Hi Cathy,

Given your "rough 'n' ready" context, how about "shithouse?"
There is a traditional expression in my family (which would
easily date this to turn-of-the-century or earlier [GA & TX])
to the effect that:

"[he/she/it] stands out like a shithouse in a snowstorm."

Said of someone who is painfully obvious or out of place.
Other simiilar folk expressions are: as welcome "as a turd
in the punchbowl," or "a bastard at a family reunion."

It would seem to be doubly appropriate for your
context, though I can't speak to its authenticity in your
time & place.

BTW, just out of personal curiousity, were/are any of your
characters members of the Arctic Brotherhood?  (They have
that wonderful lodge in Skagway)  Any references to the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific expo of 1909 in Seatle?

Good luck w/publishing!

Marty
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From: Cathy Spude <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
Date:  Tue, 07 Sep 2004 10:53:24 -0600

>Histarchers:
>
>Since you have all been so helpful with whiskey and cigars, I thought I'd
>ask another question dear to everyone's heart.
>
>What did they call the little house out back in 1905. I mean in colloquial
>terms? Not what the polite people called it, but what the guys would call
>it in the saloon? I call it the privy. The Sanborne map people called it
>the privy. The newspaper man found all sorts of clever ways to get around
>it whenever he had to refer to it all.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Cathy
>
>
>Catherine Holder Spude ¨ Archeologist ¨ Cultural Resources Management ¨
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