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   From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
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     bill van  wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >  Athel Cornish-Bowden  wrote:   
      
   >> On 2016-04-06 01:01:26 +0000, Charles Bishop said:   
   >>   
   >> > In article ,   
   >> >  Peter Moylan  wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >> On 2016-Apr-05 20:13, GordonD wrote:   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>> In one of his first albums Billy Connolly did an extensive routine   
   >> >>> about a "jobby wheecher", a device which he claimed was fitted in   
   >> >>> airliner toilets to fire passengers' bowel movements out of the plane   
   >> >>> rather than them being stored in a holding tank until landing as he had   
   >> >>> been told. "Wheech", BTW, is pronounced with the Bach-type ending that   
   >> >>> everybody but the English seem to have no problem in saying.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Years ago I genuinely believed that plane toilets worked like train   
   >> >> toilets, dropping bombs on unsuspecting innocents below. (Although I   
   >> >> thought they might burn up on the way down.) In these modern times not   
   >> >> even train toilets work like train toilets.   
   >> >   
   >> > I remember that plane toilets used to work, not quite like train toilets   
   >> > but similar. Once full or nearly so, they would be discharged while in   
   >> > the air. There was a case where the path of a disease was traced to an   
   >> > ainplane's (airline's?) flight path.   
   >>   
   >> Yes. Assuming it's not an urban legend, sporadic outbreaks of cholera   
   >> in Europe and the Middle East were correlated with the flight path of   
   >> Air India.   
      
   > Sorry about the cross-posting, but I thought afu and afca would find   
   > this aue discussion interesting.   
      
   > I'd never heard about a possible correlation between Air India and   
   > outbreaks of cholera along its flight paths. A quick Web search doesn't   
   > clarify whether there is anything to it. It does have a UL-ish feel to   
   > it. Or there could be bigotry at work (brown people spread disease). Has   
   > anyone looked into this thing?   
      
   Briefly. I saw nothing that looked even vaguely reliable. Sounds like a   
   racist urban legend.   
      
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