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When I get my car fixed at the shop near work, they add sales tax on parts but none on labor. My hair cutter charges no sales tax on cuts but does on products.

I do notice.

John

Governments should cut expenses, NOT raise taxes.

Furthermore I would propose that there be no taxes on income earned overseas ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Not the ones I saw. Dozens, or more when I was a kid and visiting places in rural Kentucky. Maybe they got tired of digging new holes and moving them? I saw a few with a small door on the back side, but never really paid much attention to them, since they smelled so bad.

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A properly ventilated outhouse, with a scoop and a bucket of lye, tossed in after you crap, does not smell (badly ;-).

And your ass DOES adapt to use of pages from the last year's Sears-Roebuck catalog ;-)

In the early '50's, with the introduction of AC power into the remote parts of Pendleton County, my father and his brothers installed electric powered pumps on my grandparents' well, added a true shower and toilet into the basement, with pumps to remove waste water and sewage up to a septic tank and dry well field.

The youngest brother is still alive... 86 years old... in Frederick, MD. ...Jim Thompson

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Ask little Jimmy Dickens. He doesn't like the slick pages.

My grandparents had electricity, but still used a bucket for the well, and an outhouse. They had lights in the house, a radio, and later a B&W TV we took them. Another relative bought them a Maytag wringer washer, but she refused to let them deliver a dryer. Her personal garden was five acres, they had a small tobbaco base, and raised sugar cane to make Sorgum. (Mennifee County) they raised some hogs and cattle for their income and to feed themselves and others. My grandmother wouldn't hear of anyone going hungry. :)

My dad is the youngest in his family, and close to that age. :)

There are only a few of his siblings left, though. :(

Correct! I incorrectly remembered "lye" instead of "lime".

My remembrance of the outhouse... it had outside _inlet_ vents below the "seating area"... a three holer ;-)... and a stack way above, so the smell was well-controlled.

You may ask, "Three-holer?" .... try 12 kids ;-)

What get scary is situations like last week... 4 members of my high school graduating class departed :-(

And we're only in the 69-70 age bracket :-( ...Jim Thompson

Or a boy scout camp with several eight holers. All painted the same 'Outhouse brown' that looked like it came from inside the outhouse.

I'm losing members of my graduating class, and people I worked with who are my age, too. You have about 12 years on me.

There was an 8 holer in two rows of four shown on UK TV a couple of weeks ago.

And you still owe answers to three questions. Enumerated above. Or are going to try to pull another fast one?

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I was there in Skype spirit ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Pull another fast one? How strange.

John

What's wrong with corn cobs?

-- "Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it." (Stephen Leacock)

Them's for reaming leftist weenies ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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If you wanted a President with balls why didn't you elect Hillary?

Two brown, one white?

"First you use the brown one, then you use the white one to check and see if you need to use the brown one again" -- Redd Foxx.

Cheers! Rich