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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World's most expensive dunny?
World's most expensive dunny?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: World's most expensive dunny?
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.
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.
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Uh Oh, I understood all that...
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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So, how much would you pay to poo, after you were two?
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That's a lot of money flushed down the shitter...The city has since raised the price tag to nearly $2.3 million.
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they haven;t managed to get it to flush yet Jim
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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Probably because of all that cash clogging the u-bend.
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Around here it's called a P trap, no pun intended...Sean wrote:Probably because of all that cash clogging the u-bend.
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is