Ever wonder where that "phrase" came from ...???

[iGro4Me]

I always wondered where that phrase came from......​

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Tobacco Smoke Enema (1750s-1810s)
The tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco smoke into a patient’s rectum for various medical purposes, primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims. A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards the rectum. The warmth of the smoke was thought to promote respiration, but doubts about the credibility of tobacco enemas led to the popular phrase ...




























...............................“Don't blow smoke up my ass”

 

[JACKtheREFFER]

ouch !!!!! that sounds like it burns!!!!

 

[killa-bud]

you'ed probably get really baked if you put some bud in there instead

 

[Hydro-Soil]

I understand that hot air up your ass would probably tend to bring you out of shock for a bit..... Wouldn't a match between the toes be cheaper though? LOL

 

[kmk420kali]

I understand that hot air up your ass would probably tend to bring you out of shock for a bit..... Wouldn't a match between the toes be cheaper though? LOL

And more comfortable!!

 

[Mrs.Babba]

That thing looks like it could come in handy.

hahaha ran, I dont even want to know what for??!!?!

 

[Asiatica]

WOW!!!
Fuckin incredible!!!

 

[TrichyTrichy]

Rule of thumb
The 'rule of thumb' has been said to derive from the belief that English law allowed a man to beat his wife with a stick so long as it is was no thicker than his thumb.

 

[Mrs.Babba]

what a dumb law Trichy! no doubt made by a dude!

 

[I N Hail]

^^^ Be glad we didn't call it "Rule of Penis

 

[Mrs.Babba]

hahaha ya Hail!! thank god!

 

[Kizzattack]

You guys know the story about Ring Around The Rosie?

It refers to the black plague.

You know, I've thought that same thing all my life. I remember my mother telling me that when I was probably only about 6 years old, and I always assumed it was true. I just looked it up to see the exact details and according to Snopes.com it's completely false!

http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp

 

[j6p]

Scofflaw

Scofflaw

This one's a single word, but anyway ...

SCOFFLAW:A person who flouts a law, especially an unsustainable one.

There have been many competitions down the years encouraging people to coin new words. Few of these creations ever find a permanent place in the language, because they must meet an obvious need or catch the public’s imagination to be successful. Scofflaw has achieved this difficult feat.

A contest was held in Boston in 1923, during the Prohibition era, to find a descriptive word for “a lawless drinker of illegally made or illegally obtained liquor”. A prize of $200 was offered by Delcevare King of Quincy, a rich Prohibitionist, to find such a word in order to “stab awake the conscience” of those who drank alcohol.

Since $200 was a sum not to be sneezed at, more than 25,000 entries were received from all over America and beyond. The winner was announced on 15 January 1924; as scofflaw had been sent in by two contestants, the prize was divided equally between Mr Henry Irving Dale and Miss Kate L Butler.

H L Mencken mentioned the competition in his work The American Language, and commented that “The word came into immediate currency, and survived until the collapse of Prohibition”. As any modern dictionary will relate, it has survived rather longer than that, though these days it often refers to persistent offenders against parking laws and other minor regulations.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-sco2.htm

 

[Marywanna]

Hail,HAHAHAHA too funny!

 

[iGro4Me]

"Teddy Bear"

As folklore has it, teddy was born in 1902, when President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was taking a well-deserved break on a shooting trip in Mississippi. When the local game failed to show up, aides captured and stunned a bear cub and offered it to Roosevelt to finish off. Deeming this "unsporting," the president declined.

His act of mercy was caricatured in the next day's Washington Post. The cartoon caught the eye of New York sweet shop owner Morris Michtom, who asked his wife to make a toy "Teddy's bear" to go in the shop window by the drawing.

Back came an anthropomorphised bear, a marketing coup so successful that within a year the Michtoms had shut up shop to start the Ideal Novelty and Toy company, now one of the largest in the world.


One moment of genius is all it takes sometimes....

 

[steppinRazor]

^^YEah that and rippin off their beaks and pulling out their brains.. i gotta kick outta it..

pot?? i dont think you're gonna find a definite source.. well maybe. best guess is maybe cuz alotta ppl grow it in pots?? hah prob way off

 

[PatInTheHat]

Okay, play with this one.. You all know the cute song Alouette? See what it is about.

Its about plucking feathers from a skylark, has to do with the french fur trade.

 

[PatInTheHat]

Now try Frere Jaques

Frère Jacques, frère Jacques,
Dormez-vous? Dormez-vous?
Sonnez les matines! Sonnez les matines!
Ding, dang, dong. Ding, dang, dong.

Sounds like its about a dead guy to me.

 

[iGro4Me]

When I hear the "Alouette" song I can't help but think about that Bugs Bunny cartoon where the 2 french chefs try making rabbit stew....

 

[PatInTheHat]

A la Francois!!!!