Thought of the Day (Read 3,570 times)

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some of our newest members, were born around the time the SIX was being assigned to ADC, and the a/c was around long enough for them to have worked on or flown her....Some even fortunate enough to seen her to the end..... :salute :salute : The Old Sarge

Born 53
Worked them for 3 years.
Watched the F-106 and T-33 both retire and the F-15 take over.

Uh Oh Bullhunter. We're the same age. I think I read somewhere where '53 was an exemplary year.

I was born in 1953
Enlisted 1971
Worked the Six for 2 1/2 + years.

I also remember stenciled on the dash board of AF vehicles- "THIS VEHICLE COST $1200.00 - TAKE CARE OF IT" And we had vehicles called "Carry Alls" and SIX PACS AND !!!! STUDEBAKER 6X6 TRUCKS...........The Old Sarge

A US Congressman was seated next to a little girl on the jet when the Congressman turned to her and said, 'Let's talk. I've heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.'
The little girl, who had just opened her book, closed it slowly and said to the stranger, 'What would you like to talk about?'
'Oh, I don't know,' said the stranger. 'How about the banking crisis?' and he smiles.

OK, ' she said. 'That could be an interesting and timely topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?'

The Congressman, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, 'Hmmm, I have no idea.'
To which the little girl replies, 'Do you really feel qualified to discuss banking when you don't know POOP?

:)TOS

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery.......if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor"
But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot...........they "didn't have a pot to piss in" and were the lowest of the low.

Most people got married in June because t hey took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell . .. . brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

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 cats and other small animals (mice, 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 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 (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, 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 l leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes 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 that a man could, "bring home the 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 high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

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 the upper crust.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them 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 and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.

England is old and small and the local folks started 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 of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So 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...Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! ! :teacher :teacher

A few years ago we went to Sweden to visit family. While in Torsby we went to a heritage museum that is mostly old houses and other buildings, set up to resemble a town. The oldest buildings were over 800 years old and came from farms in the area.
The thatched roofs were as the Jeff's article described them. Thatch that was not covered. They had a large cooking fireplace that had a flat spot behind it that was heated by the stove. This is where the small children and old folks slept. That way they kept warm from the heat in the bricks from the stove. It also kept them off of the floor and the critters that wandered around at night. The bricks are more like adobe blocks than real bricks. They had no chimney, but had a flap in the roof that they would push up with a pole to let excess smoke out. The museum has used the fireplace to get the thatch stained by smoke, so it looks old. Smoke came down the sides of the walls and left soot marks. This house had a stone floor, but was not the original dirt floor.
Very interesting. Yes, our ancestors lived some interesting lives.
As far as I know, the things Jeff sent are true, or at least accepted legends.
Jim

:god_bless_usa