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    A Flush in the Pan
    A Flush in the Pan
    A Flush in the Pan
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    A Flush in the Pan

    By Dulcie Lewis

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    Here is the ultimate happy crapper laughter manual: a little reference work—ideal for the smallest room.It may start you giggling when you need to be concentrating. Well, who cares so long as there’s not a queue outside?Take this amazing journey through all things lavatorial, and in the words of author Dulcie Lewis, ‘May you always be blessed with a warm seat and a strong flush’.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCountryside Books
    Release dateNov 13, 2003
    ISBN9781846749049
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      A Flush in the Pan - Dulcie Lewis

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      The first movement

      I have few claims to fame except that for many years I have given talks on the lavatory. Discovering my interest in the history of the bath and lavatory has led people to share with me their one and only related joke or merry quip. I have always been happy to be the recipient of much loved stories and thank those fellow enthusiasts. Over the years I have assembled a classic collection of stories and one-liners that are part of the collective folk memory for those of a certain age. It is impossible to know who first told them or if they are true.

      No one mourns the passing of the outdoor lavatory but with its demise we have lost something. The sense of adventure in a trip down the garden path is missing from our lives. Those born after 1950 have been deprived of the character building delights of shit shovelling. Where are the stories now of old ladies backing into an outdoor privy in the dark and finding themselves seated on a tramp’s lap?

      There are no tales attached to modern bathrooms except of the crudest sort. You will not find those within these pages. The old privies and WCs gave rise to witty tales perhaps reflecting universal constipation and the length of time spent sitting there.

      Here then is a small book I hope anyone would be happy to have in their bathroom. May you always be blessed with a warm seat and a strong flush.

      Dulcie Lewis

      Down the garden path

      I must down to the privy again,

      To the lonely loo and the sky,

      And all I ask is a warm seat

      And some paper to wipe me dry,

      And the cobwebs cling and the draughts sing –

      And the old door creaking,

      And a wet patch on my bald head

      As the roof above is leaking.

      (Apologies to John Masefield)

      Young Willie’s family had a well-built wooden garden privy situated some distance from the house, which backed onto the canal. Willie and some friends out making mischief thought it would be fun to push the privy into the canal.

      Later trying to find out who had done this dark deed Willie’s father questioned his son as to what part he might have played

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