1. What do you do with the cauldron water once you've finished boiling your bacon-in-a-bag?
2. Lots of ladies wrapped their heads and topped off their look with a hat. How did they "do" their hair underneath it all?
3. What religious reasons were given for insisting that medieval women (who generally worked as hard as men when it came to menial labor) should do what they were told?
4. And why should they (medieval women) be silent?
5. How is the word "wardrobe" related to toilets?
6. What do you call the dude who empties the castle cesspit -- bucket by bucket -- to which the garderobe emptied?
Answers:
1. Use it to wash up, of course. (Yuck.)
2. Princess Leia braids swirled around their ears. Princess Leia braids!
3. Well, since Eve succumbed to temptation first, she, and all women by association, was considered evil. Thus, women were incapable of making sound choices on their own.
4. Since the four times the Virgin Mary's words are recorded in the New Testament were the ONLY four times she ever spoke, in her entire life, women who aspired to be like her would rarely speak. Obviously.
5. In a castle the toilet room was called a garderobe, since you could hang your best clothes in it and the smell would keep away moths. (Garderobe is the French version of wardrobe.)
6. A gong farmer. (Because when you have "to go", you visit the privy/garderobe.)
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