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From: andrew@aimmi.UUCP (Andrew Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Re: origin of "crap"
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 09:19:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 10 09:19:57 1985
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>>Someone once wrote a book called "Flushed With Pride", which claimed that the
>>inventor of the flush toilet was a man named "Thomas Crapper", and that the
>>word "crap" was derived from his name.  Although the book was a hoax, .....
>
>    Well, I think it's true, and I can show you the brass rubbing from
>Crapper's manhole cover in Westminter Abbey if you want.  Well, I can't, but
>my mother can.

Mr. Thomas Crapper did indeed exist - he founded one of the greatest companies
for manufacturing WC's! His firm still exists, although I think it's been
bought out a few times since the beginning of the century....
There are still a number of the original overhead cisterns left, with the
Thomas Crapper name and imprint on them... mostly in Victorian buildings in
London. This is real history!

-andrew
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                         ARPA:  andrew@aimmi.ac.uk

"Once the subject is clearly understood,
        the explanation will seem sensible."