http://www.sewerhistory.org/
Probably none of you readers (and certainly none of you bots - Turkmenistan is tops on the bots list again) are old enough to know what the reference is in the video below, but it might be the first and only time a sewer worker was featured on a TV show that isn't a documentary. Someone in Hollywood should fix that and bring us something new to view on our phones!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042114/
Go to 17:20 on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXNu2id935U
Go to 11:41 on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkcpHcOaCZY
http://www.sewerhistory.org/miscellaneous/song-of-the-sewer-from-the-honeymooners/
Now, another thing I found on the sewer history site was the poem below! But before we get to that, compare the name of the poem's author with the names on the link below!!
https://www.filanc.com/filanc-black-veatch-wins-morro-bay
And, even closer to home in 1993 - click the image to enlarge.
Below is a lovely sewer poem with a sense of humor. There just MUST be a connection to Black & Veatch! (Any genealogists out there?)
An Ode to Sludge, by F. M. Veatch (1925)
The use of waste of fellow man
Dates back to Father Moses;
The “thunder mug” of far Japan
is emptied on the roses.
In France, Vic Hugo wrote with flame
Of plant food from the doolies;
In China, frugal land of fame,
It’s spread on farms by coolies.These noxious ways of aiding plants
Irk moderns in their rambles
O’er lawns oft used by wives and aunts
For parties, teas and gambols.That food is there, we know right well
But we wish satisfaction
Of benefit without the smell
Of rot and putrefaction.Digested sludge from modern plants
If used with circumspection
Givers answers to our prayers and chants
For plant food or perfection.
Its granules all are living dens
Of potent nitrobacters, …Its granules all are living dens
Of potent nitrobacters
With freedom from the pathogens,
Those well-known evil actors.Its humus base gives safe abode
For hormones without number;
One treats an acorn in this mode
And Presto! it is lumber.It gives out peas full size and weight,
Right gladly we collect ’em,
And fertilize our real estate
With enzymes from the rectum.
In any case, there are more sewer poems out there than one would ever suspect!
Don't miss this one linked below with illustrations!