betcha it ain't a surveyor.
If it was a sewer the guy would probably be dead.?ÿ Sounds more like a bum living in a storm drain.
well, right.?ÿ story makes it pretty clear that it's the storm drain.?ÿ i just chalk it up to the standard "whatcha taking pictures of there?" question from john q. when asking about your instrument.?ÿ i.e.: to the general public it's all just underground pipes.
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does sound, though, like exactly the kind of trick some party chiefs i've known would pull on the uninitiated young field hand.?ÿ me, i've always been more into helping the young guys discover the joys of field candy- er- pequin peppers.?ÿ?ÿ
In Canada they were storm sewers and sanitary sewers. As soon as I crossed the 49th parallel they became sewers and drains. So it's a local usage thing.
I am saving some pequin pepper plants (we call them Bird's Eye) to plant this Spring. They make the best pepper sauce (vinegar pickled peppers) around.
Andy
they're literal weeds around these parts. the right time of year you might could start a whole second gig just in the course of walking fence lines on a survey. i have a couple bowls of them drying on top of the fridge at all times. and they are great as a base for salsa too. but as i'm sure you know: not everyone is a fan, especially of the au naturale version.
if you can keep a straight face while gnawing on one... let's just say i've seen more than a couple new, young guys running back to the truck or else chugging the entire contents of whatever liquid they had on them while undoubtedly conjuring all kinds of bad ideas about me or the guy who convinced them to give it a try.
I don't know where you are but it must be someplace where the cold doesn't kill them. If I leave mine outside over the winter they just die. I have cut them off at the ground and heavily mulched them and had a few survive, but that's rare. I do eat them raw occasionally with peas or greens though.
Andy
I've often wondered about the term "sanitary sewer" sounds like an oxymoron to me. Was the term coined after the invention of pipe? Was it the elimination of trenches or outhouses or other means of human waste disposal that led to this term being coined?
How about some engineers shed light on this. ????
@flga
I'm thinking it was dreamed up to make folks think it was something special. Not that the world didn't need them, but along the lines of the catch phrase "clean coal".
@flga
I remember reading about this in a book about the invention of the sewer system in London. The agency that was created was called the Sanitary Commission or some such, and the idea was that, just as you say, the piped system was the sanitary alternative to raw sewage running in the streets, and cesspools in cellars. They really had to sell it, you know.
Birds eye peppers, sanitary sewers, sanitary napkins, good sanitary practice, where's a sanitarium??ÿ
We are surveyors. Why is is that we even discuss all this? Cause we are always gonna be on a frontier! Even if it's one we made.
N 🙂
where's a sanitarium
Did you mean 'sanitOrium' ?
Sanitarium is down-under food company that makes breakfast cereals etc.
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Yes, that's our common usage.
sew·er1
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noun
an underground conduit for carrying off drainage water and waste matter.
Combined ones are no longer allowed so they are differentiated.
@flga
Much of old town Portland (as for every other city) was built with just one set of pipes that carries both the "sanitary" and the storm runoff. That was fine when the pipes just ran to the river. Nowadays they run to treatment pants, which can be overwhelmed by storm runoff.?ÿ So nowadays we build parallel sewer systems, one strictly for the sanitary and another for the storm. That nomenclature makes perfect sense to me.?ÿ
where's a sanitarium
Did you mean 'sanitOrium' ?
Sanitarium is down-under food company that makes breakfast cereals etc.
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methinks nate just outed himself as an old metallica fan.
The terms sanatorium and sanitarium are interchangeable, however, sanitarium is primarily a North American word. The difference between the words is their origin, though it is not much of a difference. The word sanitorium is derived from the Late Latin word sanitorius, which means health-giving.
That clarified, I believe he was referring to a mental hospital and not a specialized medical facility for a specific ailment such as tuberculosis.