I welcome the short stuff and judge this judge. Jury is out there. Around somewhere in the ethernet of the internet in whatever- and this is short stuff, let me to stop talking, let's go yeah. This is something we ve done before and we will do again because, as everyone knows, we like praise origins, I specially love phrase, origins and who I think we're doing three to eight, the second one which can be summed up in like a single sentence, probably but we're gonna start with the grain of salt. Take it with a great assault. Buddy I will take it with the grain is solved because I'd just injustice, some poison.

Of no salt won't help that oh well according to applying the elder wooden. They think that that's where the phrase take this with a green assault really finds its origin and by the way takes only with the green saw, means that you should be skeptical of what you are about to hear or sea or whatever, that that there's the this information that you're about to receive his of dubious origin right. That's that's the current understanding of take it with a green salt or a pinch of salt or dose of salt. However, you put it that's the current meaning of it, but they think as far back as plenty, the others naturalist Historiae that that that's where it finds it Our demands are actually convert. Referential thing to that to a recipe he gave under the walnut section. Yeah take two dried walnuts to figs and twenty, leaves a pound them altogether.

With the addition of a grain of salt, or if a person takes this mixture fasting, he will be proof against all poisons for that day. So, if you were, if you thought you were going to be poison that day before you eat breakfast eat this concoction. That includes a grain of salt No poison will befall you yeah, but here's the deal. That explains nothing about this phrase other then he said the words grain of salt in his language, which was come Grano sallies, This is not metaphorical its literal. If you wanna talk about metaphor, we need a flash forward quite a bit till sixteen forty, seven yet John TRAP used it in a book called the commentary, commentary on old and new testaments colon, boring fate. I just made that burn up. He any said this is to be taken with the grain of sand. But we still aren't sure what he meant by that I.

To hazard a guess here. I think what John TRAP, who has a great name by the way, what he was saying, is this. The following is very difficult to to hear or its hard information to swallow. A poisonous gases. You'd have to take this with a green assault. That's my guess! Now, I'm putting south Everybody'D causes short stuff did not go to the trouble of reading John Traps commentary on the old and new testaments. So it's a guess, but man, oh man, it is a good guess. Yet it makes sense in it did pop up since then but usually again, referring to actual grains of salt than in nineteen o eight in the Athenaeum it's a literary journal had this line are reasons for now setting the authors pictures

of early Ireland without many grains of salt, which I can even make heads or tails, let's in its period, but I think they were wailing on the photographer which it's like two stone, except the pictures. Humming fund, a woman, the in the magazine- that's I Gus criticising, has two works articles that we base episodes on. We never do that no mean, but this does it, and I think this when frustrated me because, even that it still doesn't say where it came from like it or why they start saying green of salt demean what they meant metaphorically. Yes, because it was terribly written in this house to vote on it

Well, did you find a real reason? Because I didn't I didn't I didn't it. Just kind of suddenly is like it just appeared and get the impression that the grain of salt is kind of appeared out of nowhere that it was some not appeared out of nowhere that they have can be traced back, but there's not any real clarification. I'll tell you what has a clarification chuck, a clear lineage, and that is the the phrase close, but no cigar, yeah this one's easy and we can definitely get the sin and the next minute and twenty seconds before our break, because it super easy in early twentyth century when you to these travelling carnivals and they had these rip off games where you would throw ring on a coke bottle or shoot a basketball into hoop. That's barely the size of a basketball which added figure out. So I was way to old right that that was not a standard hoop yeah gray, hair by then. I did

Your ear meant to not when those games generally or to come close and want to spend more money and that's the whole idea. But back then, what was the eyes or one of the prizes that you would get a cigar. That's right, If you were sitting there throwing you know doing a ring tossed around some glass bottles and you missed in you missed in you missed you ran out of rings. The carnival barker would say close, but no cigar, no Sega. So that's where their origin comes from. That phrase comes from, which is great, because it's a nice tidy package, there's no controversy, no disputing it, and it's just done. It's not like that. Ugly, horrible grain of salt origin, yet in kids, six year olds everywhere would

Obama never get the cigar and their dad would say here. You go son, have mine as great to take a break yeah. I thought that was implied by the pregnant pause. Will talk about self right to this as well as this episode is brought you buy IBM today, every end matters more than ever before, because whether it's about health deliveries or finance something's just can't wait? That's IBM helping businesses manage millions of calls, texts and chat with Watson Assistant its Congress, Finally, I designed to help your customers find the answers. They need faster, no matter the industry, let's put smart to work with it. I become dot com, Slash Watson, assistant, to learn more. This episode is brought you buy. I began.

