Really...?
Its interesting how we get hooked onto popular idioms and phrases and proverbs and come to believe them to be true.
For example. "All's fair in love and war." The link below defines it as " People in love and soldiers in wartime are not bound by the rules of fair play."
Really? Why so? Is it just so we can justify our actions?
"Yes, do whatever you can. It's all good, because 'All's fair in love and war'."
Huh?
http://www.bartleby.com/59/3/allsfairinlo.html
posted by woorkeri wittynathan @ 11:45 pm
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It isn't just idioms...sometimes even habits and rituals become so old that we dont know why we do them. Here's a story i remember being told once:
A man noticed that for every holiday his wife would bring home the turkey, cut it in half and cook it in two separate pans. Maybe it cooked better that way he thought. One year he decided to ask her why she did this. Her response: 'I dont know, my did it that way'. The man wanting to explore further went to his mother-in-law and posed the same question to her. Her response surprisingly was the same - her mother had done in that way. Not one to give up, he talked to his wife's grandmother and asked her why she used to cut the turkey in half and cook it in two separate pans.
The grandmother said - 'because i didnt have a pan big enough then'
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