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bject: VERY INTERESTING STUFF

 

 

 

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In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb"

 

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Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only..Ladies Forbidden"...and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

 

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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

 

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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury.

 

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Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

 

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Coca-Cola was originally green.

 

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It is impossible to lick your elbow.

 

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The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work:

 

Alaska

 

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The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this...)

 

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The percen tage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

 

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The cost of ra ising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $ 16,400

 

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The average number of people airborne over the U.S. in any given hour:

 

61,000

 

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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

 

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The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

 

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The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

 

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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:

 

Spades - King David

 

Hearts - Charlemagne

 

Clubs -Alexander, the Great

 

Diamonds - Julius Caesar

 

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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 

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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

 

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Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

 

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Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?

 

< /FONT>A. Their birthplace

 

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Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?

 

A. Obsession

 

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Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?

 

A. One thousand

 

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Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?

 

A. All were invented by women.

 

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Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?

 

A. Honey

 

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Q. Which day are there more collect calls than any other day of the year?

 

A. Father's Day

 

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In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.

 

When you pulled on the rop es the mattress tightened, making t he bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... "Goodnight, sleep tight."

 

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It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.

 

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In English pubs, ale is or dered by pints and quarts... So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them "Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down."

 

It's where we get the phrase "Mind your P's and Q's"

 

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Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase insp ired by this practice.

 

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At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!

 

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Don't delete this just because it looks weird. Believe it or not, you can read it.

 

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The ph aonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

 

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YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2008 when...

 

1. You accidentally enter your PIN on the microwave.

 

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

 

3. You have a list of 15 phone numb ers to reach your family of three.

 

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

 

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

 

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

 

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.

 

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't even have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

 

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

 

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )

 

12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

 

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

 

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

 

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list.

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Yeh nice one some good info in there.

I didn't know the golf one either.

 

I did try and lick my elbow btw.

 

Yeah I've had a few beers tonight, thought I'd give it a go and I feel a strain in the neck department !

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I think Golf was the Dutch name for the game. It's hard to say which country actually invented the game - just the same for football, but Scotland were the first to set out the rules and play on 18 holes.

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Golf's Actual Origins

"With th' exciption maybe iv th' theery iv infant damnation, " said Mr Dooley, "Scotland has given nawthin' more cheerful to th' wurruld thin th' game iv goluf." Golf appeared in 1350 in St Andrews, Fife. It was forbidden by the king thrice during the 1400's, as it was considered to distract young men from their archery and Church, but was re-legalised in 1502. It is a common misperception that it began in the 1600s; as early as 1567, Mary Queen of Scots played golf on the St. Andrews Links. The oldest remaining club here is the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, dating back to 1834, which still accepts only male members, with the exception of once in the year for the Women's Open.

 

 

 

 

Golf's Origins

Golf which means gentleman's only ladies forbidden, started in Scotland 1600's and first in the USA was New Jersey, years after that.

 

 

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Golf originated in scotland in the 1600's.

 

 

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"Gentlemen Only, Ladies Prohibited" is, of course, an acronym for the game, but the reality is that there were games similar to golf played as far back as the 1100's in China. Golf as a western sport began in the late 1500's in Scotland, but the name "golf" has nothing to do with the above acronym.

 

 

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The "Gentlemen Only; Ladies Forbidden" explanation is an Urban Legend. You can learn more here: http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/golf.htm

 

 

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Did the word "golf" originate as an acronym for "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden"? That's a common old wives' tale. Or, in this case, more likely an old husband's tale. No, "golf" is not an acronym for "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden." If you've ever heard that, forget it immediately. Better yet, find the person who told you and let them know it's not true.

 

Like most modern words, the word "golf" derives from older languages and dialects. In this case, the languages in question are medieval Dutch and old Scots.

 

The medieval Dutch word "kolf" or "kolve" meant "club." It is believed that word passed to the Scots, whose old Scots dialect transformed the word into "golve," "gowl" or "gouf."

 

By the 16th Century, the word "golf" had emerged.

 

Sources: British Golf Museum, USGA Library

 

 

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The origin of golf is open to debate among Chinese, French and Scotish. Golf is widely believed to be a Scottish invention, as the game was mentioned in two 15th-century laws prohibiting the playing of the game of "gowf". Some scholars, however, suggest that this refers to another game which is much akin to shinty or hurling, or to modern field hockey. They point out that a game of putting a small ball in a hole in the ground using golf clubs was played in 17th-century Netherlands. The term golf is believed to have originated from a Germanic word for "club".

 

The oldest playing golf course in the world is The Old Links at Musselburgh. Evidence has shown that golf was played on Musselburgh Links in 1672 although Mary Queen of Scots reputedly played there in 1567.

 

Golf courses have not always had eighteen holes. The St Andrews Links occupy a narrow strip of land along the sea. As early as the 15th century, golfers at St. Andrews established a customary route through the undulating terrain, playing to holes whose locations were dictated by topography. The course that emerged featured eleven holes, laid out end to end from the clubhouse to the far end of the property. One played the holes out, turned around, and played the holes in, for a total of 22 holes. In 1764, several of the holes were deemed too short, and were therefore combined. The number was thereby reduced from 11 to nine, so that a complete round of the links comprised 18 holes.

