"Kybo" vs Port-a-Potty

[cycloner29]

Never enough of them on game/race day. Was at Texas Motor Speedway at its inaugural race. They had like five for every 2,000 people. Sunday morning after camping there starting on Thursday, I got up early was walking around and had to get rid of some coffee. Open the door to one and saw Mt. Crapola! It was a foot above the lid! My question was how one able to stand/sit to drop their load that far above the center of the drop zone? I almost threw up as the Texas heat helped to brew it. To this day I still can’t unsee it.

 

[Freebird]

Never heard the term until central Iowa. I assume it's similar to "beggar's night" and just another made up central Iowa lie that doesn't exist anywhere else.

 

[vdub4cy]

Google says...

 

[Drew0311]

Apparently I've lived my entire life thinking that "kybo" was common slang to describe a port-a-potty. It seems to be a local Iowa term.

Have never called it anything else and I grew up calling them "kybos"

Used the term on a teams call at work today and not a single other person on that call knew what I was saying.

Did anyone else learn this term as a kid?

I didn't read through this whole thread. We grew up calling them KYBO. The reason was the company that used to do them in Iowa was called KYBO. Basically like calling tissue paper Klenex. We also had the acronym

Keep
Your
Buns
Off

Meaning try not to have to poop in in that place since they are always terrible. I still call them Kybo though

 

[SouthJerseyCy]

When I lived in Iowa I understood it to be a brand name for the port-a-potty. Similarly, people in Jersey refer to them as "Bob's".

 

[acoustimac]

We were just in Yellowstone and they refer to them as a “vault.” Somehow that seems very fitting.

 

[TXCyclones]

Apparently I've lived my entire life thinking that "kybo" was common slang to describe a port-a-potty. It seems to be a local Iowa term.

Have never called it anything else and I grew up calling them "kybos"

Used the term on a teams call at work today and not a single other person on that call knew what I was saying.

Did anyone else learn this term as a kid?

I love this thread because it brings back memories of 1995 for me when I moved from IA to Richmond, VA. We were out with friends one afternoon at an outdoor event and I said aloud, "I need to find a Kybo", and our friends looked at me with a confused look and said, "um, a what?". I learned quickly that Kybo was a regional term! So it may be 30 years later, but I'm glad to hear that somewhere in IA somebody still calls them Kybos!

 

[jcisuclones]

I went to a Manchester United game in England a few years back and they had a few on the edge of this terrace area outside the area. I heard another fan say "I'm going to go use the bog over there" and I've been referring to them as bogs ever since.

 

[CyberJJJ]

Question: What's the only thing worse than a port-a-pot in the summer in Iowa?

Answer: Not having one when you need it!

 

[VeloClone]

I grew up with Port-a-potty, but when I started riding RAGBRAI I heard Kybo pretty much exclusively. That is the term I use.

 

[JayV]

ThunderBox

Local brand was Satellite. Called them Satellites for a couple seasons until port-a-potty became more universal.

 

[ISUTex]

Apparently I've lived my entire life thinking that "kybo" was common slang to describe a port-a-potty. It seems to be a local Iowa term.

Have never called it anything else and I grew up calling them "kybos"

Used the term on a teams call at work today and not a single other person on that call knew what I was saying.

Did anyone else learn this term as a kid?

I always heard and called it a kybo. Not sure why we did. Was it the name of a port o potty business in the past? No idea.

 

[Billups06]

No idea if this accurate, but makes sense:

 

[KidSilverhair]

In order to be a Kybo, it has to come from the Kybo region of France. Otherwise its just a sparkling port a potty.

Fixed that for you

 

[VeloClone]

Never enough of them on game/race day. Was at Texas Motor Speedway at its inaugural race. They had like five for every 2,000 people. Sunday morning after camping there starting on Thursday, I got up early was walking around and had to get rid of some coffee. Open the door to one and saw Mt. Crapola! It was a foot above the lid! My question was how one able to stand/sit to drop their load that far above the center of the drop zone? I almost threw up as the Texas heat helped to brew it. To this day I still can’t unsee it.

I've never seen a pile a foot above the seat, but have certainly seen some ridiculous piles that make sitting down unsafe on RAGBRAI.

And RAGBRAI organizers are notorious for placing Kybos in locations without a lick of shade around. Let's fill a little plastic box with **** and piss, bake it in the summer sun for 10 hours and then make it the only place around for people to answer nature's call. RAGBRAI encouraging bars to close off their restrooms and force their overcharged patrons to use overfilled Kybos in the baking sun is vile.

 

[RagingCloner]

This is fascinating. We’ve always gone with Piss Pantry, or Sh$t Shack

 

[mramseyISU]

I've never heard of a plastic portable toilet being called a kybo. That term, at least in my mind refers specifically to an outhouse at a Boy Scout camp.

 

[Die4Cy]