User talk:Mysticlisaann

Interesting History.
Where did "piss poor" come from? Us older people need to learn something new every day just to keep the grew matter tuned up .Younger people to. Where did Piss Poor come from? Interesting history. They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot and then once a day it was taken and sold to the tannery... if you had to do this to survive you were called Piss Poor. But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to by a pot thy did have a pot to piss in and where the lowest of the low. The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be/ Here are some facts about the 1500's Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell, the brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting Married.! Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children, last of all the babies, by then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, don't throw the baby out with the bath water! Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats, dogs and there small animal lived in the roof, when it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying, It's raining cats and dogs. There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house, this posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed, Hence a bed wit big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence. The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence saying, Dirt Poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread straw on the floor to keep there footing. As the winter wore on they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance -way. Hence a thresh hold. In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a beg kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot, they ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while, Hence the rhyme. Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold peas porridge in the pot nine days old. Sometimes they could obtain pork, which mad them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off, they would cut off a little to share with guests and all would sit around and chew the fat. Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach into the food, causing lead poising to death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 yrs or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous. Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and the guests got the top or the upper crusts. Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock the imbiber out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake. England is old and small the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening the coffins, 1 of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night. ( the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell, thus, someone could be saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer. And that's the truth now whoever said history was boring. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, What the heck happened? "Smile" it gives your face something to do! Lisa White