Favorite expressions and idioms based on history

YellowSnow

Was sexting with @Swaye on this...thought it might be a fun thread.

"Beyond the Pale" comes from beyond the "pale of settlement" for @Mad_Son 's people in the Old Russian Empire.

Swaye

We actually had a riveting sext based story tim on "beyond the pale." I thought it was from English controlled Ireland back in the day. Rowboat corrected my shit quick fast and in a hurry. Hilarity and knowledge transfer ensued. Then we started talking about Vikings. Good tims.

On topic. I like bite the bullet...from pre-anesthesia surgery where you would literally bite a bullet to deal with the pain.

YellowSnow

Swaye said:

We actually had a riveting sext based story tim on "beyond the pale." I thought it was from English controlled Ireland back in the day. Rowboat corrected my shit quick fast and in a hurry. Hilarity and knowledge transfer ensued. Then we started talking about Vikings. Good tims.

On topic. I like bite the bullet...from pre-anesthesia surgery where you would literally bite a bullet to deal with the pain.

Swaye

YellowSnow said:

Swaye said:

We actually had a riveting sext based story tim on "beyond the pale." I thought it was from English controlled Ireland back in the day. Rowboat corrected my shit quick fast and in a hurry. Hilarity and knowledge transfer ensued. Then we started talking about Vikings. Good tims.

On topic. I like bite the bullet...from pre-anesthesia surgery where you would literally bite a bullet to deal with the pain.

@Doog_de_Jour approved!

YellowSnow

"Trust in God and keep your powder dry" is generally attributed to Cromwell.

GrundleStiltzkin

"Rum, sodomy & the lash"

GrundleStiltzkin

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."

Battle of Bunker Hill, I think.

YellowSnow

GrundleStiltzkin said:

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."

Battle of Bunker Hill, I think.

Funny how much the map of Boston has changed since 1775.

GrundleStiltzkin

"Damn the torpedoes!" Farragut, Mobile Bay.

RaceBannon

GrundleStiltzkin said:

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."

Battle of Bunker Hill, I think.

Don't fire until you see the Black guy - Boston Massacre

YellowSnow

GrundleStiltzkin said:

"Damn the torpedoes!" Farragut, Mobile Bay.

Too soon!

LebamDawg

"Nuts"

General McAuliffe

PurpleThrobber

Wait....you and @Swaye sext on an intellectual basis?!?!

That savage just sends me dick pics.

NTTAWWT but the Throbber is a thinker.

YellowSnow

PurpleThrobber said:

Wait....you and @Swaye sext on an intellectual basis?!?!

That savage just sends me dick pics.

NTTAWWT but the Throbber is a thinker.

The savage thing was always a myth. @Swaye comes from one of the “Five Civilized Tribes” hence the willingness to interbreed with country club white devils.

Swaye

YellowSnow said:

PurpleThrobber said:

Wait....you and @Swaye sext on an intellectual basis?!?!

That savage just sends me dick pics.

NTTAWWT but the Throbber is a thinker.

The savage thing was always a myth. @Swaye comes from one of the “Five Civilized Tribes” hence the willingness to interbreed with country club white devils.

HNWYK

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

For the last 4-5 years before my father-in-law died, I always fucked with him on the meanings of "throw your hat in the ring" and "throw in the towel".

I told him that throwing your hat in the ring obviously meant you were done, i.e., you're about to put your hat on to go outside while throwing in the towel was a sign that you ready to take on a task and the towel was there to wipe the sweat from your brow.

dnc

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

For the last 4-5 years before my father-in-law died, I always fucked with him on the meanings of "throw your hat in the ring" and "throw in the towel".

I told him that throwing your hat in the ring obviously meant you were done, i.e., you're about to put your hat on to go outside while throwing in the towel was a sign that you ready to take on a task and the towel was there to wipe the sweat from your brow.

Pretty sure this is why he finally threw his hat into the ring.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

"Dawn is when the French and Indians attack."

- Rogers Rules for Rangers

YellowSnow

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

For the last 4-5 years before my father-in-law died, I always fucked with him on the meanings of "throw your hat in the ring" and "throw in the towel".

I told him that throwing your hat in the ring obviously meant you were done, i.e., you're about to put your hat on to go outside while throwing in the towel was a sign that you ready to take on a task and the towel was there to wipe the sweat from your brow.

So he wasn't a T.R. fan then I take it?

LebamDawg

I have not yet begun to fight

John Paul Jones

USMChawk

“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet”

- General James Mattis