Corn pones are post-Columbian in Europe

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From: Michael Davidson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 10:40 PM
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In a message dated 99-02-03 00:59:29 EST, you write:

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 When we lived in Brooklyn, my son's room had a door, and the bathroom had a
 door.  A friend informed us that we really had a closet with a shower
 curtain in it.  It was the ONLY privacy any of us had!

 >>Im not sure where all this is going but when I lived on East tenth bet
2nd
and first not only did we have a polite pot salesman for a un -official
doorman but the bathtub was in the kitchen and when it was time for dinner
you
pulled out a sheet a plywood  and Viola (as they say in Hoboken) you had a
dining room table  all ready for the checkered table cloth and candlelabra
 I paid two bills a month there  for several years I understand you now get
the same cocharoches for 1500, I think Guilliani got rid of the doorman...
..I understand they discovered or unearthed a two story privy down on or
about
varick street dating from the 1840's..
..I unearthed a  19 th cent Privy in new Hampshire and found it full of
small
corn pones( also broken clay pipes and snuff bottles) which I was told
predated toilet paper; any research on this ? The oldest privy I ever saw
was
on the Greek Island of Thera seat of the Minoan culture and most possible
site
of Plato's Atlantis...it was a two seater on the second floor of the
recently
discovered city(1958) of Achatheri (sp?) ..no corn pones were found..however
...so perhaps it is suspect...corning.live from the throne room ..Michael