On 15 Jul 2004 13:28:16 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:


In article ,
"soup" writes:
| Bob Hobden popped their head over the parapet saw what was going on and
| said
| Mr Crapper has a lot
| to answer for.
|
| Who he ?
|
| http://www.snopes.com/business/names/crapper.asp

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

Sounds like a load of old Twyford to me :-)
--
Martin