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To: oh8eleven

Hells-bells, I just can’t keep up with it all.


Word smiths were more colorful at one time:

HELL’S BELLS! - “The more colorful curse ‘hell’s bells and buckets of blood!’ was the original of the imprecation, which probably originated at sea during the late 19th century, under what circumstances no one knows.” From “Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins” by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997).
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/5/messages/466.html


16 posted on 01/15/2017 8:11:55 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

(singing)

The Bells of Hell go ding-a-ling-a-ling
for you but not for me;
Oh, death where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling
or grave thy vic-to-reeee?

Heard that jingle Heaven knows how many years ago, now it’s stuck in my head!


31 posted on 01/15/2017 8:26:40 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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