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Cash On The Barrelhead - a bit of rye humor
*smiles...
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Can't see anything untrue about this. Just a sad state of affairs.
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Now that I didn't know, or the cigar thing below either, and yes history is fascinating and very much another country. As for your story, 100% correct, I avoid a lot of this by not watching TV and by extension the ads. All sorts of attempts these days to both commercialise and restrict free flow of information on the internet though.
Oh, hadn't heard of the barrelhead thing before either!
Oh, hadn't heard of the barrelhead thing before either!
heh quite possibly ;) That reminds me of a true story, in the Second World War one of the British admirals was from Northern Ireland, on making contact with the enemy he was radioed to confirm their numbers, he sent back that there was 'a brave wheen of them!' - cue confusion until they realised he meant 'quite a few' - that's a phrase which is still in common currency around here.
There was also the ancient equivalent of lawyers in the Greco-Roman world. They had few restrictions on what they could say at trial, meaning that 99% of their job was just coming up with creative ways to insult and character assassinate the other side.
Hmmm, when I put it like that, I suppose lawyers haven’t changed that much over time…
Hmmm, when I put it like that, I suppose lawyers haven’t changed that much over time…
*smiles... it's one of those expressions I grew up with...
cute story - I was teaching a group of children fencing one day. They were around six or so, and I had them coming up one at a time to make a lunge on me. We all revert back to what we heard when young, so I was telling some of them 'close but no cigar' when their lunge was not quite right. One little girl looked up at me after making her attempt, and asked me, 'Was that a cigar?'
The expression came from a time of the traveling carnivals, men smoked cigars, and a cigar was a prize given for ringing the bell on one of those 'swing the hammer - hit the lever - and make the weight go up the wire to the bell'. Thus, if the weight didn't quite make it to the top, it was 'close but no cigar'.
I do love history.
Vix
cute story - I was teaching a group of children fencing one day. They were around six or so, and I had them coming up one at a time to make a lunge on me. We all revert back to what we heard when young, so I was telling some of them 'close but no cigar' when their lunge was not quite right. One little girl looked up at me after making her attempt, and asked me, 'Was that a cigar?'
The expression came from a time of the traveling carnivals, men smoked cigars, and a cigar was a prize given for ringing the bell on one of those 'swing the hammer - hit the lever - and make the weight go up the wire to the bell'. Thus, if the weight didn't quite make it to the top, it was 'close but no cigar'.
I do love history.
Vix
Really says a lot about the way things are when, despite it being comical, all of this is alarmingly true... Still quite fun with that added Vixyy spin on things!
That bit with the girl who couldn't make change for a five... Had to do trainings for new hires back when I worked the register at a supermarket and that brought back some baaaad memories (not like bad, bad, more so just "this is gonna be a long day" memories).
That bit with the girl who couldn't make change for a five... Had to do trainings for new hires back when I worked the register at a supermarket and that brought back some baaaad memories (not like bad, bad, more so just "this is gonna be a long day" memories).
And don't take any wooden nickles. XD
Pirates didn't wear that bling as a fashion statement; all those bits and bobs of precious metals were safer than any bank's promissory note, and in sizes right to trade -- pieces of eight. Cash may be king but Diamonds are forever.
Pirates didn't wear that bling as a fashion statement; all those bits and bobs of precious metals were safer than any bank's promissory note, and in sizes right to trade -- pieces of eight. Cash may be king but Diamonds are forever.
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