Ugh.

[kane_magus]

To the makers of the Honey Bucket brand of portable toilets:

I am sorry, but the name that you have chosen for your product could not have been dumber and more disgusting if you had tried to make it so.

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[kobanal.livejournal.com]

How about Drop-A-Load?
or Digestion Dropoff?
Corn Cave?

C'mon, between the two of us we could come up with -hundreds- of names more stupid and/or disgusting. :P

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

But see, this name is not obviously referring to the act of taking a crap though. Quite the opposite, it brings to mind food. Who the heck wants to be reminded of food when they're about to do their business? It'd be like calling your port-a-john the Snack Shack or the Grand Buffet or something.

But this is worse because it's not just any generic food in general, but something that's sweet, gooey, potentially rather messy and, in the context of port-a-potties, a disturbing brown color. And then the name combines this with a... bucket. Not a jar, not a bottle, not a jug, not even a pail. A bucket.

Just to clarify, when I think of a bucket, I'm picturing these big metal or hard plastic monstrosities that we used back on the farm when harvesting potatoes. Usually deeply stained on the inside with the dried mud from the previous use, and with the smell of potatoes still lingering. Not something in which you'd usually want to carry around your honey.

The last image I want in my head upon entering what is usually one of the nastiest places on the face of the earth is that of honey being carried around in... a bucket.

[eibra.livejournal.com]

Back in the day, they used Honey Buckets as a makeshift sewage system at Monticello (Where Thomas Jefferson lived). You'd do your business, it'd fall down a hole, into a honey bucket down bellow, some poor slave would periodically go in and change it out (iirc they had some pully system set up or something, but still, it's gotta be a not very fun job).

Thus the name Honey Bucket. Knowing where the name comes from though, it really doesn't make it any better...