along come back i like to say that this is our first show of the fall of two thousand and nine since saddam just hit yesterday afternoon after five today is going to be an interesting show we're going to be talking about some things that hopefully never heard before and some interesting facts about arlington national cemetery as well as these new interesting light bulbs that the congressional report has us using in a very near future and how dangerous they are  first if you look at the subject for today once again we'll talk about phrases where they come from other interesting things things you probably did not know about the guards at the tomb of the on those soldiers you know you're living in two thousand  when and the last topic will be seriously speaking the first one we have today is a phrase that many people have used over the years ok in that phrases don't throw the baby out with the bathwater let's see where that came from bass consisted of a big tub back in early times and at the beginning of the bath the fathers in the songs were the ones who in fact had the opportunities to use the water first then came the mothers daughters and little children by the time of the babies we get in there the possibility is that the water would be so dirty that there whenever they threw the baby the water out that in fact they had to make sure that the baby wasn't part of the water situation the second topic that we're going to talk about today a subject under the phrases is it's raining cats and dogs ok that seems to be something that in fact a lot of people using the expression even today were let's take a look where that happened back in london back in the sixteenth century the rules are made of fat and in fact whenever they would have a small far inside to keep them warm the cats and things would go up on to the roof to stay warm because the heat would transfer all right then what would happen was that the roof would become very very slippery and because it became slippery the animals would lose  footing and once they lost their footing chorus they would be falling down and that usually happened in the rain and that's where there's that saying came from it's raining cats and dogs the next phrase we have is a threshold ok  everybody knows the threshold is and you know at the door whatever you walk in it's usually a piece of wood across the bottom ridge only floors were dirt ok and only the wealthy had anything other than dirt that covered their  floors whenever they originally started out to use light and whatever during the rainy season so they would become very very wet and slippery so what happened then they would in fact put straw don on the ground but over the period of time they put so much straw that in fact  people walk by they would in fact then start pushing the still strong right out the door so what they did was they put that piece of wood in there to keep the straw in the house so they wouldn't have to keep replenishing it is often so the next phase of the statement or a little rhyme that was told it was p porridge hot pease porridge cold all right while back when they cooked in the kitchen at a big pot all right  in that pot they had the opportunity to leave it the food there for days they only used what they could use a dinner but they left everything in there and each day they would add usually some vegetables and they didn't have that much meat so in fact they kept on  putting more vegetables in on a daily basis and that's where you get peach powers hot peach poured cold peach porridge in the pot nine days old all right chewing the fat all right that's something that in fact many people use the statement but they really don't know where it came from showing the fat is a special thing that one time they looked at it from the standpoint of showing pork or a piece of pork on their front porch to show that they had some money and in fact whenever a guest or visitors would come by they would take a small strip of that batter pork and sit around and break it up and talk and i eat to so that's where that came from all right the next idea we have is minding your p's and q's i've heard i was at a soccer game last week my grandson's playing soccer and i heard one of the parents saying that mind your p's and q's well here's where it counts from in the seventeen hundreds beer in england was served in pints in courts and whatever people got a little bit carried away they would in fact be told by the bar keep to in fact mind your p's and q s other words watch how many pints of course you're drinking because of the fact that you're getting a little carried away all right but that's what we've used is the upper crust usually the upper crust from from the vernacular today means people with a lot of money back then it wasn't that much different actually but the bread is what brought that on and bread crusts were in fact divided in this following fashion workers usually got the burnt bottoms of the bread whenever it came out of the oven the families of the folks who in fact had the workers got the middle portion and guest or somebody very important to the family received the upper crust and that was just isn't nicely brown the area of the bread so in fact that's how the term the upper crust came in the next one is holding a wake already being arash we are well known would sometimes knock people out and they would be off for days so in fact whenever they travelers would come along see these people l'engle alongside the road since they could make it back in a tavern to their houses and they in fact w not really know if they just died or not so what they did was they in fact would pick these people up take them home lay them on the kitchen table and wait for a couple days eating and drinking around them to see if they were going to wake up all right and that was a very interesting part because of the fact that they weren't sure they didn't have the medicines that we have today and the folks instead of trying to bury them would in fact wait a couple days to see what happens now the next one is a very very important part connected to that last one a dead ringer in sports we call somebody a dead ringer who is a semiprofessional is brought into you know to play it at the base a game or something  in the past a dead ringer alright it was brought up by the idea and england was a very small and very populated country it's been around for years and years and years and they started running out of room to bury people so what happened they would in fact go into cemeteries of people that have been buried for a long time they would dig them up take their bones to the skeletons that was left back to a bone house and in fact put somebody else in that that grave now the problem with that is whenever they dug these people up they found that about