[Magdalen] Happy Christmas

[Jon Egger]

My father used the word 'biff' a lot.  His only time out of the USA was in
the Pacific Theater.  He loved Australia, and I figured that's where he
picked it up.

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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>
> In a message dated 12/28/2016 10:09:04 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> sally.davies at gmail.com writes:
>
> Generally here a toilet is a "loo" but "bog" is also heard  occasionally.
>
> At the family cottage on Big Wood Lake in Northern Wisconsin
> (built in 1906), there was no modern plumbing.  Hand pumps were  used
> in the kitchen, and there was an outhouse situated in a grove of
> Eastern White Pines arranged so that one could sit on the biffy with
> the door open.  We called it, euphemistically, The Pine Room.  It  was
> of wooden construction and like the similar outhouses along the north
> shore of the lake, was always tipped over on Halloween.
>
> Eventually my father had enough of these pranks, and rebuilt the
> outhouse in concrete blocks.  This solved the tipping problem.
>
> Then modern plumbing was installed.  There were still family  members
> who preferred the outhouse/biffy.
>
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>
>
> David Strang.
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>
>


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