tent-pissing follow-up

ADSGarson O'Toole adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Mon Oct 14 04:35:29 UTC 2013


Garson O'Toole wrote:
>> The horse urine seems to land directly below the horse.

Wilson Gray wrote:
> May I assume, then, that the sight of rubber-shod horses pulling
> milk-trucks and concomitantly both leaking and dumping in the public way
> had ceased to be a common feature of the cityscape in your youth, Garson?

I've been on the planet for more than half a century, but I have not
seen horse-drawn milk trucks. Camels demonstrating retromingency was
another sight I missed in my admittedly provincial upbringing. Garson

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