one out of every twenty five had scratch marks inside the inside of the coffin no scratch marks meant like we've demonstrated the wakes may not have lasted as long as they should have and in fact many of these people not many one out of twenty five or four percent was in fact buried alive all right so what they did then of that they started to tie piece of string around the person's arm had the string go through a hole in the coffin and they would put a bell and a bell would in fact be outside and they would bring the grave shift so they could listen somebody would be listening for this bell which you gave us to actually interesting phrases and saved by the bell which of course every student in school always think that's that was done by a high school or college and the other one was a dead ringer infact whenever they heard the bells at nighttime or if they heard them they would go and dig up this coffin and bring the person back out and in fact give them the opportunity to go on now looking at some other interesting ideas the term golf many years ago in scotland a new game was invented and the game was gulf alright which we all know we have many clubs around here and the word golf entered into the english language let's look and see what it was standing for the farscape when chill wipers and laser printers all have in common and they were all invented by women all right now this was this next phrase i'm going to leave up on this board for a little bit because you really have to study it it's self explanatory all right as you see cambridge university done a study i think you can see that all right we're going to just hold it for a couple seconds give you the opportunity to look at the screen and read it because it is something unusual and you wonder why we have a hard time spelling properly accordance with webster's dictionary all right let's move on some other interesting things that we haven't heard before what is the only food that doesn't spoil honey ok the next one it is impossible to lick your elbow and the answer to that would be at least seventy five percent of the people who just heard that in fact tried to lick th ok we're going to get into a topic here which is very very interesting because of the fact one it's good historical information but the second thing is the fact that we try to find things against the youth today because of the fact that we don't feel that they're trying hard enough or don't feel that they're committed enough and i think we're going to put some of that to rest arlington national cemetery is the home of the tomb of the unknown soldier them soldiers all right arlington house used to be the home of general he who was of course the general of the commanding general in the army of virginia how the federal government took arlington house over is back that's kind of the individual homeowners the male homeowners had to in fact come and pay their taxes in person and of course generally they were waiting for him to come and pay his taxes because of the fact that he would have to show up and parson at that time they were going to arrest him so he never did he never could in by law they had victim the people out of arlington house and in fact the federal government decided to start using it and they start using it as a cemetery all right it did two things one it interred a lot of the wounded soldiers from that war but in second thing it deterred the family from wanting to move back and because of the fact that  time went on belief family decided to in fact not move back into the house and they took their case to court and won at that time was a quite a substantial amount of money but that's not the purpose the we're looking at this today we're going to be looking at it from the tomb of the unknown soldier and how important that is the tomb of the on those soldier for those who haven't been there is one that looks over basically the washington monument in the background and everything else is really a fascinating in a resting place the tomb of the other soldiers on the screen right now you see is a very sacred place being retired military i would think that i personally think is one of the most sacred places in the country but i think that if you're there you get the feeling that this is a very i'm very important place some little known facts about the guards or the sentinel ok and those facts are whenever you watch the soldiers walk from one side to the other it's twenty one steps ok and why twenty one steps twenty one steps is done because it alludes to the twenty one gun salute that in fact has given us highest honors to military or foreign dignitaries all right we're going to be taking a break and hopefully we'll see you right back after with more interesting fact thanks for coming back we have some more interesting facts not only just dealing with the soldiers of the tomb of the on the but some really interesting thing is we as homeowners with kids without kids are going to have to be really concerned about something that i think that is going to be something worthwhile all right todd continuing with the tomb of the unknown soldiers some more information about the son and also the guards at that location how long does the person hesitate before he begins is about face and why are their gloves required to be more east ok these are two questions that have come up and once again that twenty one seconds coming back into play exactly for the reason that their rifles ok would be rather embarrassing for them to be throwing their guns all over the place some other facts how often are the guards changed tomb guards are changed every thirty seconds three hundred sixty five days a year thirty minutes i'm sorry twenty four hours a day three hundred sixty five days a year what are the physical traits the guards have to come up to and say and those physical traits are a person between five foot ten and six foot two and their waist cannot exceed thirty inches a k but when we talk about these things all those things are really you know it's just more nature and the physical attributes of the person more than anything else but when we talk about commitment i think these next couple will demonstrate the commitment these folks have to give not just for the time that they're working but let's take a look at that they must commit to two years of their life to guard the tomb and we think that's not a big thing but wait do you see these other they have to live in the barracks under the tomb they live there twenty four seven for the period of time they are signed dead duty they cannot drink alcohol on iraq duty for the rest of their lives all right stop to think about bathroom and when you're talking about commitment all right you can't drink anything with alcohol in it for the rest of your life and that's a