Chapter 4

My thanks to the folks who assist in my passing along silly bits of information. I’m certain that sooner or later, we will find a new topic! - OGD

From: doncdonc

The Navy term going to the “head” came from the days of sailing ships when you couldn’t poop over the sides as the beam was wider than the gunnels so you would poop on the side of the ship which was a no-no. You couldn’t go to the back of the ship as under the rear deck was the captains cabin and you’d be pooping this time in from of his cabin again a no-no. So they would pee in a bucket but to poop they would go to the maidenhead of the ship and cling over the front from the maidenhead to take a poop hence came the term going to the head short for the maindenhead,

Other shitty subject is where the Brits call going to the Loo comes from the first publicly displayed and useable toilets by T. John Crapper were installed at Waterloo Station so people went to see them and hence calling it going to the Loo. Also the term taking a crap and going to the John come from Crappers name. Now if he had gone by his first tame of Thomas instead of the middle name of John, they we would be going to the “Tom” instead of going to the “John.”

Also from doncdonc

My company was doing business in South America and to celebrate with their distributer there they sent them cases of coffee mugs to commemorate the 10th anniversary of doing business there. The secretary that sent the order into the company that was doing the beautiful printing on the cups in gold had them print “Para diez mas anos” trying to say “for 10 more years but she omitted the ~ mark over the letter n and instead that made it “for 10 more asses”. Needless so say we picked it up before shipping the cups to South America so we had cases and cases of free cups going around our factory in Miami while a new batch of cases of cups were printed and shipped to the distributer there.