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Every day I get at least one email from my Son Don, most of them couldn't be posted on a family oriented forum but today I got one with some pictures that are pretty cool.

I guess they have this display of art in Clay WVA where people have decorated outhouses (they call them Thunder Boxes ) and these are 12 of them. I thought you guys might enjoy seeing these, and I bet a bunch of you have used one of these in your past........butt (pun intended) not this nice.

Don

Oh, there are more............

And finally.............

I see we literally have the Kings throne........ROFLMAO

A bit off subject but I understand that amateur archeologists use a "T" handle with a slender (1/4" or 3/8") rod about six or seven feet long, and they hunt for old abandoned outhouse locations, especially out back of old saloons or hotels in ghost towns or old homestead sites. Seems back in the day they would dig a deep hole, set the outhouse, and over the years as it filled with loamy soil of decomposed waste they would simply dig a new hole nearby, move the outhouse over and use the dug dirt to cap the old hole. Supposed to be one of the most lucrative spots to dig, as anything dropped was almost always left as lost. Old whiskey bottles, coins, watches, jewelry, pistols and on and on. The modern hunter walks around pushing the rod into the ground, and when he finds a spot where it sinks easily after breaking through a cap layer it is generally an old outhouse hole, and the dig begins. Often they find a line of several old holes, and they can track the date of use by the items found.

Add that job to the list of ones I never want on my resume'.

Don

Originally Posted by rspears

A bit off subject but I understand that amateur archeologists use a "T" handle with a slender (1/4" or 3/8") rod about six or seven feet long, and they hunt for old abandoned outhouse locations, especially out back of old saloons or hotels in ghost towns or old homestead sites. Seems back in the day they would dig a deep hole, set the outhouse, and over the years as it filled with loamy soil of decomposed waste they would simply dig a new hole nearby, move the outhouse over and use the dug dirt to cap the old hole. Supposed to be one of the most lucrative spots to dig, as anything dropped was almost always left as lost. Old whiskey bottles, coins, watches, jewelry, pistols and on and on. The modern hunter walks around pushing the rod into the ground, and when he finds a spot where it sinks easily after breaking through a cap layer it is generally an old outhouse hole, and the dig begins. Often they find a line of several old holes, and they can track the date of use by the items found.

yep we knew a guy that did this he would find old ink wells and sell them for big $$ something about the age and the color of the glaze made them worth alot of coin.there must of been alot of writing going on sitting on the old thunder mug

Yep, used my share of them. Not that fancy though. The worst one was in Austria. A two seater. Not sure how they held it up but it was over the edge of a ravine about 20 ft deep.

Not as artsy, but maybe as fartsy.............seems most appropriate for the time.....

There was one back home that had a mannikin standing in the open doorway with the pants down to the knees.

Bob, haven't you heard of "Trickle Down Economics?"

Don

Dropped my car keys in a sani can once....half an hour on my knees with a bent coat hanger before I got them back.

DT

I think I would have looked for my second set of keys first !

Don

Originally Posted by dogtag

Dropped my car keys in a sani can once....half an hour on my knees with a bent coat hanger before I got them back.

DT

Buddy of mine years ago dropped his business cell phone in a crapper.....He never went after it......didnt feel like pressing the nibblet to dial out or the carrot to hang up.....company gave him a new one

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Bob, haven't you heard of "Trickle Down Economics?"

Don

Don't know how I missed that big, hanging, soft ball.........

No, I had more in mind the autocratic thinking that dictates what kind of light bulbs we must use, "lending" money to political cronies, that sort of thing.