[geeks] strange product of the week...

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:54:44PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> Apparently Western cultures adopted the seated position only 150 years
> ago?  I dunno, I've seen examples of "seats" waaaaay older than 150
> yrs.  My almost-degree was in Architectural Conservation and I can say,
> beyond all shadow of a doubt, that sitting to crap has been going on for
> a *very* long time.  Several hundred years at least, certainly as long
> as 'modern' history tells us, and definitly longer than 150 years...

150 years ago was, oh, 1852? I'd say people were sitting-to-shit back
then, yeah..  at least 2x to 3x 150 years ago. 8-)

Bill

-- 
Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX