http://www.timetravelfund.com
This website a friend of mine from #13thHour has caused so many funny conversations about time travel since discovered I HAD to share it with the world. It’s a group that takes $10 from each person participating, and puts it into this “fund” so 500 years or so in the future when they discover time travel the people from the future can come and get you to bring you to the future… Yep, you even get a neat little certificate to put on your wall saying you are part of the project (is $10 worth just that conversation piece?).. Very strange… people are so funny! Their theory is the $10 will be worth a few billion in 500 years (oooh the wonders of compound interest) and you’ll be taken to the future and live a comfortable life (as long as you recover from future shock and all that). Silly? Of course…
So I was doing something yesterday and I started wondering where the expression “every cloud has a silver lining” came from, because it definately is odd.. And I went looking for it can stumbled on tons of other idiom origins that were really interesting. I ended up collecting a bunch and putting them up on my website:
http://www.princessleia.com/Idioms.html. But I am sure you wont want to go all the way to my site so I’ll mention a few of the more interesting ones here…:
Sleep tight:
Before box springs were in use, old bed frames used rope pulled tightly between the frame
rails to support a mattress. If the rope became loose, the mattress would sag making for uncomfortable sleeping. Tightening the ropes would help one get a good night sleep.
Clean bill of health
This widely used term has
its origins in the “Bill of Health”, a document issued to a ship showing
that the port it sailed from suffered from no epidemic or infection at
the time of departure.
Close but no cigar
Carnival games of skill,
particularly shooting games, once gave out cigars as a prize. A
contestant that did not quite hit the target was close, but did not get
a cigar.
Don’t you feel enlightened now? Well you should, and you will be moreso if you go to my site.
I still havent figured out how to get my bot to respond to actions, I think i need to learn more about the parsing methods of irssi to figure out how (haven’t I mentioned that before? Blah..). And right now I’m really not in the mood. I think I will work on my starwars page today though. It’s really lacking in beauty, hehe… there are lots of kewl things I could do to make it look better, so I think I’ll do that today.. maybe work on making my Miranda Sex Garden page prettier too.
I guess that’s it for now… bbl