[LINK] OT - delicate question

[Frank O'Connor]

In Queensland ... the sharp end of the pineapple
In NT ... the blunt end
In NSW ... live emus
In Victoria ... multiple platypuses (platypi?) (they used to be quite common)
In SA ... Slow Crows (evolution has now ensured that all SA crows are 
now quite quick)
In Tasmania - Tasmanian  Tigers (As a rule Tasmanians were very 
pleased to see toilet paper appear as a replacement because heaps of 
them had to compete for a diminishing product)
IN WA ... they just rubbed their butts in the sand

Thank God for progress ..

					Regards,

At 4:31 AM +1000 8/4/11, Karl Auer wrote:
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>The Link Institute being suitably eclectic, I feel sure no-one will mind
>me posing this question, which believe it or not is actually serious
>research :-)
>
>Here it is: In the days of the outdoor dunny (outhouse, long drop,
>thunderbox), before toilet paper became ubiquitous and affordable by
>all, with what did one wipe one's bum?
>
>Rural American "privies" would often have a basket of corn cobs, I
>believe. Mail-order catalogues were also commonly hung on a nail,
>affording reading pleasure before being repurposed.
>
>But what did we use in Australia? I do recall sitting in a dunny outside
>a shearing shed once, looking with bemusement at a sheaf of carefully
>torn squares of newspaper on a nail ("The Age", if memory serves). Were
>catalogues common? I've never heard of corn cobs being used here.
>
>All suggestions welcome, but factual information would be most welcome.
>Also for suggestions for other places to ask :-)
>
>Regards, K.
>
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