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#169
the saying "Dont go off half cocked" came from the days of muskets. To load them you had to cock the hammer half way. It you left it "half cocked" the gun would not fire and you could be shot instead, so instructers ingrained it in their heads "not to go off half cocked".
 
#170
Margarita Pizza- the Pizza was invented in Italy after they discovered tomatoes in the new world. Everyone thought they were poisonous. Peasants started to eat them because they were starving. Tomatoes on bread-focacia became a peasant dish; the queen of Italy, Queen Margarita had her chef prepare her one of these peasant dishes. She wanted it to look like the Italian flag so she added basil leaves along with the cheese & tomatoes. They named it after her, Margarita pizza, it became very popular and much later veterans from WWII brought back to NY after the war.
 
#171
Prostitutes were named "Hookers" during the cival war, called that after General Hooker, who had his own traveling brothel that went everywhere he did, in wagons. They were called Hookers after Hookers gals.

the history channel is a very bad thing.
 
#172
Cocaine was once considered a cure -all, a wonder drug & work enhancer. 60% of Americans were taking some kind of Cocaine and getting hooked on it. In the industrial age they discovered by giving workers cocaine they worked twice as hard and twice as fast. There was no food & drug administration, no laws or rules for the first drug makers.

The problem became when the gave it to African Americans, incidents happened with bad reactions, rages. Blacks becoming so enraged it took twice as many bullets to bring them down. White people became so afraid of the African Americans getting "super strength" combined with rage, they made it illegal to sell narcotics without a prescription, latter they added pot, hash, opium as well, all out of fear that African Americans would become uncontrollable.
 
#180
Sonic_Death said:
Uh........ Isn't it weird when you are the only one in the room, hell, the only one in the house... and then.....


all of a sudden.....

you smell a fart.




But wait? You didn't even fart! :eek:


(No, I don't have a dog either, only cats, none of which are around, and I have never even seen them fart :hmm:)
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Ghost farts. Worst kind, IMHO... ;)
 

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