Raees wrote: It's not for food, Gramma. It's for liquor.
Those that collect antique bottles, have known for a long time that old outhouse locations are great dig locations to look for old whisky, and other “remedy” bottles. Seems both the gentleman or lady of the house would retire to outhouse for shot of whisky or in the case of the lady of the house a sip of some sort of “stomach” or “female” medicine or bitters, which was usually nothing more than some sort of alcohol with flavoring. Once the bottle was finished, down the hole it would go.
Link to an antique bottle ebay store
Pictured is a bottle similar to one I found while living in a very very old house in St Helena. It is a Lydia Pinkham's Bitters bottle from around the 1860s said to be good for fertility.
Yes it was buried in what at one time was likely an outhouse. After a 100 years or so there is no "waste" only dirt.
A bottle that sat in an outhouse for centuries? You are welcome to it!
The guy we bought our place from used to hide his hooch from his disproving wife in the toilet tank. Stays nice and cool that way. (Or the root cellar.)
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
FredHayek wrote: Dirk built the throne, Ken got to enjoy it. (Did he need a stepstool to reach it?)
Which brings up the question of why remodel if you're leaving? My hunch is Interior had some extra money they had to spend by a certain deadline or they'd lose it.
Most of the federal government uses a "use it or lose it" model for budgets, just one of the things that needs to change.
FredHayek wrote: A bottle that sat in an outhouse for centuries? You are welcome to it!
The guy we bought our place from used to hide his hooch from his disproving wife in the toilet tank. Stays nice and cool that way. (Or the root cellar.)
Some of them are quite valuable, although there are now many fakes.
FredHayek wrote: Dirk built the throne, Ken got to enjoy it. (Did he need a stepstool to reach it?)
Which brings up the question of why remodel if you're leaving? My hunch is Interior had some extra money they had to spend by a certain deadline or they'd lose it.
My hunch is they see themselves as patricians scratching each others backs. It is no longer r vs d in DC. Those who think so are chumps.
Zeroing out a budget allocation is further down the food chain.
FredHayek wrote: I wonder how many outhouses on BLM land you could build for $222K? Probably one knowing how the Feds spend money.
Piker.
"By Edward T. Pound, USA TODAY
Sometime in the summer of 1988, in the wondrous high country of Montana's Glacier National Park, construction workers will put the finishing touches on a new federal building.
Designed by six architects and engineers employed by the National Park Service, the two-story structure is truly unique: a $1 million, four-hole outhouse that will serve only a few thousand of the two million visitors who flock to Glacier each year. "...............
Gee, all the teabaggers are worried about every dollar spent by government.. I wonder how they feel about the fact that Boehner, has upped the amount of House money to be spent on defending the DOMA Act, (which is about 100% sure to be overturned by SCOTUS), from $500,000...to $1.5 million...Now to $3-million...
