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muck_a_luckOK. Got one of those chain e-mails.
This one purported to explain certain sayings and weird historical "facts." Such as painters in the late 1700s charged for their paintings "per limb." As in a painting of you with both arms and both legs was more expensive than a painting that included, say, only one arm.
Also, a bunch of crap about the origin of the term "head of household."
Anyway, I was hoping to see if I could find out if any of the stuff was true. I entered a complete phrase from the message into webcrawler, using this phrase...
The "head of the household" always sat in the chair while everyone else ate sitting on the floor.
And got a couple of pages of posts that had the e-mail posted wholesale.
*rolls eyes*
This makes me even more inclined to think the whole thing was bullshit, as so many people have posted it now it it's entirety that it is probably becoming "true" just because it is being asserted so often.
I am THIS close to telling uncle-in-law to just never forward anything to me ever again, as a way of protecting my bloodpressure.
This one purported to explain certain sayings and weird historical "facts." Such as painters in the late 1700s charged for their paintings "per limb." As in a painting of you with both arms and both legs was more expensive than a painting that included, say, only one arm.
Also, a bunch of crap about the origin of the term "head of household."
Anyway, I was hoping to see if I could find out if any of the stuff was true. I entered a complete phrase from the message into webcrawler, using this phrase...
The "head of the household" always sat in the chair while everyone else ate sitting on the floor.
And got a couple of pages of posts that had the e-mail posted wholesale.
*rolls eyes*
This makes me even more inclined to think the whole thing was bullshit, as so many people have posted it now it it's entirety that it is probably becoming "true" just because it is being asserted so often.
I am THIS close to telling uncle-in-law to just never forward anything to me ever again, as a way of protecting my bloodpressure.
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Date: 2006-06-15 02:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-15 02:34 am (UTC)I really hate those e-mails.
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Date: 2006-06-15 06:52 pm (UTC)