On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:11:32 -0600, Kathleen wrote:

> Lou Decruss wrote:
>
>> Sounds like a truck stop. Real classy. I did once see a couple come
>> into a laundromat and strip down to their undies and wash the clothes
>> they had on. IIRC they went into the rest room for a long time most
>> likely for a whore bath.
>
> Oh lord, I thought that phrase was something my grandma made up. She
> and my grandpa had a log cabin in the woods down by the Meramec river.
> Water had to be pumped by hand from the well, so you took your baths in
> the river when it was warm enough, and took a "whore bath" with a basin
> of water in the winter. "Puss (meaning face), pits and pubes".
>
> Kind of an odd choice of phrase to use with your little granddaughters,
> come to think of it, although I wasn't bothered by it until somebody
> told me what a whore was.

<snort>

your pal,
blake