27 July 1991, Sandra Loy, Country skills go on display, He specialises in small items such as light pulls, ornamental eggs, and honey-dippers — and in true environmental fashion, Nick lets nothing go to waste.
24 December 1991, Sandy Dees-Baker, Stocking stuffers: Grocery stores provide endless possibilites for the innovative Christmas shopper, Older stuffees may appreciate a variety of teas or coffees, perhaps with a honey-dipper and small jar of honey thrown in.
5 February 1992, Graeme O’Neill, Insight into chimp culture, Not only do they use twigs to fish termites out of their mounds, they use them as honey-dippers when they find wild-bee hives, and as picks to extract fatty marrow from the bones of the monkeys they sometimes kill for meat.
11 July 1997, Today’s Times-Dispatch FREE FOR ALL coupon!, FREE Honey-Dipper or Keychain
14 March 2002, Travis Semmes, State boasts 60 different species of ceanothus, I’ve found the wood of older ceanothus shrubs to be good for carving items like spoons, and I imagine it’d work well for hand-turned items like honey-dippers, candle holders, etc.
5 November 2004, Cate McQuaid, Painter looks at life through a lens, Ackling finds pieces of driftwood along the shore, or interesting wooden clothespins, finials, and honey-dippers in an antique market.
A worker who collects household sewage from sewage tanks.
11 November 1991, Kelly Gilbert, Marina, manager convicted on pollution charges, “He deliberately dumped sewage into the grate the storm drain whenever an emergency arose,†F. Barrett continued. “God forbid that he should have to pay a honey-dipper to come out and clean up the septic systems†on the site.
19 April 1993, John Parris, ‘The Little Brown Shack Out Back’ is now a rare rural sight, The experience led to his new book “Outhouse Humorâ€, which is a collection of jokes, stories, songs, and poems about outhouses, and thunder-mugs, corncobs and honey-dippers, wasps and spiders and Sears Roebuck catalogues.
10 March 1997, Christina Rogers, What do you like, or dislike, about your hometown?, As a boy, he worked with the town honey-dipper to raise money for his family. This job was necessary before Greenwood had indoor plumbing.
12 February 1998, Mike Stauffer, Town goes out to bid on innovative fertilizer plant: Extra land may be used as soccer complex, “The bid will be about $750,000, but we’ve included the addition of a pump site for honey-dippers,†w:Frederick Peralta
11 June 1998, Charlene Nevada, Health Commission will try to collar cats: Measure would apply to felines allowed to roam. Akron health officials warn of raccoon rabies outbreak, Members of the City Council last looked at cat control in 1992, when Councilman John Conti, D-9, then a freshman, introduced legislation to ban cats from running at large and to require owners to basically be their cat’s personal honey-dipper.
2 September 1998, Frank Ritter, Be careful which job you look down upon as menial, And the school teacher’s social status was higher than that of the “honey-dipper†— but was that fair? To answer that question, you have to know what a honey-dipper did. He was the man who came around regularly to tip over the wooden, outdoor toilets, scoop up the excrement and haul it away in a truck. ... Honey-dippers had a sweaty, stinky job — and some people would make jokes about them, laugh, put them down. But if you think about it, you realize that if the honey-dippers hadn’t done their job, school would have had to be closed because of the health risk.
3 January 2000, Jack Jones, Purity rules on quiet eastern lakes: Skaneateles, Otisco are purest of lakes, Those cottages, where no adequate new systems can be installed in shale soils, continue to be served by “honey-dippers,†two-person crews that pump effluents from holding tanks and ferry them away by boat for proper disposal.
4 December 2005, Ashley Powers, Buyers hoping to get away from it all can’t escape masses, A sewer system, constructed in the 1980s, replaced the community’s colossal holding tank and the man called the “honey-dipper†who cleaned it.
