Now she won't tell him how many indexes are too many anymore.
Bad __Stephen
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 9:40 AM Ed Leafe ed@leafe.com wrote:
On Oct 11, 2018, at 8:53 AM, John Weller john@johnweller.co.uk wrote:
Just to throw some unconnected trivia into the debate I learnt a few
days ago that 'Rule of thumb' refers to a miller checking the setting of the grindstones by rubbing the ground grain between thumb and forefinger. Thought you might like to know that 😊
I had always heard a very different origin for that. From wikipedia:
"An 1824 court ruling in Mississippi stated that a man was entitled to enforce "domestic discipline" by striking his wife with a whip or stick no wider than the judge's thumb. In a later case in North Carolina (State v. Rhodes, 1868), the defendant was found to have struck his wife "with a switch about the size of this fingers"; the judge found the man not guilty due to the switch being smaller than a thumb.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thumb
-- Ed Leafe
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