[Rhodes22-list] Crapper correction update

[Alan Robertson]

The next step up in civilization was the old Sears Catalog itself. You had to drill a hole close to the binding near the top of the cover and pass a stout cord through it so the catalog could be suspended. from a nail in the side of the outhouse.  You tore off 1-2 pages of at a time as needed.
In medieval times, the nobility used the neck of a swan or a goose, and kitchen help were admonished to save them for this purpose.  Hence the verb "to goose" someone.

bigal.
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  So who invented that marvelous corn cob dispenser  that Sear's sold..... It 
  sure beat the use of a stick or a  rabbit.....



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