commitment to do these soldiers are making when they're eighteen in one thousand years old so that's a nice when you talk about commitment they cannot swear in public for the rest of their lives and can crease uniform for example by getting into a fight or the tomb in any way all right once again this is these are supposedly kids that take on a commitment that most of us couldn't even imagine for a week six months of their the original guard duty they're not allowed to talk to anyone or watch t v all right it's hard for us just not to watch some show every day let alone and some some of us watch five and ten shows a day but these guys have to promise not to watch t v or even talk to anyone for six months and their off duty time is spent learning the locations and all the information they need to know about the the notable people that are laid to rest in arlington national cemetery and of course the most recent a lot of know is senator ted kennedy so i mean not only do they have to know bought their jobs but they have to know the location and the history of every one that is so supposedly a notable and that goes to the supreme court judges generals you know any any of these people so i mean they said the commitment that is made is a long term one for sure every guard spend five hours a day getting these uniforms ready you know i remember one of our i went to school of luck i saw the clothes i put on so i mean i guess when you put this in perspective it does become very impressive there's a copy of the pins that they are after two years ago or is given a wreath that pin is worn and repels signifying that they served as a guard at the tomb of the unknown there have been only four hundred presently worn and the guards must obey these rules for the rest their lives all right and this is not just a male thing even though it is a majority of males there have been three women that have been decided to take a couple days off and stay home and they in fact gave the sentinels the opportunity to stay in their barracks they turned it down and they turned it down because they felt that this is the most important assignment that they could do the tomb has been patrolled continuously twenty four seventh's since one nine hundred thirty all right so when have when we talk about commitment a vacant because that was a laugh so drew that we had or airman that we in fact had in any war that they could identify immediately ok on a lighter note now you know you're living in two thousand and nine when you accidentally enter your pin number on your microwave you haven't played solitaire with real cards in years you have a list of fifteen phone numbers to reach your family of three and the last thing your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is because they don't have an e mail address ok those are just  now to the serious portion of the program all right and this is very important so you may actually want to pay attention to this in the independent energy independence act and security act of two thousand and seven during the first one hundred days of the democratic congress they voted to in fact eliminate the incandescent light bulbs as we knew them that's the bulbs that were usually hanging out in our house they're going to phase out those light bulbs all right these bulbs are filled with mercury you can't just go in clean up the glass and throw them away all right you never use a vacuum cleaner because that will throw a lot of the mercury into the air and these bulbs in fact will provide about three hundred times the normal amount of mercury that is considered acceptable so we're going to be going over this taking a little bit of time because it's very important whenever they pass this law their idea was to save energy and they do do that my kids are all grown grown and they're all moved away so what i did was but i won't move back into the conscious i want to do my house and change every ball and i thought i was really great because my electric bill went dancing efficiently probably around and i'll sixty percent said it was a savings and that's what i'll give them without a problem the problem with that is those they never explain to the homeowner the problems that the bulbs bring especially when if you have dogs and kids and you have a hectic life as it is and you have a lot of things going on so we're going to be going over these items one by one because of the fact that they're that important all right one never use a vacuum cleaner cleaning up mercury the vacuum will in fact put the mercury and into the air all right which give give them more of a hazard never use a broom to clean up mercury because once that gets onto the material of the broom you in fact have a hazardous material problem all right and the township just last week had their meeting at the park where you brought your hazardous materials in while these would be considered one of those the only problem is those are run every week all right those are on every couple of months so in fact you have to pay particular attention if you're going to put these light bulbs into your property that in fact whenever you get this you store them property and we'll talk about the story but you store them and then wash tub and just throw it down the drain because that can contaminate the soil never wash clothing or other items that in fact comes in touch with mercury all right because of the fact that you can't clean it off  you can in fact go wash those clothes ok never walk around the area if in fact your shoes are contaminated that's not that's not worth it because of the fact you have to get rid of the shoes you see on the screen right now the incandescent bulbs the once the left ok that's the one we're used to with the filament the two other types that you see on the right in fact once again before i mean there's a whole list of things before clean  room get everybody out of the room of these bulbs break it out clean up step steps or four hard surfaces are relatively easy once everything is done then a lot of these things can be found on the e p a web site which is in fact something you should really be material as i mentioned all this stuff has to place in a plastic bag sealed in safe or a hazardous material you can't just put it out with the trash it's not fair to the people who are working off of those companies and it's not fair also for you know for the environment so when we look at this we have to look at the law and see what the requirements are we want to thank you very much for coming today hopefully you'll tune in we're doing this program again here before the end of the holidays and also be doing another program which we started with congressman tim murphy called talking politics and peters we have some big names state senator pippy is looking to now that they