And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month
after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with
all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their
calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or
what we know today as the "honeymoon."
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old
England,when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to
mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the
phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the
rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used
the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle," is the phrase
inspired by this practice.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by
ropes...when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the
bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "good night, sleep
tight" came from.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the
Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber
machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into
the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the
whole 9 yards."
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's
supply of footballs.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
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