Now she won't tell him how many indexes are too many anymore. Bad __Stephen
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 9:40 AM Ed Leafe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 11, 2018, at 8:53 AM, John Weller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Just to throw some unconnected trivia into the debate I learnt a few > days ago that 'Rule of thumb' refers to a miller checking the setting of > the grindstones by rubbing the ground grain between thumb and forefinger. > Thought you might like to know that 😊 > > I had always heard a very different origin for that. From wikipedia: > > "An 1824 court ruling in Mississippi stated that a man was entitled to > enforce "domestic discipline" by striking his wife with a whip or stick no > wider than the judge's thumb. In a later case in North Carolina (State v. > Rhodes, 1868), the defendant was found to have struck his wife "with a > switch about the size of this fingers"; the judge found the man not guilty > due to the switch being smaller than a thumb.” > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thumb > > > -- Ed Leafe > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAJidMYJV=hFfn6JbRJQhzuXOVzEzfsm98GF0fNCLSagd=cs...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
