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Posted on 11/18/2003 3:54:52 AM PST by prisoner6
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To: xsmommy
Root cellars were usually a good spot for aging a batch of pickled eggs if there wasn't any room in the fridge. Also fruitcakes wrapped in cheesecloth and placed in a metal tin after soaking with rum/whiskey. (But it depends on how cool the root cellar got in winter. My gramma's was underneath the front porch with a door opening into the basement, so it got pretty cool out there without actually freezing. Couldn't do it in summer, it was just a bit too warm. But all her mason-jar canning was also kept downstairs on shelves, it stayed cool enough for that.)
To: prisoner6
PENNSYLVANIA -- ARLEN SPECTOR CAN'T LIVE FOREVER
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posted on
11/18/2003 12:42:48 PM PST
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gcruse
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To: prisoner6
Howzabout:
Don't Mess With Pennsy - We'll Shoot Back Atcha!
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posted on
11/18/2003 1:41:52 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
To: prisoner6
See Fat Eddie eat a WAWA Hoagie.
To: Pyro7480
Great post! I cannot improve on that.
To: Willie Green; kb2614
Is there a commode in your cellar, right out in the open, next to the washer and dryer? LOL!! YES...my poor DH really hates that when we visit my folks and we're sleeping in the basement (the nice part, in front of the Frankin Stove) and the nearest bathroom is, well, the commode next to the washer and dryer in the laundry room! kb2614 and I never gave it a thought when we were kids. If someone was in the bathroom, you went to the laundry room...
To: prisoner6
You forgot the Pennsylvania land of men with tiny parts
To: meowmeow
I grew up in the 'Burgh believing that EVERYBODY had a commode in the cellar.
(Sometimes it didn't work for one reason or another, but at least it was there.)
It wasn't until I was much older that I realized that this was a somewhat "unique" luxury that was popular in the region. Many other areas of the nation don't do it (as much) unless they've actually remodeled and "finished" their basement with perhaps a game room and a "powder room" (with an actual bathroom sink/mirror and maybe even a shower).
But a standalone commode next to the washing machine?
LOL! People look at me like I'm nutz when I mention that!
To: gcruse
BWHAHAHAHAHA!!!
To: small voice in the wilderness
Heh.
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11/18/2003 5:28:15 PM PST
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gcruse
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To: Petronski
Actually, I have always thought that a pictorial of 'Bathtub Marys' would be sellable...paging the National Endowment for the Arts...maybe I can get a grant.
And just because I have to admit to this too...I also grew up in a house with a commode in the basement (freestanding, with a tissue holder contraption welded to one of the posts that held up the beam, the seat was replaced with a snazzy avecado colored one in about 1978...I never, ever used it--I always thought the basement was creepy). We had no dryer, but the traditional clotheslines in the basement. We also had a coal cellar (where my dad kept his snow tires--mom didn't want them near the clean clothes). You can't make this stuff up...
To: PennsylvaniaMom
PM, my reserve office space is in a finished basement, approximately 15 feet from the commode-washer-basin cluster. When that description was posted, I laughed out loud. Back in the day, even though we always had a dryer, there were clotheslines down here too.
And I'd love to have a 'bathtub Mary' in my yard, though I don't know really where to begin....
Great thread.
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posted on
11/18/2003 8:52:16 PM PST
by
Petronski
(I'm *NOT* always *CRANKY.*)
To: Willie Green
Here in VA (and probably lots of other places), you can't even do that free-standing commode thing - additional commodes must be in their own little room if they are not part of a bathroom. Found that out talking to our plumber.
To: kb2614
PENNSYLVANIA - THE FINEST ROAD SYSTEM OUTSIDE OF ETHIOPIA!!! LOL! Since I spend a lot of time on PA highways criss-crossing the western part of the state, I can certainly identify with that!
PENNSYLVANIA - WHERE THE SPENDING NEVER STOPS!
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