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Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/16/2007 6:14:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		    Before I get started,I want to say I pinky swear this one to be the truth.I have told this one,to some of the guys here I dug with but thought I'd share a picture.A couple years back I dug a complete,intact,non-cracked chicken egg 14 ft. down a 1850's privy.Being the dork that I am I kept it and placed it on top of a little jar and put it on my shelf.About a year ago or so I open up the case and I see the egg still sitting in the jar but broken open with a chicken skeleton showing.The shell was broken outward and was a clean break with no other cracks.I asked my wife and kids if maybe it had fallen and was put back in the jar for a joke.That was not the case.Talk about weird.

    Believe it or not a few months back I dug another intact egg out a use layer in a privy.We always find egg shells but has anyone else found an actual egg,unbroken.If so,beware.I imagine the first one had been thrown out because it contained an embryo.
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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/16/2007 6:17:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		        Forgot the pics,the bones have decomposed alot since they were first exposed.




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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/16/2007 6:18:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		    Close up of the hatching egg.




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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/16/2007 6:28:21 PM   
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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/17/2007 6:47:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		uhhhhhhhhh wow- eggs cant last a week in my house without breaking, how did they survive being thrown in a privy on broken glass and metal and poop- and come out unbroken 150 years later? weird.!

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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/17/2007 10:10:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		wow Doug, that is creepy...  maybe you have a vampchick on your hands?  Anyone in the fam feel tired and have little peck marks around there neck?

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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/18/2007 4:39:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		The egg was probably in a bag of garbage when it was dropped.  That would also explain surviving other trash hitting it.  Bottles were likely in trash bags when they were dropped.  Of course, now when you dig you won't see it because they decomposed and left the bottles and the eggs.  Don't forget how soft new poo is as well  it padded falls too.

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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/18/2007 7:50:21 PM   
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The egg was probably in a bag of garbage when it was dropped.  That would also explain surviving other trash hitting it.  Bottles were likely in trash bags when they were dropped.  Of course, now when you dig you won't see it because they decomposed and left the bottles and the eggs.  Don't forget how soft new poo is as well  it padded falls too.


You are kidding, right?  You can't actually believe that they had or even thought about bags to put trash in back then.  Did you read the date?

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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/18/2007 8:02:32 PM   
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wow Doug, that is creepy...  maybe you have a vampchick on your hands?  Anyone in the fam feel tired and have little peck marks around there neck?


  The wife is always too tired!

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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/18/2007 8:07:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		       Kevin,

       I think you are right about the poo being a soft landing.That is the only explanation.Twice now,is the weird part.I am not sure when they started using trash bags but I always pictured them dumping buckets,barrels,cans,or baskets of trash back in the day.Doug

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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/18/2007 8:18:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sorry about that Doug, girl friends are tired a lot too...  I have found a few whole egg halfs in dumps, but they are always inside a can or pot...  I once found in a dump a whole egg that was in cement...  the block of cement had been broken, and along the break was the egg, whole, but cracked.  I almost lugged the whole thing home....

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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/18/2007 8:39:34 PM   
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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/18/2007 9:48:26 PM   
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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/18/2007 10:29:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		They had paper bags, they had burlap bags and little metal ringed buckets and barrels...all would rot with no trace except the metal..and I find those rings at my dump.  There is no way a bunch of whole bottles would be found in one place unless they were tossed with soft stuff.  Toss one bottle in soft poo and it lasts but soonafter throw another in and it breaks the previous one.  Nobody went to the pot to toss one bottle unless it was drank there.

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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/18/2007 10:57:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'd guess that any "bags" they had made from paper were wax coated, and were made specifically for something to go in.  They didn't have brown paper grocery bags, or paper tote bags.  Those kinds of things were mass produced by machines using glue and presses.  Yes they had glue and presses, but not for making shopping bags out of.  But enough about what they made or didn't make in 1850.  I want some paper bags that will protect a bottle or an egg from a 14' fall.  I'd save a s#!tload on shipping.  That egg landed in some liquid with a plop and a splash.  Sank to the bottom and was packed in poo for 150 years.  The egg IS the most perfect shipping container if in the right position.  It's a three dimensional arc, how much more structurally sound can you get?  Not trying to rustle your feathers kastoo, I just think you're wrong.  They did use buckets to haul trash in.  If they didn't haul it to the privy, it went in the dump(which was just passed the privy).  I also find it hard to believe, that they kept empty bottles lying around till they had a bucketfull.  They didn't produce much trash back then per family, and alot of stuff was reused.  I've also found plenty of wood in privies, including barrels and buckets.  It doesn't always rot away, even newspaper.  What's the oldest piece of newspaper that was readable anyone has found in a privy.  I think mine was 1880s, could've been 70s.  As theories go, alot of tossed bottles were consumed in the privy, pipes too.  When momma says no, ya gotta go.  It just seems like you forget that those things had water in them.  You drop in a bottle, it fills up with water and sinks to the bottom.  Another does the same.  When it gets filled in, the water slows the dirt and rocks down enough to not damage the bottles, all the while, raising the water level.  The dry privies didn't fair so well, but hey, ya can't win em all.

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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/19/2007 9:05:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		       Josh,

      After a quick check,a machine was patented to make paper bags in the 1850's.Man,that was fun.But still doubt the egg was in one of them.

      Kevin,

       Josh does have a point about some privies staying "wet" and preserving everything in them.I have found readable newspaper from the 1800's also.I have also found wood items,cloth,burlap.I have never found a what appeared to be a bag around garbage,I am sure it happened,though.I believe they did use a privy like we use a dumpster however and save up househould waste and dump piles at one time.How will we ever know for sure.

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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/19/2007 9:06:02 AM   
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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/19/2007 6:29:26 PM   
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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/22/2007 7:28:45 PM   
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      Josh,

     After a quick check,a machine was patented to make paper bags in the 1850's.Man,that was fun.But still doubt the egg was in one of them.


Yeah, yeah.  Patented in 1859, mabey running in 1860.  They still weren't making bags big enough to fit more than one bottle in unless they were leather, and I can't see them throwing trash away in one of those. 

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RE: Creepy 150 yr.old hatching egg! - 12/23/2007 10:26:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		trash was normally accumulated until a barrel or wagon was full, then taking to dump.  Trash thrown in privies was normally small loads or about a bag full, bucket full, or the like at a time.  The bulk of home waste was not thrown down the hole, just small amounts of easily accumulated garbage, normally food wastes.

The paper bag although patented early was a commodity, if one did there shopping and was fortunate enough to come home with one for their goods they would save the bag for re use.  I think quite easily the would eventually be used for the garbage and thrown out though as we all know paper bags can only be reused so many times.  Remember toilet paper was invented as early as the 1830's but people would use it for stationary rather then you know what.  The sears catalog was the number bathroom tissue in America until the 1890's, when the toilet paper finally caught on.  Paper was not very affordable prior to then.


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