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quotePosted at 21:13 on 2nd September 2008
I'm in my house Tongue out
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Richard Sellers
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quotePosted at 21:26 on 2nd September 2008
lmao....!!!!!
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Sue H
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quotePosted at 21:30 on 2nd September 2008
On 2nd September 2008 21:11, Richard Sellers wrote:

Sue,,,,you is so smart!!!

btw,i am in colorado....whers u???


I am in northern Nevada, so not too far.

Smart mouthed maybe Rick  .

 

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Richard Sellers
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quotePosted at 21:32 on 2nd September 2008
we are practically neighbors !!! lol
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Peter Evans
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quotePosted at 21:40 on 2nd September 2008
Fairy soap and liquid are both still around Rick. Dont do anything for my hands though, I use the dish washer. Lol
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quotePosted at 21:41 on 2nd September 2008
lol @ Peter
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quotePosted at 14:48 on 12th September 2008

Here are some facts about the 1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were
starting to smell, so 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."
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quotePosted at 14:49 on 12th September 2008

heres a couple more...

 

 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."

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Peter Evans
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quotePosted at 15:50 on 12th September 2008

Great to know where our language comes from aint i Lyn.

This is a bit like my grandmothers old house but with a slight;y smaller range.

Inside a miners cottage.
Picture by Peter Evans


My grandmas house also had whitewashed stone walls.

 

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Sue H
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quotePosted at 16:00 on 12th September 2008

Dear me, Lyn, they are nasty.

Another good reason to thank the Lord for being born in the last century.

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