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Toilets for Too or Procrastination as a Warm-up for Writing Another C4C
After doing a certain amount of writing for pay, THIS writer tends to feel contrary. Something builds up inside of me and I just have the urge to purge or throw something out there that is a bit off the wall (also known as "Random Writing that There is no chance in Hell They Will Pay For but I Feel Compelled to Write Before I can Write the Stuff they Will Pay For... Because I have a C4C to Prove it).
So I wrote the light, bantering piece and it got quite a response. Here it is:here
I'm waiting to see if it gets many page views. I'm not making bets. I do not think of it as humorous or even well-written but it got attention. It needs serious revision and editing. I know, I know.
However, I do have this question, after reading the comments about two-seater outhouses being a norm - once, before indoor plumbing. Did the act of moving toilets into homes also change people's ideas about bathroom etiquette, social mores and all that? Did they decide that they could afford to be modest once they had a bathroom relatively safe from spiders, snakes and other frightening things that live outside and in or near outhouses?
If anyone feel angry at some bureaucratic ninny, you can read this and know I share that pain here: here
So I wrote the light, bantering piece and it got quite a response. Here it is:here
I'm waiting to see if it gets many page views. I'm not making bets. I do not think of it as humorous or even well-written but it got attention. It needs serious revision and editing. I know, I know.
However, I do have this question, after reading the comments about two-seater outhouses being a norm - once, before indoor plumbing. Did the act of moving toilets into homes also change people's ideas about bathroom etiquette, social mores and all that? Did they decide that they could afford to be modest once they had a bathroom relatively safe from spiders, snakes and other frightening things that live outside and in or near outhouses?
If anyone feel angry at some bureaucratic ninny, you can read this and know I share that pain here: here
6 Comments
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Comment by JAM on May 19, 2008 at 11:49am - Hmm?? As a child we had an outhouse (with creepy things) and reading material. I used to read the jokes page in the RD as I never chose to stay long "out" there. A quick read like Toodaloo would have been lovely. Keep blogging me.....you bring back great memories, even tho' that is probably not your intent when you are slothing around.
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Comment by JP Whickson on May 19, 2008 at 11:28pm - So, JAM you actually grew up with a toilet for many...'ceptin' some of them were critters.
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Comment by JP Whickson on May 19, 2008 at 11:29pm
- BTW Your article was truly funny jcorn. lol and loved it.
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Comment by jcorn on May 20, 2008 at 2:32am - Really? You did? I owe it all to Randy and E, unfortunately. They taught me how to do links and then when I saw that toilet, I thought of them and now I'm disturbed about that.
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Comment by jcorn on May 20, 2008 at 2:35am
- :) But at least I got an article out of it so I could sleep today.
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Comment by Jean Riva on June 6, 2008 at 9:46pm - We had an outhouse when I was a kid but never a two seater. As I recall it was mostly the people with big families that had them. It's been a few weeks since you wrote that. Did you get enough pages views to make you happy? It's such a quirky topic, I would think you did.
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