Originally Posted by
genejockey
Also, I was reading an estimate of the total amount of horse poop and pee that would fall on New York City streets in your average day in 1900, and it was... sobering. Yeah, trying to drive in most cities is a *****, and you feel like you take your life in your hands crossing the street, but at least they're not covered in horse poop.
While on a tour in Barcelona, we were standing in front of the Barcelona opera house and the guide said that they don't say "break a leg" but "Hope you have a lot of **** (poop)." It goes back to the carriages waiting out front to pick people up and more encores or longer ovations meant more poop.