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RE: Driving (with) Miss Zoe: Charleston is Beautiful (but the people kind of suck :)
Maybe it was you? Were you having a bad hair day? (just kidding)
Maybe it was you? Were you having a bad hair day? (just kidding)
These lovely locks? Not possible ;)
Seriously though, it was ten days of petty, pissy, priggishness...I was afraid to drink the water!
Isn't that how you inoculate yourself (drinking the water)? Just bite the bullet! (So what if it's slathered with cow and pig fat - you do know where the expression comes from, right?)
Actually I'm not sure, I remember being told that soldiers were given bullets to bite down on for pain...around the same time I learned where 'rule of thumb' came from. Nothing about cow and pig fat though! ;)
" It has been speculated to have evolved from the British empire expression "to bite the cartridge", which dates to the Indian Rebellion of 1857" wikipedia
The Indian "mutiny" spread rapidly over the whole country because the rumor was spread that cartridges had been dipped in a mixture of cow and pig fat - thus being religiously anathema to all the native troops in the Indian army under British rule (Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs)
Love learning something new :) Do you know where 'rule of thumb' comes from?