My husband tried in vain to do some work on his laptop at the dining room table, but was inveigled into a conversation about turn-of-the-century toilet bowls.DD: "Ooohhh...(demurely)...'Closet Bowls'.
DDH: "A bowl in a closet?"
DD: "Nooo, honey, this is a new innovation--it's a, y'know, CLOSET bowl."
DDH: "Oh, a water closet bowl."
DD: "Nooo!--even that is TMI, and this was a non-TMI age. This is a new technology. It has a slanted seat, for hygiene!"
DDH: "Hm." (The sound of rapt fascination, so I press on).
DD: "Look--'The slanted Seat pleases Physicians.' See, even the logo is slanted--'NA-Tu-ro'. This is very High-Tech!"
DDH: "Except it's lower tech on one side."
I want one. Where do I go to buy it?
ReplyDeleteIt's right there, silly: O. A. Hankinson, 16 N. Huron Street. Until recently it was the Alfredo Martini restaurant. Near the intersection with Michigan Ave. there.
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http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=%2216+n.+huron+street%22+ypsilanti&ie=UTF8&ll=42.241195,-83.613124&spn=0.012486,0.032315&z=15&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=42.241308,-83.613105&panoid=WM5_qVqXFeF-E7mLpMd0nw&cbp=12,51.2,,0,5
That's where health-conscious Ypsilantians went to get their Naturos, back in the day.
"The great American habit of physics?" I never would have survived in an age of such code-speak and euphemism.
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