Freeze the balls of a brass monkey

[jay]

It is only 8,20 am coffee hasn't kicked in yet

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Why we in the UK drive on the left hand side of the road, I could be wrong but I like this notion. as in the middle ages mainly noblemen/knights etc carried swords, as between 8 to15% of the population are left handed. It made sense to ride your horse on the left side of anyone coming in the opposite direction.

As most people are right handed, we being on the left side of the track/path, could draw our swords and cut up, or put the fear of god into any oncoming scoundrels/ salesmen, ex-wives, tax collectors etc, I might be wrong but iI like the idea.

Just one more I heard, a military salute comes from the days when a knight would raise the visor of his helmet, to show his face, signifying respect to a fellow knight. This could be a figment of my imagination.

 

[user123]

Why we in the UK drive on the left hand side of the road, I could be wrong but I like this notion. as in the middle ages mainly noblemen/knights etc carried swords, as between 8 to15% of the population are left handed. It made sense to ride your horse on the left side of anyone coming in the opposite direction.

As most people are right handed, we being on the left side of the track/path, could draw our swords and cut up, or put the fear of god into any oncoming scoundrels/ salesmen, ex-wives, tax collectors etc, I might be wrong but iI like the idea.

Just one more I heard, a military salute comes from the days when a knight would raise the visor of his helmet, to show his face, signifying respect to a fellow knight. This could be a figment of my imagination.

Or a memory.... go on, admit it, you and whitebeam, you got that Knight Mark and Knight Phil thing going on.... :lol:

 

[John Benton]

I was told it was Port out Starboard home, in the old British Empire days, the toffs could afford to pay for a Port cabin (the left side) on the journey to India and Starboard (the right side) on the return trip. To do with the Sun, being in it or in the shade, (not sure which), you can tell I'm very well up on ships. I also know that "fore "is the pointy end, and "aft" is the blunt end.

As for the brass monkeys I knew that one. It was very cold last week, and I saw a brass monkey looking for a welder.:lol:

That's how I understood it as well Phil for POSH

 

[Ajax123]

Why we in the UK drive on the left hand side of the road, I could be wrong but I like this notion. as in the middle ages mainly noblemen/knights etc carried swords, as between 8 to15% of the population are left handed. It made sense to ride your horse on the left side of anyone coming in the opposite direction.

As most people are right handed, we being on the left side of the track/path, could draw our swords and cut up, or put the fear of god into any oncoming scoundrels/ salesmen, ex-wives, tax collectors etc, I might be wrong but iI like the idea.

Just one more I heard, a military salute comes from the days when a knight would raise the visor of his helmet, to show his face, signifying respect to a fellow knight. This could be a figment of my imagination.

In the middlw ages it was almost illegalto be left handed.......

 

[nybor62]

posh, pay online save half

 

[Rich]

I is well proper clever cuz I knew all of these apart from the posh thing :smilewinkgrin:


What about "upper crust"? This came from when bread was made for huge dinning parties, the bottom of the loaf would burn so the loaf would be cut in half sideways (to cut the bottom off). The richguestss would eat the top of the loaf and the black bottom of the loaf was given to theservantss. Hence "upper crust"

Then "giving the cold shoulder". This is from when woman used to cook a shoulder of lamb for the husband when he was out hunting. If the man was late because he had been out with the boys, the wife would not keep the shoulder warm but give him the cold shoulder.

The word "plumber" is meant to come from the roman word from lead but i could well be wrong about that one.

To "show your metal"? This came from the guys in the old days that used to use a huge mill for grinding grain to make bread, when the mill needed fixing or maintaining, there would be peoplequeuingg up for the work as money was alway tight. But it was veryimportantt to get someone that knew what they were doing. In the process of fixing these mills, the workmen would get lots of metal splinters in their forearms, so to see how muchexperiencee the guy had he was asked to how muchmetall he had in his arms "show your metal".

 

[Del W]

Proper Overboarding Saves Headaches. POSH.

 

[Rich]

I have just realised that my spell check likes to stick words together :mad2: