[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Actually, many outhouse doors have or did have a strong spring on the door and the doors indeed did slam. The reason, of course, was those in the house wanted to make sure the door remained tightly closed when nobody was using the facility. Outhouse doors, after all, did not typically have a lockset handle to catch and remain shut.

The locking mechanism was usually a hook and eye on the inside so the occupant could retain privacy.

[txradioguy]

Ok first the Chicago Trib refused to run a couple of Mort Walker "Beetle Bailey" strips last year because the P.C. cops at The Trib thought they were sexist. Now Johnny Hart is under fire becasue of someoene's personal "perception" of what he ment in a cartoon. What's next? A boycott of the "Wizard of ID" becasue it offends midget despots? Yeah I can imagine Kim Jong Il reviewing his legal options right now! Papers refusing to run Hagar The Horrible becasue of it's overly violent content and misoginistic treatment of women? Someone needs to explain to these people who obviously have NOTHING better to do that IT'S A COMIC STRIP!! Get over it! LOL! If they want to get huffy about a cartoon that truly offends people and insults people on a regular basis, boycott Dunesbury. Oh wait I forgot, they actually think that one's funny! Never mind.

[brewer1516]

There is one other VERY good reason to have a strong spring --- ya don't want any critters gettin' in and givin' yer tush a suprise while in mid dump.