Excrement
Woman trapped retrieving poo
BBC News headline: Woman trapped in window while trying to retrieve pooImpressively, the headline delivers exactly what it promises. It was her own poo she was after, having flung it because it "would not flush" and she was worried her date would find it.
When I first read the story I thought, nah, that can't be true. It sounds too much like some kind of urban legend about a date gone nightmarishly wrong. But the BBC has confirmed it, as has the local Fire and Rescue service.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 06, 2017 -
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Category: Excrement, Love & Romance
Navassa Island: Guano Capital of the USA
Wikipedia page.
Navassa Island was claimed for the United States on September 19, 1857, by Peter Duncan, an American sea captain, under the Guano Islands Act of 1856, for the rich guano deposits found on the island, and for not being within the lawful jurisdiction of any other government, nor occupied by another government's citizens.
Article from 2012 here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 02, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Excrement, Natural Resources, Nineteenth Century
Minipoo
Minipoo Dry Shampoo was sold from the 1940s until the 1960s. I'm assuming that 'poo' must not have had the same slang meaning back in the 1940s? Otherwise why would a manufacturer choose a name suggesting a small bowel movement?I came across a newspaper column from 1980 commenting on the strangeness of the name. So at least by then the name had started to sound odd to people.
Muncie Evening Press - Mar 19, 1980
I found the Minipoo images at the National Museum of American History website. The very first comment there, posted in 2015, was from a woman, Dolores Mitchell Byrne, claiming to have been the model on the label. I googled her name and found that a woman of the same name won the title of "Miss Subways" back in January 1961. (Paul has posted about this unusual beauty contest here.) She's got a different hairstyle, but I think it's her, the Minipoo model. You can see a more recent photo of her at BrooklynPaper.com.
Dolores Mitchell Byrne, aka 'Miss Subways' - via Facebook
Posted By: Alex - Thu Aug 17, 2017 -
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Category: Hygiene, Excrement, Hair and Hairstyling, Slang
Follies of the Madmen #323
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 14, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, Excrement, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1930s
16 Old Ladies Locked in the Lavatory
The artist.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 13, 2017 -
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Category: Humor, Hygiene, Excrement, Music, 1940s
Humanure
Check out the Humanure Film in which "Humanure Girl" travels from the future to teach us about the benefits of making compost from human feces.And if you want to dive deeper into the subject of Humanure, the Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins seems to be like the Bible of Humanure enthusiasts.
Posted By: Alex - Fri May 05, 2017 -
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Category: Body Fluids, Excrement
National Poo Museum
The UK will soon open a "National Poo Museum" on the Isle of Wight. It will "celebrate poo." Says a spokeswoman, "The National Poo Museum is set to be the place to immerse oneself in the wonder of excrement while finding out lots of extraordinary nuggets of information about all things poo-y."More info: Isle of Wight County Press
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 17, 2016 -
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Category: Museums, Excrement
Unexpected
It seems that BK's Halloween Whopper has an interesting side effect. It goes in with a black bun but it comes out green. Not just green, but GREEN!! If you are interested in how green there is a picture at the link if you scroll down and click on it.
Posted By: patty - Tue Oct 06, 2015 -
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Category: Food, Excrement, Eating
Father Pierre Monastery Herbs
Original ad.
I wish I could find a picture on the internet of the packaging for this product. Or learn who the legendary Father Pierre was. Alas, even the mighty Web does not have the answer to everything.
But I did find out the ingredients.
As to the recipe's effectiveness, I cannot attest.
Apparently, this current-day Russian product also known as "Monastery Herbs" has a different composition.
"Ingredients: rose hips, currant leaves, birch leaves, roots and rhizomes Elecampane, grass oregano herb St. John's wort, willow (willow-herb)."
Russian page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 25, 2015 -
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Category: Body, Nature, Religion, Advertising, Excrement, 1940s, Russia
Stop And Think
In the movie Jurassic Park Jeff Goldblum's character says, in conversation about the Park, "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they never stopped to think if they should." I think that quote is very apropos to a recent Japanese culinary accomplishment. Cheesecake made using bacteria found in gorilla feces.
Posted By: patty - Thu Aug 06, 2015 -
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Category: Excrement, Can't Possibly Be True, Eating
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