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Water-saving portable toilet plumbing - photo
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Another creative adaptation of the water closet; the up-flush version for basements, the air bladder flush, the incinerating toilet, the macerating toilet, the bidet, the portable with holding tank, off grid special with a seat with a frame supporting a plastic bag... all light years beyond a shack with a quarter-moon on the door and a stack of Sears-Roebuck catalogs.
Or corn cobs.
Guess rural postal delivery wasn't dependably punctual.
Somewhere, there is a story of two brothers who opened a department store. One was expert at hardware, the other at clothing, particularly women's under garments. The basis came from, they'd torn a catalog in half and each took to studying while on the throne.