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Re: Colonial Faux Stone
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Larry Simpson <[log in to unmask]>
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The listserv where the buildings do the talking <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:51:39 -0500
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There is a word in some of the more complete dictionaries, I think spelled: gurlyloo, which was used to signal pedestrians when dumping a chamber pot from a second story window....

Larry2


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> It would be interesting to know where and when the use of chamberpots came  
> in,

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