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World's most expensive dunny?
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:51 pm
by Gob
A costly restroom facility in Elmhurst contracted by the city nearly two years ago is still under construction, and it could end up costing even more than originally indicated.
The comfort station at Elmhurst Park — the former site of the Elmhurst Gas Tanks — was originally quoted at just under $2 million in July 2010.
The city has since raised the price tag to nearly $2.3 million. And parkgoers continue a scramble to find places to relieve themselves nine months after the park opened.
“Two million dollars seems obscene,” said Robert Holden, president of the Juniper Park Civic Association, which waged a nearly decade-long campaign to block commercial developers and convert the area into park land.
“Anybody in private industry who looked at this building would laugh,” Holden added.
The park should have been equipped with a bathroom from the outset, he said, so that visitors would have facilities available as soon as the park opened.
But he said he wasn’t necessarily surprised the city is spending so much time and money for a relatively small public works project.
“This is something we’ve learned to put up with in the City of New York,” Holden said. “This thing about wasting money on capital projects — it doesn’t get fixed and it goes on and on. This comfort station is a testament to that.”
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Re: World's most expensive dunny?
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:08 pm
by Joe Guy
So I looked up 'dunny' and it says it's Aussie slang for 'toilet' and derived from 'dunegan.'
So, I figure the term probably originated when so many people exited the outhouse and declared, "I'm done again!" and then some mother somewhere in the past said to her child after his first solo poop, "Oooh how cute! Look what little Orville Worvy has dunny all by his little selfy welfy," and she was overheard, so from then on mothers and others called the toilet the 'dunny' because that's where all the pee & poo is done..E.
At least, that's how I see it.
Re: World's most expensive dunny?
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:11 pm
by Rick
Uh Oh, I understood all that...
Re: World's most expensive dunny?
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:30 pm
by loCAtek
So, how much would you pay to poo, after you were two?
Re: World's most expensive dunny?
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:11 am
by Lord Jim
The city has since raised the price tag to nearly $2.3 million.
That's a lot of money flushed down the shitter...
Re: World's most expensive dunny?
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 1:09 am
by Crackpot
they haven;t managed to get it to flush yet Jim
Re: World's most expensive dunny?
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:24 am
by Sean
Probably because of all that cash clogging the u-bend.
Re: World's most expensive dunny?
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:19 pm
by Rick
Sean wrote:Probably because of all that cash clogging the u-bend.
Around here it's called a P trap, no pun intended...