Guest Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 Miss Moneypenny's 'Life In The 1500's' Offering Concluded: 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 leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes the 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 and 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 "upper crust." Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock them 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 thought 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... (And who said that History was boring)? And DrBull joined us exactly one year ago today. Happy Anniversary, DrBull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chibear Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 Thanks, Glad. I was up at 4am waiting for the "Good" Old days, part 2. Meanwhile, the FTSE is en fuego. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregFokker Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 Great post, Glad! The US Dollar Credit: http://quotes.ino.com Gold Credit: http://cdchart.innovative-software.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 You're welcome chibear. Looks like half the pleasure was the anticipation! :grin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alceringa Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 Uncle Buck, Going Vertical Link back to BAC's 5000th F-4 Au, Going Vertical Link Back to Airshow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charliss Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 Now this is just too cute! A little price keeping operation... CMVT- upgraded by JPM....and yes, the CEO is leaving, to perform volunteer work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machinehead Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 Emma is on U.S. carpvision, wearing a black chalk stripe 'rally suit' and a thousand-watt smile that would peel the paint off your walls. Don't trade against her! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huey9 Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 smile for today, go to google.com type in : French military victories then click I'm feeling lucky :grin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strikerm3 Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 Were in for another wild ride today. Wonder if these could have an efect? Initial Claims Mar 13 Retail Sales Mar 13 Retail Sales ex-auto Mar 13 Export Prices ex-ag. Mar 13 Import Prices ex-oil Mar 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drano Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 My start-up page displays "Today's Horoscope." This is the first sentence from today -- I'm not making this up: "You are speeding along in your vehicle and suddenly there is a huge ramp in front of you...." Look at the action in the dollar, and how futures came back from the dead. And some of you think astrology doesn't work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearman Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 Like I said DEFLATION rearing its UGLY Head! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearman Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 gold off 9.00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drano Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 Someone needs to go rescue Oyster -- he's trapped over on the MIT thread...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregFokker Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 Bonds selling off big. TVX +13 bps, TNX +10.6 bps, TYX +7.6 bps. QQQ 24.72 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 Rocket launch on the open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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