<P> 07 - 24 - 2003 jjimm Location: Oxford </P> <P> I can't give you the etymology, but I spoke to some elderly people at a history society in Oxfordshire, England, and they said that in the days before the villages thereabouts had drainage or septic tanks, there was a guy who came round with a horse and cart every day to pick up each house's "honey bucket", and it too was called the "honey wagon". This would have been in the 1920s . </P> <P> I'm guessing it's just a jokey euphemism . </P> <P> 07 - 24 - 2003 An Arky Location: Arlington, VA </P>

Where did the term honey bucket come from