A centuries-old douche has been unearthed at City Hall. In this case, a "douche" refers to a feminine hygiene device, not a 19th century fop dressed in an Ed Hardy waistcoat, traces of Fireball still lingering on long-dead lips.
“At first we thought it was maybe a spice-grinder or needle case,” Alyssa Loorya, president of the archaeology firm that oversaw the 2010 dig, told DNAinfo. Researchers continued to puzzle over the device, which dates back to the early 1800s and is forged from "unidentified mammal bone," until archaeologist Lisa Geiger came across an archive of "vaginal syringes" while working at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. Made from glass and brass, the museum's douches were certainly more modern, but "all of a sudden," she said "I made the connection.”
The douche was discovered amid a pile of equally old trash, composed of liquor bottles and what appeared to be food waste, suggesting to researchers "it may have all came from one celebratory event." Party douche!
Douching is no longer considered a beneficial or hygienic practice, so it's unlikely that alien explorers will find any such hilarious relics left behind by our generation when they descend upon our burnt-out corpse of an earth in 100 or 20 years. The mummified ramen burger will certainly give them something to think about, though.
