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BatCountry Joined Tue 11/20/07 Posts: 1383	Sun 03/16/08 08:45 PM
Sadly.. I didn't know this.. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender used to yell at themto mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. From where we get "mind your own P's and Q's".

barefootbaby78 Joined Fri 03/07/08 Posts: 2693	Sun 03/16/08 08:46 PM
kewl..i didnt know that...thanks

BatCountry Joined Tue 11/20/07 Posts: 1383	Sun 03/16/08 08:46 PM
Long ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim of their beer mugs or ceremic/glass cups. The whistle was used to order services. Thus we get the phrase, "wet your whistle".

chickayoshi Joined Tue 12/11/07 Posts: 8621	Sun 03/16/08 08:47 PM
I've learned something new today...and it didn't hit midnight yet! Yea!!! Wow, that is good to know...thanks.

barefootbaby78 Joined Fri 03/07/08 Posts: 2693	Sun 03/16/08 08:47 PM
i wish we had them here

maxxximus007 Joined Mon 11/13/06 Posts: 6082	Sun 03/16/08 08:47 PM
cool

soundedmind Joined Tue 07/10/07 Posts: 2199	Sun 03/16/08 08:48 PM
I knew the first one. But not the second.

BatCountry Joined Tue 11/20/07 Posts: 1383	Sun 03/16/08 08:48 PM
I think if I asked for a quart of pint in the US, the bartender would probably punch me in the chest..just because its America..

BatCountry Joined Tue 11/20/07 Posts: 1383	Sun 03/16/08 08:49 PM
About 4000 years ago, it was the accepted practice in Babylonia that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calender was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know to day as the "Honey moon"

the_don6972 Joined Mon 12/31/07 Posts: 1513	Sun 03/16/08 08:49 PM
Long ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim of their beer mugs or ceremic/glass cups. The whistle was used to order services. Thus we get the phrase, "wet your whistle". not the only root to this phrase, when slaves would get their master a drink they were allowed to drink enough to wet their lips so that they could whistle while bringing their master the drink that way he knew they were not drinking it

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Sun 03/16/08 08:49 PM
whoot whoot

Single_Rob Joined Mon 02/04/08 Posts: 8233	Sun 03/16/08 08:49 PM
cool info

PATSFAN Joined Mon 12/10/07 Posts: 42782	Sun 03/16/08 08:50 PM
Thank god I live in New England

IndnPrncs Joined Sun 11/04/07 Posts: 58420	Sun 03/16/08 08:50 PM
Yes, actually I did know that... Found out a few weeks ago..

wanttachat Joined Sat 01/27/07 Posts: 8827	Sun 03/16/08 08:50 PM
HA I actually knew that geeez I's smart

Dragonbite Joined Thu 03/13/08 Posts: 218	Sun 03/16/08 08:52 PM
I didn't know that

iam4u Joined Fri 10/13/06 Posts: 30096	Sun 03/16/08 08:52 PM
COOL MAN,,,to learn something new each day is to be more tomorrow!!!!!! I didn't know that, but now I do..thanks..

BatCountry Joined Tue 11/20/07 Posts: 1383	Sun 03/16/08 08:52 PM
I'm not gonna lie, I didn't know any of this. Straight off the site baby lol..

IndnPrncs Joined Sun 11/04/07 Posts: 58420	Sun 03/16/08 08:54 PM
I'm not gonna lie, I didn't know any of this. Straight off the site baby lol.. That's what's great about the internet, we can research most anything...

TheLonelyWalker Joined Sat 04/07/07 Posts: 11870	Sun 03/16/08 08:54 PM
alcohol always have a lot of wisedom