Date sent:              Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:10:54 -0400
From:                   Meta Janowitz <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:                Re: movement of privies
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Send reply to:          HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>


> And as another contribution to the personal anecdotes, I grew up on a
> small, inner village farm where there was an operating outhouse until the
> 1970s.  An indoor bathroom was installed in the 1930s, at the insistence of
> the young women of the family, but the older members continued to use the
> "pookamon" (and if anybody knows where this word comes from I would
> appreciate hearing).
>
> Meta Janowitz

"pookamon?" - I don't know, but pray it has nothing whatsoever to
do with those infernal cards that the kids are trading...