Aha! Caught you red handed!
And since you are here, you can just take your punishment!
Then you may punish the poster who's name appears above you.
No one is above me, so for example:
The poster above me was at the beach, lying on a towel on sand. He got up to go to the restroom or for a drink, and I removed his towel, dug a hole and put the towel back in exactly the same place so he didn't notice. Whenhe laid back down on the towel, his a$$ fell into the hole! Deep Hole...
O I C
We peek but dont play....
:gossip:
good hiding place, no one comes in here.
I do! I do! I'm lovin' your family album...I have some relatives that would fit in nicely.
I come here too. This thread is funny! :biggrin:
I like all the red light special rooms here. hehehe
aint we jest a pile and a haf of fun!
I want Daisy to quit peeking into my red light room. I'm a little busy there.
Here are some facts about the 1500s:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath
in May and still smelled pretty good by June.
However, they were starting to smell so brides carried a bouquet of
flowers to hide the body odor.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.
The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water,
then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the
children-last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you
could actually lose someone in it-hence the saying, "Don't throw
the baby out with the bath water."
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw, piled high, with no wood
underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all
the dogs, cats and other small animals (mice rats, and bugs) lived
in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the
animals would slip and fall off the roof - hence the saying, "It's
raining cats and dogs."
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This
posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings
could really mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big
posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection.
That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt,
hence the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that
would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh on
the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they
kept adding more thresh until when you opened the door the thresh
sifted out. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway-hence, a
"thresh hold."
They cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over
the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot.
They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would
eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold
overnight and warming them the next day. Sometimes the stew had
food in it that had been there for quite a while - - hence the
rhyme, "peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the
pot nine days old."
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite
special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to
show off. It was a sign of wealth to be able to bring home bacon."
They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit
around and chew the fat."
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with a high acid
content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing
lead poisoning and death. This happened most often with tomatoes,
so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered
poisonous.
Most people did not have pewter plates, but had trenchers, a piece
of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl. Often trenchers
were made from old hard bread. Sometimes they could use them for
quite some time. Trenchers were never washed and a lot of times
worms and mold got into the wood and old bread. After eating off
wormy moldy trenchers, one would get "trench mouth."
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom
of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or
"upper crust."
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would
sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking
along the road would find them and they would be prepared for
burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of
days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait
to see if they would wake up-hence the custom of holding a "wake."
England is old and small and they started out running out of places
to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the
bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these
coffins, 1 out off 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on
the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So
they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse,
lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to
a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night
(the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could
be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer.
And that's the truth... (And whoever said that History was boring?)
I believe I've seen that before, damfast, but it's interesting nonetheless. Kinda makes you appreciate how easy we have it today, huh.
I was laughing at my son the other day. He was waiting for something, that took a whole 3 minutes to cook in the microwave, right in front of the microwave..pacing back and forth...like it was taking forever. LOL
Think I'll get him some "trench" plates. :smile: Ewwwwww
Quote from: pariann on November 16, 2006, 01:15:20 PM
I want Daisy to quit peeking into my red light room. I'm a little busy there.
:o :-\
it was a pleasure to read that again.