Hey, Al, now you have ME laughing! My husband is part british, i'm suprised me never mentioned it! :) --Liz > >I'm still laughing.... ! > >I come from the North East of England. Imagine a scene from Victorian >times... lots of streets of terrace houses, 2 rooms upstairs, 2 room >downstairs. Mother is washing a dirty child in a tin bath in the front room >by the coal fire. Father is on his way home from the pit. > >This is an era before we had bathrooms with inside toilets so people used >to nip outside to the bottom of the yard and use the outside loo. This >brick >built outside toilet was called a "netty". It's a term that's just used in >that part of England. > >The term is still in use even though we now have inside bathrooms (in most >houses!!!). > >The phase "built like a brick netty" is one that is sometimes used to >describe a rather large and stocky person. > >Enjoy your Neti pot ;-) > >Al