The word means "essential" or "indispensable." Back in the 1600s and thereabouts, New Englanders also referred to the "necessary house" as a privy. There is a mention of it in the musical 1776 in which the clerk of Congress explains, to the exasperation of his colleagues, that one of the important delegates is absent because he is "in the necessary house." Today the room is the multi-purpose bathroom, and that’s where these guys were photographed. They, too, are necessary. Indispensable. Enjoy.
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