What does "poop-house" mean?
John Lee
Here is a paragraph.
Mrs. Stuart bought herself one of those-of those fox's you wears around your
neck with the little paws sticking out and the beaty eyes?
Now, Mr.Stuart paid a bundle for it right enough.
You know what they say?(laugh) They say she even wears the thing to the
poop-house! Boy, what's it take. Well, I see when I'm not wanted. Save some
of that dessert for me, will you?
Give me the meaning if poop-house.
Thanks in advance.
Shotgun1A
Who wrote this? It sounds Twain-esque, maybe [a female author whose name
escapes me whenever I try to type it, naturally]. This is obviously written
somewhat in vernacular, I would even guess the character speaking is a young
person. "Poop-house" seems to refer to an outhouse or bathroom. Is this turn
of the century prose...maybe 1930's? In any case, a poop-house is a bathroom.
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In article <6jpaoc$9ds$1...@newstmp1.bora.net>, John Lee
<hshj...@shinbiro.com> writes
>Here is a paragraph.
>Mrs. Stuart bought herself one of those-of those fox's you wears around your
>neck with the little paws sticking out and the beaty eyes?
>Now, Mr.Stuart paid a bundle for it right enough.
>You know what they say?(laugh) They say she even wears the thing to the
>poop-house! Boy, what's it take. Well, I see when I'm not wanted. Save some
>of that dessert for me, will you?
>
>Give me the meaning if poop-house.
>Thanks in advance.
A poop-house is a lavatory. ie a place where you go to evacuate the
bowels, otherwise commonly known as having a poop.
--
Sam
Guy Morgan
In article <6jpaoc$9ds$1...@newstmp1.bora.net>, John Lee
<hshj...@shinbiro.com> writes
>Here is a paragraph.
>Mrs. Stuart bought herself one of those-of those fox's you wears around your
>neck with the little paws sticking out and the beaty eyes?
>Now, Mr.Stuart paid a bundle for it right enough.
>You know what they say?(laugh) They say she even wears the thing to the
>poop-house! Boy, what's it take. Well, I see when I'm not wanted. Save some
>of that dessert for me, will you?
>
>Give me the meaning if poop-house.
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
"at the bottom of the garden". Presumably from the fact that poop is
one of the many euphemisms for excrement!
Cheers
Guy
--
Guy Morgan
joy beeson
Hey, guys, when people say "indoor outhouse", it's a *joke*, meant to
be funny, a deliberate absurdity. Anything with "house" in it refers
to an outside facility.
The context given make it clear that the lady in question put on her
fur every time she left the house, even if she was only going to the
privy. Privy is here called "poop-house" in order to be vulgar. The
phrase may have been coined for the occasion; the usual vulgar term is
"shithouse".
Joy Beeson
mail to : j beeson at global two thousand dot net
K1912
joy beeson wrote:
>Hey, guys, when people say "indoor outhouse", it's a *joke*, meant to
>be funny, a deliberate absurdity. Anything with "house" in it refers
>to an outside facility.
>
>The context given make it clear that the lady in question put on her
>fur every time she left the house, even if she was only going to the
>privy. Privy is here called "poop-house" in order to be vulgar. The
>phrase may have been coined for the occasion; the usual vulgar term is
>"shithouse".
>
>
Cease! Desist! Forebear and restrain! We coprophobics can only take so much!
Some of us never get over the feces-child-penis-concept, and all this talk
about poop-houses and privies and outhouses doesn't help matters. (I don't want
to sound like an old poop pooping on the poop deck because he's too pooped to
poop in the head, but enough is enough--as I've just proved. I have to stop now
or I'll be late for my shame-aversion therapy.)
Joy, you might be interested to know that the word "shit" was ranked number 16
in the tabooness rating of dirty words (28 words were ranked), a study
conducted at Kent State University in 1976.
Number 28 was pig. I'll leave you to guess what number 1 was.
George
K1912
Shotgun1A
>So will it be politically more correct if I describe a voluptuous female as
>being "built like a brick poophouse"?
"Constructed in a manner pleasing to the eye" is the offical designation
according to the ACLU.
Toastrider
>>So will it be politically more correct if I describe a voluptuous >>female as
being "built like a brick poophouse"?
>"Constructed in a manner pleasing to the eye" is the offical >designation
>according to the ACLU.
I'm told that in the US the new popular way to praise somebody is to call them
"the shit". It casts 'brick shithouses' in a whole new light !
Daniel James
In article <199805191901...@ladder03.news.aol.com>, K1912
wrote:
> was ranked number 16 in the tabooness rating of dirty words ...
> <snip>
> I'll leave you to guess what number 1 was.
>
Er, politician?
Cheers,
Daniel James
Daniel James
In article <01bd8456$4ec48dc0$ac24accf@mazorj>, John Mazor wrote:
> So will it be politically more correct if I describe a voluptuous female as
>
You would probably be wildly inaccuarate.
The characteristic for which brick, er, outhouses, are best known is solidity
- because these buildings are typically either of solid brick or relatively
frigile wooden construction.
One might reasonably expect, say, an Olympic shot-putter to be built like a
brick shithouse, but such a person would hardly be thought of as voluptuous
(whatever their sex).
Cheers,
Daniel
Shotgun1A
>So will it be politically more correct if I describe a voluptuous female as
>> being "built like a brick poophouse"? ;-)
>>
>
>You would probably be wildly inaccuarate.
>
>The characteristic for which brick, er, outhouses, are best known is solidity
>
>- because these buildings are typically either of solid brick or relatively
>frigile wooden construction.
>
>One might reasonably expect, say, an Olympic shot-putter to be built like a
>brick shithouse, but such a person would hardly be thought of as voluptuous
>(whatever their sex)
I have to comment: See, another characteristic of any brick structure is that
the bricks are STACKED as they are laid...get it? Stacked? That's another
semi-vulgar term for an attractive (if less than waif-like) female.... Usage:
"Gawd, look at that gal...she is stacked!"
_
K1912
Daniel James wrote:>In article
Close, but no cigar. A politician is always a number 2.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as a honest burglar.--H. L. Mencken
George
K1912
K1912
Daniel James wrote:
>In article <01bd8456$4ec48dc0$ac24accf@mazorj>, John Mazor wrote:
>> So will it be politically more correct if I describe a voluptuous female as
>> being "built like a brick poophouse"? ;-)
>>
>
>You would probably be wildly inaccuarate.
>
>The characteristic for which brick, er, outhouses, are best known is solidity
>
>- because these buildings are typically either of solid brick or relatively
>frigile wooden construction.
>
>One might reasonably expect, say, an Olympic shot-putter to be built like a
>brick shithouse, but such a person would hardly be thought of as voluptuous
>(whatever their sex).
>
>
Au contraire, mon frere. To say a woman is built like a brick shithouse is to
say she is zaftig, the kind of woman who is so voluptuously endowed that the
heft and cleavage of her bosom makes you want to weep--or, at the very least,
take off your pants and chew the cuffs.
This is also the kind of woman whose "solidity" of derriere (upon tactile
examination if the gods are kind) is all it's cracked up to be. (But less
zaftig derrieres will also do in a pinch. I refrained from saying buggers can't
be choosy.)
K1912