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[w5lda]

HOW CAN YOU LIVE ON WITHOUT KNOWING THESE THINGS?




In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not
allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than
his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb"


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.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the
US Treasury.


Men can read smaller print than women can; women can
hear better.

Coca-Cola was originally green.


It is impossible to lick your elbow.

The State with the highest percentage of people who
walk to work: Alaska


The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now
get this....) The percentage of North America that is
wilderness: 38%

The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of
eleven: $6,400


The average number of people airborne over the US any
given hour: 61,000

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their
hair.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom
Sawyer.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile
National Monuments.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a
great king from history: Spades - King David , Hearts
- Charlemagne, Clubs -Alexander, the Great, and
Diamonds - Julius Caesar


111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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 as a result of wounds received in battle. If the
horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died
of
natural causes.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence
on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of
the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature
wasn't added until 5 years later.


Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace

Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most
popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession


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

Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield
wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.


Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey


Q. Which day are there more collect calls than any
other day of the year?
A. Father's Day

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."

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.


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." It's where we get the phrase
"mind your P's and Q's"

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.

~~~~~~~~~~~AND FINALLY~~~~~~~~~~~~
At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick
their elbow











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[w8znx]

[quote=kd5vsg,July 22 2005,02:34]The State with the highest percentage of people who
walk to work: Alaska


Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace

Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most
popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession

Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey


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." It's where we get the phrase
"mind your P's and Q's"

some trivia
some bs

people that walk to work
in Alaska only walk to work
when staying on job sight

often fly to work
then stay for two weeks
or more

live close to where born

100 years ago

90 % of all people
never in their life time
went farther then 20 miles away
from where they
were born

most boat owners do not name their boats

honey can and will spoil
open a pot
leave it out in the wet
see how long it takes till mold
starts to grow
but yes
realy realy keeps well
but most highly salted
or sugar based foods
foods keep well

p's and q's
nice try
but realy bum

comes from printing trade

if you ever sorted
foundry type
or
stood at a composing stone
and locked up a job chase

would understand minding
p and q

in hot type letter press printing

type setting and puting away type
everything is reverse / mirror image

spent few years as
apprentice printer
oh man loved it

why am i wasting my time here
when could be playing with radios

yours truly
mac

[n0jaa]

Quote[/b] (kd5vsg @ July 22 2005,05:34)]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 as a result of wounds received in battle. If the
horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died
of natural causes.
This is actually not true. #There are some true examples of this, but there are even more examples where this theory does not hold water.

I found the following at www.snopes.com (Urban Legends Reference Pages), which is considered to be a reliable source...

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Claim: # The number of hooves lifted into the air on equestrian statues reveals how the riders died.
Status: # False.

Origins: # Folk wisdom has it that equestrian statues contain a code whereby the rider's fate can be determined by noting how many hooves the horse has raised. The most common theory has it that if one hoof is raised, the rider was wounded in battle (possibly dying of those wounds later but not necessarily so); two raised hooves, death in battle; all four hooves on the ground, the rider survived all battles unharmed.

