Thank You For
Stopping By:
LITTLE KNOWN FACTS AND
SOME TRIVIA
IN THE DAYS OF WOODEN SHIPS
AND IRON MEN
In the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters
carried iron cannons. Those cannon fired round iron cannon balls. It
was necessary to keep a good supply near the cannon. But how to prevent
them from rolling about the deck?
The best storage method devised was a square based pyramid with one
ball on top, resting on four resting on nine which rested on sixteen.
Thus, a supply
of thirty cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to
the
cannon.
There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer from
sliding or rolling out from under the others. The solution was a metal
plate called a "Monkey" with sixteen round indentations. But, if this
plate was made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it.
The solution to the rusting problem was to make the Monkeys out of
brass. Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much
faster than iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature
dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the
iron cannon balls would come
right off the monkey.
Thus, it was quite literally, "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a
brass monkey!" (and all this time you thought that was a naughty
expression, didn't you)?
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Here is a slice of golf history I thought you might enjoy. I never knew why
there were 18 holes before this. Why do full-length golf courses have 18
holes, and not 20, or 10 or an even dozen? How many of you golfers know the
answer to this one?
During a discussion among the club's membership board at St. Andrews in
1858, one of the members pointed out that it takes exactly 18 shots to
polish
off a fifth of Scotch. By limiting himself to only one shot of Scotch per
hole, the Scot figured a round of golf was finished when the Scotch ran out.
Now you know
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THE COMPLETE POEM
For You Who Only Remember
The Last Few Lines.
It Was An Evening In October,
And I Was Far From Sober,
And Draging Home A Load With Manly Pride;
When My Feet Began To Stutter,
I Laid Down In The Gutter,
And A Pig Came And Laid Down By My Side.
We Warbled, "It's Fair Weather
When Good Fellows Get Togather,"
Till A lady Passing By Was Heard To Say;
"You Can Tell A Man Who Boozes
By The Company He Chooses".
The Pig Got Up And Slowly Walked Away.
Q. A Golfer's Warning Is
"FORE"
Why?
A. British Infantry Once Fired
Volleys
From
Two Ranks, Rear Rank Standing Behind
Front Rank Kneeling, To Double The
Firepower. Rear Rankers About To Fire
Warned Front Rankers To Keep Heads
Down By Calling Out, Beware Before!"
Then, "Ware Before!" Then Just "Fore!"
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Ladies wore corsets which would lace up in the front. A tightly tied
lace
was worn by a proper and dignified lady as in "straight laced."
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Common entertainment included playing cards. However, there was a tax
levied when purchasing playing cards but only applicable to the "ace of
spades." To avoid paying the tax, people would purchase 51 cards
instead.
Yet, since most games require 52 cards, these people were thought to be
stupid or dumb because they weren't "playing with a full deck."
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G. O. L. F.
In Scotland A New Game Was
Invented And Entitled
"GENTLEMEN ONLY LADIES FORBIDDEN"
And The Word GOLF Entered The
Vocabulary
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In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John
McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army
IN
FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between
the crosses row on row,
That
mark our place; and in the sky
The
larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce
heard amid the guns below.
We
are the Dead. Short days ago
We
lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved
and were loved, and now we lie
In
Flanders fields.
Take
up our quarrel with the foe:
To
you from failing hands we throw
The
torch; be yours to hold it high.
If
ye break faith with us who die
We
shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In
Flanders fields.
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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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Three Different That Is
THERE ARE THREE DIFFERENT KINDS
OF MEN.
THE ONE THAT LEARNS BY READING.
THE FEW THAT LEARN BY OBSERVATION.
THE REST OF THEM
HAVE TO PEE ON THE ELECTRIC
FENCE THEMSELVES.
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"CATGUT" NOT PART OF A CAT
"CAT" in the England of old was another name for
"VIOLIN". Or any stringed instrument of that ilk.
"CATGUT" is so called not because it ever came from cats-it
didn't-but because it was used on cats,
i.e., stringed instruments.
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Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them
looks
like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
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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 their own pints
and
quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and
Q's"
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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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CRAPPER:
The Name Of The Man
That
Invented The Flush Toilet.
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THE DOT
THE DOT ON THE TOP OF A
"j" AND "i" IS CALLED A TITTLE.
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