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Duggy
May 13, 2012, 7:25:45 PM5/13/12
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On Apr 22, 11:32 pm, Movie Fan <joe.s...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It sounds like Victorian British slang for a gentleman's
> unmentionables.
Sounds more like the person who brings the portable toilets to an
event.
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> It sounds like Victorian British slang for a gentleman's
> unmentionables.
Sounds more like the person who brings the portable toilets to an
event.
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Kenneth M. Lin
May 18, 2012, 6:00:12 PM5/18/12
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"Duggy" wrote in message
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or something else?
Peter Duncanson (BrE)
May 18, 2012, 7:12:29 PM5/18/12
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For instance:
http://www.ramenviro.com/portable%20toilet.htm
"John" is a slang word for a toilet. "Carter" is an older word for a
person who transported things in a horse-drawn cart.
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Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.english.usage)
Joy Beeson
May 18, 2012, 7:19:23 PM5/18/12
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> I did not know that such toilets even exist. Do they look like a briefcase
> or something else?
They look like plastic phone booths.
> or something else?
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Joy Beeson
joy beeson at comcast dot net
Ted Nolan <tednolan>
May 18, 2012, 9:14:44 PM5/18/12
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In article <l6mdr7lu6bh91ptan...@4ax.com>,
2) what's a phone booth?
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Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>On Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:12 -0700, "Kenneth M. Lin"
><kennet...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> I did not know that such toilets even exist. Do they look like a briefcase
>> or something else?
>
>They look like plastic phone booths.
>
1) but don't smell like them
>On Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:12 -0700, "Kenneth M. Lin"
><kennet...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> I did not know that such toilets even exist. Do they look like a briefcase
>> or something else?
>
>They look like plastic phone booths.
>
2) what's a phone booth?
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Bill McCray
May 18, 2012, 9:41:14 PM5/18/12
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On 5/18/2012 9:14 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article<l6mdr7lu6bh91ptan...@4ax.com>,
> Joy Beeson<jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:12 -0700, "Kenneth M. Lin"
>> <kennet...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I did not know that such toilets even exist. Do they look like a briefcase
>>> or something else?
>>
>> They look like plastic phone booths.
>>
>
> 1) but don't smell like them
>
> 2) what's a phone booth?
Where Superman often changes his outfits.
> In article<l6mdr7lu6bh91ptan...@4ax.com>,
> Joy Beeson<jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:12 -0700, "Kenneth M. Lin"
>> <kennet...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I did not know that such toilets even exist. Do they look like a briefcase
>>> or something else?
>>
>> They look like plastic phone booths.
>>
>
> 1) but don't smell like them
>
> 2) what's a phone booth?
Bill in Kentucky
tony cooper
May 18, 2012, 10:10:42 PM5/18/12
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On 19 May 2012 01:14:44 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
toilets.
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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
<tednolan>) wrote:
>In article <l6mdr7lu6bh91ptan...@4ax.com>,
>Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>>On Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:12 -0700, "Kenneth M. Lin"
>><kennet...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I did not know that such toilets even exist. Do they look like a briefcase
>>> or something else?
>>
>>They look like plastic phone booths.
>>
>
>1) but don't smell like them
In certain areas, phone booths smelled very much like portable
>In article <l6mdr7lu6bh91ptan...@4ax.com>,
>Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>>On Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:12 -0700, "Kenneth M. Lin"
>><kennet...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I did not know that such toilets even exist. Do they look like a briefcase
>>> or something else?
>>
>>They look like plastic phone booths.
>>
>
>1) but don't smell like them
toilets.
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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
Duggy
May 18, 2012, 11:15:56 PM5/18/12
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On May 19, 8:00 am, "Kenneth M. Lin" <kenneth_m_...@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
https://www.google.com.au/search?rlz=1C1_____enAU403AU403&sugexp=chrome,mod%3D13&q=Portable+Toilet&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=TBC3T68_qbqJB9fNtZAJ&biw=1280&bih=933&sei=TRC3T8ysNuWciAfQlcn1CA#um=1&hl=en&rlz=1C1_____enAU403AU403&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=Portaloo&oq=Portaloo&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=img.3...8343.13572.0.13812.19.16.0.0.0.6.248.2394.2-11.11.0...0.0.qijHkT-7BP8&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=dc6d1b7884a0cffb&biw=1280&bih=933
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Duggy
May 18, 2012, 11:19:45 PM5/18/12
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On May 19, 12:10 pm, tony cooper <tony.cooper...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 May 2012 01:14:44 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
>
> <tednolan>) wrote:
> >In article <l6mdr7lu6bh91ptanmm835noqod1q6e...@4ax.com>,
> On 19 May 2012 01:14:44 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
>
> <tednolan>) wrote:
> >Joy Beeson <jbee...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
> >>On Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:12 -0700, "Kenneth M. Lin"
> >><kenneth_m_...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> >>> I did not know that such toilets even exist. Do they look like a briefcase
> >>> or something else?
