[LMB] OT: bathroom question

[John Campbell Rees]

I am replying to email message 
<008001c7167f$b8d457d0$d878a8c0 at DCLN9521>,
 in which you wrote:

> From: "John Campbell Rees" <jwcr at gardd-lelog.org.uk>
>>> If you think some women are pigs, be thankful you don't have to use a
>>> public men's room.
>>> 
>> As in the Old Hotelier's definition of a Gentleman.
>> 
> supply definition?
>
In the days before en suite hotel rooms, a Gentleman was defined as 
any male customer who went to the public W.C. instead of using the 
washbasin in the room.


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