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This one's like a neat combination between horrible ugly grain of salt and beautiful, perfect close, but no cigar, because there's a lot of different ideas that that are competing for the origin that aren't necessarily right but are necessarily wrong either. So it there's a lot of great info involved that right, in any kind of comes down to a couple of sport. Southpaw is, has long been linked to boxing and baseball Rocky Balboa was southpaw. No was he yeah. Thanks are right. I don't know I don't pay very close attention. Unjust enthralled by the action of Europe is all about those. Apples near yes, it goes, I think, he's kind of a deal that uses southpaw, okay, so long headed be about boxers in baseball

generally even more specifically spin associated with pitchers, let into pitchers known as the South pole. Ok, yes, now, that's that's the one. I've always heard a farm, never or no I'm sorry. I was said, the reverse of the truth. I've always heard it from that's life right that there I've always heard of it being associate with boxing I've never heard it associates baseball, ok, yeah, baseball, pitcher! Generally, it's you know it's an old school teacher. But of a definite heard it before. So even before necessarily was involved in boxing or it was involved with boxing in this act. There is a political cartoon that was referencing boxing and we just didn't realize it

there, the earliest one of the earliest mentions of the left hand, especially involved in delivering a punch being called the South Paw consumer. Eighteen. Forty eight editorial cartoon that showed a candidate name Louis CAS, who is running for the Democrats. He had just laid out Zachary Taylor in tailors running, make Millard Filmore a Millard Filmore as a black eye. And there's a quote coming from in which Chuck. I think that you would be really good. Read this club curse the old horse, what a south bar he has given me does. That was one of the best Miller Filmore impressions of ever heard of my light, w o t what to bring that about.

Yep so Miller Filmore is calling at the very least the points that Louis CAS landed on him, a Southport, if not Louis, CAS Southpaw for using his left hand, who knows, but the idea is south paw in knocking a person to the ground with your fists with associated, at least as early as eight forty eight at least is politics is concerned. Yet I was, there were more specific boxing references. There was one in eighteen sixty in a bare knuckle fight. I guess serve a boxing match pupil jealous squaring off against one another is inevitable. New York Herald the Rapporteur, David Woods reported. That in the ninth around I'm sorry David. What was the boxer David Woods planted his south paw under the chin. Under his opponents, Chin laying employed as a pancake and

wasn't calling him a southpaw but called his fist is softball. Two words right: it's okay! So that's that's good enough! For me, I say boxing, but unfortunately there's some contemporaneous use of southpaw as far as pitching goes as far back as one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight in the New York ATLAS, there's mention of left handed. First, baseman who's called a southpaw that predates that boxing reference, although it comes after the Millard Fillmore quote, there's some others like an one thousand, eight hundred and seventy five edition of St Louis newspaper, so it seems, Venice, as you did not just with pitchers, but the pictures are the ones who have the great origin story of associating left handedness with being a south per year, and there was you know: some people said that ball parks were org

in the eighteen hundreds with home plate facing west, which meant that a lefty player facing Wes would be pitching with his south paw, but You know not all baseball stadiums oriented that way. So that seems a little flimsy to me. I was seeing the boxing thing. If you are a boxer, You ve got your right hand, sort of up as your lead hand, in your left hand would be south, so that might be yourself paw, but If you are a southpaw, when your left hand is up to that, didn't really make sense. It's right. It's right, it's not sensible. It always means it's not solved. We have no idea what the true origin of southpaw is, but at least there's a lot more information about it that we can choose from and make her own decision. So are we The three of us went nowhere to four three, I'm including South Tyrol, because so great close, Pineau Cigars

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