[Qcwa] RE: QCWA Digest, Vol 2, Issue 17 - New Subject

[Dave Cheryl Johnson]

I've been trying to post a message on this reflector regarding the Chapter
63 Quarterly meeting, but I get it back saying I'm a spammer.  So, I'll try
this method of communication.

The Chapter 63 Central Oklahoma Quarterly Meeting will be held on Saturday,
July 18, 2004 in conjunction with the State Ham Holiday.  The meeting will
be at the Hometown Buffet, Northwest Expressay at Northwest 63rd Street,
starting at 11:00 a.m.

The program will be titled "Medical Electronics" presented by Lyeal Amos
W5SJC a Medical Electronics Engineer.


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>    1. RE: interesting facts (Trude-Coffin, Sharon)
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> From: "Trude-Coffin, Sharon" <sharon.a.trude-coffin at medtronic.com>
> Subject: RE: [Qcwa] interesting facts
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> very interesting,
> thanks for the great weekend it was great being with you and having the
time to chat...
> travel safe stay in touch, you'll love ACK
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> [mailto:qcwa-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of N0UF
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:53 AM
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> Subject: [Qcwa] interesting facts
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>
> These are suppose to be facts from the 1500s.
> Are they true? I don't know, they sound reasonable.
>
> Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in
> May, and still smelled pretty good by June.  However, they were starting
to
> smell, so 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
dogs,
> cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) 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
> really mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed  with 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 the saying  "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get
> slippery in the  winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the
floor
> to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they kept adding more
> thresh until  when you opened the door it would all start slipping
outside.
> A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a "thresh
> hold."
>
> In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big 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 the 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 made them feel quite special.
> When visitors  came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It
was
> a sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon." They would cut
off
> a little to share with guests and would all 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 onto the food, causing lead  poisoning
and
> death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years
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 guests got the top, or  "upper
> crust."
>
> Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky.  The combination would
> sometimes knock the imbibers 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 and 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 these coffins, 1 out
> of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they
> realized they had been burying people alive. So  they thought 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."
>
> Whoever said that History was boring !
>
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