XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.cecil.adams
From: athel_cb@yahoo.co.uk
On 2016-04-06 10:03:21 +0200, bill van said:
> 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?
Probably yes, but not me.
--
athel
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