Iraqi Footballer

Removed by me. A humorous tale but not the direction I wanted to go with the blog, have a couple of "Well I nevers!" and a cartoon instead.

In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his
wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of
thumb".

In English pubs, ale is ordered by 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"

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