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Yukoner said, 22 days ago
Seems “knock over” has undergone a generational shift.
sjoujke said, 22 days ago
Happy Halloween Everybody!
(Nice Avatar Yukoner)
Kids are so much more mature these days!
Just plain Steve said, 22 days ago
“Porta-Johns?” Would the current generation really not know what an “Outhouse, Biffy, or One-holer” was?
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JDG
said,
22 days ago
We had a two-holer. Kansas winters and nobody wanted to wait and take turns…..(this was before the hot winds of global warming.)
♠Lonewolf♠
said,
22 days ago
Why you little hoodlums. LOL
BigChiefDesoto said, 22 days ago
The story was that my Irish grandmother tied two cat’s tails together with a rope and hung them over somebody’s door knob! She also was party to taking some guy’s buggy apart and pulling it up on top of his barn, piece by piece, and putting it back together there! That was in the later years of the 19th century, back in the days when Halloween wasn’t trick or treat, it was just plain tricks! Alas, the country has been tamed into a spiritless beehive since then!!
cdward said, 22 days ago
Ah, BigChief, kids still get into mischief, only when they do, people of our generations tend to call them vandals and call the police. For example, back in the ’20s at our old church, a kid drove his dad’s car through the church doors on a dare. Caused damage to the doors (which his dad fixed), and it was over. When some kids in my day picked up a guy’s VW Bug from the street and put it on his lawn as a joke, they all got arrested. It’s always funny to remember it, but the same folks who remember their own pranks so fondly get very upset if the current batch of kids tries something similar.
BC13
said,
22 days ago
From tom foolery in one generation to criminal punkery the next.
cabrobst said, 22 days ago
We hid a punk’s VW Beetle in another guy’s van. It was weeks before either guy noticed it was there.
Doctor Toon
said,
22 days ago
Steve-the-undead - I’ve never heard anyone but my Mother call it a Biffy.
Thanks for that little piece of nostalgia.
grazer said, 22 days ago
Small town Halloween in the early ’50s….
One year our school principal decided to cleverly pre-tip his home outhouse to steal our forthcoming thunder that night. He should have known better. We teens organized a force that stealthily hand-carried it across town and sat it upright at the top of the school steps.
Joe Allen Doty said, 22 days ago
In some communities in the past where there was no indoor plumbing, high school students put outhouses on top of the high school building.
When I was in the 3rd, 4th and 5th grades, we lived in the Rogers County (Oklahoma) community of Tiawah. While we had a hand pump at the kitchen sink, we didn’t have an indoor toilet.
One summer, Dad and some other men dug a new hole to set the outhouse over. We had a large shed of a chicken house and boys from the neighborhood climbed up on it to watch the activity.
Yes, it was a two-holer. But, no one turned over any of the outhouses on Halloween.
Joe Allen Doty said, 22 days ago
This outhouse discussion reminds me of a joke about a boy who admitted that he knocked over the outhouse at home and he got punished for it.
The boy told his father, “When George Washington cut down the cherry tree, he didn’t get punished by his father for doing it when he confessed.”
The father said, “But, George Washington’s father wasn’t sitting in the cherry tree!.”
Carmy
said,
22 days ago
My Papa Daddy was a carpenter. My Mom said he built a deluxe outhouse for the family. I took her word for it.
JesseUWG said, 22 days ago
Lol.
Dewed said, 22 days ago
We put the neighbor’s picnic table on their roof once.
NyukNyuk2000 said, 21 days ago
After you knock over the outhouse, would it be redundant to also TP it? Don’t outhouses already have TP? Just asking.
Fer Lefer said, 21 days ago
“And the times they are a-changin’”
fbmce
said,
21 days ago
Back in my day (the late ’40s and early ’50s), Halloween was always preceded by Mischief Night the night before. That was when the ‘tricks’ prevailed with no treats.
If you wanted to be really nasty, you used a candle to “soap” someone’s windows instead of actual soap - a real beeuch to clean off.
smoothpate said, 21 days ago
My Dad told me that back in the 40’s my great aunt owned a Crosley. On Halloween, my grandpa and great uncle use to pick it up and set it on the front porch so that the neighborhood kids couldn’t pick it up and move it.
smoothpate said, 21 days ago
Quoting NyukNyuk2000, “Don’t outhouses already have TP?”
Not always, sometime you used a corncob or a page from the Monkey Ward catalog!!!!
Dry
said,
21 days ago
smoothpate wish I had gotten here sooner, “Monkey Ward catalog” man that’s a blast from the past, We had a Montgomery Ward store here in town of course it went out of business, sigh!
Carmy
said,
21 days ago
Drycula, I used to work at Monkey Ward when I was in high school.
BC said, 21 days ago
Be sure you don’t use the “shiny” pages.
Just plain Steve said, 21 days ago
A corncob? That’s gotta smart!
MatureCanadian
said,
21 days ago
We always found that it was much more fun to move the outhouse back a couple of feet without tipping. Then wait for the next victim to fall in the hole! Messy. In Canada we used the Sears catalogue.
MisngNOLA
said,
20 days ago
We used to wait until someone was in the outhouse then park a vehicle right in front of the door so they couldn’t get out. Oh wait, that wasn’t for Halloween though, it was just a couple years ago when I was in the Middle East on my “uncle’s” nickel.
Skywatcher68 said, 19 days ago
Mason’s echoing a Hart joke from ~30 years ago.