Enjoyed those facts,never to old to learn Thanks.

Thanks! love all the info

check snopes.com and google etymology for more information on this subject. froggintexas

I have been passing trivia like this along at work, and they just love it.

Just curious, did you, by any chance go up to BC to the Anne Hathaway cottage? This information is told in the tour there, almost verbatim!

Good read!!!

Yeah, like snopes can be trusted?? Don't bet on it for everything.

neat! thank you for the info!

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pis1.htm

from - http://www.pride-unlimited.com/probono/idioms2.html
In medieval London, people did not have indoor plumbing. It was common to use a chamber pot as an indoor toilet. The chamber pot could then be dumped out a window into the street gutter below. A person who did not have a "pot to piss in" was poor indeed.

In medieval times the word "piss" was not considered at all vulgar. It was not until Victorian England that words such as piss were deemed vulgar. Even today phrases like "pot to piss in" and "Full of Piss and Vinegar" are somehow considered to be generally acceptable and only moderately crude.

Definitely intriguing. Thanks for posting!