das mit dem GOLF, meine ich.
Also Ines, cool down!!

Hier die Aufklärung, gerade gegoogelt:

GOLF - Does it Stand for "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden"?
Did the word "golf" originate as an acronym for "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden"? That's a common old wives' tale. Or, in this case, more likely an old husband's tale.

No, "golf" is not an acronym for "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden." If you've ever heard that, forget it immediately. Better yet, find the person who told you and let them know it's not true.

Like most modern words, the word "golf" derives from older languages and dialects. In this case, the languages in question are medieval Dutch and old Scots.

The medieval Dutch word "kolf" or "kolve" meant "club." It is believed that word passed to the Scots, whose old Scots dialect transformed the word into "golve," "gowl" or "gouf."

By the 16th Century, the word "golf" had emerged.

Sources: British Golf Museum, USGA Library

naja so hoch war der Blutdruck auch nicht! Ich hab Ferien da-e ich eh`den ganzen Tag.
Aber danke für die Erklärung, obohl die Briten mit ihren Männerclubs - da wäre das mit der ersten Erklärung auch nicht so weit her geholt gewesen!

Auf jeden Fall - danke - jetzt kann ich beruhigt schlafen!
lg ines

What is the thinnest book in the world?
"What Men Know About Women"

What's a man's idea of helping with the housework?
Lifting his leg so you can vacuum.

What does a man consider a seven course meal?
A hot dog and a six pack of beer.

What did God say after he created man?
I can do better.

What do you call an intelligent man in America?
A tourist.

When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife.

A woman rushed home from work and exclaimed to her husband, "Pack your bags, I've won the lottery!"
The husband excitedly asks, "Should I pack clothes for cold or warm weather?"
She says, "Pack'em all, you're leaving!"

Siebengscheit

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and were still smelling pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the b.o. Baths equaled a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

Houses had thatched roofs. Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the pets. . . dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs, lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could really mess up your nice clean bed. So, they found if they made beds with big posts and hung a sheet over the top, it addressed that problem. Hence those beautiful big 4 poster beds with canopies.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, hence the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors which would get slippery in the winter when wet. So they spread thresh on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on they kept adding more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed at the entry way, hence a "thresh hold."

diese Quellen...solche alten Erklärungen, vorallem die Englischen - faszinieren mich immer wieder. Es ist schön den Ursprung für solche Redewendungen zu finden.

"Auf den Hund gekommen" - Wenn jemand seine Geldtruhe bis zum Boden geleert hatte, sah man oft das Emblem eines Hundes auf dem Truhenboden. Daher - wenn jemand kein Geld mehr hat ist er auf den "Hund" gekommen.

Leute die es ganz schlimm erwischt hatte sind sogar "unterm Hund"

"Kalter Kaffe macht schön" - ja denn das wasserlösliche Puder im Gesicht der Rokkoko Damen begann gnadenlos zu rinnen sobald es mit Dampf in Berührung kam. Außerdem regte der heiße Kaffee zum Schwitzen an und die Schminke verwischte erst recht. Also trank man kalten Kaffe - denn der ließ einen "schön" bleiben.
lg ines

dass der Hund in Wirklichkeit der Löwe aus dem Wappen war. Aber wer vom einfachen Volk kannte schon einen Löwen?
Vielleicht war es aber auch ein Hund einer unbekannten Rasse.
Das mit dem kalten Kaffee nützt zur Zeit leider auch nichts, schon garnicht (mehr) bei mir.

Zwei Blöcke hab ich noch. Ich verteil das ja immer über mehrere Tage, damit ihr mehr davon habt. Immer hübsch portionsweise...

They cooked in the kitchen in a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They mostly ate vegetables and didn't get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes the stew had food in it that had been in there for a month. Hence the rhyme: " peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old."

Sometimes they could obtain pork and would feel really special when that happened. When company came over, they would bring out some bacon and hang it to show it off. It was a sign of wealth and that a man "could really bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with a high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food. This happened most often with tomatoes, so they stopped eating tomatoes . . . for 400 years.

Most people didn't have pewter plates, but had trenchers -- a piece of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl. Trenchers were never washed and a lot of times worms got into the wood. After eating off wormy trenchers, they would get "trench mouth."

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the "upper crust."

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a "wake."

England is old and small and they started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take their bones to a house and re-use the grave. In reopening these coffins, one out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on their wrist and lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night to listen for the bell. Hence on the "graveyard shift" they would know that someone was "saved by the bell" or he was a "dead ringer."

Ich liebe solche Sachen! Danke.

da kann ich mich nur wiederholen - wirklich faszinierend!
lg und danke ines