Oxymoron
Sep 11, 2022 09:00:24 #
Walking through Catskill, NY yesterday, this caught my eye and made me smile. This sewer is sanitary.
Sep 11, 2022 09:03:48 #
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Sep 11, 2022 09:11:13 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Walking through Catskill, NY yesterday, this caught my eye and made me smile. This sewer is sanitary.
That's funny, I like oxymora. I like it that it on a manhole cover, I have quite a collection of photos of manhole covers. :-)
Sep 11, 2022 09:27:45 #
waegwan wrote:
That's funny, I like oxymora. I like it that it on a manhole cover, I have quite a collection of photos of manhole covers. :-)
I'd like to know how it came to be called a "manhole cover." I feel funny saying that word out loud.
Now that the topic has come up, there is an intersection in town with thirteen manhole covers! Why? Did they just keep digging new holes until they found what they wanted?
The term manhole originated between 1785 and 1795. A manhole is a hole, usually with a round cover, through which a man may enter a sewer, drain, steam boiler, etc., especially one located in a city street.
It's good that women weren't doing that kind of work back then, or the name might have been different.
Sep 11, 2022 09:39:37 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I'd like to know how it came to be called a "... (show quote)
"Person Hole" to be PC,
But I get your drift...
Sep 11, 2022 09:42:55 #
Longshadow wrote:
"Person Hole" to be PC,
But I get your drift...
But I get your drift...
Something like that is happening with manhole covers in CA. The quotation I posted, from a newspaper in India, said that gender specific terms should be avoided. Instead of "Mens' Room" and "Ladies' Room," the signs will say simply "Room." You will have to take your chances.
Sep 11, 2022 09:44:00 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Something like that is happening with manhole covers in CA. The quotation I posted, from a newspaper in India, said that gender specific terms should be avoided. Instead of "Mens' Room" and "Ladies' Room," the signs will say simply "Room." You will have to take your chances.
THAT could be interesting......
Sep 11, 2022 09:47:55 #
Reminds me of part of an Alan Sherman song years ago,
"...they're not lady toes, they're mu' men toes..."
"...they're not lady toes, they're mu' men toes..."
Sep 11, 2022 17:55:39 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Walking through Catskill, NY yesterday, this caught my eye and made me smile. This sewer is sanitary.
A few years back I was driving through a local shopping center and noticed water streaming downslope in the parking lot. A closer examination indicated it was bubbling up from a manhole cover.
I drove over and got out of my car to check it out. I didn't need to see what was printed on the cover, the pungent aroma clued me in. I called 911 to report it as it could have been unhealthy. Workmen were there a couple of hours later.
If your area is serviced by sewers rather than septic systems there will be two types of sewer pipes out in the street...storm sewers and sanitary sewers. It's a good idea to know which is which.
Sep 11, 2022 18:37:49 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I'd like to know how it came to be called a "... (show quote)
Thirteen in one intersection in mind boggling
Sep 12, 2022 07:35:12 #
waegwan wrote:
Thirteen in one intersection in mind boggling
I'll have to take a picture of that intersection.
Sep 12, 2022 07:36:06 #
flip1948 wrote:
A few years back I was driving through a local sho... (show quote)
Ah, so there's a difference! I thought "Sanitary" meant that the goal was to make conditions in town sanitary.
Sep 12, 2022 07:49:11 #
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