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 ?

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

only 8 spiders? surely more
& sex every 2 mins?more like 2 seconds

a rats brain weighs only 7 ounces

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

i knew it was useless hehe

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

hehe okis here goes

a ducks quack doesnt produce an echo.

you cant lick your own elbow.

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

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!