XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.cecil.adams
From: billvan@delete.shaw.ca
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?
--
bill
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