OT: Saving The World - And Saving Toilet Paper

April 25, 2007

Hey Kelli .. Marcia .. other good folks ..

> Good heavens, Macha02012, you must be a sweet innocent babe still

wet behind

> the ears and I can guess you prolly haven't been previously

compelled by an

> English teacher to read that classic 'Tobacco Road'.

Florida folks don't grow that much corn .. but betcha Kelli has read

at least on of Erskine Caldwell's great novels. Back in my early

teens .. afore I knew what the world was all about .. I figgered that

anything that wasn't written by Erskine Caldwell or John D. McDonald

wasn't worth reading. ;-) Caldwell wrote 80 + books that were

translated into 43 different languages. As shown here .. his main

theme was the reality of social injustice in terms of class, race and

gender .. difference between Caldwell and writers of today is that he

took on these things a long afore they even paid attention to them.

http://id.mind.net/~fletch/biography.html

" God's Little Acre " and " Tobacco Road " and some others were made into

films. I have known real folks who would have been perfect character

examples for all of his books.

> I'll let Butch explain, his own self. :-) ROFLMAO!! Looking forward

> to this one, Butch.

OK .. I'll give it a shot. First .. we gotta accept that folks used

to be tougher than they are now. ;-)

Macha (Kelli) wrote:

> !!! Corn on the cob?!!?

Nope .. cob without the corn. Cobs where dried corn had been shelled.

And though some folks will think I am joking .. in fact, many folks

used to use them as a substitute for toilet paper. The idea behind

using one red cob and then one white cob to see if another red cob was

needed is purty danged logical when one thinks on it. ;-)

There is no shortage of tales amongst the old folks Down Home about

this feller and that feller who used the wrong thing and learned from

the mistake. I expect that Old Time Suthran Humor will be purty close

to dead in one more generation .. humor today is getting to where its

gotta be totally " G " rated and totally Politically Correct .. meaning

it in not way reflects the realities of life.

> Be Well,

> Marcia Elston http://www.wingedseed.com

> http://www.aromaconnection.org

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

>>>Red cobs seemed to be more numerous than the white ones .. so folks

>>>used one red then one white in order to see if they needed another

>>>red. ;-)

April 26, 2007

, " Butch Owen " <butchbsi

wrote:

>

> Hey Kelli .. Marcia .. other good folks ..

>

> > Good heavens, Macha02012, you must be a sweet innocent babe still

> wet behind

> > the ears and I can guess you prolly haven't been previously

>

> OK .. I'll give it a shot. First .. we gotta accept that folks used

> to be tougher than they are now. ;-)

I know my great grandmother was, the out house was a fur piece from

the house 'cause of the 'scent', but we only had one color cob!

And By G... you better use the 'House' instead of the P... Pot unless

it was the dead of night or pouring down rain outside! I currently

have that P... Pot, and the pitcher and washbasin that went with it

in my spare bedroom!

> And though some folks will think I am joking .. in fact, many folks

> used to use them as a substitute for toilet paper. The idea behind

> using one red cob and then one white cob to see if another red cob

was

> needed is purty danged logical when one thinks on it. ;-)

We had indoor plumbing at my house, but when we went to Grandma

Netties, (Until the LATE 60's it was outdoor plumbing, and a sink

pump in the kitchen, and a big pump outside to fill the 'tub' for

baths on Saturday night, had to look spanking for church on Sunday!

We did have our choice of cob or catalog, Sear or Montgomery Ward,

and the old Farmers Almanac. All of which I stopped reading when I

found out what everyone was using them for at 'Grandma Netties', at

my house they actually were for reading.

You've got to know my mom was born and bred Boston, and later

Chicago, although she would 'rough it' when we went to grandmas, she

brought, ok don't tell anyone, toilet paper from our house. She

would take us, 3 little girls out to the outhouse, with a bag,

supposedly with cloths to clean our hands, cause if grandma knew she

was using store bought toilet paper clogging up her system she'd get

in trouble, and help us through the 'task'.

I tried a cob once, and I've got to say, I'm really a leaf girl!

> There is no shortage of tales amongst the old folks Down Home about

> this feller and that feller who used the wrong thing and learned

from

> the mistake. I expect that Old Time Suthran Humor will be purty

close

> to dead in one more generation .. humor today is getting to where

its

> gotta be totally " G " rated and totally Politically Correct ..

meaning

> it in not way reflects the realities of life.

I was also trained by my Great Grandpa on which leaves were and were

not suitable. Along with those politically incorrect stories to

stess the point of the dangers of pickin' the wrong leaf!!!

I to have been rotfl, and enjoying the memories!

>

> > Be Well,

> > Marcia Elston http://www.wingedseed.com

> > http://www.aromaconnection.org

>

> Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

>

> >>>Red cobs seemed to be more numerous than the white ones .. so

folks

> >>>used one red then one white in order to see if they needed

another

> >>>red. ;-)

Again our cob choice was far more limited, as Grandma Nettie lived in

town, and got to use the cobs from eatin' corn that were dried in a

barrel on the back porch. thinking about that now, I'm surprised

nobody got a rash! Either we were built stronger back then , or more

likely, 'Respectable people just didn't talk about things like that

young lady "

Lynn

May 10, 2007

Well, I guess corn OFF the cob is a bit better than corn on the cob I'll

remember that next time a major hurricane blows through here and I'm out of

regular tp hahaha

Matter of fact I love Caldwell...Like his fiction but am a big fan of his

non-fiction work.

Butch Owen <butchbsi wrote: