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Come on down to the river with your laundry. Put a few coins in the slot and a rock is dispensed. Stoop down, deep knee-bend style, and beat your laundry with the rock until it's clean. After wringing them out, you may place your items out to dry on our conveniently placed large flat-topped boulders
(for a few dollars more). Give your rock back to the attendant on your way out.
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[+] Dah! Don't mix colored and white loincloths! |
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If you're going to wear a loincloth, be careful where you aim your treasure as you stoop down... you might scare the fish. |
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I want a different rock. This one looks beat. |
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Would it make you feel any better knowing the attendant sanitized it for your protection? |
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Okay, I'm going down to the river to air out my dirty laundry right now. |
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Widely Known To Exist - it's called camping. |
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Okay, the coin slot is a new wrinkle... |
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Be sure to ask the attendant about our new "One-Time Laundry Insurance" --- not everyone is careful with their rocks (or their soiled nappies). |
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Rocks give ya that deep-down, caveman clean you
just don't get these days. |
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I think the whole beat-clothes-with-a-rock thing is fiction. I might push my clothes up against a rock, same as I'd push them against the side of a bucket, but beating sounds wrong. (Maybe somebody was softening leather or bark or something, to MAKE clothes ...) |
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Drying clothes on a rock works pretty well, though. I once rigged up a clothesline, while the local women were spreading their clothes on sun-warmed boulders. They were peeling dried clothes off the rocks while I was still trying to hang clothes without clothespins. |
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// As the stone mason said "it was gneiss work, if you could get it"// |
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//I think the whole beat-clothes-with-a-rock thing is fiction// |
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The origin of the practice likely began with the sad recipient still wearing said clothing during the wash cycle... |
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