interesting facts

[Jimbo]

> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>> Very Interesting Facts
> >>>>
> >>>>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 the1500s:
> >>>>Mostpeople got married in June because they took their yearly bath in
> >>>>May,
> >>>>and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to
> >>>>smell,
> >>>>so brides carried a bouquet offlowers 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 childrenLast 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 theanimals would slip and 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 adding more thresh until when you opened the door it would all
> >>>>start
> >>>>slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence
> >>>>the
> >>>>saying 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

[stirfry]

That's funny but true, I read that somewhere else a couple of years ago. Shows ya everything has a history. Kind of like the woman who alway cut off the end of the pot roast before putting it in the oven. When her daughter ask her why she explained that's how mom taught me. So the young gir ask the her Grandmother she said that's how my mother taught me. Finally Great Grandmother when asked, explained, that's the only way it would fit into my small pan.
"Take nothing for granted, appericate everything."[8D]

[VellianPT]

thats pretty cool, i printed that becuase in the fall i start college at MCC for teacher prep with a concentration in history. thats great stuff

[KingKole02]

Dang, thats some stuff that you could never learn in history.

[IRPT]

Thanks Jimbo, really interesting stuff!