{"id":40,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"-Lifeinthe1500s-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Lifeinthe1500s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This chain letter has been widely distributed across the internet. The<\/p>\n

email encourages recipients to forward the message on to their friends and<\/p>\n

colleagues.<\/p>\n

***LIFE IN THE 1500'S***<\/tt><\/p>\n

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water<\/p>\n

temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be . Here are some facts about the 1500s:<\/tt><\/p>\n

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in<\/p>\n

May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to<\/p>\n

smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence<\/p>\n

the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.<\/tt><\/p>\n

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the<\/p>\n

house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons<\/p>\n

and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies.<\/p>\n

By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence<\/p>\n

the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water..<\/tt><\/p>\n

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood<\/p>\n

underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats<\/p>\n

and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof When it rained it<\/p>\n

became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.<\/p>\n

Hence the saying . It's raining cats and dogs.<\/tt><\/p>\n

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.. This<\/p>\n

posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could<\/p>\n

mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung<\/p>\n

over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into<\/p>\n

existence.<\/tt><\/p>\n

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.<\/p>\n

Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get<\/p>\n

slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to<\/p>\n

help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh<\/p>\n

until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A<\/p>\n

piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a thresh<\/p>\n

hold.<\/tt><\/p>\n

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)<\/tt><\/p>\n

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that<\/p>\n

always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to<\/p>\n

the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would<\/p>\n

eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight<\/p>\n

and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had<\/p>\n

been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, Peas porridge hot, peas<\/p>\n

porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old..<\/tt><\/p>\n

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.<\/p>\n

When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was<\/p>\n

a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They would cut<\/p>\n

off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the<\/p>\n

fat..<\/tt><\/p>\n

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content<\/p>\n

caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning<\/p>\n

death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or<\/p>\n

so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.<\/tt><\/p>\n

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of<\/p>\n

the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper<\/p>\n

crust.<\/tt><\/p>\n

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would<\/p>\n

sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking<\/p>\n

along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They<\/p>\n

were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family<\/p>\n

would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake<\/p>\n

up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.<\/tt><\/p>\n

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of<\/p>\n

places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the<\/p>\n

bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1<\/p>\n

out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they<\/p>\n

realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on<\/p>\n

the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the<\/p>\n

ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard<\/p>\n

all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone<\/p>\n

could be, saved by the bell or was considered a .dead ringer..<\/tt><\/p>\n

And that's the truth. Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! !<\/tt><\/p>\n

Educate someone. Share these facts with a friend.<\/tt><\/p>\n

<\/br><\/br> Original Source : https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/\/en-us\/threat-center\/threat-analyses\/hoaxes\/chain-letter\/life_in_the_1500s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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