Daily Showering Tip (6/17/05)...

SHOWER FACT: Back in the olden days before indoor plumbing, people used to shower out in a small building separate from the main house. The showerhouse. It was sort of like an outhouse for the shower. Most folks just called it the "shouthouse." Actually, that reminds me of a poem:

Crazy Grandpa Eli
Back in nineteen hundred and thirty-three,
Grandpa fought with Grandma
O'er the monthly milk fee.
This put Grandpa in the doghouse,
So he went to the shithouse,
But that's the outhouse to you and me.
After the shithouse,
It was off to the shouthouse,
But that's the showerhouse to you and me.
Cleaned up in the shouthouse,
Then back to the main house
To shoot poor Grandma
O'er the monthly milk fee.
He shot her right in the face,
But was not disgraced.
The fee was not wee.
It was high indeed.
With Grandma away,
There's not much else to say.
It was courthouse to bighouse,
Where Grandpa was deloused.
And passed all his days
Listening to Strauss.
And passed all his days
Licking a mouse.
Crazy Grandpa Eli.