In France people used to joke/giggle about the WC as Winston Churchill.
I can only imagine Luther going to the "Winston Churchill." (This is a
movie). I wonder if that would have scared the shit out of Luther and spared
"us"?
Course I was told the English in the 18th century used to put an images of
General Washington in "the lou" in order to scare the shit out of the slow
and/or constipated.
Maybe there are pictures of Bush in johns all over the world.
Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
> Both bog and can refer back to pre-indoor plumbing--with the overtone of
> "bog people" in the one case and permission in the other. "Head" is too
> awful to talk about--would be nice to know the origin of that one.
>
> There's also "privy," presumably from "private."
>
> Mark
>
>
> At 10:37 AM 6/8/2005, you wrote:
>> A well brought-up British yob in my day, (cough, expectorate) would say
>> "bog".
>> mj
>>
>> Halvard Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> On Jun 8, 2005, at 10:13 AM, Mark Weiss wrote:
>>>
>>>> Lavatory is accurate if you wash your hands in it. Crapper makes the
>>>> recipient the active party. Loo sounds like it's instead of something.
>>>> WC (watercloset) is just silly, tho the idea of a set of shelves for
>>>> water is kind of neat--like a wine cellar? Harrington is too long--by
>>>> the time you've asked where it is it might be too late.
>>>
>>> Leaving us with, among others, "head" and "can"--short and . . . well,
>>> sweet?
>>>
>>> Hal
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> M.J.Walker - no webpage, no blogspot, no idea -
>>
>> nobody dies, 'nothing happens', we call it music,
>> it is time rushing past the shabby portals of our ear
>>
>> and I am just a terrible mistake.
>> Robert Kelly
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