 

The major changes in equipment since the 19th century have been better mowers, especially for the greens, better golf ball designs, using rubber and man-made materials since about 1900, and the introduction of the metal shaft beginning in the 1930s. Also in the 1930s the wooden golf tee was invented. In the 1970s the use of metal to replace wood heads began, and shafts made of graphite composite materials were introduced in the 1980s.

 

In January 2006, debate provoked again over who invented golf again. Recent evidence unearthed by Prof. Ling Hongling of Lanzhou University, China suggests that a game similar to modern-day golf was played in China since Southern Tang Dynasty, 500 years before golf was first mentioned in Scotland.

 

Dongzuan Records (Chinese:�|܎��) from the Song Dynasty describe a game called chuiwan (����) and also include drawings. It was played with 10 clubs including a cuanbang, pubang, and shaobang, which are comparable to a driver, two-wood, and three-wood. Clubs were inlaid with jade and gold, suggesting golf was for the wealthy. Chinese archive includes references to a Southern Tang Dynasty official who asked his daughter to dig holes as a target. Lin suggested golf was exported to Europe and then Scotland by Mongolian travellers in the late Middle Ages.

 

Spokeman for Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, one of the oldest Scotland golf organization, said "Stick and ball games have been around for many centuries, but golf as we know it today, played over 18 holes, clearly originated in Scotland."

 

 

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Golf was invented in the 15th century by the Scots.

 

A little know fact about golf: Golf was banned in Scotland in 1457. The reason for the ban was that the game interfered with archery. Archery, then, was a much-needed practice because the country's defenses depended upon it. However, the Scots continued to play despite the ban from Parliament and the church. The Scots played golf on courses laid out by the sea. These courses are called links.

 

There is an urban legend that says the word "golf" stood for "Gentlemen Only; Ladies Forbidden." This is false. We know this, to some degree, since Mary, Queen of Scots, the mother of James VI of Scotland and who later was James I of England, was known to have participated in the "sport" of golf.

 

 

==Answer Below== By: FutureLPGAgolfer

Golf was originated in Scotland near the 1600's and St. Andrews was the first course ever played. The queen of Scotland was so happy that golf was invented but many were not. The men were not happy because she was going to allow the women to play. The guards killed the queen just because of that. So thats why only men could play before and now in present time women can too which is AWESOME! I am so glad that the rule changed that women can play too!!

 

Always thought and read that Scotland invented the game, had no idea about the initials though.

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Goes to the interesting or disturning stuff I guess, but does anyone know where the word F.U.C.K. originated from? Ive heard two different stories but only remember the one I believe to be true.

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Origin of the F-Word

Netlore Archive: In which we are told -- with a straight face -- that the word 'fuck' originated as the acronym of 'Fornication Under Consent of the King' (or some variation thereof)

 

Description: Folk etymology

Circulating since: The 1960s

Status: False

 

 

Variant #1:

Email example contributed by T. McInnis, 22 March 2001:

 

In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from.

 

 

Variant #2:

From a Usenet posting, 1 November 1990:

 

The word fuck comes from colonial times, when someone would be punished for 'prostitution' It was an acronym for the words

 

'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge'

 

FUCK was written on the stocks that held these criminals because For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge was too long to go on the stocks.

 

 

Variant #3:

From a Usenet posting, 12 October 1990:

 

I always heard that "F.U.C.K." originated in the 1800's in London, when they used to charge prostitutes "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge". So officer got sick and tired of writing those, um, lessee, 26 characters, not including spaces, so it got abbreviated FUCK and stuck.

 

 

Comments: Having consulted the definitive reference work on this subject (yes, there is such a thing: The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower, published by Random House in 1999), I feel confident in dismissing all the claims above as imaginative bunk.

 

The word fuck did not originate as an acronym. It crept, fully formed, into the English language from Dutch or Low German around the 15th century (it's impossible to say precisely when because so little documentary evidence exists, probably due to the fact that the word was so taboo throughout its early history that people were afraid to write it down). The American Heritage Dictionary says its first known occurrence in English literature was in the satirical poem "Flen, Flyss" (c.1500), where it was not only disguised as a Latin word but encrypted - gxddbov - which has been deciphered as fuccant, pseudo-Latin for "they fuck."

 

According to Sheidlower, the earliest claims in print of supposed acronymic origins for the F-word appeared during the 1960s. An underground newspaper called the East Village Other published this version in 1967:

 

It's not commonly known that the word "fuck" originated as a medical diagnostic notation on the documests of soldiers in the British Imperial Army. When a soldier reported sick and was found to have V.D., the abbreviation F.U.C.K. was stamped on his documents. It was short for "Found Under Carnal Knowledge."

 

Two more variants appeared in a letter published in Playboy magazine in 1970:

 

My friend claims that the word fuck originated in the 15th Century, when a married couple needed permission from the king to procreate. Hence, Fornication Under Consent of the King. I maintain that it's an acronym of a law term used in the 1500s that referred to rape as Forced Unnatural Carnal Knowledge."

 

Undoubtedly the most famous use of this etymological travesty was as the title of the 1991 Van Halen album, "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge."

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