Archaeologists excited over old toilets!

IAFRICA ^ | Posted Thu, 20 Jan 2005 | AFP

[vannrox]

Archaeologists excited over old toilets

Posted Thu, 20 Jan 2005

Excited archaeologists are sifting through the contents of 150-year-old New Zealand toilets to get a better understanding of the everyday lives of early settlers.

Although there is plenty of oral and written history, there are gaps which can only be answered by lifting the lid on the sanitary habits of pioneering families, they say.

About 30 of New Zealand's leading archaeologists arrived in Wellington on Thursday to start a five-week project to collect and document information from historic sites along an inner-city bypass route.

The old toilets, locally referred to as long-drops or dunnies, "are a really good source of material", senior archaeologist, Rick McGovern-Wilson, said at the site where the Tonks family lived in the mid-1800s.

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

The Tonks family, who ran a brickworks and set up steam mills and a shipping company in the area, had lived alongside their workers and archaeologists expect to find evidence of the different social standing of the residents.

"Bones will tell us that. You would expect the Tonks' probably ate roast mutton (leg bone) while rib bones would show their workers were eating mutton flaps," McGovern-Wilson said.

[Fresh Wind]

I know people who dig up old crappers looking for rare bottles. Some of the ones they pull out are worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

[SunkenCiv]

Aussie girls can stand to pee
news.com.au ^ | 20 January 2005
Posted on 01/19/2005 9:10:50 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1324408/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fiddlstix. Not sure I'm up for a "pull my finger" ping to the list, but will add it to the catalog. ;')

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[Diver Dave]

Hmmmm. We plumbers used to have a saying...

"Your Crap is Our Bread and Butter"

Never thought any other profession would sink to these depths.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Hmmmm. We plumbers used to have a saying..."

Is it true what a friend of mine told me that you only need to know a few things to be a plumber?

Cold on the Right, Hot on the left.

Sh!t flows down hill.

Don't chew your fingernails.

[Diver Dave]

...and payday's every Friday!

[Mad Dawgg]

"...and payday's every Friday!"

heheh I'll add that to the list.

[SunkenCiv]

Oops. Thanks Martin.

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[mewzilla]

LOL. Nuthin' beats an old john. Except for maybe a garbage pit :) One man's trash, you know...

[shaggy eel]

,,, you just know there's money in muck - government grant money.

[Constitution Day]

Privy digging

Interesting stuff!

[SunkenCiv]

Very! Thanks.

[privy joke to follow]

Santa: "No, No, Rudolph, the Schmidt House!"

[once again, 'Civ purloins a joke and makes a gracious exit to cheers]

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Flush the Magic Dra-gon lived in New Zea....

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

"You would be surprised what people used to throw down their dunnies."
Draft notices, bills, watergate tapes, ballot boxes...........

Maybe they'll find Jimmy Hoffa?!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

You need this book.......

UNCLE JOHN'S ABSOLUTELY ABSORBING BATHROOM READER

[Petruchio]

not unusual to go thru a reading of 'Gone With The Wind' . . .

Q: Is "Gone With The Wind" the Title of the reading material, or a descriptor of the event?

[Squantos]

Kewl !

[Mudboy Slim]

Already FReeped that song into "Puff, the Angry D'asshole!!"...LOL!! You oughtta take a run at it, my FRiend.

FReegards...MUD

[Sloth]

I get pretty excited myself, over the old 3.5 gpf ones.

[SunkenCiv]

Just updating the GGG information, not sending a general distribution.

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