INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY

The fastest corner on the MotoGP calender this year is turn 11 at Turkey`s Istanbul Park Circuit.

bald monkeys wear baseball caps

Originally Posted by keithd

bald monkeys wear baseball caps

We do?

Originally Posted by K

Whereas 40% of the British population can't read a bus timetable.

There's no point in being able to read a bus timetable. Busses never follow them anyway.

WD-40 Was invented in 1953 by Norm Larsen

Larsen was attempting to develop a substance that displaced water and prevented corrosion. He perfected the formula on his 40th try

hence

Water Displacement 40th attempt

Originally Posted by tricky

WD-40 Was invented in 1953 by Norm Larsen

Larsen was attempting to develop a substance that displaced water and prevented corrosion. He perfected the formula on his 40th try

hence

Water Displacement 40th attempt

WD40 is contained in 90% of shampoo's under another name (chemical makeup is all there) Apparently

[Richie]

nicked from am email.

A little history lesson
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be.
Here are some facts about the 1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour.
Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

Houses had thatched roofs---thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would
slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs." There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing.
As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence
the saying a "thresh hold."

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while.
Hence the rhyme, "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine
days old."
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon."
They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the drinkers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.
They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a "wake." Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust."
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins was found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard
shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."

And that's the truth...
Now, whoever said that History was boring!!!

genuinely interesting lols
impressed richie! wow something vaguely intelligent and I feel like I learnt something oh nooooo!! no not education not on the forum! its an outrage and should be disallowed, oh no no no no no no no no no no
oh go on then I'll let u off, love the deadringer one! amazing!
kitten xx

Originally Posted by kitten

genuinely interesting lols
impressed richie! wow something vaguely intelligent and I feel like I learnt something oh nooooo!! no not education not on the forum! its an outrage and should be disallowed, oh no no no no no no no no no no
oh go on then I'll let u off, love the deadringer one! amazing!
kitten xx

Sorry to disappoint. If you go to www.phrases.org which researches the etymology of phrases you'll find that theres bugger all proof that the email Richie posted has any basis of truth.

Sorry, its an email that has taken on a degree of "factual" basis without it being true.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/l...e%201500s.html.
refers.

There are discussions on the individual parts of it on there. For example, the baby/bathwater was originally derived from a German proverb rather than the explanation given in the email. Raining cats & dogs says this:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/r...nd%20dogs.html

The deadringer link:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/dead%20ringer.html

[Richie]

Originally Posted by lynw

Sorry to disappoint. If you go to www.phrases.org which researches the etymology of phrases you'll find that theres bugger all proof that the email Richie posted has any basis of truth.

Sorry, its an email that has taken on a degree of "factual" basis without it being true.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/l...e%201500s.html.
refers.



There are discussions on the individual parts of it on there. For example, the baby/bathwater was originally derived from a German proverb rather than the explanation given in the email. Raining cats & dogs says this:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/r...nd%20dogs.html

The deadringer link:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/dead%20ringer.html

You allways have to pee on my Bonfire...

love you Lynw, dont no why but we just do...