Posted on 02/10/2009 12:42:17 PM PST by Grumpybutt
Wow, now I know... thanks
Have you ever seen the show “Connections”? It is a s interesting as what you have stated here. I remember much of this list is listed in the show.
Hmmmm...thought that was from boxing.
It could be true. Keep your ear to the ground.., thats how they knew if horses or buffalo or a train was coming in the old days.
I think the history channel could do a series on where sayings and words come from
And after 4 years of Hussein, we’ll look at those as the “good old, old days!!”
It appears not everyone is keen on clicking links.
Folks, this whole cute letter is full of it.
It started with the magic words “email I received”. That should be a red flag right there.
oh well. still funny tho
Most of this is fantasy, esp. the parts about bathing and cooking. People bathed frequently. Most towns had public bathhouses for that purpose. The avoidance of bathing because it was thought unhealthy is an early modern development—1600s and early 1700s; Louis the XIV’s era. Towns became filthier in the early modern period (late 1500s, 1600s onward). Absolute monarchy grew in that period, warfare became nearly nonstop. Witch persecutions are also early modern more than medieval. “Around 1500” is right between these two epochs.
Almost all the filthy, tyrannical stuff that most people associate with the “Middle Ages” is actually more characteristic of the early modern era than medieval period.
Well, anyone who’d believe all that is probably gullible enough to have voted for....
Look on the bright side. There’s an ample supply of village idiots in D.C. to choose from.
PBS did one years ago - Phil Donahue was the host. As I recall, it was excellent (even though I cant stand either Phil or PBS for most stuff).
Hey—those folks lived pretty well compared to what Obama has in store for middle- class white folks!
Well it should have been, but what can I say???... I thought it was funny anyway. Thanks for the heads up and link.
this part I know is untrue. The form of "dead" used in terms like dead ringer and dead reckoning is not the same as dead as in "not alive". Saved by the bell, I believe, is from boxing.
Some of the other things in this may be true, I don't know.
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