To: G.Mason
Reminds me of a story once told by an exploration driller for Amoco Oil back in the 1970s. It seems they thought there might be oil in Iowa so a very deep well was drilled. No oil was found but a hole more than 12,000 feet deep was created. Rather than waste the hole by filling it in, an area farmer had an outhouse built over the hole...
26 posted on
10/07/2004 6:56:05 AM PDT by
Eric in the Ozarks
(there's more to the story but this is a family oriented board)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Rather than waste the hole by filling it in, an area farmer had an outhouse built over the hole... Filling it in, day by day.
35 posted on
10/07/2004 7:06:43 AM PDT by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
"Reminds me of a story once told by an exploration driller for Amoco Oil back in the 1970s. It seems they thought there might be oil in Iowa so a very deep well was drilled. No oil was found but a hole more than 12,000 feet deep was created. Rather than waste the hole by filling it in, an area farmer had an outhouse built over the hole..."LOL!
Perfectly understandable. One never knows when one will be ploughing the back forty and suddenly have to go.
Besides the sight of the farmer squatting in the field would, no doubt, result in the fieldmice and rabbit population moving to the cities. ;)
38 posted on
10/07/2004 7:16:17 AM PDT by
G.Mason
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