[MR] Fw: Re: [Fwd: History NMR see what you can with this Doc

[Fergus MacDair]

I know I've seen this debunked before, but I can't seem to locate my notes.  Can someone help me point out all the errors in this and correct them.

fergus

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empty yet inexhaustible,
it gives birth to infinite worlds.
It is always present within you.
You can use it any way you want.
Tao Te Ching, chapter 6

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> They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot
> & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery........if you had to do this
> to survive you were "Piss Poor"  But worse than that were the really poor  folk
> who couldn't even afford to buy a pot...........they "didnt have a pot to piss in"
> and were the lowest of the low.
> 
> people got married in June  because they took their yearly bath in May, and                 
>                 they still smelled pretty good by  June.  However, since they were starting to smell . ..                  .
> brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide                  the body odor. Hence the custom today of                 
> carrying a bouquet when getting  married.
> 
> Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.                  The man of the house had the
> privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and                  men, then the women
> and finally the children.                  Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty
> you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out 
>                  with the Bath water!"
> 
> Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath.
> It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small
> animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof.                  When it rained it became slippery and
> sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.  Hence the saying "It's
> raining cats and dogs."
> 
> There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real
> problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your
> nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top
> afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
> 
> The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the
> saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the
> winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their 
> footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened
> the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the
> entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.
> 
> (Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
> 
> In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung
> over the fire.  Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate 
> mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for                 
> dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the
> next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while
>. Hence the rhyme: Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in
> the pot nine days old.
> 
> Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
> When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a                 
>                 sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a
> little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat.
> 
> Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content
> caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death.
> This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so,
> tomatoes were considered poisonous.
> 
> Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the
> loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.
> 
> Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes
> knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road
> would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the                 
> kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat
> and drink and                  wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding
> a wake.
> 
> England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to
> bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a
> bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25
> coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they
> had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of
> the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to
> a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night                  (the
> graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell;  thus, someone could be, saved by the
> bell or was considered a dead ringer...
>