Erik

Where did piss poor come from ? Tanneries used to use urine to tan animal skins, so poor families used to all pee in a pot to make money. Then once the pot was full it was taken and sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor". 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 poorest of the poor. The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500's. Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, so they still smelled pretty good in June. However, since they were starting to smell, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the smell of 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 with those straw roofs. 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 the 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 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 bacon 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 into 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 the upper crust. Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. 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 to 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 opening 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?

Not a ruffled feather here.

To think they only found 133 transvestites is incredible and goes to the quality of screening, because just one trip to LA Fitness will find you that many. Whatever you do, don't "hang" out there.

If it could simulate a flat spin that would be amazing.

There's a reason I dropped this into "The Pub" as it was designed for entertainment purposes only. A bar story and just something fun to read without any fact checking. Where it came from I have no idea it was a link I ran across when doing some research on a more morbid topic. Never-the-less it did link me to the exact site you referenced (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/life%20in%20the%201500s.html) which I read and laughed about as the original article did it's job because there I was researching and debunking the noise. Now if I thought that everyone at CA had only 2 brain cells which fired on a random pattern I would have definitely made it extremely clear that the intent of my post was for entertainment only. I can't even imagine the amount of content, from stories to screenshots, that would have to be removed as disinformation on this site because it has no basis in reality. I stand by my post as I've heard far worse sitting at my local pub and will be happy to go into detail if the need becomes apparent. If life doesn't include some fun mixed into the daily grind then I'm thinking about getting a lead cup and a couple bottles of spirits so I can call it quits. Thank you for clearing up any misconceptions and falsities I posted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVlkZVAw8Gc

... and now we know why the duck crossed the road.

He had help. Staff, inmates, or immaculate lynching this sack of skin only lasted 33 days in a prison a hundred times better than what he offered the girls he kidnapped. He was in isolation and processing through the gateway in the federal system and I'll guarantee he was offered up as the token hooker each night he was there, at least I can only hope. Hitler is in a penthouse compared to this piece of hacked up nose paste. Bye.

said no one ever.

Cats are evil spawn children, the lot of 'em.

To get it you'd need new images at a new altitude and perspective. You're looking at a top down view so of course the terrain is going to appear flat, when you change the perspective say looking forward or looking back it's a totally new image. Check out the same structure in different POV. Vertical View (top down) Horizontal View (perspective) FSX Engine simulating perspective. I don't know any scenery that does this well, and if it does it's done on a smaller scale than an entire state. The cost of producing such images is huge. Google had to set cars in motion to get a street view and I imagine one day they might produce some lower altitude images (there was talk) but it was post phoned due to cost. They instead opted for high resolution images from an orbital position. I've never seen FS scenery that looks like image two above, but if they had it, wow! I'm sure something like that would cost much more than photo real scenery. I think what you're after is a photo real scenery with a photo real perspective. Get out your wallet.

Illinois is so flat I can see how it might give that impression but that scenery is a huge improvement even if the satellite images loose some of the shadows which make 3D and give our eye depth perception. Have you ever seen those street artists who draw the 3D street art? They use the opposite effect of over illustrating shadows to trick the mind, but you have to be standing on the right side of the image to make it work. If for example you stand on the 180 degree polar side your eyes wouldn't see what they see from the POV taken with the camera in the image above. The same happens with the megascenery and I'm not sure how they would compensate for it. The images they use are all taken at a certain altitude at a certain time of day in a certain position relative to the Earth and the Sun. If you are in line with the images POV you see better 3D images, if you are anywhere else your eyes may start to play tricks on you making the scenery look more flat than it really is for example. It's all complicated but given what they had to work with, it's a nice improvement. Roll your scenery back to stock and the difference will become immediate. I'd like to see some of their other terrains that may have more mountainous regions in them. It would be great if they would allow us to do a review of everything they've come out with and will in the future. I think that would be huge for everyone.

A new game I'd like to play and have you all join in on is called, "What the hell was it?" First the back story: I had a bumper crop this spring. Blessed with a brother and sister from the same litter it's a laugh a minute around the house now. They really are quite happy, in fact the little girl has this funny way of smiling. Every time I see it I laugh thinking of that denture commercial here in the states with smiling dogs, but her's is for real. I finally got a good pic of her smile. Anyway the minions as I kindly refer to them like to find odd ball things around the house and chew them into oblivion, test their digestive systems, and rack my mental ability to figure out what it was they've left chewed up on my floor. This weeks entry in What the hell was it is this image: Who can tell me what it was? Have fun!

Yeah they haven't figured out how to get the shaving cream out of the can yet.

Am I too late to enter?

Sometimes I humor myself ... I Googled your answer and the images associated to it came up as these. I think you broke the internet.

It's like walking into a candy store in here. You guys are too kind.

Because you're one of the cool kids, have a great and amazing birthday! Don't forget to call the fire department either, that many candles on the cake has to be like setting off a three alarm fire in your dining room. Happy Birthday!

Completed.

Mickey Mouse gets a call from his lawyer, the lawyer tells him "Mickey I'm sorry, but you can't divorce Minnie just because she's crazy" Mickey says "I didn't say she was crazy, I said she was f***ing Goofy"

I found this doing a search for the "f4 bearing distance heading indicator" Source: http://aviation.watergeek.eu/f4j-panel.html

I've seen this gauge on the RIO panel of the F-4 as you indicated it's a bearing distance heading indicator what you have circled is signal strength indication and distance counter. That's my best guess anyway.

Could you imagine being this guy's parents especially the dad? OUCH...

You can't rape the willing.