Sean McNamara You got me there. I guess I don't know Jack Shit.

One of the lesser known was William "Boneless" Browntrout.

He was a German by the name of Johann Schidt. It was later Anglicized to 'Jack Shit'.

Stop being facetious. My name used to be John Muckybottom, but got so fed up with the ribbing, I changed my first name to Ivor.

Fortunately however, those two lesser known inventors did get honorable mention in the famous book by Squatt & Leavit, a book so successful that it left it's two authors 'Flush' $$ for the rest of their lives :D

Tom's sister, Ima Crapper and third cousin Major Runs never married. Legend holds bountiful glory as to why not.

Allister Forde 😥😥😷😷😷

Come on, quit giving the guy crap.

While they indeed are plumbers, they are not famous for their skills as plumbers...

I was going to comment the same thing!

Ya mean Mario and Luigi from 'Bodge It and Scarper'?

and all other symbols pls kthx or at least the ones on the number keys

Dzemal E well it looks like an a and it means at

Also, when did the # (pound) symbol become "hashtag"? I feel old asking this too.

from my keyboard above the 2

It's a "hash", not a hashtag. The whole thing with words after it is a hashtag because it uses a hash symbol to indicate the start of the tag (the words).

Must be a local phenomenon. German outhouses usually had a heart carved out.

maybe so the light of the moon could shine in at night since there was obviously no light switch.

Maybe for ventilation?

ldchappell1 i could see that too.

I know it has something to do with, when it was invented, a majority of people being illiterate. Putting "men" on a door wouldn't have worked, but moon is phonetically similar, and an easy symbol to recognize. I'm not absolute on this reasoning however, so I'm really interested in what Daven, Simon, and their research team could turn up. The idea of the heart on German doors intrigues me a great deal, though. Perhaps a similar reason exists?

doing that as we speak

Done yet?

BlueMasterC 😂 me

BlueMasterC Taking a crap in the crapper.

I am

Emmitt Morgans we all "knew" that

To protect you from mirror demons of course!

it's referring to "holds" in martial arts, barred means its not allowed. "no holds barred" means holds are allowed.

Absolutely so, except it's origin is more specifically from wrestling.

pabmusic1 wrestling is martial arts.

That's not my point. I said "its origin is more specifically from wrestling", which is more precise than your original. It's the same sort of difference as there is between "he was attacked by an animal" and "he was attacked by a dog".

Cool. Thanks, guys.

batmanfanforever08 Where is it known as Klondike? Pretty. sure most places it's Solataire

George Hamvas Hummerich​ in every phone app I have ever downloaded with multiple kinds of solo card games, the traditional one is called _Klondike_. So you need to do more research. I'm not entirely sure where those places are, but I am certain they exist based on the experience I have had with phone apps for solo card games.

batmanfanforever08 I think the term Solitaire covers all solo card games and Klondike is one specific game. In New Zealand we call these games Patience and Solitaire is a completely different game played with pegs. Although given the prevalence of computer games called Solitaire this may be changing among younger people.

Joshua Keeney

@Carolann Cannuli-Denton but why is the "average" body temp so very hot dangerously hot even when its the weather

Thomas Wang actually, I think that was an old Native American term for the locomotive. People ride it like a horse and they were made of iron.

Charles Cox really?

Carolann Cannuli-Denton aha I know my nana’s last name was crapper before she got married

The etymology of loo is obscure. The Oxford English Dictionary notes the 1922 appearance of "How much cost? Waterloo. Watercloset." in James Joyce's novel _Ulysses_ and defers to Alan S. C. Ross's arguments that it derived in some fashion from the site of Napoleon's 1815 defeat. In the 1950s the use of the word "loo" was considered one of the markers of British upper-class speech, featuring in a famous essay, "U and non-U English". "Loo" may have derived from a corruption of French l'eau ("water"), _gare à l'eau_ ("mind the water", used in reference to emptying chamber pots into the street from an upper-story window), lieu ("place"), _lieu d'aisance_ ("place of ease", used euphemistically for a toilet), or _lieu à l'anglaise_ ("English place", used from around 1770 to refer to English-style toilets installed for travelers). Other proposed etymologies include a supposed tendency to place toilets in room 100 (hence "loo") in English hotels, a dialectical corruption of the nautical term "lee" in reference to the need to urinate and defecate with the wind prior to the advent of head pumps, or the 17th-century preacher Louis Bourdaloue, whose long sermons at Paris's Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis prompted his parishioners to bring along chamber pots.

When ships were wooden, a literal hole was cut into the bulkhead to relieve one's self. This hole led directly to the ocean and thus waste was "overboard". Since it was cut into the ship itself, one in modesty eventually said "head" to mean going to the toilet. Since the captain's wife and children could be onboard along with female passengers, it was rude to say that you had to relieve yourself and since everyone knew where that particular bulkhead opening was, it became standard practice to use the term on a ship. The practice has continued to this day.

While probably true, the type of thinking behind such modesty is ridiculous. Obviously women and children also go to the bathroom.