The hoof code mostly holds true in terms of Gettysburg equestrian statues, but there is at least one exception. James Longstreet wasn't wounded in this battle yet his horse has one foot raised.

Even the most cursory look at the statues around Washington, D.C. quickly disproves that the hoof code at all holds sway in that locale.

Washington is home to more equestrian statues than any other city in the nation, and it's significant that perhaps only 10 out of 30 or more follow the convention. Here's a quick look-see at various equestrian statues in Washington and how they fit or don't fit this theory. First, some statues that follow the "rule":


FRANCIS ASBURY: 16th and Mount Pleasant NW (1924). All hooves on ground; died in peace.

FIELD MARSHAL SIR JOHN DILL: Arlington National Cemetery (1950). All hooves on ground; died of leukemia.

GEN. ULYSSES S. GRANT: Union Square, at the east end of the Mall (1922). All hooves on ground; died in peace.

MAJ. GEN. WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK: Seventh and Pennsylvania NW (1896). One hoof raised; wounded in battle.

MAJ. GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN: Logan Circle, Vermont Avenue, 13th and P Streets NW (1901). One hoof raised; died in peace, twice wounded.

LT. GEN. WINFIELD SCOTT: Scott Circle, 16th and Massachusetts and Rhode Island NW (1874). All hooves on ground; died in peace.

GEN. PHILIP H. SHERIDAN: Sheridan Circle, 23rd and Massachusetts NW (1908). All hooves on ground; died in peace.

GEN. WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN: 15th and Pennsylvania and Treasury Place NW (1903). All hooves on ground; died in peace, pneumonia.

MAJ. GEN. GEORGE H. THOMAS: Thomas Circle, 14th and Massachusetts NW (1879). All hooves on ground; died in peace.

JOHN WESLEY: Wesley Theological Seminary (1961). All hooves on ground; died in peace.


And now some that don't:

GEN. SIMON BOLIVAR: 18th at C and Virginia NW (1959). One hoof raised; died in peace of tuberculosis.

MAJ. GEN. NATHANIEL GREENE: Stanton Square, Maryland and Massachusetts NE (1877). One hoof raised; died in peace, unwounded.

MAJ. GEN. ANDREW JACKSON: Lafayette Park (1853). Two hooves raised; died in peace.

LT. GEN. THOMAS J. (STONEWALL) JACKSON: Manassas (1940). All hooves on ground; wounded by own men and died.

MAJ. GEN. PHILIP KEARNY: Arlington National Cemetery (1914). One hoof raised; died in battle.

MAJ. GEN. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN: Connecticut Avenue and Columbia Road NW (1907). One hoof raised; died in peace, unwounded.

BRIG. GEN. JAMES B. McPHERSON: McPherson Square, 15th between K and I streets NW (1876). One hoof raised; shot and killed in battle.

BRIG. GEN. COUNT CASIMIR PULASKI: 13th and Pennsylvania NW (1910). One hoof raised; died in battle.

LT. GEN. GEORGE WASHINGTON: Washington Circle, at 23rd and K and Pennsylvania and New Hampshire NW (1860). One hoof raised; died in peace of cynache trachealis. Washington Cathedral (1959). One hoof raised.


An additional rumored statue code is prevalent in Virginia's Monument Avenue in Richmond. The Civil War statues honoring Gens. Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis are pointed in distinct directions, according to local lore. Those who died in the war face north. If they survived, they face south.

Upon examination, local lore appears to have something going for it. Ah, but appearances are deceiving. The equestrian statues of Lee, facing south, and Jackson, facing north, do fit the formula, and the horse of Stuart, who was mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern in 1864, faces north. The heads of Stuart, Davis, and Matthew Fontaine Maury face east.

"To the best of anyone's knowledge, the position and pose of the statue do not signify anything," said Frances Pollard, a curator at the Virginia Historical Society.

Those who should know better continue to pass along this piece of folklore as fact, as evidenced by this July 2001 question and response in Marilyn vos Savant's "Ask Marilyn" column:


Q: One often sees commemorative statues of soldiers mounted on horses with their forelegs in various positions. Is there any significance to the difference?

A: Yes, although some sculptors may be unaware of the tradition or choose to ignore it. A historian at Arlington National Cemetery explains that when both forelegs of the horse are in the air, the rider died in battle. When only one foreleg is raised, the rider died of his wounds afterward. And when all four legs are on the ground, the rider later died of unrelated causes.


Hmm . . . a vocational "tradition" that those who practice the trade are either complete unaware of, or choose to ignore when they do know of it. That reminds me of my husband's jocular reponse whenever someone catches him wearing a piece of clothing backwards or inside-out: "It's a fad, but nobody else knows about it yet." Given that the alleged statuary code consists of three poses (no hooves raised, one hoof raised, and two hooves raised), the odds that a rider's manner of death would correspond to his horse's pose through plain chance are one in three, which is the proportion we find when surveying the equestrian statues in our nation's capital — that is, only about ten out of thirty statues in Washington, D.C., follow the "traditional" pattern. (Don't write to tell us that the odds of a given person's manner of death matching the "correct" statuary code are one in nine, not one in three. If you think they're one in nine, you need to brush up on your basic statistics.)

