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Originally Posted by Scarlett
and some facts...
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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False:
http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.htm
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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
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The last one is false:
As revealed on QI:
http://www.qi.com/
Purple, contrary to assertions on innumerable websites, has two English words that rhyme with it. These are 'hirple' and 'curple'. Hirple means to hobble along with one leg dragging behind the other, half way between a walk and a crawl. Curples are the leather straps passed under the tails of horses.
http://b3ta.com/questions/uselessinformation/page9/
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The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific.
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That's one *possible* explanation see:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/nineyards.htm
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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The word originates in the 18th century, it was subsequently applied to one "tick" of the system timer interrupt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy
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The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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False, there was never any such law.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-rul1.htm