[AT] O. T. - Really tired today

David Bruce tractor57 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 14:14:06 PST 2017


At one time urine was used in tanning hides and dyeing fabric.

David

NW NC


On 2/21/2017 4:44 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> I don't remember the exact details but I read somewhere, that saying
> comes from a real situation.  Maybe in Europe or possibly somewhere like
> NY City in the old days,  there were people that would buy urine for some
> reason
> and they would come around and go down the street with a tank on a cart or
> truck
> or behind a horse or something and folks would take their night pots and
> pour them
> out the window into the tank.  Maybe true, maybe be urban legend.  I don't
> know.
> Just something that was rattling around in the back of my head taking up
> space and causing me to
> need to defrag my brain.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 3:50 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] O. T. - Really tired today
>
> On 2/21/2017 2:06 PM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
>> "pot nor
>> a window"!!!
> The real quote is "they do not have a pot to piss in nor a window to
> throw it out."  My father used that one all the time.
>




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