[Magdalen] Happy Christmas

[Marion Thompson]

"Long drop" amuses me. :-D

Marion, a pilgrim


On 12/28/2016 10:08 AM, sally.davies at gmail.com wrote:
> In South Africa that is a "Long Drop". I recall having to use one as a
> child at some campsite or other - I was terrified. The seat was a plank
> with a hole cut in it, over a cesspit that managed to be both far too deep
> and not nearly deep enough at the same time.
>
> Friends in Australia had the composting version installed in their home (in
> rural area outside Canberra).
>
> Generally here a toilet is a "loo" but "bog" is also heard occasionally.
>
> Sally D
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 at 4:25 PM Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>
>>> Went to camp near Georgian Bay one very long summer where the
>> bathroom/toilet area was called the Bif or Biffy. Canadian lingo?
>>
>>> Lynn
>>> www.ichthysdesigns.com
>>> 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
>>
>>> On Dec 27, 2016, at 3:55 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Being multilingual thanks to a very Anglo-centric life including two
>> English husbands,  in Britain bog is slang for bathroom and loo = toilet.
>>
>>> And Charles has given us definitive definitions of fens, bogs, swamps,
>> and the like, which is great.
>>
>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>> 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
>>>> 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:
>>>>> 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 ....
>>