On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > In parts of the US, toilets and latrines are called "crappers", allegedly in > honor of their inventor, Thomas Crapper. > > I frankly doubted this was the reason, until I came across this hardware in > the gents' of a London pub: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11205916&size=lg > > Whadya know! Still a going concern, too, apparently.
Cool photo, whatever the etymology of the word "crap" or "crapper". What must people have thought when you bent over the sink with your camera? "Those wacky Americans!" ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
