Sawdust and Puke
Nicko
whenever a kid puked on the floor, the janitors would come around and
dump some stuff onto it that looked like sawdust or pencil shavings
(and smelled weird), in order to sop up the slime so they could sweep
up the mess with a normal broom.
Does anyone remember this stuff, and if so, what it was?
Nowadays you can get spill kits for specific bodily fluids, but by
today's standards this was pretty low tech.
My Proustian olfactory memories of grammar school are of this sawdust
stuff, crayons, and the piss biscuits in the urinals.
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YOP...
Rev. Richard Skull
Saw dust and cleaner.
annf...@yahoo.com
Captain Infinity
Nicko wrote:
>When I was a sboolboy at St. Denis Elementary school on the SouthSide,
>whenever a kid puked on the floor, the janitors would come around and
>dump some stuff onto it that looked like sawdust or pencil shavings
>(and smelled weird), in order to sop up the slime so they could sweep
>up the mess with a normal broom.
>
>Does anyone remember this stuff, and if so, what it was?
It was PEOPLE! Soylent Sawdust is PEOPLE!!
**
Captain Infinity
Don Stockbauer
wrote:
The world's running out of sawdust made form trees, so we've had to
resort to people-dust.
Talysman the Ur-Beatle
> When I was a sboolboy at St. Denis Elementary school on the SouthSide,
> whenever a kid puked on the floor, the janitors would come around and
> dump some stuff onto it that looked like sawdust or pencil shavings
> (and smelled weird), in order to sop up the slime so they could sweep
> up the mess with a normal broom.
>
> Does anyone remember this stuff, and if so, what it was?
Don't know, but this reminds me of that one Pepsi commercial where
this girl dressed as a bucket of puke is having a bad day on a street
corner, because everyone is staring at her and shouting "EWWWW!" But
then, she sees a cute boy dressed as a bucket of sawdust! And the
commercial ends with an announcer saying "Sawdust loves puke. Puke
loves sawdust."
Worst Pepsi commercial ever. Didn't sell a single can.
mr dude@harvarduniversity.edu
wrote:
> It was PEOPLE! Soylent Sawdust is PEOPLE!!
>
Grrrrrrr!!! You beat me to it!!!!
mr dude
Nicko
But a steaming bucked of phukk makes a crowd?
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YOP...
Doctroid
<57273cc5-08d2-4788...@f20g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
Talysman the Ur-Beatle <taly...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't know, but this reminds me of that one Pepsi commercial where
> this girl dressed as a bucket of puke is having a bad day on a street
> corner, because everyone is staring at her and shouting "EWWWW!" But
> then, she sees a cute boy dressed as a bucket of sawdust! And the
> commercial ends with an announcer saying "Sawdust loves puke. Puke
> loves sawdust."
>
> Worst Pepsi commercial ever. Didn't sell a single can.
You don't need a commercial to forge a link in people's minds between
Pepsi and puke.
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- Doctroid
Doctroid
<25a090ff-fa40-464b...@g27g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
Nicko <nervou...@gmail.com> wrote:
http://nwpsweepingcompound.com/index.html ??
Rev. 11D Meow!
Don Stockbauer
> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:33:35 -0500, Doctroid <doctr...@mailinator.com>
> wrote:
>
> >In article
> ><57273cc5-08d2-4788-9bb7-49c159519...@f20g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
> > Talysman the Ur-Beatle <talys...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Don't know, but this reminds me of that one Pepsi commercial where
> >> this girl dressed as a bucket of puke is having a bad day on a street
> >> corner, because everyone is staring at her and shouting "EWWWW!" But
> >> then, she sees a cute boy dressed as a bucket of sawdust! And the
> >> commercial ends with an announcer saying "Sawdust loves puke. Puke
> >> loves sawdust."
>
> >> Worst Pepsi commercial ever. Didn't sell a single can.
>
> >You don't need a commercial to forge a link in people's minds between
> >Pepsi and puke.
>
> Skimmin' da poke', suh.
"Sawdust and Puke."
Much better than "Diamonds and Rust" by Joan Baez.
Nicko
>
>
>
> Nicko <nervous.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > When I was a sboolboy at St. Denis Elementary school on the SouthSide,
> > whenever a kid puked on the floor, the janitors would come around and
> > dump some stuff onto it that looked like sawdust or pencil shavings
> > (and smelled weird), in order to sop up the slime so they could sweep
> > up the mess with a normal broom.
>
> > Does anyone remember this stuff, and if so, what it was?
>
> > Nowadays you can get spill kits for specific bodily fluids, but by
> > today's standards this was pretty low tech.
