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    Sometimes I come across some pretty bizarre stuff so I think I`ll start a little thread on it and see where it takes us. Anyone can post here, be it a saying or just a weird fact.

    Today...we have the saying we`ve all heard a zillion times...

    "Rule Of Thumb"


    Meaning

    A means of estimation made according to a rough and ready practical rule, not based on science or exact measurement.

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    Rule of thumbThe 'rule of thumb' has been said to derive from the belief that English law allowed a man to beat his wife with a stick so long as it is was no thicker than his thumb. In 1782, Judge Sir Francis Buller is reported as having made this legal ruling and in the following year James Gillray published a satirical cartoon attacking Buller and caricaturing him as 'Judge Thumb'. The cartoon shows a man beating a fleeing woman and Buller carrying two bundles of sticks. The caption reads "thumbsticks - for family correction: warranted lawful!"

    It seems that Buller was hard done by. He was notoriously harsh in his punishments and had a reputation for arrogance, but there's no evidence that he ever made the ruling that he is infamous for. Edward Foss, in his authoritative work The Judges of England, 1870, wrote that, despite a searching investigation, "no substantial evidence has been found that he ever expressed so ungallant an opinion".

    It's certainly the case that, although British common law once held that it was legal for a man to chastise his wife in moderation (whatever that meant), the 'rule of thumb' has never been the law in England.

    Even if people mistakenly supposed the law to exist, there's no reason to believe that anyone ever called it the 'rule of thumb'. Despite the phrase being in common use since the 17th century and appearing many thousands of times in print, there are no printed records that associate it with domestic violence until the 1970s, when the notion was castigated by feminists. The responses that circulated then, which assumed the wife-beating law to be true, may have been influenced by Gillray's cartoon or were possibly a reaction to The Rolling Stones' song 'Under My Thumb', which was recorded in 1966.

    The phrase itself has been in circulation since the 1600s. In 1692, it appeared in print in Sir William Hope's training manual for aspiring swordsmen, The Compleat Fencing-master:

    "What he doth, he doth by rule of Thumb, and not by Art."

    The origin of the phrase remains unknown. It is likely that it refers to one of the numerous ways that thumbs have been used to estimate things - judging the alignment or distance of an object by holding the thumb in one's eye-line, the temperature of brews of beer, measurement of an inch from the joint to the nail to the tip, or across the thumb, etc. The phrase joins the whole nine yards as one that probably derives from some form of measurement but which is unlikely ever to be definitively pinned down. The Germans have a similar phrase to indicate a rough approximation - 'pi mal daumen' which translates as 'pi [3.14…] times thumb'.

    The earliest such 'measurement' use that I can find referred to in print is in a journal of amusing tales with the comprehensive title of Witt's Recreations - Augmented with Ingenious Conceites for the Wittie and Merrie Medicines for the Melancholic. It was published in 1640 and contains this rhyme:

    If Hercules tall stature might be guess'd
    But by his thumb, the index of the rest,
    In due proportion, the best rule that I
    Would chuse, to measure Venus beauty by,
    Should be her leg and foot:

    The 'rule of leg' never caught on.

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    A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.......................................male or female?????????????

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    The male pig.....But if a human males orgasm lasted 30 minutes, we would all be blubbering thumb suckers....Sitting in the corner....Oinking...


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    Here's another one!

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    After 100 years lying on the sea bed, Irish divers were amazed to find that the Titanic’s swimming pool was still full.....

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    If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

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    Is that from personal experience?

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    Quote Originally Posted by chicot60 View Post
    If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
    There was an article once of someone dying from letting out too much "petrol"...True story.. lol

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    Cobra's Little Know Facts...
    King Cobras are just one type of cobra.. they wanted to put little crowns on them at one time and layout their kingdoms but because there were overall hundreds of different types of Kings, the taxes would be just too much... i mean, how the heck do you layout a currency all based on rodents?


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    Rodents??? Don't you mean snakes???

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    Quote Originally Posted by hutch View Post
    Rodents??? Don't you mean snakes???
    currency of value, thus to the kings.. rodents.

    they also eat other snakes too, them pesky royality.
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