VERY INTERESTING STUFF

email from a friend | 4/12/2020 | unknown

[jonascord]

"If a statue in the Park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, The person died in battle."

This myth is only mostly true at the Gettysburg battlefield. Gettysburg has the most monuments and statues, perhaps because it was the most accessible to vets and the general public during the 1890s, and is still the best maintained in it's original state.

(Although, Little Round Top was entirely wooded over, the last time I was there, when in fact it had been lumbered off, in 1863.)

[InterceptPoint]

I have observed that Inspector Morse and some others sometimes order a “half”

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A half!!!

You must have meant to say “an arf”. You are forgiven this time. Just don’t let it happen again.

😊😊😊😊

[Daffynition]

[Aevery_Freeman]

No, Pascal's triangle.

11x11=121, 111x111=12321...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Hearts - Charlemagne

Charlemagne died of pleurisy. Then why is the King of Hearts known as the suicide King? Only because of the sword pointed at its head?

[vigilante2]

I have no interest in licking my elbow and I always make my coffee first..

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It's where we get the phrase 'mind your P's and Q's'

No...it's not. It was an admonishment used by typesetters when it was done by hand many, many years ago.

p
q

Easily transposed when setting type...which had to be done backwards to print properly.

[Kickass Conservative]

>>>I have no interest in licking my elbow and I always make my coffee first<<<

I stir my Coffee with my Elbow. It upsets the rest of the Patrons at Starbucks until they attempt to do it themselves.

[GingisK]

The IBM Selectric typewriter was a thing of utter beauty.

[9YearLurker]

Yep:

“Golf - Meaning of Word Golf. A common misconception is that the word GOLF is an acronym for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. This is definitely not true. It is now accepted that the ‘golf’ is derived from an old word meaning ‘club’.”

[metmom]

If Great Britain has been on the metric system for many years, why is their beer served in pints & quarts?

Some things are sacred.

[my job]

BKMK

because;
CRS

can’t remember stuff

[OldCountryBoy]

Regarding reading up side down: I worked with an old gentleman who noticed that I could read up side down. He told a story of when he was young, he couldn’t afford to buy a newspaper, so he would sit near a gentleman on the bus that would read the news paper. It was folded back, and my friend needed to read up side down to pirate the news from this gentleman. He regarded up side down reading as highly as reading a different language. This coming from a man who read and spoke four languages.

[Tired of Taxes]

Many years ago, men ordered a pint, whereas women were expected to order a half-pint. Ordering a full pint wasn’t considered ladylike.

Maybe the inspector ordered a half because he was on duty.

[1066AD]

A “half” is 10 fluid ounces, which is half of an imperial pint.

[Hardastarboard]

In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have 'the rule Of thumb'

I got my ass bitterly kicked 17 ways from Sunday when I posted this here before, and was told it is an urban legend, by some very cranky people. Good luck.

[Mr_Moonlight]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Which only goes to show that Mathematics is a Grand Global Conspiracy meant for a good laugh, and that Thales, Euclid, Newton, et. al, were the originators and perpetrators of this great hoax !!!

/tin foil hat

[EvilCapitalist]

And British pints are 20oz instead of 16oz like American pints.

[yesthatjallen]

In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have 'the rule Of thumb'

A feminist lie.

These emails are the new 'chain letter'. They should be deleted not forwarded. They spread ridicules and debunked urban myths.

[MHGinTN]

Have you noticed, there is no inflation in Monopoly?…. Even though so much currency is printed?