[ A recent entry on Facebook]
Falderal or thoughts for consideration… ???
Many, many years ago... they had the pant. But the pant only covered one leg at a time, somewhat useful, but not very practical. You could wear a pant on one leg or the other, but you really needed two to do the job properly. And too many times you'd find one pant, and not the other, so there you were, missing one pant. One was always getting misplaced or lost. Then someone got the bright idea to enhance the pant by combining two, and sewing them together. Ahhh... "pants"! Now, what is know is that pants were always getting dirty and the only solution was to basically be pants less while the pants (two pant sowed together) were being washed. So you need another pants when one was being washed. Then the concept evolved to having work pants, and good pants. Hence, a pair of pants. One pant put together with another is "pants". Having two different pants, gave you a pair. Okay, a pair of pants, as in two sets of pant(s). So where did we come to say that a pair (as in two) of pants refers to just one pants? A pair of everything else refers to two! Like a pair of socks... yes, two. A pair of gloves, again two. So just how did pants and shorts start to be referred to as a pair? as in two? when there is only one! These are the questions that trouble men's souls... and inquiring minds have searched for this answer for over 500 years. The search continues to this day. So in conclusion, it has become apparent that we may never know the answer to this age old question. So if this is one of the things that torments your soul, you may just have to get over it... you will never know the answer. Move on with your life. Think about more important things. Like, why do we "take a pee"? Really? "take"??? Now you know... it's time to change your life's quest. Start today! You'll feel better for it! All success to you!
[comments] …
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“Um” ….
and “fiddle dee dee”
In case you were wondering…. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/falderal
Making something so meaningless, seem so monumental and full of great importance (well, it should be).
And while we are on the subject... why, just why are some letters in a word IF THEY ARE SILENT! Now who thought up that concept? And why do we need a "C" and a "K", one or the other would do just fine! We could throw out several letters and be perfectly fine.
Then there's the 12" to a foot, 36" to a yard, and so on... who in their right mind thought it would be great to count by 12's...DUH! TEN FINGERS...TEN TOES! And I'd certainly like to shoot the guy that developed fractional measures by 12th's, 32nd's, and 64th's of an inch... REALLY??? ... It's 38/64th's of an inch....BANG...TWICE!
But those are all another topic for later!
[The conversation continued]
[question] … Are you drinking red bull for breakfast again?????
[reply] … Too much C12H22O11 and C8H10N4O2 !!! (sugar and caffeine)
[question] … Thanks I was going to have to Google that to see what it was
[reply] … Sleep deprivation combined with sugar and caffeine... the mind races while the body sits at the Pc.
It's like taking a trip, and never leaving your chair.
The next step... the Twilight Zone!
Such are the early mornings when you are left alone…. alone… just you and your thoughts!
Should come with a sign… “BEWARE”… “Beware to all”
