Life in the 1500's

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feeds@yuku.com (Kestrel) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:30:30 GMT

well,i've been eating tomatoes all my life and they've never done me any ......................

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feeds@yuku.com (Peter) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:45:36 GMT

"England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house"

We recently went to one of the few remaining - in Hythe

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feeds@yuku.com (Helen Bywater) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:02:50 GMT

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feeds@yuku.com (Stev042) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:16:15 GMT

What I wonder is how they found out tomatoes WEREN'T poisonous. Here's how I picture it:

"Goodbye, Berthilda, I shall now do away with myself by eating this tomato!"

(nom nom nom)

"Oh my God, this is DELICIOUS!"

(nom nom nom)

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feeds@yuku.com (Helen Bywater) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:10:24 GMT

johnmorango2 wrote:

Helen Bywater wrote:
Some of them seemed plausible, but " for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous" was a dead giveaway. Tomatoes were considered poisonous in the 20th century?

Tomatoes are related to...

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feeds@yuku.com (johnmorango2) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:24:51 GMT

Helen Bywater wrote:
Some of them seemed plausible, but " for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous" was a dead giveaway. Tomatoes were considered poisonous in the 20th century?

Tomatoes are related to deadly nightshade after all. The solanum faamily also includes potatoes and eggplant.

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feeds@yuku.com (Helen Bywater) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:33:01 GMT

Some of them seemed plausible, but " for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous" was a dead giveaway. Tomatoes were considered poisonous in the 20th century?

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feeds@yuku.com (Stev042) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:54:47 GMT

They are all true, except for one small problem: they're all made up.

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feeds@yuku.com (Kestrel) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:33:49 GMT

Gawayne7 wrote:
I thought they were all true-they seem plausible!

I think they're true. Its like nursery rhymes and how many of them originated from true historical events.

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feeds@yuku.com (Stev042) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:27:20 GMT

Whenever anybody forwards anything like that to me, the first thing I do is check Snopes, then I email back showing them wrong.

Actually, that's not true. There's one friend I have who, after the 3rd or 4th time she did that, I just automatically forward all her messages to Ye Olde Trash unopened.

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feeds@yuku.com (StevenEdmondson) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:18:11 GMT

I know where the saying 'goodnight, sleep tight' comes from if that's any consolation. EDIT: This repeat post glitch is coming up quite a bit here.

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feeds@yuku.com (StevenEdmondson) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:18:10 GMT

I know where the saying 'goodnight, sleep tight' comes from if that's any consolation.

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feeds@yuku.com (Mondo Sinistro) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:52:13 GMT

Any of these claims seems plausible at first glance, doesn't it? I remember my impression when I saw these--as I say, about ten years ago. Taken together, they did seem pretty extreme, though. And there were a few other things showing up in my inbox that I knew had to be bunk, and in some cases I said so to the sender.

What's scary is that there are other hoaxes circulating that have to do with the present day, and are sometimes dangerous, or defamatory. When people send me...

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feeds@yuku.com (Gawayne7) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:42:10 GMT

I thought they were all true-they seem plausible!

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feeds@yuku.com (belladonna) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:34:48 GMT

Are they ALL made up ? I visited Shakespeare's birthplace once, years ago, and the Guide told us about the family's sleeping arrangements - male children on the floor and the girls slightly higher up on wooden shelves around the walls. The girls who got married would go off to their new martimonial homes and the others would be 'left on the shelf'.

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feeds@yuku.com (Johnny) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:01:47 GMT

That's the best post to appear on this forum for many a long year.

Thank you.

J

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feeds@yuku.com (Gawayne7) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:05:51 GMT

Thanks Steve-why didn't I think of that! It was sent to me from America and they like to do things large there! Its a good job I didn't include it EXACTLY as it was sent as each paragraph was a different colour!

But now the problem has been rectified and hopefully the uproar will subside!

I can't corroborate the facts included in it-it is just meant for entertainment purposes.

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feeds@yuku.com (Dervish Overdrive) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:37:11 GMT

^ So...bascially it's bullshit writ large.

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feeds@yuku.com (Stev042) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:05:06 GMT

It's not the content that makes one a cretin (although it doesn't help); forwarding anything unverified ALMOST puts one there. Emailing something IN SUCH A LARGE SCREAMING FONT in and of itself puts one over the line. Now, combine the forwarding of unverified content AND the LARGE SCREAMING FONT, and you have somebody clearly in cretin territory.

John - check my link. They're all "fanciful" (which is a very nice way of saying the word I'm thinking of).

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feeds@yuku.com (johnmorango2) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:40:15 GMT

Plausible derivations but I wonder which have elements of truth and which are just fanciful?

Life in the 1500's

feeds@yuku.com (Gawayne7) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:13:09 GMT

LIFE IN THE 1500S *

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they...