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KenC
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Bonus points if you know who my avatar is. 💙 #nhnative now #masshole #musiclover #disnerd #LFGRedSox #resist My father was a sailor, and my language reflects that. Trump's mother should have swallowed. No DMs. IFB but 0 posts = won't follow
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Two daughters who are my support system. 16YO cat named Blackie. IT Director. Part-time party DJ.

My wife passed late '23 and I sleepwalked thru '24. 70s activist hoping to get re-engaged in '25.
I hope someone called this little cocksucker out.
Children's Hospital of Boston, founded July 1869.
Talking Baseball - Terry Cashman
7. Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. 'Wet your whistle' is the phrase inspired by this practice.
6. In English pubs, ale is ordered in pints and quarts. So, in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them 'Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down.' It's where we get the phrase 'mind your P's and Q's'
5. It was accepted practice in Babylon 4K years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he wanted. Mead is honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, now known as the honeymoon.
4. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When one pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase 'goodnight, sleep tight.'

(Possibly true?)
3. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:

Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs - Alexander the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar

(Plausible)
2. Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only… Ladies Forbidden.’ Thus, the word GOLF entered the English language.

(oooooookay)
1. In the 1400s a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have 'the rule of thumb.'

(I call BS on this one).