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To: Jim Robinson
2 posted on
11/20/2011 5:13:32 PM PST by
ThomasThomas
( If you can't laugh at your self, I will for you.)
To: Jim Robinson
Confucians say, girl who drink beer naked on beach gets sand in Schlitz.
5.56mm
3 posted on
11/20/2011 5:16:37 PM PST by
M Kehoe
To: Jim Robinson
It has some grains of potential truth.
Some I have heard before, some passed as lore, but I haven’t seen or heard of any of these being debunked...
4 posted on
11/20/2011 5:17:14 PM PST by
freedumb2003
(Herman Cain 2012 -- the man we need at the time we need him)
To: Jim Robinson
Now I know where that saying, “I’m so poor that I don’t have a pot to p*ss in or a window to throw it out of”... comes from. Thanks!
To: Jim Robinson
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May
Occupy Middle Ages?
7 posted on
11/20/2011 5:20:57 PM PST by
GQuagmire
('Don't Piss The Lady Off'...)
To: Jim Robinson
Piss poor is from the chamber pot. If one did not own a chamber pot, one would have to get up and go outside to relieve oneself at night.
There’s an addendum: “or a window to throw it out of”.
In towns, chamber pots were typically emptied by simply throwing the contents out the window. The streets also served as sewers.
One who had no home at all was that poor, not a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.
8 posted on
11/20/2011 5:22:25 PM PST by
PieterCasparzen
(We have to fix things ourselves.)
To: Jim Robinson
I’ve got one. Why are very light blond haired children called tow heads?
Anyone have an answer because I certainly don’t know.
Love the thread, Jim. Many interesting ‘factuals’.
To: Jim Robinson
Full read post. Thanks for the education.
10 posted on
11/20/2011 5:23:34 PM PST by
rawcatslyentist
(It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
To: Jim Robinson
I think that much of this makes sense.
“Saved by the bell” comes from boxing, but it could have had earlier roots, I guess.
And I don’t think that many peasants with thatched roofs had canopy beds. They were more upper class, from before the days of central heating. You could pull the side curtains closed and keep a bit warmer and more private.
11 posted on
11/20/2011 5:24:18 PM PST by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius.2)
To: Jim Robinson
When you pulled the trigger on your flintlock rifle and only the powder in the pan went off without igniting the main charge, it was called “flash in the pan.”
If you sold your entire rifle, and not just the parts, you sold it “lock, stock and barrel.”
And of course “straight as a ram rod” came from the the loading rod used to stuff the powder charge down the barrel.
13 posted on
11/20/2011 5:27:16 PM PST by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: Jim Robinson
Folk etymologies are fun!....and in the words of Cecil Adams, “some day one of these cute stories will actually turn out to be true!”
16 posted on
11/20/2011 5:32:25 PM PST by
me1og
To: Jim Robinson
With the most vulnerable getting the nastiest water of all, it’s no wonder so many babies died.
19 posted on
11/20/2011 5:35:18 PM PST by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: Jim Robinson
Great! Some stuff is just meant to be read, snopes is a bunch of libs anyhow!
20 posted on
11/20/2011 5:36:50 PM PST by
bigbob
To: Jim Robinson
In Mexico they still piss on the hides to tan them!
If you buy mexican shoes, don’t get them wet, they will smell just like their tanning fluid!
22 posted on
11/20/2011 5:37:46 PM PST by
dalereed
(uity wise!)
To: Jim Robinson
:-). Very cool! Thanks Jim!
24 posted on
11/20/2011 5:39:07 PM PST by
GOP Poet
(Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
To: Jim Robinson
That’s a piss poor analysis to a piss poor question, on a piss poor Sunday.
To: Jim Robinson
During colonial times innkeepers would tell the girls serving tables to “mind their Ps and Qs” or Pints and Quarts. A cocktail was a hot drink with a rooster's feather sticking from the top of the glass. Just for looks.
27 posted on
11/20/2011 5:50:10 PM PST by
4yearlurker
(I've been dipping into my jar full of Hope & Change just to buy gas!!)
To: Jim Robinson
I thought it’s performance had been prevented with proper prior planning.
28 posted on
11/20/2011 5:52:08 PM PST by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: Jim Robinson
I always enjoy these tales about the history of your language, our sayings and customs.
32 posted on
11/20/2011 5:55:02 PM PST by
Baynative
(The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
To: Jim Robinson
33 posted on
11/20/2011 5:56:18 PM PST by
verga
(I am not an apologist, I just play one on television.)
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