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april · Post by **april** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:05 pm

In Shakespeares times matresses were secured to bed posts by ropes. Tightening the ropes made a firmer matress- hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight" !!

What useless information do you know ?

Ellie · Post by **Ellie** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:20 pm

Thats a new one on me April

I always thought it meant drunk! (you know..to get 'tight')..interesting
Trying to think of some..er..:
Hair and nails grow faster in the summer?
We swallow eight spiders over the average lifetime!
We think of sex every 2 minutes?(couldnt leave that one out now could I

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But maybe Im not doing this correctly..is this what you mean April?

Tiko · Post by **Tiko** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:25 pm

only 8 spiders? surely more

& sex every 2 mins?more like 2 seconds

Tiko · Post by **Tiko** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:40 pm

a rats brain weighs only 7 ounces

Zoe the Zoologist · Post by **Zoe the Zoologist** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:29 pm

Don't think so Tiko, since the average rat weighs in total between 7 and 16 oz

Tiko · Post by **Tiko** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:33 pm

i knew it was useless

hehe

april · Post by **april** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:44 pm

Hi ellie-yes thats what i meant. Now here's another. In Old England , ale was served in pints and quarts./ When people became unruly the bartender would shout 'mind your own pints and quarts and settle down' and thats where 'mind your p's and q's ' came from!

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 2:43 am

There is a phrase in the Old West.

"I'll bet my Bottom Dollar"

It ment that you bet your whole stack of poker chips.

digger · Post by **digger** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:42 pm

april wrote:In Shakespeares times matresses were secured to bed posts by ropes. Tightening the ropes made a firmer matress- hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight"

"Good night, sleep tight," means sleep all night. The usage of the term tight is the same as in water tight or air tight, i.e. secured. In this case, sleep tight means fastened or secured in sleep.

digger · Post by **digger** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:46 pm

april wrote:In Old England , ale was served in pints and quarts./ When people became unruly the bartender would shout 'mind your own pints and quarts and settle down' and thats where 'mind your p's and q's ' came from!

Minding your p's and q's is from typesetting. Lead type was (and still is for letterpresses) stored in boxes. The lowercase p and q were easy to mix up. Remember that typesetters are reading the letters backwards, and they worked fast. So minding your p's and q's was to be careful when pulling the letters from the case.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:58 pm

You can't buy spares for Austin 7 at Intermarche !

april · Post by **april** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 12:04 am

ok, here's another one---see who can contradict me this time----! The first novel to be written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.

Bleeker · Post by **Bleeker** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 6:38 am

hehe okis here goes

a ducks quack doesnt produce an echo.

you cant lick your own elbow.

DeeW · Post by **DeeW** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 7:26 am

Can't believe that I am actually at work trying to lick my own elbow!

Bleeker · Post by **Bleeker** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 7:45 am

DeeW wrote:Can't believe that I am actually at work trying to lick my own elbow!

hahaha! i can only imagine the looks you`ll get from your collegues!

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