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Originally posted by Bullwinkle
Thanks the the DOD we are blessed with nice long runways on each island. - I think we lead the national "runway footage per person" statistics - There are enough Boeings in the world to keep the "stuff" flowing to Hawaii if needed imho
I think we are very fortunate in that respect
But if oil hits $200. a barrel (or $500.) how much are they going to have to charge for those rolls of TP and other goods they are flying in?
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All this talk about TP got me to thinking... what did people do BEFORE TP was invented? (For Rob) What did the ancient Hawaiians do?
Humans need four things: Air, water, food and shelter. Everything else is pretty much "optional".
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My neighbors laughed when I asked them that question during the last tsunami scare, and then pointed to all the ti plants around their place. The old timers who still used outhouses in the rural community where I grew up used old phone books and sears roebuck "wish books" for TP, both might be a little hard on modern plumbing systems though.
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I traveled for 6 months in India in the early 80's. Maybe its different now (I doubt it), but outside of Delhi and Bombay, TP just wasn't available.
Like the locals, one got used to and quite good at using water from the coffee can next to the squat toilet and one's left hand.
Afterwards there was water nearby for washing your hands with soap.
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In the "olden" days before toilet paper, peope actually wiped themselved with their left hand, thus the French term for distaste, gauche. If my memory serves, it was during the black plague that people started to think about hygiene and one of the benefits of that plague was toilet paper.
As far as the end of our civiliztion, it will be brought about by the common housecat. These self-absorbed little creatures will finally get fed up by not being fed enough and revolt. If they were to revolt en masse, humanity wouldn't stand a chance. Equipped with 12 razor blades and more "smarts" than people, our doom is ensured. Feed your kitty well.
No one please get upset by my comments. I'm both left-handed and a cat conno-sir
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TP - many people have & still use leaves. That is one of the reasons why mullein have spread (they are invasive Eur-Asian velvety leaved plants that you see along Saddle [those are mostly the tall V. thapsus] at higher elev., & throughout the Americas, usually radiating from those planted by farmers near their outhouse... there are some archeologist who actually look for these plantings to find the 'honeypot'! - oh & mullein are also utilized in herbal medicines, so they are not just planted for TP...but they are a plant whose leaves are still 'good TP' even when dry)
Water has also been used (before the bidet, there where pots & gourds for this purpose)
As to the catalogs/phone books, many outhouses have nails where the catalog was was hung....and newspapers were also used, when not wrapping fish!
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Originally posted by KeaauRich
...but we digress
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Plus the topic title disappeared so doesn't that mean digression is warranted???
So on the TP topic - what about paper bark trees?
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Cat,
Please do the research and get back to us on that one.
Dan
