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14 years ago
Yesterday at work I was told by my boss to move this table from our garages outside to our main shop where it would be easier to use. It was one of those really heavy kind of desks like you'd find in the bigwig's office with all the drawers and such, and it had this glass top protector. Well, I was moving the glass top and when I set it down I don't know what happened, but it shattered into a million pieces and cut up my arms and left hand. Mostly just some scratches and such, but I had a couple of deep ones on my left arm and I got one in particular that took almost all of the skin off my left pointer finger knuckle. We didn't go get stitches for it, but I honestly think I should have. Right now my finger looks like a sausage wrapped up in all this gauze and band-aids and I can't move it much if at all, but the bleeding's stopped so I guess I can't complain too much. So to make myself feel better about it, I'm going to go on a history rant and spout random knowledge!!
-Back in the 1500s most houses had thatched roofs with straw piled high with no wood underneath. This was really the only warm place that animals could go, but when it rained due to the lack of wooded support underneath them the animals would often fall through the ceiling. Thus giving us the common phrase: "It's raining cats and dogs". To help counteract this people began making the bed posts much taller and stretch a blanket or other sheet across the top. This is how canopy beds came into existence.
-Tomatoes were considered poisonous for almost 400 years. This is because the wealthy had dishes made of pewter and foods such as tomatoes with high acid content would draw the lead out of the pewter giving them lead poisoning.
-Bread used to be divided by rank. The workers would get the bottom portion that was more than likely burnt, the family would get the middle, and important guests would get the top, or the "upper crust".
-By looking at any map it's not hard to notice that England is pretty small. This caused a problem when it came to burying the dead. Graves were often reused due to this lack of real estate and the bones of the person who was buried there previously would be exhumed and sent to a bone house. While serving their rather macabre eviction notices they noticed that about 1 out of every 25 or so were found to have scratch marks on the inside of the lids from people accidentally being buried alive. People began to tie strings around the fingers of the dead person which fed up to the surface and were tied to a bell and some poor schmuck would have to sit out in the graveyard all night to listen for the bell. This became known as the graveyard shift. If a bell was wrung they would be rescued and would be considered a "dead ringer" that was "saved by the bell".
-Similarly, cups used to be made out of lead, and when mixed with alcohol the newly inebriated person could be knocked out for several days and could be mistaken for dead. The "corpse" would be laid out on their family's table for a couple days to give them a chance to wake up just in case they'd had one too many. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
NOW CONSIDER YOURSELVES EDUCATED!!!!!! >8D
-Back in the 1500s most houses had thatched roofs with straw piled high with no wood underneath. This was really the only warm place that animals could go, but when it rained due to the lack of wooded support underneath them the animals would often fall through the ceiling. Thus giving us the common phrase: "It's raining cats and dogs". To help counteract this people began making the bed posts much taller and stretch a blanket or other sheet across the top. This is how canopy beds came into existence.
-Tomatoes were considered poisonous for almost 400 years. This is because the wealthy had dishes made of pewter and foods such as tomatoes with high acid content would draw the lead out of the pewter giving them lead poisoning.
-Bread used to be divided by rank. The workers would get the bottom portion that was more than likely burnt, the family would get the middle, and important guests would get the top, or the "upper crust".
-By looking at any map it's not hard to notice that England is pretty small. This caused a problem when it came to burying the dead. Graves were often reused due to this lack of real estate and the bones of the person who was buried there previously would be exhumed and sent to a bone house. While serving their rather macabre eviction notices they noticed that about 1 out of every 25 or so were found to have scratch marks on the inside of the lids from people accidentally being buried alive. People began to tie strings around the fingers of the dead person which fed up to the surface and were tied to a bell and some poor schmuck would have to sit out in the graveyard all night to listen for the bell. This became known as the graveyard shift. If a bell was wrung they would be rescued and would be considered a "dead ringer" that was "saved by the bell".
-Similarly, cups used to be made out of lead, and when mixed with alcohol the newly inebriated person could be knocked out for several days and could be mistaken for dead. The "corpse" would be laid out on their family's table for a couple days to give them a chance to wake up just in case they'd had one too many. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
NOW CONSIDER YOURSELVES EDUCATED!!!!!! >8D
