If you haven't heard of Discovery Channel's show Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, it's hysterical. Mike goes around the country interning with "the people who aren't afraid to get dirty and do the jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us." He's done cow farms, bird farms, pig farms (apparently farms are gross), engineers, sewer cleaners, fishing boats of numerous sizes, scuba cleaners, roofers, exterminators, underwater salvage units, erosion-prevention specialists, insect/ bat / snake biologists, clam shucking, and many many more.
ANYhoo... he asks for letters from viewers asking for new ideas about jobs to do, and today one young lad (age 9) wrote him asking about a previous job he had done in Alaska, "where he was wiping the birds' bottoms." Mike explains that he was swabbing the birds to test for avian flu, and it was highly scientific. Well, the boy asked where and how he went to the bathroom in the very tiny town, and being Dirty Jobs, they described it fully. Apparently, the town has an outhouse, but they burn the waste in a high-temperature kiln to eliminate everything. They bought the kiln from a man the next town over, and he called it the Turd Burner... the Turd Burner! So funny a phrase.
Well, I jut wanted to share with you the ecological importance of the Turd Burner. Back to your regularly scheduled program.
Turd Burner!
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