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This is no shit -- MiddleFingerMom has been here FAR more often than he likes to think about. (Original Post) MiddleFingerMom Feb 2013 OP
so sorry In_The_Wind Feb 2013 #1
"Got change for a five?" Gorp Feb 2013 #2
This is the reason you should stock up on Q-tips, Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #3
It used to be a pile of corn cobs in the outhouse . . . Bertha Venation Feb 2013 #4
Or last year's Sears Roebuck catalogue -- two or three pages at a time. n/t sarge43 Feb 2013 #6
I was once at a BBQ for a Duke U professor nolabear Feb 2013 #5
You're not supposed to flatten the 'doo-ta-doo' Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #7
I know it as the "drr-t'drrrrrr!!!" MiddleFingerMom Feb 2013 #9
There's just no 'splain you folks in AZ Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #10
Damn! I know the feeling! lunatica Feb 2013 #8

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5. I was once at a BBQ for a Duke U professor
Wed Feb 27, 2013, 01:26 PM
Feb 2013

Given by a woman who ran his research lab. She lived in a beautiful but rustic house in the country that had an honest to god outhouse. The prof's wife (British) was quite a bit of a snob until that third or fourth gin kicked in, whereupon she asked about the "necessary". When told it was an outhouse she reverted to the best Eliza Dolittle I've ever heard and screeched "Awww, does it have an Eatons catalogue to wipe my bum?!". They departed shortly thereafter.

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