[Magdalen] Happy Christmas

[Lesley de Voil]

She must have been a Kiwi.. Aussie slang for bathroom/toilet/ etc is "dunny" usually implying an outhouse EC(Earth Closet.). Roadside rest stops are now often supplied with the modern version of the latter - a composting toilet often solar-powered, so that water for washing,  a light for use after dark and fan for the composter all can be supplied.
Never heard "biffy" in the eastern states.
Regards
Lesley de Voil

-----Original Message-----
From: "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com>
Sent: ‎29/‎12/‎2016 0:11
To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Happy Christmas

Lynn, I haven't heard that word for years, but the director of a girls' church camp in Michigan was from Australia or New Zealand (I forget which), and she called the outhouses biffies! So, of course, we counselors did, too!

> On Dec 28, 2016, at 1:20 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Went to camp near Georgian Bay one very long summer where the bathroom/toilet area was called the Bif or Biffy. Canadian lingo?
> Lynn 
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> www.ichthysdesigns.com
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> When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. attributed to Erma Bombeck
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> On Dec 27, 2016, at 3:55 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Being multilingual thanks to a very Anglo-centric life including two English husbands,  in Britain bog is slang for bathroom and loo = toilet.
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> And Charles has given us definitive definitions of fens, bogs, swamps, and the like, which is great.
> 
> Marion, a pilgrim
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>> On 12/27/2016 3:45 PM, Ann Markle wrote:
>> And I thought it was so lovely that your church provided a service for the
>> bog people (a swamp here in the US, Marion, not a loo).  They're definitely
>> underserved!
>> 
>> Ann
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>> The Rev. Ann Markle
>> Buffalo, NY
>> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
>> 
>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 2:16 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
>> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> To spell cheque, bog is a word, as indeed it is -- just not the one I had
>>> in mind. (the big people's service). We have quite a bit of swampland
>>> around here. As a matter of fact, a neighbor was draining a pond by his
>>> house and found a large bone. He had experts come in, and they ended up
>>> camped out in his yard for a while and extracted an entire skeleton of a
>>> mammoth. This area was a swamp back then.  I don't think anyone calls it a
>>> bog ....
>