Today I Learned Thread

[Pope]

I was at exercise class today and in a hockey discussion the term hat trick was brought up.

I know what it means but got to thinking how it got the name so I went and looked it up.


The term "hat-trick" in sports, meaning three goals or similar achievements, originated in cricket, where a bowler who took three wickets with three consecutive deliveries was traditionally given a hat to celebrate the feat.

I have no idea what that means. None whatsoever.

 

[12191987]

I have no idea what that means. None whatsoever.

Yeah, I thought the same thing about “exercise class”.

 

[RagingCloner]

Learned today why they are called "Spaghetti Westerns"

Low budget films made in Italy and sometimes Spain, by Italian filmmakers

 

[ISUTex]

This is from biblical times and referred to your slaves; not your wife.

I read and heard (from a history professor) that it was an English law and it carried over to the American Colonies.

 

[DGC]

The term "pushing the envelope" came from WWII. Flight crews were given an envelope with the flight plan, weather forecaset, performance specs of their aircraft, etc. In combat many times the aircrew would exceed recommendations for the aircraft, thus pushing the envelope.

 

[CySmurf]

Complete fabrication, BTW. I wish it were true, though.

 

[VeloClone]

I have no idea what that means. None whatsoever.

A bowler is cricket's version of baseball's pitcher. He runs up and "bowls" the ball, throwing overhand often skipping the ball off the ground. The batsman must bat the ball away from the wickets behind him and into play. The bowler takes wickets by knocking the small wooden bails off the stumps (upright stakes) or knocks one of the stumps over. Taking the wicket makes the batsman out.

I've never played nor seen much more than a few highlights, but that is what I gather.

 

[cyclones500]

Complete fabrication, BTW. I wish it were true, though.

You rivaled Cliff Clavin on that one!

 

[JM4CY]

Referring to the "elephant in the room" harkens back to a time in the eleventh century when Pope Gregory VII kept a menagerie of exotic animals in a section of the papal apartments. Staff struggled to keep up with cleaning up after the animals, with the elephant's waste being particularly problematic. Addressing the "elephant in the room" became a big task that nobody wanted to deal with.

I was already fairly convinced that you aren’t a real person and are some kind of AI bot thing. Sh*t like this doesn’t help, “Janny”.

 

[MLawrence]

It seems like this thread is mostly about sayings, but recently I had a TIL about George Carlin narrating the American version of Thomas and Friends.

 

[4cy16]

I was at exercise class today and in a hockey discussion the term hat trick was brought up.

I know what it means but got to thinking how it got the name so I went and looked it up.


The term "hat-trick" in sports, meaning three goals or similar achievements, originated in cricket, where a bowler who took three wickets with three consecutive deliveries was traditionally given a hat to celebrate the feat.

Don't forget the Gordie Howe hat trick, a goal, an assist and a fight.

 

[Mr Janny]

I was already fairly convinced that you aren’t a real person and are some kind of AI bot thing. Sh*t like this doesn’t help, “Janny”.

Lol. I once told a girl that I was trying to ask out, a long and rambling story about how the root word "manship" (as in penmanship and craftsmanship) came from an ancient Phoenician custom . The Phoenicians, being a seafaring culture, had a particular rite of passage, where a young boy had to construct his own boat, by hand, in order to be considered a man by society. This vessel was literally his "man-ship" and as time went on, the term came to represent a particular skill that a person possessed, so if someone was good with horses he would have been said to have "constructed his horse man-ship" or if he was adept with a blade, he would have "built his swords man-ship". And over the centuries it came to be used the way we know it today.

When I broke the news that it was all a joke, I got a polite nod, and a well deserved trip to the friend zone.

 

[Die4Cy]

In the 16th and 17th centuries, manure was a common cargo, often shipped dry to reduce weight. When it became wet at sea, it would ferment and produce methane gas. If this gas built up in the cargo hold and was ignited, it could cause explosions, according to Anglo-Eastern Maritime Training Center.

To prevent this, the manure was marked with "Ship High In Transit" or S.H.I.T., instructing sailors to stow the bundles high enough on the deck so that any water entering the hold wouldn't reach the manure and trigger methane production.

Of all the made up things I've read, this sounds the most made up.

 

[MLawrence]

Lol. I once told a girl that I was trying to ask out, a long and rambling story about how the root word "manship" (as in penmanship and craftsmanship) came from an ancient Phoenician custom . The Phoenicians, being a seafaring culture, had a particular rite of passage, where a young boy had to construct his own boat, by hand, in order to be considered a man by society. This vessel was literally his "man-ship" and as time went on, the term came to represent a particular skill that a person possessed, so if someone was good with horses he would have been said to have "constructed his horse man-ship" or if he was adept with a blade, he would have "built his swords man-ship". And over the centuries it came to be used the way we know it today.

When I broke the news that it was all a joke, I got a polite nod, and a well deserved trip to the friend zone.

Let me get this straight, you were mansplaining “manship”?

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

It seems like this thread is mostly about sayings, but recently I had a TIL about George Carlin narrating the American version of Thomas and Friends.

I knew about that from one of his standup specials.

 

[Die4Cy]

Let me get this straight, you were mansplaining “manship”?

Back in the day, the ability to convincingly ******** women at bars was something of an achievement among the boys.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

It seems like this thread is mostly about sayings, but recently I had a TIL about George Carlin narrating the American version of Thomas and Friends.

It can be whatever you recently learned.

 

[madguy30]

It seems like this thread is mostly about sayings, but recently I had a TIL about George Carlin narrating the American version of Thomas and Friends.

Wasn't he the host, not just narrating? Or is that the same thing? I remember watching it but I didn't know it was George Carlin like I knew him years later.

 

[Mr Janny]

Let me get this straight, you were mansplaining “manship”?

Yeah I had all kinds of game in my youth.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

I knew about that from one of his standup specials.

'Remember, this is Mr. Conductor talking. I know what I'm talking about.' - George Carlin: You Are All Diseased

George Carlin: Remember, this is Mr. Conductor talking. I know what I'm talking about.

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