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Unknown Report 9 Jul 2004 08:57

In English Pubs, ale is ordered by Pints and quarts. So in Old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own Pints and Quarts and settle down. It's where we got the phrase "Mind your P's and Q's" It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airbourne particles resulting from a flush. Over your life your body will produce roughly 8,000 gallons of saliva and 350 miles of hair. Recent Government report on accidents: Last year 12,000 people ended up in Hospital due to accidents involving Vegetables, Trousers are thought to have played some part in injuring 2,779 people, while 572 people were hospitalised because of injuries involving toothbrushes! - I bet your imagination is working overtime chaps? Lin

Fairy

Fairy Report 9 Jul 2004 09:01

Very interesting Lin, thankyou. Jo.

Bob

Bob Report 9 Jul 2004 09:31

"Mind your P's and Q's" This expression, meaning "be very careful to behave correctly", has been in use from the 17th century on. Theories include: an admonishment to children learning to write; an admonishment to typesetters (who had to look at the letters reversed); an admonishment to seamen not to soil their navy pea-jackets with their tarred "queues" (pigtails); "mind your pints and quarts"; "mind your prices and quality"; "mind your pieds and queues" (either feet and pigtails, or two dancing figures that had to be accurately performed); the substitution of /p/ for "qu" /kw/ in the speech of uneducated ancient Romans; or the confusion by students learning both Latin and Ancient Greek of such cognates as pente and quintus. And yes, we've heard the joke about the instruction to new sextons: "Mind your keys and pews." The most plausible explanation is the one given in the latest edition of Collins English Dictionary: an alteration of "Mind your 'please's and 'thank you's".

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}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){ Report 9 Jul 2004 10:51

Vegetables!!!!!!! I don't want to think about it. LOL Jeanette