# Can someone answer this evolution question? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2000, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-answer-this-evolution-question/39326 "2000-11-02T00:10:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-answer-this-evolution-question/39326/21 "2000-11-06T20:49:51Z")
> [@](#): > > or are they prisoners of No. 2? Goog grief, I’ll never be able to watch “The Prisoner” without laughing again… ---
**Author:** ![jeel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71e660/32.png) [@jeel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeel)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-answer-this-evolution-question/39326/22 "2000-11-07T01:06:06Z")
As a follow up to this thread, I wonder why animals like dogs, cows, etc…are not as physically “depleted” after taking a big shit! You know, after you pinch a nice healthy loaf, you are physically drained…I know this at least applies to my own personal experience…I mean after a nice dump…I don’t exactly feel like jogging a couple of miles. But the other day, I was walking my dog and the little bugger just stops in his tracks, does the squat, and right as the last turd hits the dirt, he’s off and running at full speed…sniffing, frolicking…I just don’t understand why I feel kinda wasted… Anybody have similar experiences??? ---
**Author:** ![pantom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@pantom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantom)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-answer-this-evolution-question/39326/23 "2000-11-07T03:57:49Z")
After a bout of Monte’s revenge. Nothing could be more draining (in every way). ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-answer-this-evolution-question/39326/24 "2000-11-07T08:47:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guy Incognito \* > \*\*I have it on authority that God prefers to use Angel Soft or White Cloud. > > Glad I could help! > \*\* Thanks. But…if I use Scott’s…does that mean I’m going to Hell? ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-answer-this-evolution-question/39326/25 "2000-11-07T13:20:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ren \* > > > [@](#): > > > > or are they prisoners of No. 2? > > Good grief, I’ll never be able to watch “The Prisoner” without laughing again… [Leo McKern]I’m the new number two. [McGoohan]Sheesh, you guys stick around. I’ve been going with the flow, relaxing and all. Those dopers told me I’d have no sticky numbers, that I’d be a free man. _Rover emerges with a stream of bubbles. All sniff suspiciously._ ---
**Author:** ![big\_yellow\_kingswood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@big\_yellow\_kingswood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_yellow_kingswood)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-answer-this-evolution-question/39326/26 "2000-11-07T14:49:10Z")
I was thinking maybe it’s cause our diet’s changed so rapidly over the last few hundred years that our bodies haven’t evolved enough to make our shit ‘dry’ (for want of a better word…) but then again our pets have had the diet change too, (mainly feeding off our scraps until someone invented Chum) so that goes out the window. I’d guess and say that it’s probably quite a modern concept. I’ve heard that in the middle ages a curved stick was used (that’s the one of which you may grab the wrong metaphorical end), but that was only by nobility. Even in more modern times (up to the 18th or 19th centuries the chamberpot was emptied into the gutter from the upstairs window, so I wouldn’t believe that hygene was a major concern. I’d say it was a victorian thing. They were more anal than any other society in history that I can think of, so I’m sure that they’d want to keep their ideals clean. But here’s a question that someone once asked me: How does a blind man know when he’s finished wiping… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-answer-this-evolution-question/39326.md?page=1)