Thanks, Andrew. My boots could do with a bit of a splash actually ...
On Fri, Apr 5th, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Bill, the term 'piss poor' came from the old use of urine to soften
> leather. The poor ould save their piss in pots to sell to the bootmaker
> or
> somesuch. Hence the term. piss poor. Remember that!
>
>
> On 5 April 2013 21:37, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Heroism? The price of bladder cowardice, Andrew, in Paris where I am
> now,
> > is usually 50 eurocents but can rise to a whole euro per pee depending
> on
> > desperation and the neighbourhood.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 3rd, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Heroic tales! of an Aussie abroad ... ;-)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3 April 2013 01:55, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Well, sort of....
> > > >
> > > > Doug
> > > > On 2013-04-02, at 8:43 AM, David Bircumshaw
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> > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > "America, can do, does."
> > > > >
> > > > > Possibly not the most thoughtful of boasts for a place without
> public
> > > > > toilets?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 2 April 2013 14:44, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> In Brooklyn waiting in a queue at Starbucks for the unisex
> toilet
> > > > >> because there do not appear to be any public toilets in New York
> > > > >> the African American girl behind me looks like she might know
> > > > >> how I get to the start of the Brooklyn Bridge so I can walk
> > > > >> back to the Manhattan side? She looks it up on her phone for me
> > > > >> while the queue in front is reduced by one and I am now next.
> > > > >> Controlling my jiggle as well as I decently can, she directs my
> gaze
> > > > >> to her screen and asks if I want to write it down. Left on
> Lafayette
> > > > >> then take the next left on ... Excuse me, I'll see you in a sec,
> I
> > > say
> > > > >> as I ease past the exiting previous toiletgoer.
> > > > >> Now, Lafayette and ... what was it again, I ask, on egress.
> > > > >> Check with a guy in a purple t-shirt outside, she says, amiably.
> > > > >> He's my brother. I just phoned him. He'll direct you. Thanks.
> > > > >> And there he was outside. And direct he did. Most accurately.
> > > > >> I walked the Brooklyn Bridge with blissfully enencumbered
> bladder.
> > > > >> America, can do, does.
> > > > >>
> > > > >
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