"Ed" <gwbush@whitehouse.gov> wrote in message news:<bd1eve$97v$1@cobalt01.janis.or.jp>...
> "Scott Reynolds" <sar@gol.com> wrote in message
> news:bd11mh$c4$1@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp...
> > On 6/20/2003 6:11 PM, Ed wrote:
> >
> > > "Scott Reynolds" <sar@gol.com> wrote in message
> > > news:bcucdi$5bb$1@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp...
> > >
> > >>BTW, my comment was intended as a joke. The word "outhouse" refers to a
> > >>very specific type of outbuilding in American English.
> > >
> > > You forgot to add that they have basically been outlawed in the U.S. The
> > > family outhouse (a two-holer) is no longer considered a viable means of
> > > release thanks to sepponian health regulations.
> >
> > Just another one of our freedoms they've taken away while I've been
> > gone. Where will it end? Next thing you know the "sepponian" authorities
> > will outlaw septic tanks. (Wouldn't that be ironic?)
> 
> It'll happen. What is an outhouse but a septic tank with a door, a throne
> and reading material?

But I've been in outhouses that smelled much better than the average
Japanese train station toilet.

John W.