>
> >>They look like plastic phone booths.
>
> >1) but don't smell like them
>
> In certain areas, phone booths smelled very much like portable
> toilets.
Just not portable.
> >>On Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:12 -0700, "Kenneth M. Lin"
> >><kenneth_m_...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> >>> I did not know that such toilets even exist. Do they look like a briefcase
> >>> or something else?
>
> >>They look like plastic phone booths.
>
> >1) but don't smell like them
>
> In certain areas, phone booths smelled very much like portable
> toilets.
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Duggy
May 18, 2012, 11:19:19 PM5/18/12
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On May 19, 11:14 am, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
And don't call me booth.
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wrote:
> In article <l6mdr7lu6bh91ptanmm835noqod1q6e...@4ax.com>,
> Joy Beeson <jbee...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
> In article <l6mdr7lu6bh91ptanmm835noqod1q6e...@4ax.com>,
> Joy Beeson <jbee...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
> >They look like plastic phone booths.
> 2) what's a phone booth?
It's something you use to talk to people at a great distance.
And don't call me booth.
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GordonD
May 19, 2012, 8:39:20 AM5/19/12
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"Peter Duncanson (BrE)" <ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote in message
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V0OqUMoRP4
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Peter Duncanson (BrE)
May 19, 2012, 10:03:35 AM5/19/12
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On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:39:20 +0100, "GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com>
wrote:
That video of portable toilets at Woodstock reminds me that the yearly
music festival at Glastonbury (in England) will not be held in 2012
because of a shortage of portable toilets.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/18/glastonbury-portable-toilets-shortage-olympics
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News that the Glastonbury festival will not be held in 2012 owing to
an insurmountable pre-Olympic shortage of police officers and (more
crucially) portable lavatories has been met with incredulity by
festival-goers. But at Portable Sanitation Europe, the UK trade
association for all involved in the portable toilet business,
they're not surprised at all.
"The Olympic organising committee is talking around 14,000 units,"
says Peter Lewis, a director of the 80-member body, who runs a hire
** company called Adeloo in Eltham, south London. "That's more than the
biggest British company could supply. More than the actual units,
though, we're worried about what'll be in them. The toilets will
need emptying, and as far as I know the committee hasn't quite
thought that one through."
June, July and August are already the busiest time of the year for
Britain's estimated 350-400 portable toilet hire companies, Lewis
says. "You've got your national sporting classics, your festivals –
Glastonbury alone takes 650-700 units – and of course myriad little
local events – fetes and gymkhanas and sports days and weddings. Add
the Olympics into the mix and it's not what you might call, pardon
the expression, a bog-standard summer."
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** Re: "Adeloo" - "loo" is a British English informal word for a toilet.
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music festival at Glastonbury (in England) will not be held in 2012
because of a shortage of portable toilets.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/18/glastonbury-portable-toilets-shortage-olympics
....
News that the Glastonbury festival will not be held in 2012 owing to
an insurmountable pre-Olympic shortage of police officers and (more
crucially) portable lavatories has been met with incredulity by
festival-goers. But at Portable Sanitation Europe, the UK trade
association for all involved in the portable toilet business,
they're not surprised at all.
"The Olympic organising committee is talking around 14,000 units,"
says Peter Lewis, a director of the 80-member body, who runs a hire
** company called Adeloo in Eltham, south London. "That's more than the
biggest British company could supply. More than the actual units,
though, we're worried about what'll be in them. The toilets will
need emptying, and as far as I know the committee hasn't quite
thought that one through."
June, July and August are already the busiest time of the year for
Britain's estimated 350-400 portable toilet hire companies, Lewis
says. "You've got your national sporting classics, your festivals –
Glastonbury alone takes 650-700 units – and of course myriad little
local events – fetes and gymkhanas and sports days and weddings. Add
the Olympics into the mix and it's not what you might call, pardon
the expression, a bog-standard summer."
....
** Re: "Adeloo" - "loo" is a British English informal word for a toilet.
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