Aye.... ya can't do much damage with that there, can ye?PensFanInDC wrote:"Shouldn't it be rule of wrist?"ville5 wrote:The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
There is an early John Wayne movie where his character moves back to Ireland (?) to his family cottage. He hits it off with the neighbor woman who is very set in her ideas. This and that happen and he is angrily walking her back to the house from the train station (?). A crowd starts to follow then because they expect that once back on his property he is going to beat her and they want to see the show. An old woman even comes up to him with a switch/branch and says something like "Here, this is a good one to beat her with. It won't break!" What the f....????PensFanInDC wrote:"Shouldn't it be rule of wrist?"ville5 wrote:The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The movie was 'The Quiet Man'.Jim wrote:There is an early John Wayne movie where his character moves back to Ireland (?) to his family cottage. He hits it off with the neighbor woman who is very set in her ideas. This and that happen and he is angrily walking her back to the house from the train station (?). A crowd starts to follow then because they expect that once back on his property he is going to beat her and they want to see the show. An old woman even comes up to him with a switch/branch and says something like "Here, this is a good one to beat her with. It won't break!" What the f....????PensFanInDC wrote:"Shouldn't it be rule of wrist?"ville5 wrote:The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
And the confusion is language based, they were originally called 'Whale Killers' but it was mistranslated into English from the original Spanish.dey soff wrote:A killer whale is actually a type of dolphin.
This is not even close to being trueville5 wrote:The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
Well, it was a feminist that said it so that explains why it was wrong...ville5 wrote:
The word "typewriter" can be typed without leaving the top row of keys. It was rumored this keyboard layout (labelled QWERTY) was established so typewriter salesman could dazzle their audience by speedily typing the word. Rumor has never been authenticated.Admin wrote:Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys.
Big Easy Pens Fan wrote:Less than 1% of humans know the proper use of you're/your. Not really, it just seems that way. Pet peeve of mine.
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TOTALLY with you on that one. I also hate their/they're.Big Easy Pens Fan wrote:Less than 1% of humans know the proper use of you're/your. Not really, it just seems that way. Pet peeve of mine.
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Lose/loose.....shoeshine boy wrote:TOTALLY with you on that one. I also hate their/they're.Big Easy Pens Fan wrote:Less than 1% of humans know the proper use of you're/your. Not really, it just seems that way. Pet peeve of mine.
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There is an old Sci-Fi novels trilogy based on some of this "The Giants Novels" Neanderthal man was alien napped by giants living on a highly industrial planet orbiting in what is now the asteroid belt. they were mutated and modified to modern man and when the planets core exploded the giant's moon and a chunk of debris was launched back towards earth. The chunk hit the earth and tilted it and the giant's moon became our moon. Surviving modern man on a moon base were able to get to earth and started to repopulate and wipe out the dumber neanderthals.no name wrote:The leading theory... (ok not a fact) the earth sits at a 21 degree angle suggest that a small Mars like planet slammed into earth about a billion years into the earths development. This pushed us to a 21 degree angle. The debris from this small planet became the moon.
It is pretty much the number one accepted theory.
That's also the reason we have such a strong magnetic field, part of the Mars like planet helped create the Earth's large core.GeoTank wrote:There is an old Sci-Fi novels trilogy based on some of this "The Giants Novels" Neanderthal man was alien napped by giants living on a highly industrial planet orbiting in what is now the asteroid belt. they were mutated and modified to modern man and when the planets core exploded the giant's moon and a chunk of debris was launched back towards earth. The chunk hit the earth and tilted it and the giant's moon became our moon. Surviving modern man on a moon base were able to get to earth and started to repopulate and wipe out the dumber neanderthals.no name wrote:The leading theory... (ok not a fact) the earth sits at a 21 degree angle suggest that a small Mars like planet slammed into earth about a billion years into the earths development. This pushed us to a 21 degree angle. The debris from this small planet became the moon.
It is pretty much the number one accepted theory.
Kane, Pa (Mckean county) was founded by Major General Thomas L. Kane. In 1846, then Colonel Kane aided the Mormons on their flight west from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Great Salt Lake. In 1858, Colonel Kane prevented the "Utah War" between 2500 US Army soldiers, under A.S. Johnston, and the Mormons, under Kane's personal friend, Brigham Young. Thomas L. Kane was offered the Utah Territorial Governorship, but insisted that the position go to Brigham Young. Kane was not a member of the LDS.ville5 wrote:Mormon leader Brigham Young had 55 wives.
Damn and I can't even keep my one wife happy.ville5 wrote:Mormon leader Brigham Young had 55 wives.