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  • November 22, 2006 at 5:39 pm #413 Reply
    rhino56
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    People always pass down things not even knowing the origin of them, Ive always found this interesting.i wonder where counting sheep comes from and how far back it could have come from. Can you think of any others?

    November 22, 2006 at 8:38 pm #7136 Reply
    Stumpfoot
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    ….dad is great, give us the chocolate cake……

    November 22, 2006 at 9:47 pm #7137 Reply
    DonaldBaker
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    ….dad is great, give us the chocolate cake……

    Bill Cosby was hillarious in that routine!  “Will you stop touching me!” (lol)

    November 22, 2006 at 10:33 pm #7138 Reply
    Stumpfoot
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    One of the all time comedy classics. :mrgreen:Now back to the question at hand….I'm sure there are some older, but many parts of the bible are considered  poetry…though they dont rhyme. Psalms, third chapter of habakkuk….I guess thats not what your asking though…anyone else?

    November 23, 2006 at 12:24 am #7139 Reply
    rhino56
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    Doesnt have to be a rhyme, maybe just a saying or something that was handed down for generations within the language. Its funny how common knowledge such things are yet many of them we never really think of the. origin

    June 5, 2007 at 2:29 am #7140 Reply
    dollyjoe
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    well, a humurous one goes,we understand,but other than that, how did you enjoy the play,Mrs Lincoln?  Also ring aroung the rosies is supposed to be reference to the black death.

    June 5, 2007 at 4:06 am #7141 Reply
    Wally
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    “… life's the *hits and then you die.”

    June 5, 2007 at 5:06 am #7142 Reply
    Stumpfoot
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    well, a humurous one goes,we understand,but other than that, how did you enjoy the play,Mrs Lincoln?   Also ring aroung the rosies is supposed to be reference to the black death.

    I've heard that as well, many times. But I've also read that that is an urban legend, so who knows?

    June 5, 2007 at 11:01 pm #7143 Reply
    H.H. Buggfuzz
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    Ring around the rosieRaining Cats and dogsThrow the baby out with the bath waterAll from the middle ages

    June 9, 2007 at 5:34 pm #7144 Reply
    H.H. Buggfuzz
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    One fine day in the middle of the nighttwo dead boys stood up to fightback to back they faced each otherdrew their swords and shot each otherA deaf policeman heard the noise came and arrested the two dead boysfrom the late 1800's

    August 7, 2009 at 5:10 am #7145 Reply
    Acer17
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    Well, a humurous one goes,we understand,but added than that, how did you adore the play,Mrs Lincoln? Also ring aroung the rosies is declared to be advertence to the atramentous death._________________Actress

    August 12, 2009 at 6:23 pm #7146 Reply
    Vulture6
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    The oldest one I can think of… “Fire Hot!!!”

    August 13, 2009 at 12:49 am #7147 Reply
    Wally
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    The oldest one I can think of… “Fire Hot!!!”

    Or “Lion… run!”

    August 21, 2009 at 11:11 pm #7148 Reply
    cadremum
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    “in wine, truth” or “In vino veritas”  -Alcaeus “In vino veritas, in aqua sanitas,” i.e., “In wine there is truth, in water there is health.”-Pliny the ElderThe Babylonian Talmud (תלמוד בבלי) contains the passage: “נכנס יין יצא סוד”, i.e., “In came wine, out went a secret”courtesy of Wikki

    August 26, 2009 at 3:10 pm #7149 Reply
    Phidippides
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    “in wine, truth” or “In vino veritas”  -Alcaeus “In vino veritas, in aqua sanitas,” i.e., “In wine there is truth, in water there is health.”-Pliny the ElderThe Babylonian Talmud (תלמוד בבלי) contains the passage: “נכנס יין יצא סוד”, i.e., “In came wine, out went a secret”courtesy of Wikki

    That's a good one.  Now that I think of it, there are probably other Latin sayings that can be dated back to Roman times….”tempest fugit”? 

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