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To: rdl6989
Sounds like a bunch of modern day gongfermors.

(Isn't that a lovely word to go look up?)

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

27 posted on 04/07/2010 11:23:21 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: LonePalm
You will find a complete definition - with illustrations - here:


28 posted on 04/07/2010 12:35:51 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)T)
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To: LonePalm

You’re right, I had to look it up.

Gongfermors or gong-scourers were men who went round emptying medieval previes and cesspits.

Where there was no convenient moat or stream, people dug a pit, or used a removable barrel. In either case the sewage had to be removed in due course. In 1281, 13 men took five nights to clear the cloaca at Newgate Prison-—on triple pay! At Hampton Court in Henry VIII’s time the gongfermors had a formidable task.


29 posted on 04/07/2010 12:59:58 PM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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