--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "uns_tressor"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB
> <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > > It was Sir Thomas Crapper, plumber by appointment
> > > to King Edward VII. Really, lads, don't they teach
> > > you anything at MIU?
> > > http://www.thomas-crapper.com/history04.htm
> >
> > But if Sir Thomas was like most of the other
> > English lords of his time, he spent a lot of
> > time with prostitutes. Since they refer to
> > their customers as "Johns," there could still
> > be a link. :-) :-) :-)
>
> You must remember that we in the UK do not have
> a Mother Devine. As a result, our aristocracy
> is keen to rehabilitate fallen women and will
> rarely miss a chance to inject firm subject
> matter and support where necessary to achieve
> the benefits of trickle down, so associated with
> your president' defence thinking, I believe.
It's probably a more benevolent way to "stick
it to the poor" than is practiced by modern
American politicians. :-)
> But I don't think you should wager your internal
> organs on the "johns" issue, Turquoise.
Damn. I was gettin' into it, and even developing
a theory about how Jack the Ripper ('Jack' being
a diminutive of 'John') was really the original
namesake for the porcelain throne we all know
and love. :-)
> Expertise in the fields of the most exotic spiritual
> scriptures and also pre-Victorian lavatorial plumbing,
> Turquoise? Truly you are a "Renaissance Man" !
You should hear me expound upon Medieval plumbing,
since that period is more my forté. A fascinating
tradition in France had to do with the olde French
tradition of pissing anywhere you bloody well felt
like it. The guys, being guys, ignored any civil
laws that were passed to stop such indiscriminate
urination, so the Church lent a hand and declared
pissing on an image of the cross a mortal sin.
Voilà -- all across France almost every public
building suddenly had crosses painted on it. :-)
I'm not sure, however, whether any of the cross
painters were named 'Jean,' so there may be no
tie-in to previous historical speculations...
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