Monday Happy Place
Here is a curious fact to start your day, courtesy of Smoke and Mirrors:Before the advent of thermometers, brewers tested the temperature of their maturing brews with their thumbs: too cold, and the yeast wouldn’t grow, too hot, and it would die. Hence the phrase “Rule of thumb.”
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categories: amusement miscellany words
posted by lisa schamess @ 07:06
3 Comments:
Great pic.
That's one big "thumbs up"...
~m
Really, that's neat. Thank you for enlightening...
As the former wife of a carpenter, I thought it had something to do with measurement. This is supported by http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-rul1.htm
though probably no one knows for sure.
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