WOW! You know so much, especially Old English...was that your
major .
Read your beauriful note about your sister and I am still sighing.
Indeed,
dear Edith, you are full of love, and I am very pleased to get to know
you
better. I am assembling my notes into one big WORD 97 document
and
will sent it to you.
Hugs and kisses to a LOVEly lady,
-- Michel
Margosis
'Carpe Diem'
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, December 22,
2000 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: Interesting
things to know
* 1. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses
were
* secured on bed frames by
* ropes when you pulled on the ropes
the
* mattress tightened,
* making the bed firmer to sleep on.
*
That's where the phrase,
* "goodnight, sleep tight" came from.
*
It was the accepted practice in Babylon
* 4,000 years ago that for
* a
month after the wedding, the bride's
* father would supply his
*
son-in-law with all the mead he could
* drink. Mead is a honey
* beer,
and because their calendar was
* lunar based, this period
* was called
the "honey month" or what we
* know today as the
*
honeymoon."
* In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints
* and
quarts. So in old
* England, when customers got unruly, the
*
bartender would yell
* at them to mind their own pints and
* quarts
and settle down.
* It's where we get the phrase "mind your
* P's and
Q's."
* Many years ago in England, pub
* frequenters had a whistle
baked
* into the rim or handle of their
* ceramic cups. When they
needed
* a refill, they used the whistle to get
* some service. "Wet
your
* whistle," is the phrase inspired by
* this practice.
*
In ancient England a person could not
* have sex unless you had
*
consent of the King (unless you were in
* the Royal Family).
* When
anyone wanted to have a baby, they
* got consent of the
* King &
the King gave them a placard
* that they hung on their
* door while
they were having sex.
* The placard had F.U.C.K.
* (Fornication Under
Consent of the King)
* on it. Now you know
* where that came from.
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