Thank you ever so much,,,,,,,,, its so interesting to know how expressions came into being! I emailed this to all my friends!

Excellent! From whence we come and yet we complain.

I am so interested in these kinds of things, thanks for sharing.

Me, too!!
This is great!
Thank you!

The old saying that always tickled me was when people would say that it was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

A monkey was a square brass object with shallow divets in it used to stack a ships cannon balls on. When it got really cold the metal would contract, the divets would flatten and the balls would roll off.



I read that somewhere years ago and though it humorous.

That was very interesting!! :)

Glad you all are enjoying it. That was not my material but I tend to be brimming with nonsense facts like that. LOL, what can I say. :D

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.
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I think that is where the well known "wake" came from. Family
and friends would sit around the casket (before embalming) and talk about the dear departed, waiting, just in case he/she woke up. Gave them a chance to wake up and rejoin the living.

That was great! Thanks for sharing.