[at-l] What's a Privy?

[Bob C]

I wasn't thinking about Marsha in particular  being "spoiled." We are all spoiled, though us folks on septic systems, perhaps a little less so. We just mix our poop with drinking water and inject it into the ground -- a bit better than lakes, rivers and streams, but not much.

Hmmm. I wonder why municipalities pay big money to dump such stuff into lakes, rivers and streams, but won't pay for my septic system, Society aint fair.

Weary




> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Jan Leitschuh <janl2 at mindspring.com>
> To: ellen at clinic.net, at-l at mailman.backcountry.net
> Date: Sun, Aug-13-2006 1:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [at-l] What's a Privy?
>
> 
> 
> 
> Hey Weary,
> 
> I think Marsha was just "putting it on" (like Curtis).
> It''s unfair to label her "spoiled", based on her (admit it) funny 
> description of a summer outhouse.
> You have to admit, a fly-filled outhuse on a hot day IS gross.
> 
> I don't disagree with your message of conservation and waste disposal, 
> but if you want a message to be heard, labeling people is perhaps not 
> the best way to unstop ears. It's only common sense.
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
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> 
> >Message: 1
> >Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:51:23 -0400
> From: "Bob C"<ellen at clinic.net>
> Subject: Re: [at-l] What's a Privy?
> To: "Marsha" <ellen at clinic.net>, "Tamara Krebs"
> 	<tamarakrebs20 at hotmail.com>, at-l at backcountry.net
> 
> 
> ">Tamara......a privy is one of the most disgusting things on this 
>  planet," thinks Marsha.
> 
> >Though for most spoiled Americans, privies pose aesthetic problems, a 
> privy is probably
> the cheapest and most environmentally friendly device ever invented for 
> disposing
> >of human body wastes. Wastes are confined in a hole where they 
> gradually decompose
> into a harmless soil conditioner and fertiilizer.
> y 
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>