had an outhouse.
Growing up I lived in a house in KY in the mid 80's that had running water at the kitchen sink only.
We used the privy across the dry creek at the edge of a cornfield.
Spongebaths unless we went up the road to the house of a family member.
This was NOT common anymore in that neck of the woods at the time but the rent was cheap in the old place so thats where we lived for a while.
Todays joke factory: Most of these jokes were most likely thought of while sitting down.
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"Gotta be pretty durn borin in the privy seein as how you don't know how to read no writtin."
Naw. I jest look at the pictures in the Sears catalog.......In fact it reminds me of a song.......
I'll Go Chasin' Women (Hamblen)
Oh it's springtime in the mountains and I'm full of mountain dew
Can't even read my catalog like I used to do
I'm a-settin' in that little shed right back of the house
And there comes Jake with all his hounds, and he's going to hear me shout
I won't go huntin' with you Jake, but I'll go chasin' women
Go put your hounds back in the pen and quit that silly grinnin'
The moon is right, and I'm half tight; my life is just beginnin'
I won't go huntin' with you, Jake, but I'll go chasin' women
So let's go down to the meetin' house and flush them pretty quails
We're safe up in these mountains Jake, ain't got a single jail
We'll chase them down the corn rows, the sassy little misses
We'll scare them pretty gals to death; we'll stop to throw 'em kisses
I won't go huntin' with you Jake, but I'll go chasin' women
Go put your hounds back in the pen and quit that silly grinnin'
The moon is right, and I'm half tight; my life is just beginnin'
I won't go huntin' with you, Jake, but I'll go chasin' women
I was a headin' fer that general store, when a silly thing I seen
They make it in the city and it's called a magazine
I turned to page thirty-two, and look at what I found
Them gals wear clothes that we ain't seen beneath them gingham gowns
I won't go huntin' with you Jake, but I'll go chasin' women
Go put your hounds back in the pen and quit that silly grinnin'
The moon is right, and I'm half tight; my life is just beginnin'
I won't go huntin' with you, Jake, but I'll go chasin' women
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