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The learn somethign new thread....
Topic Started: Apr 11 2008, 12:49 PM (146 Views)
Wolverine	Apr 11 2008, 12:49 PM Post #1
Dangerous when provoked Posts: 4,695 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: August 17, 2007	Pony and Monkey - the terms Pony (£25) and Monkey (£500) come from India because they were the symbols on Rupees. not a lot of people know that B) The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." A third of ALL UK law has been implemented since Labour came to power in 1997 Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise 63.5% of all statistics are made up :rolleyes:



Phoenix	Apr 11 2008, 01:42 PM Post #2
Superemely Decadent Outlaw Superhero Posts: 8,876 Group: Admin Member #4 Joined: August 19, 2007	I know a different origin of the term the whole nine yards.... The term dressing " to the nines "came from the idea that the best suits were made from nine yards of fabric.....because all the fabric twas cut in the same direction for a perfect finish thus it took nine yards ....The whole nine yards coming to mean the amount of effort given to an undertaking. There are often many theories as to the origin of a popular phrase. :curtsey



Phoenix	Apr 11 2008, 02:21 PM Post #3
Superemely Decadent Outlaw Superhero Posts: 8,876 Group: Admin Member #4 Joined: August 19, 2007	a gothic one for you... "The eight-year-old Fanny Adams was brutally murdered in Alton, England in August 1867 by Frederick Baker, a 24-year-old solicitor's clerk. Her dismembered body was found in a field near the town. She was buried in Alton cemetery. The inscription on the headstone indicates the strength of feeling against the murderer: "Sacred to the memory of Fanny Adams aged 8 years and 4 months who was cruelly murdered August 24th, 1867. Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul but rather fear Him who is able to kill both body and soul in hell. Matthew 10:28. This stone was erected by voluntary subscription." The case was the source of enormous public concern and newspaper reports concentrated on the youth and innocence of the victim. Everyone living in England at the time would have known the name of 'sweet' Fanny Adams. With typical grisly humor, sailors in the British Royal Navy came to use the expression to refer to unpleasant meat rations they were often served - likening them to the dead girl's remains. Barrère and Leland recorded this usage in their A dictionary of slang, jargon and cant, 1889: "Fanny Adams (naval), tinned mutton." It wasn't until later that 'sweet Fanny Adams' came to mean 'nothing'. The term 'fck all' has long been with us with that meaning, although how long isn't clear as politeness caused it not to be recorded in print until the 20th century. It surely dates back to at least the early 19th century. The coincidence of Fanny Adams' initials caused F.A. or 'Fanny Adams' to be used as a euphemism for 'fck all'. Walter Downing, an Australian soldier who fought in Europe in the First World War, wrote a glossary of WWI soldier's slang called Digger Dialects in 1919. He is the first to record the link between F.A. (meaning 'f*ck all') and Fanny Adams:



Phoenix	Apr 11 2008, 02:23 PM Post #4
Superemely Decadent Outlaw Superhero Posts: 8,876 Group: Admin Member #4 Joined: August 19, 2007	The rule of thumb expression came from an old English law declared that a man could not beat his wife with a stick any larger than the diameter of his thumb...



Phoenix	Apr 11 2008, 02:25 PM Post #5
Superemely Decadent Outlaw Superhero Posts: 8,876 Group: Admin Member #4 Joined: August 19, 2007	I'm being very Goth today :goff In the past it was realized that they were burying a great deal of people before their time had actually come, they came up with a solution. They tied a string onto the "dead" person's hand, buried them, and tied the other end of the string to a bell and then tied it to nearby tree branch. If the person revived enough to ring the bell, their survivors would rush out and dig them up. Hence... "saved by the bell"



Ninja Boi	Apr 11 2008, 04:47 PM Post #6
The Lego Master Posts: 5,686 Group: Admin Member #3 Joined: August 17, 2007	Loving all these! :clap



Wolverine	Apr 11 2008, 06:19 PM Post #7
Dangerous when provoked Posts: 4,695 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: August 17, 2007	The shortest War ever was between Great Britain and Zanzibar in 1896. It lasted 38 minutes before Zanzibar surrendered. :lol:



Red	Apr 11 2008, 10:12 PM Post #8
slightly interesting human Posts: 274 Group: Members Member #143 Joined: March 19, 2008	The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main engredients. Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.



curio	Apr 11 2008, 11:52 PM Post #9
Newbie Posts: 110 Group: Members Member #136 Joined: March 13, 2008	I only learnt tonight ... apparently turtles breath through there bottoms! :whatthe I really did not know this.



Scarlet	Apr 12 2008, 07:12 PM Post #10
Newbie Posts: 360 Group: Members Member #80 Joined: December 23, 2007	curio Apr 11 2008, 11:52 PM I only learnt tonight ... apparently turtles breath through there bottoms! :whatthe I really did not know this. That just sounds so wrong :blink:



Wolverine	Apr 12 2008, 08:15 PM Post #11
Dangerous when provoked Posts: 4,695 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: August 17, 2007	I dunno why, a lot of people talk through their's :rolleyes: :lol:



Wolverine	Apr 13 2008, 12:18 AM Post #12
Dangerous when provoked Posts: 4,695 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: August 17, 2007	Cats have great eyesight and night vision - but are totally colour blind



Red	Apr 13 2008, 01:51 AM Post #13
slightly interesting human Posts: 274 Group: Members Member #143 Joined: March 19, 2008	In Oklahoma, dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate on private property in groups of three or more. :what Only in America! :roll



Wolverine	Apr 13 2008, 07:05 PM Post #14
Dangerous when provoked Posts: 4,695 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: August 17, 2007	A newborn kangaroo is between the size of a grain of rice to the size of a honeybee!



Wolverine	Apr 13 2008, 07:14 PM Post #15
Dangerous when provoked Posts: 4,695 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: August 17, 2007	Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.



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