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From: dik@zuring.UUCP
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Subject: Re: origin of "crap", really: "flushing toilet".
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Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 23:43:18 EST
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[You shouldn't stop if you think you found it.]

A further quote:
	Thomas Crapper, ...  His main interest was with cisterns and water
	waste preventers although he did supply a lavatory emblazoned with
	the Prince of Wales' feathers, which was supposedly allowed when he
	had been given the Royal Warrant after he had installed the drains and
	sanitary fittings at Sandringham between 1886 and 1909.

(The fact that the flushing toilet was invented so long ago does not mean
that people were clean according to our standards.  To quote: Queen Elizabeth I
had a bath once a month, whether she needed it or not.  This is oddly at
variance with the Swedish custom of washing once a week: lordag).
-- 
dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
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