>
> > My Proustian olfactory memories of grammar school are of this sawdust
> > stuff, crayons, and the piss biscuits in the urinals.
>
> > --
> > YOP...
>
> http://nwpsweepingcompound.com/index.html??
That's probably the stuff. I forgot the stuff had sand in it too.
TY.
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YOP....
Otto Bahn
Sawdust be the nemesis of emesis.
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Lots42
> When I was a sboolboy at St. Denis Elementary school on the SouthSide,
> whenever a kid puked on the floor
Odd. I don't remember any puke on the floor during all my years in
school. Did the kids just manage to get to the bathroom on time?
Otto Bahn
> When I was a sboolboy at St. Denis Elementary school on the SouthSide,
> whenever a kid puked on the floor
<
<Odd. I don't remember any puke on the floor during all my years in
<school. Did the kids just manage to get to the bathroom on time?
I bet your brane, in an effort to save you from yourself,
blocked the traumatic memory from recall.
--oTTo--
Glenn Knickerbocker
> Odd. I don't remember any puke on the floor during all my years in
> school.
It didn't matter in mine because the halls ALWAYS smelled that way. I'm
amazed Nicko's memory doesn't also include the regular butyrated floor-
stripper solution. I had to wonder why they ever bothered cleaning up
the puke if they were just going to make the whole hallway smell like
synthetic puke afterward.
�R
just john
Mitchell Album?
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Otto Bahn
My olfactory flash backs to middle school is pee on the bathroom
radiators.
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Lots42
Then why do I remember the used tampon by the girl's locker room?
Lots42
> My olfactory flash backs to middle school is pee on the bathroom
> radiators.
>
> --oTTo--
Your school had a heating system? IIRC, my high school's heating
system was based on luck.
Glenn Knickerbocker
>On Nov 5, 2:11�pm, "Otto Bahn" <e...@eio.com> wrote:
>> I bet your brane, in an effort to save you from yourself,
>> blocked the traumatic memory from recall.
Obviously it's a red herring(*) left in your memory to distract you from
the missing pile of puke it was in.
�R http://users.bestweb.net/~notr/zangelding.html "When there's
a nuclear attack, that's when buckets are used." --Tim Brown, IUSD
(*) I suppose this should prevent me from declaring anything else
the WORST EUPHEMISM EVAR for a while. But it probably won't.
Shelly
"Glenn Knickerbocker" <No...@bestweb.net> wrote in message
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Dear. God. It's bad on *two* levels. That's a masterful bit of
eupheming, sir.
--
Shelly
http://www.cat-sidh.net/blog
Otto Bahn
> My olfactory flash backs to middle school is pee on the bathroom
> radiators.
<
<Your school had a heating system? IIRC, my high school's heating
<system was based on luck.
Up North, heat is not taken for granted.
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TimC
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> On Nov 5, 3:23 pm, "Otto Bahn" <e...@eio.com> wrote:
>
>> My olfactory flash backs to middle school is pee on the bathroom
>> radiators.
>
In the toilets no less.
> IIRC, my high school's heating
> system was based on luck.
And let me guess, the drinking fountains took their water from the
output of the toilets? <-- deliberate ploy to squick out Lots42.
--
TimC
The universe was strange after we had beauty and truth replaced
Otto Bahn
>>> My olfactory flash backs to middle school is pee on the bathroom
>>> radiators.
>>
>> Your school had a heating system?
>
> In the toilets no less.
>
>> IIRC, my high school's heating
>> system was based on luck.
>
> And let me guess, the drinking fountains took their water from the
> output of the toilets? <-- deliberate ploy to squick out Lots42.
That would explain the infection...?
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Lickety Squick!
Rev. Susie the Floozie
> My Proustian olfactory memories of grammar school are of this sawdust
> stuff, crayons, and the piss biscuits in the urinals.
There was an element of JuicyFruit in the high notes of that puke-
fairydust stuff. I remember that combined with the scent of that
crustulent white paste and pencil shavings.
And MIMEOGRAPH FUMES. A kind of purple I could look forward to!
Otto Bahn
< And MIMEOGRAPH FUMES. A kind of purple I could look forward to!
How could I forget the mimeograph fumes?
What...?
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Rev. Back It On Up 13
When did they stop using mimeographs? I remember getting those
purpley "handouts" as late as 6th grade, and as I recall, making the
copies was a fairly big deal. There were always exactly enough and no
more, because the MIMEOGRAPH MACHINE was some kind of hassle to
operate or something.
Blurry purple print that got on your hands. State of the art.
just john
Remember the Smell of Ditto?
It's what Limbaugh is trying to cash in on, in the same way GWB worked
to remind us of Johnny Carson in 2000.