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

[Glynis Gwynedd]

Try this for a start:

http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/1500.asp


~Lady Glynis Gwynedd
Barony of Highland Foorde
"Have you hugged a harp today?"
--
"To this end should a truly chivalrous man know something of arts and
courtesies as befits the quality of his character, else the world
shall think him nothing but a knuckle-dragging troglodyte in
vambraces." -Lady Swannoc
"This statement presupposes that a chivalrous man is a man with
martial training. Then should a courtier skilled in the arts and
sciences know something of the martial arts else the world could think
him nothing but a poncy perfumed fop in lace." - Gaston de M. GD, AT,
KDT



On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Fergus MacDair <fmacdair at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> fergus
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> 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...
>>
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