Lomax wrote:Indeed. It is a moot question as to who exactly realised that fresh food - particularly citrus fruit - was a preventative for scurvy. In the eighteenth century, the RN lost more men to scurvy than to enemy action. Captain Cook fought scurvy with a mixture of sauerkraut and rigidly-enforced cleanliness on board; but lime-juice was settled on for reasons of convenience, and adopted throughout the navy. This, of course, was long before anyone isolated vitamin C.
The story goes that the Jonathans (obsolete English slang for the US navy - probably derived from Brother Jonathan of New England) thought we were mad, and christened us Limeys.
Recently, on another site, I was called a limey by someone who clearly thought it was an insult. I was rather pleased, actually.
Talk like a Pirate Day!
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LOL! I had one guy who didn't like my blonde hair and blue eyes try lots of Germanic insults on me. He used to call me "Thor" and "Ubermensch" (superman). High praise indeed!
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And now a nerdish pirate joke -
What do quantum pirates do to their victims?
They make them walk the Planck.
What do quantum pirates do to their victims?
They make them walk the Planck.
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