Archaeologists excited over old toilets!

IAFRICA ^ | Posted Thu, 20 Jan 2005 | AFP

[vannrox]

Oh the days when you didn't have to worry about "Lo-Flo" toilets.

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[ScottFromSpokane]

Excited archaeologists are sifting through the contents of 150-year-old New Zealand toilets....

Whatever turns you on, I guess.

[Cinnamon]

caca diggers... lmfao

[freedumb2003]

Archaeologists excited over old toilets

When you reeeeealllyyy gotta go an you're in a desert anything even resembling a toilet will cause excitement ;)

[NorCalRepub]

I get kind of giddy over mine too after several beers...

[martin_fierro]

Really Old Stuff PIng.

[Willie Green]

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[Coyoteman]

If I excavated one of those I would be just flushed with pride!

[mlbford2]

There's noth'n like carbon dating some old turds to get the juices flowing.

[pipecorp]

Will they use "crapon dating" to determine the age of the contents the extract?

[duckman]

"The old toilets, locally referred to as long-drops.."
I have two Kohler 'Low Boys' aka 'Easy Riders'. Real comfortable, not unusual to go thru a reading of 'Gone With The Wind' or 'Exodus' in one sitting.

[Snowy]

No sh*t?

[camas]

there is a two holler behind us that is at least 130 years old.

it has not been used for 75 years. my neighbor wants to dig it out, but I'm not to keen on it.

[afnamvet]

"You would be surprised what people used to throw down their dunnies."

Draft notices, bills, watergate tapes, ballot boxes...........

[microgood]

LOL..This could branch into a whole new area of science, maybe called Turdology or Excrementology.

[Calvin Locke]

Well, as long as it fit, you'd be surprised what they disposed in latrines. Broken everyday items before the days
of plastic such as pottery, china, metal, etc.

During the fiasco known as "The Big Dig" in Boston, they shut down the project for a day so archaeologists could
retrieve the cr@p from an outhouse dating back to colonial days.

IIRC, that was $1.3M or $3.1M stoppage. But hey, a billion here, $15B there, for a leaking tunnel.

At least they got the stuff from ye olde outhouse.

There's no figure given for the NZ what I am inferring is interrupting work on the bypass.

Gotta build bypasses, you know.

[WildTurkey]

If I excavated one of those I would be just flushed with pride!

[Cyber Ninja]

Archaeologists excited over old dunnies
The place to think & stink & leave your cheese
Leave behind
The daily grind
Unload the sheet & read the funnies

CB^)

[Miss Behave]

Sh*t disturbers. Let the poor, departed toilets rest in peace!