hold on there Jr., that ain't roadkill, that vermins still alive...it ain't had time to fermint and ripen yet.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/576/why-do-outhouse-doors-have-half-moons-on-them

By way of corroboration, I note here in my manual of semiotics that the moon "is usually represented as the feminine power, the Mother Goddess, Queen of Heaven, with the sun as the masculine." Isn't that just great? All this time you thought you were in there just doing your business and now it turns out you were participating in a pagan ritual.

dem darn surfin pagans!!!

[ Edited by: RevBambooBen 2009-07-29 08:37 ]