"Joe" wrote in message
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On Mar 23, 11:22 am, "Wilbur Hubbard"
Joe has never used a cedar bucket.
I bet Joe's so ignorant he doesn't even know how the term
"head" got started.

You would be incorrect. Is your cockpit the Poop deck?

Ah ha! Yet another show of nautical ignorance. I'm disappointed in you,
Joe. Your comments are something Scotty would say. You can do better
than some redneck, truck-driving, Seidelmann-sailing, honeydo-listing,
gay ganz slurping, double-wide-dwelling, hillbilly dweeb like him. The
poop deck was at the stern of the ship. It was called the poop deck
because it could get "pooped" by following seas and had nothing,
whatsoever to do with the modern day word of "poop" meaning feces. The
word "head" came from the "heads" of the ship. This was the area forward
between the deck and the bowsprit. Usually had nets hung that
facilitated work at the sprit end. Sailors who needed to take a dump
would climb onto the nets at the heads of the ship, drop trow and let it
rip. Often if the seas were rough the sailors benefited from a good
washdown as the bows plunged into the seas. Mother Nature's bidet.

Wilbur Hubbard