Matthew Desmond

If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.

American Sociologist

W. Bruce Cameron

An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.

American Author

Shawn Michaels

The Four Horsemen were limousines and Lear Jets, while DX was trailer parks and outhouses. One was white trash, one was upper crust. I always saw DX and the NWO as the natural rivals at the time.

American Wrestler

Trina Paulus

Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!

Author

Roy Blount, Jr.

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

American Writer

Loretta Lynn

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

American Musician

Poe Ballantine

Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.

Robert Maxwell

Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.

British Businessman

Andrew Dost

We're not quite mainstage material. We're more like outhouse material!

An 'outhouse' is often a secondary structure, not the main building where people live or work.

Secondary Structure

The term can imply that a building is old or traditional, giving a rustic or vintage charm.

Old-fashioned Feel

Understanding 'outhouse' can depend on the region, as its use can vary between countries.

Usage Variation

'Outhouse' suggests a toilet facility without modern plumbing, often found in remote or rural areas.

No Plumbing

An outhouse is typically basic in its construction, usually wooden, and may have a simple pit or composting toilet.

Simple Construction

An outhouse can serve the public in outdoor spaces like parks, offering essential amenities.

Public Facility

 British people were still upset about losing the revolution so they decided to embarrass him a little bit by putting a huge picture of General Washington in the only outhouse where he'd have to encounter it they figured he be upset about the indignity of George Washington being in an outhouse but he came out of the outhouse not upset at all and so they said we'll teach you see George

Learning from past...

 I'd go up and learn these old songs from her. She couldn't sing much, couldn't play anymore. And I'd pull her out on the front porch. Down below, there was her grandson plowing the tobacco field with a mule. A double outhouse over here on the side. And we'd sing this old song. She didn't have a whole lot of energy,

David Holt: The stories...

 side and this is a true story an outhouse that was held down with six guy wires when 50 feet down the road wasn't a good day for the guy that was in it so anyway now we're going to dig our hole and build our foundation this is 20 feet wide and 40 feet deep into that foundation we're going to stick a rebar

How a windmill gets...

 but you have to give up, go out to the outhouse, and carry in the water. Hurricane Sandy caused a lot of people to lose the 20th century, maybe for a couple of days, in some cases for more than a week, electricity, running water, heating, gasoline for their cars,

Robert Gordon: The death...

 is a circle of tents in the snow. In blizzard winds, the crew sling ropes between the tents so that people can feel their way safely to the nearest ice house and to the nearest outhouse. It snows so heavily there, the installation was almost immediately buried.

Lee Hotz: Inside an...

 hazard it's a hazard for human and animal health because they are often located in seasonal watercourses and that contaminates the groundwater likewise what happens when you put hundreds and hundreds of outhouses

The Call of Everest PIPE...

 a circle of tents and the snow in Blizzard winds the crew sling ropes between the tents that people can feel their way safely to the nearest ice house and to the nearest outhouse it snows so heavily there the

Inside an Antarctic time...

 My father has just built the best outhouse in our little village in Ukraine. Inside, it's a smelly, gaping hole in the ground, but outside, it's pearly white formica and it literally gleams in the sun.

Tania Luna: How a penny...

 And we need to remember that forests aren't just a bunch of trees competing with each other, they're supercooperators. So back to Jigs. Jigs's fall into the outhouse showed me this other world,

How trees talk to each...

 this is the outhouse it is full of water and yuck from the melting snow and whatnot this is human waste from obviously somebody that came in during the winter unique little slurry