Useless information!!

SAM SPARKLE · Post by **SAM SPARKLE** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 8:23 am

The bit about the Secretary's is controversial. However, the other bits are spooky:-

http://www.school-for-champions.com/his ... olnjfk.htm

Bleeker · Post by **Bleeker** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 8:51 am

SAM SPARKLE wrote:The bit about the Secretary's is controversial. However, the other bits are spooky:-

http://www.school-for-champions.com/his ... olnjfk.htm

very spooky! wonder who will be elected 2060. good luck to him in advance!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:34 pm

In years gone by, June was the month to get married. This was because the yearly bath was taken in May,so by June you were getting a little bit iffy. That is why the Bride carried a Bouquet of flowers, to help mask the odour....It's True!

digger · Post by **digger** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:10 pm

Anonymous wrote:In years gone by, June was the month to get married. This was because the yearly bath was taken in May,so by June you were getting a little bit iffy. That is why the Bride carried a Bouquet of flowers, to help mask the odour....It's True!

Most people did not bathe only once a year. Regular bathing is recommended in many medieval books (example: Constantinus Africanus, Opera Domestica, 1536). Paintings and drawings of the time show people of both peasant and aristocratic classes with washed hair and (for men) shaved faces.

Most towns had several public bathhouses that were in operation all year around and the source of much documented moralizing on how people should behave when using them. Basic hygiene, while not as rigorously practiced as it is today, was a normal part of 16th Century life.

Regarding flowers as a means of hiding body smells, the practical consideration of how a small amount of flowers could mask the smell of a room packed with (supposedly) unwashed people is just not credible. Flowers were then as they are now, symbols of fertility and love. The tradition of “June Bride” has no origins in bathing habits.

digger · Post by **digger** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:55 pm

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

….iffy legend……but don’t think anyone can disprove it……Mark Twain’s unpublished autobiography was definitely typed… and mentions how he felt embarrassed to be owner of such a machine at the time of writing the second half of Tom Sawyer.

did you know April Fools Day [1st April] was originally called All Fools Day….in medieval times it was a day when everyone could make fools of themselves (not others)……they’d get drunk and spend the morning (only) behaving like jokers or jesters….

……sorry april darling….couldn’t resist it…

Tabitha · Post by **Tabitha** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:02 pm

Do you mean a 'Pomander' --a ball or sometimes an orange stuffed with herbs /spice/cloves/aromatic substances hung on a girdle around the waist--to mask body odours?
The Romans were very clean--daily bathing and the men shaved-they invented underfloor heating and lavatories I believe?
I would like some useless info please?
Which Hollywood actress said,
"Its not the men in my life thats important but the life in my men!"
and
A very tall cowboy knocked at her door one day.She said,
"How tall are you"?
He said,
"6ft 7in"
She said,
"Okay.Come in and we'll discuss the 7 inches"

Was it Marilyn Monroe?

ROD · Post by **ROD** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:03 pm

No it was Mae West

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:04 pm

Tabbi, it was Mae West.

Tabitha · Post by **Tabitha** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:05 pm

Oh Rod! You just pipped my one!

But Imtrying to figure out your one

A trick question?

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:09 pm

did you know April Fools Day [1st April] was originally called All Fools Day….in medieval times it was a day when everyone could make fools of themselves (not others)……they’d get drunk and spend the morning (only) behaving like jokers or jesters….

We call it a B-B-Q.......or Sat. night.

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:17 pm

Mae west quotes:

1. When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad I'm better.

2. A hard man... is good to find

3. It's not the men in my life that counts -- it's the life in my men.

4. He who hesitates is last.

5. I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.

6. So many men... so little time

7. Too much of a good thing... can be wonderful

8. Why don't you come on up and see me sometime.. when I've got nothin' on but the radio.

9. I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

10. A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

11. A man in the house... is worth two in the street

12. Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

13. It's better to be looked over, than overlooked

14. Give a man a free hand... and he'll run it all over you

15. Good sex is like good Bridge... If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand

16. To err is human -- but it feels divine

17. His mother should have thrown him away...and kept the stork

18. I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

19. "Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !" Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie

20. I like two kinds of men: domestic and imported

21. When a girl goes wrong, men go right... after her

22. I'm the lady who works at Paramount all day... and Fox all night.

23. Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

24. I used to be Snow White... but I drifted

25. Save a boyfriend for a rainy day, and another, in case it doesn't rain

26. I've been rich and I've been poor... Believe me, rich is better

27. It's hard to be funny...when you have to be "clean"

28. I like my clothes to be tight enough to show I'm a woman... but loose enough to show I'm a lady.

29. She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success... wrong by wrong

30. You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction... but the second meeting shows up new angles

31. You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

32. Those who are easily shocked... should be shocked more often

33. When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

34. You ought to get out of those wet clothes... and into a dry martini

april · Post by **april** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 12:07 am

god that lot's hard to beat 'innit' ?
Ok here's another
the first couple shown together in bed , on prime time tv, were
~Fred and wilma Flintstone !

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 2:35 am

Wilma?!?...I never thought she was THAT kind of wife.

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 3:15 am

Say, as long as we are getting kinky here........

Has anyone heard the saying "It's Cold Enough To Freeze The Balls Off A Brass Monkey"?

Back in the days when men put their balls where their cannons were, they stacked them in a pyramid for easy use.

At the base of these pyramids was a Brass Monkey...it was a brass triangle with places molded into it to take the first level of cannon balls....all the other balls were stacked on top.

However, when it got cold, the Brass Monkey contracted, and the balls fell off......

And now you know.

DeeW · Post by **DeeW** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 7:17 am

Was it not during the time of the great plague that people used to carry posies to hold in front of their noses to mask the stench of decaying bodies? Hence the song "ring o ring o roses"