And Isikoff’s book is only 416 pages. My copy of the Q’u’r’an is 950 pages, though if you reduce the apostrophes you can get it down under 800. The suras-down-the-septic story was an obvious crock. All it had going for it was that the magazine wanted it to be true.
Which proves the superiority of the old time Out-house. If you could get a Sears-Roebuck Catalog down it you could get almost anything down it.
Traveling salesman once drove on our farmyard selling Watkins Rx products. Asked if he could use our Out-house. Dad pointed to the path behind the smokehouse and said feel free.
We waited quite a while and he didn't return. Dad sent to go see if he "fell in." I walked on back there, and he was "fishing" around down the hole with a cotton-hoe. I asked him what he was doing, and he explained he had dropped his coat down the hole. I told him the coat wasn't going to be any good once he got it out. But then he told he needed it because his lunch was in the pocket.