Little Known Facts And Misconceptions

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  1. Hugh Manely

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    On June29, 1913, 50,000 Civil War vets met at Gettysburg to celebrate the 50th anniversary, and most were in their seventies. The event lasted over a week, President Wilson dropped by and gave a speech. A highlight was the reenactment of Pickett’s Charge by 200 men who retraced their steps 50 years back, then they met up on Cemetery Ridge and shook hands. My g grandfather and his brother were in the Stonewall Brigade before being captured at Spotsylvania. My g grandfather was wounded, crippled and released, and his brother died at Elmira prison in New York, from exposure to bitter cold and having no clothes, but underwear - thanks to sec of war Stanton.
     
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    Just ran upon a new word for me. Quockerwodger (spell check didn’t like that one at all)

    In the 1800’s a quockerwodger was a type of wooden puppet but also used to describe a politician who got his marching orders from a 2nd or 3rd party instead of representing his constituents.

    Now that I have this wonderful new word, do be prepared to read it quite often as some of the other descriptions of our politicians are getting quite redundant.
     
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  3. John Brunner

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    This is neither entertaining nor informative, so I figured it would be good use of server space...and of your time:

     
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    I'm going to make use of the name Quockerwodger on twitter against every one of my political reps.
     
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  6. Bobby Cole

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    DID YOU KNOW ! ! !
    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 "didn't have a pot to piss in" & were the lowest of the low

    The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:

    Most 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.

    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.

    The country 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.

    And that's the truth....Now, whoever said History was boring?
     
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  7. Tony Page

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    From the internet.

    "Until the 1930s, it was illegal in most cities and states in America for men to go shirtless in public, according to the Washington Post".
     
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    On the flip side, according to Oregon’s state laws, one can “stut their stuff” completely nude in public.

    There are a couple of caveats however.
    Each municipality’s laws can override the state law and where it IS legal, as long as there is no visible evidence that one is sexually aroused or attempting to arouse anyone else, go for it.
     
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