The Book About Different Thangs

they thought they were doing a simple task
but failed to realize that all things done
never simple or like they seem. Would
you care to take apart the item in questioned
asked the Professor?  Smiling, he spoke not
to allow those who were the audience to 
know what they were speaking of. It is not as
simple as it seems, the shelter of the shaft is
to be examed, but I refuse to remove the items from
the shaft (the hole) as this would be a disgusting job.
Others laughed, but I didn't know what they were
 speaking of. 
           I knew what they were speaking of my father
use to have these long drawn-out discussions about
 these damn thing's. One time we used a large oak
 barrel drum filled with rocks, and bedded that with
straw  and ran a pipe up thru the ground, so my 
father could invite people over and talk about the
 "vents of toilets" by Braffer Deacon, 
"We can fly people
to the moon, and have a space station in space,
 but can't find away to control the funk of, you know"
This was August 22, 2022, and didn't
understand what the big idea was talking about
 a damn toilet, buy we took pictures of the thing, and went around
the country taking pictures of the best, worst and most unusual,
and the most modern outdoor toilets. We even wrote a book on
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