The connection between statuary horses hooves' and the manner of deaths of their riders is not "tradition," but — like the well-known but mundane list of "coincidences" between the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations — an attempt to create an interesting piece of information (in this case, something akin to a "secret code") by finding patterns in randomness through the expedient of simply ignoring or explaining away all the cases that don't fit the pattern. This type of statuary lore is neither new nor unique to equestrian statuary, as a similar "tradition" (i.e., fallacy) was attributed well over a century ago, in the same fashion, to sculptors who had created effigies of knights several hundred years earlier:


[Ackermann, 1923]
Claim: The crossing of the legs and/or arms of the effigies of certain Knights indicates that they were Crusaders and the number of crusades in which they took part.

Mr. Donald Gunn kindly dealt with this matter as follows:

"Proof of the error lies in the following facts:
Many knights represented in this posture are known not to have gone to the Crusades.
Many who certainly went have their effigies with legs uncrossed.
Several effigies exist of women shown in this position.
Most monuments of this kind are later in date than the Crusades, in fact, they extend as late as the early part of the 15th century.
The bulk of the Crusading knights were from Continental counties; but no cross-legged effigies exist outside England."


The Rev. C.J. Cox, who, I suppose, was one of our soundest ecclesiologists, wrote:

"Surely it is time that the imaginary connection between cross-legged effigies and the Crusades should be exploded; and yet how rampant is that fiction in certain places, and how constantly it has to be contradicted!
". . . the popular fiction that cross-legged effigies are monuments of Knights Templars has evidently arisen from the fact that six out of nine effigies in the Temple Church are so represented . . . With the exception, however, of one effigy, which is not cross-legged, it is extremely doubtful whether any of these celebrated figures are memorials of Templars."

Once again, proof that folklore never dies — it simply gets updated in time and place to keep it relevant to modern audiences.

Barbara "pretend you're a bronze horse — keep your feet on the ground and you'll live longer" Mikkelson

Last updated: # 15 July 2001

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[WB2WIK]

Quote[/b] (kd5vsg @ July 22 2005,02:34)]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 as a result of wounds received in battle. If the
horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died
of
natural causes.
All four legs horizontal, on ground: Horse broke leg and they shot horse.

I agree with Mac. This list has circulated for years and has been fully "de-bunked" many times on websites specifically dedicated to debunking old stores.

[w3sy]

Okay, admit it. How many of you tried (at least twice!) to lick your elbow?

[kf6rdn]

Quote[/b] (w3sy @ July 22 2005,16:46)]Okay, admit it. How many of you tried (at least twice!) to lick your elbow?
Yeah, like I'd admit that HERE.

[KI4DYA]

Quote[/b] (w3sy @ July 22 2005,16:46)]Okay, admit it. How many of you tried (at least twice!) to lick your elbow?
Been working on it since reading this blasted post.
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[WB2WIK]

I discovered my dog can do this.

I haven't tried, it sounds too difficult. I hire people to do the difficult stuff, and thus far haven't asked them.

[AB9JV]

I CAN lick my elbow, but I have an unusually long tounge, just ask the YL. ha ha

[K9STH]

A few things on the list are true, but others are definitely false.

The "rule" about the feet of horses on statues is definitely false. Frankly it has more to do with how the sculpturer made the statue (and how he/she thought it should look) then an "rule".

As for honey, there have been stores of it discovered in the pyamids of Egypt that are millenium old that was still good.

Golf is just someone's wish to exclude women from "men only" country clubs.

It has been true in years past that on occasion more money was printed for the Monopoly game than by the United States government. However, the popularity of that particular game has diminished over the years (I still like to play it) so not that many games are being produced as in the past.

Although they had voted for it, several persons who "signed" the Declaration of Independence did not sign the document until after the Treaty of Paris which ended the Revolutionary War (1783) which was 7 years after the document had been adopted. They were afraid that the British would "come after them".

There are some people who can "lick their elbow", but most cannot (at least without having problems with their shoulder).

Glen, K9STH

[w5lda]

ab9jv

If you have such a long tongue,why do you even have a wife? hahahaha