The Did you know topic.

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Big game animal hides have been used for clothing for 100s of years. Maybe some on this board still use big game animal hides for clothing, footware etc....But did you know that deer hides or if you perfer buckskins was used to buy goods? Yeb buck skins was like money. At one time in history 25 buckskins could buy you a brand new rifle. Today in the form of a slang word we sometimes say 5 bucks instead of 5 dollars.

Ever use the term the "whole nine yards"
It does'nt even relate to sports as many think.
It actually comes from the Second World War, where the typical ammunition belt length for the machine guns on a fighter plane was about 9 yards long.
So if someone gave someone the "whole nine yards" they held the trigger down and emptied their guns.

ooooh, dick284 your quick on the draw!
how 'bout...lock stock and barrel..
i sell it to you (as in flint)lock, stock and barrel.

Dick, it also, if my memory is correct, comes from the Scotts. Didn't they use 9yds of material in the making of their kilts?
I have heard this before, but not about the 9yds of ammunition belt.

"dressed to the nines" comes from ladies using nine yards of material in the dresses.

Bats always turn left when they exit a cave

The average body has enough fat to make 3 bars of soap. ( I figure I'm a 6 bar guy!)

If your turds float, you have too much fat in your diet.

Geo

When people started making nice huts and houses to live in, they would pop a hole thru the wall. They called it a wind hole. After many years of slurring, people thought people were saying window.

More possible explanations as to the origin of the phrase
"the whole nine yards"

www.worldwidewords.org/ar...eyards.htm

When someone has a cold and you ask " Where you sleeping to close to the crack?" Comes from the old log cabins, when the chinking [?] was not done right or was falling out and you'd get a draft through the logs. Hench sleeping in a draft.

Rule of thumb

Came from the days when it was socially acceptable to beat your wife, however it was illegal to use a stick that was bigger in diameter than your thumb.

:lol :lol

If your turds float, you have too much fat in your diet.

No, if they sink you are eating too much meat and not getting enough fibre.

"ruke of thumb"
anyone seen boondock saints?
"rule of thumb, i think it should have been rule of wrist you can do very much with something the size of your thumb" then the figh breaks out between one of the brothers and the new gil workin at the meat shop.:rollin

farenheit 451 is the ignition temperature of paper:smokin

Calgary is the same geographic size as New York but has 1/10th the population. Hows that for a interesting bit of knowledge.

I was at a training course a few years ago and we had the north american road atlas out and the guys I was with were absolutely amazed that Canada is geographically 10% bigger than the United States yet we have only 10% of their population. Also, Los Angeles has roughly the same population as all of Canada!

Geo

A maxim machine gun belt used by Britain and her allies pre- world war one was nine yards. "3 on a match" WW1 bad luck as a sniper had ample time to aim and blast.

The term "hoser" is from pre zamboni days when the losing team had to hose down the ice after the game.

If the pillow on which you sleep is six years old, roughly one-tenth of its weight is made up of live mites, dead mites, mite wastes, and oil & skin flecks sloughed off of your head. (Or, if you're staying in a hotel, sloughed off of the heads of everyone who ever slept on that pillow before you.) Your pillowcase offers you no protection.


g'night

Turds float not from too much fat, but from increased gas levels in the "turd" thus making it less dense.

Someone with more active bacteria down there will produce more gas

Oh and if you write with a permanent marker on something, write over it with a dry erase marker then the permanent will rub right off.

Shotgun wrote {The term "hoser"}i think it came from the GREAT WHITE North the two hoser's BOB and Doug Mckenzie EHHHH!:rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :lol :lol :lol