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why

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Rev. Reene

Ring the bells that can still ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.

-- Leonard Cohen

>>How did sailors in the old days... umm... do their "business"?

Like gentlemen of finer upbringing, over a spot of grog. And, generally, they'd keep their word even if fortune and fate conspired against them. Of course, once lost they made no secret about wanting to get it back...

Hmm? Oh, that? What a rude little question to ask. You've got no call askin' a man how he waves his sword!

Seriously, the preferred method of the day was a chamberpot, though I suppose during the day when you were more likely to be outside you'd not bother using a chamberpot. Just walk off behind some bushes or behind a building, or off the side of the boat (or just jump into the water, if it wasn't going to muck up the drinking water). You didn't just drop trou and do it right there in front of other people, though, so some measure of privacy was required.

If you had a permanent structure and a lot of money (ie, royalty and the richest nobility), you would probably have a garderobe. Garderobe = attached outhouse (as opposed to an outhouse). You may have even had running water/sewer service, which would be dependant on what time period you were referencing or how thick the gnome population was in your area.

J'Lo, I'm a ranger.. I'd believe anything.....
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