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A good friend used the wonderfully descriptive phrase to express surprise to me the other day: "Sh*t house Susie!" (well, they didn't say the asterix but I put that in for those of delicate sensibilities like Jackie) Do any of you know this one, or where it may come from?
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Well, another thread that's gonna be a bust.
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be a bust.
a bust? is that the wrong part of the anatomy? isn't this thread about an out house?
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isn't this thread about an out house?
And what is a brick outhouse built like anyway? And would you want someone who was built like one?
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don't get too [anal]ytical about this one, guys -- it simply means "well built".
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"well built"
Far as that goes, I've never seen a brick [out]house, and I don't see anything that would suggest that they would necessarily be well built.
Examining the minutia of life through the microscope of [anal]ysis
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Aunt mav--such language! "Yeah, she's a brick...house"--The Commodores.
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It means from the bottom up!
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I have seen a brick outhouse, at Pennsbury Manor, the [restored] estate of William Penn, colonial proprietor of Pennsylvania. It's a three-holer. Must have been the oatmeal (USn expression for "porridge") that caused the necessity for such a large and sturdy privy.
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