what these sayings really mean or where they came from?

Have you ever heard someone they were going to "wet their whistle"? You usually think their having a drink, usually of alcohol. The saying originated from pubs, when the ceramic cups would have whistles baked into them for the drinker to blow into to get a refill. 

When someone says they were "saved by the bell," they usually mean they were saved from doing something in the Nick of time by a distraction of some sort. But it came from the fear of being buried alive. Back in colonial and older times, a lot of people would be buried alive. To stop this happening so frequently, they would tie a string to the person's(the one who was being buried) hand, and tie the other end of the string to a bell which was tied to a tree branch. If the person buried would revive enough to ring the bell, the keepers would rush out and dig them up.

Getting a square meal now means getting a healthy meal, but in the colonial times, it was your dinner plate. You would carry a square piece of wood with a dip carved out to hold your serving of stew or whatever was being served. You would always carry your "square" when you traveled.

"Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite" is a common saying in households with kids. But this saying is very literal. To "sleep tight" would mean to tighten ropes on old straw mattresses placed on bed frames. "Don't let the bed bugs bite" simply means don't let bedbugs bite!

http://www.goodwords.com/sayings/

When you butter someone up, you compliment them, usually because you want something from them. It came from an ancient Indian custom in which they would throw balls of clarified butter at statues of the gods/goddesses to seek their favor.



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When your at home after a long day of working, you just want to let your hair down, or relax. This used to be literally done. Parisian nobles would be judged by their friends if they were in public without an elaborate hairdo. These hairstyles would take hours to create. So when they would go home, they would let their hair down and relax

 When you give someone the cold shoulder, you practically shun them, but in medieval times, giving someone the cold shoulder used to be a polite way to let a guest know it was time for them to leave. The host would wrap up a piece of cold meat(usually the shoulder) of beef, pork, or mutton(sheep).

http://list25.com/25-common-sayings-and-where-they-came-from/

these facts about soda and candy?

Soda:

• When the citrus soda 7-Up was created in 1929, it was named very  for the 7-ounce bottles used to contain the soda. The Up  referred to the direction of the bubbles!*

• When Coca Cola concentrate syrup is transported by a commercial truck, the truck must use the Hazardous material place cards made for Highly Corrosive materials.**

                           Candy Bars:

• The famous Baby Ruth candy bar is actually not named after the famous baseball player, Babe Ruth. It was named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.*
• The Snickers candy bar was named after it's creator's family horse.***

• Milk Duds are named for the milk chocolate (obviously) and the fact that they were supposed to be perfectly round candies. When they couldn't make the candies perfectly round, they were considered duds.**** 
• 3 Musketeers was originally three different candy bars wrapped together. There were three chocolate bars:  one was filled with vanilla nougat, one with strawberry nougat, and the third with chocolate nougat. When rationed out to soldiers in WWII, Mars dropped the vanilla and strawberry and kept the chocolate (the 3 Musketeers we know today).***

*http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bingbin/

** http://forums.dealofday.com/threads/10359-Interesting-Facts-About-Coca-Cola

*** http://www.ehow.com/facts_5782549_fun-candy-bars.html

**** http://dailyapple.blogspot.com/2010/04/apple-449-candy-facts.html



there was such a coincidence in US History?


 





A coincidence is defined as a chance happening in a surprising or remarkable way, but when does a coincidence turn into something more? That you need to decide for yourself, because when coincidences turns to something more is not what I’m talking about. But I am talking about an unusual number of coincidences between two U.S. presidents in the United States history. Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, two great presidents, have many weird similarities.



Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846 and John f. Kennedy was elected 100 years later to Congress in 1946. Not only are the years they were elected to congress 100 years apart, but the years they were elected president, 1860 and 1960, are 100 years apart. OK, by now you’re probably thinking, “So what? That’s not that unusual of a coincidence.”  But here’s more. Both successors had the last name Johnson and they were both southerners. Andrew Johnson (who succeeded Lincoln) was born in 1808, and Lyndon Johnson (who succeeded Kennedy) was born in 1908. 

They were both assassinated by being shot in the head while they were sitting next to their wives. Both presidents died on a Friday, although Lincoln was shot on a Thursday, and Kennedy was shot on a Friday. Lincoln was shot in the Fords Theatre, and Kennedy was shot in a Ford Lincoln. Not only that, but John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and ran and hid in a warehouse, and Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran and hid in a theater. After being caught, both assassins were killed before their trials.

To me these coincidences seem to be more than just coincidences, because of the number of events happening to two very important people in our history, and the chance of it happening being so small. And there is still a lot of debate on whether these are just random things that they have in common, a glitch in something we can’t imagine, or maybe something supernatural. What do you think?

Information:

http://www.kilty.com/l_and_k.htm

http://www.omg-facts.com/view/Facts/1677?id=1677&c_val=1

Pictures:
Abraham Lincoln: http://www.stonescryout.org/archives/2005/02/for_presidentas.html

 John F. Kennedy: http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres56.html