On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Douglas wrote:

| Mr Crapper has a lot
| to answer for.
|
| Who he ?

One of the interesting things is that his name is NOT the origin
of the word 'crap', meaning defecate. The first record of that
is in 1846, when Thomas Crapper was ten. See:
http://www.plumbingworld.com/historythomas.html

Crap is a German word derived from their word krap and krappenhousem.
Doug.

Wishful thinking! And I see you don't speak German! :-)

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