If you dress up it’s a spiffy jiffy biffy.
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I’d never heard of that name, either. I thought it was just a cute little name that you made up.
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I’ve heard the term used to refer to any kind of bathroom in the woods (latrine, outhouse, pit toilet, even a flush toilet at a camp). In fact, someone once told me that biffy stands for “bathroom in the forest for you.”
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Etymologists can’t seem to agree. The most believable one I’ve seen is that it’s based on “privy” or “bivvy”, which is short for bivouac.
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Yeah, I’ve always suspected that someone came up with “bathroom in the forest for you” after the fact.
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Yeah but since nobody knows for sure I think I now like your explanation best 
Cool to learn new stuff, a new camping term for a toilet isn’t something I would have guessed was still out there to discover!
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I like this description best.
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this is how maybe half of our architectural design explanations go. sometimes we have a theme and it works. sometimes the design goes another direction and we like it, so we find a new reason that we did something different. sometimes we just like the design and come up with a good idea about why we like it afterward.
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I learned about it from my dad; he spent most of his childhood in Michigan.
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There is no such thing–a jiffy biffy visit, doncha know. Have you ever peeled off your flight suit just to ‘go’? Mind you don’t step on the sleeves, or worse!
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