Thread: A lot of you will like this

Some Old Facts & Some Odd Facts


During the 1400s a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb - hence we have the saying 'the rule of thumb'
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Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented.
It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden' and thus, the word GOLF entered into the English language.
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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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Coca-Cola was originally green.
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It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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Thesedays the general cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven years is in excess of $10,000.00
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The first novel ever written on a typewriter was 'Tom Sawyer'.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David - Hearts - Charlemagne - Clubs -Alexander, the Great - Diamonds - Julius Caesar
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321
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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs, in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died because of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes
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Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter 'A'?
A. One thousand
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Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers have in common?
A. All were invented by women.
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Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
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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.
Hence the phrase . . . 'Goodnight, sleep tight'
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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, which we know today as the honeymoon.
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In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England , when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them 'Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down. This is where we get the phrase: 'mind your Ps and Qs'.
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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.
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At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!
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Don't delete the following just because it looks weird. Believe it or not, you can easily read it.

"I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the first and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it wouthit a porbelm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

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YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2013 when . . . . . . .

1. You accidentally enter your PIN into the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3 You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.

8. Leaving the house without your mobile phone, which you didn't even have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

9. You pull up in your own driveway and use your mobile phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )

12 You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no 6 on this list.

15. And now you just actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a 6 on this list.

~~~~~~~~~~~ AND ~~~~~~~~~~~~

Now, you are laughing at yourself and will now forward this to some of your friends.

You know you want to!

And stop trying to lick your elbow!
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WASN'T THIS US?

A little house with three bedrooms,
One bathroom and one car on the street.
A mower that you had to push
To make the grass look neat.
In the kitchen on the bench
We only had one phone,
And no need for recording things,
Someone was always home.

We only had a living room
Where we would congregate,
Unless it was at mealtime
In the kitchen where we ate.
We had no need for family rooms
Or extra rooms to dine.
When meeting as a family
Those two rooms would work out fine.

We only had one TV set
And channels - maybe two,
But always there was one of them
With something worth the view.

For snacks we had potato chips
That tasted like a chip.
And if you wanted flavour
There was onion dip.
Shop-bought snacks were rare because
My mother liked to cook
And nothing can compare to all those snacks
In Every Woman's cookbook.

When we did our weekend trips
Depending on the weather,
No one stayed at home because
We liked to be together.

Sometimes we would separate
To do things on our own,
But we knew where all the others were
Without our own mobile phone.
Then there were the movies
With your favourite movie star,
And nothing can compare
To watching movies in your car.

Then there were the picnics
At the peak of summer season,
Pack a lunch and find some trees
And never need a reason.
Get a cricket game together
With all the friends you know,
And enjoy real action playing football
And no xbox games or video.

Remember when the doctor
Used to be the family friend,
And we didn't need insurance
Or a lawyer to defend?
The way that he always took care of you
Or whatever he had to do,
Because he took an oath and strived
To do the best for you.

Remember going to the store
And shopping casually,
And when you went to pay for it
You used your own money?
Nothing that you had to swipe
Or punch in some amount,
And remember when the cashier person
Realy had to count?

The milkman used to go
From door to door,
And it was just a few pence more
Than going to the store.

There was a time when mailed letters
Came right to your door,
Without a lot of junk mail ads
Sent out by every store.
The postmanman knew each person and each house by name
And knew from where all the letters were sent;
There were not loads of mail addressed
To "household occupant."

There was a time when just one glance
Was all that it would take,
And you would know the kind of car,
The model and the make.
They didn't look like turtles
Trying to squeeze out every mile;
They were streamlined, white walls, fins
And really had some style.

One time the music that you played
Whenever you would jive,
Was from a vinyl, big-holed record
Called a forty-five.
The record player had a post
To keep them all in line
And then the records would drop down
And play one at a time.

Oh sure, we had our problems then,
Just like we do today
And always we were striving,
Trying for a better way.
Oh, the simple life we lived
Still seems like so much fun,
How can you explain a game,
Just kick the can and run?

And why would boys put cards
Between their bicycle spokes
And for a sixpence, red machines
Had little bottled Cokes?

This life seemed so much easier
And slower in some ways.
I love the new technology
But I sure do miss those days.

So time moves on and so do we
And nothing stays the same,
But I sure love to reminisce
And walk down memory lane.


With all today's technology and sometimes we accept that it's a plus!
But it's fun to look way back and say,

"Hey look, everyone, . . . . . that was the way it was!

LIFE IS SHORT.
and
YOU'VE GOT TO SMILE MORE OFTEN WHILE YOU STILL HAVE YOUR OWN TEETH