Dec 29, 2007 · Of course theres always the obvious, if your gonna get up and drop a load in the chamber pot at 4 a.m. it wouldn’t be real difficult to walk to the nearest window and just dump it out, i suppose though if you were on the highest level of a multi story building you could end up with some VERY disgruntled neighbors.

May 7, 2024 · It’s definitely not a chamber pot. It would be unlikely to have one in the kitchen. They were found in bedrooms primarily, other rooms sometimes, but not usually in the kitchen. Also, it’s too small, and too low. They were designed for squatting over, and a receptacle inside that box would require a very low squat and present a very small ...

Sep 30, 2004 · I have curiosity about a subject which would have been unspeakably vulgar to mention during the Victorian era: excusing one’s self to answer a call of Nature. If it’s crude to mention evacuation, how could you politely indicate that you needed to do so, and find out in which room a chamberpot was located or where the outhouse was? I actually have several …

Feb 17, 2006 · When I was a wee lad, my dad told me the following allegedly-true tale: There is a particular tribe of Eskimos, somewhere, whose means of enduring the harsh arctic winters is somewhat unusual. Since the winter temperatures can fall to 50 degrees below zero, it is dangerous to venture outside the safety of their igloos even to go to the bathroom. However, …

Apr 7, 2000 · There are several variations on the “Travelling salesman and the farmer’s daughter(s)” joke. You can pretty much make up your own but the basic gist is that there’s a travelling salesman who needs a place to stay for the night.

May 19, 2009 · I’m reading an early 20th century British Translation of Jules Verne’s Adrift in the Pacific (AKA Two Years’ Holiday), and I’ve come across one of those cases where the meaning of the words have changed, creating unintended humor. It’s on page 26: I keep trying to be adult about this, and say that it’s simply a change in the language, and that surely later 20th century …

Jan 20, 2005 · There is a passage in Dracula, where a minor character is speaking in some unrecognizable dialect. He is an old man, who sits with his buddies in the graveyard where Dracula first bites Lucy. I have puzzled out most of what he is saying, but not all, and I would appreciate anyone being able to clear up the rest for me. The passage that puzzles is as …

Nov 20, 2024 · We saw that when the Queen died. When the members were giving their individual eulogies and remembrances, the House was standing room only. There were MPs standing near the Speaker’s chair, at the ends of the rows of benches, and so on; wherever they could fit in. The crowded chamber emphasised that a very significant event was under …

Mar 20, 2025 · I rescued a Boston fern in very bad shape our next door neighbors left in the driveway. I moved it to a larger pot, it was quite root bound. Is this root mass from the single plant, or did it divide into many plants? Should I attempt to …

May 21, 2009 · So last night my nose was so stuffed up I couldn’t sleep at all, and at 6am I finally gave up and ran out to buy that device I have heard such wondrous things about: yes, the neti pot. Anyway, at the moment, I have one totally blocked nostril and one clear one. However, when I tried the neti pot, water wouldn’t go through. I know there was some circulation, because I …