Par4QC
The map is still accurate as far a where hogs are raised. I live in the middle of it here in southern Minnesota. All you have to do to verify that is to take a drive down any highway in SW MN on a nice summer day and all of a sudden you are overpowered by a terrible stench. Yup, if you look around you will see hog confinement buildings. The same holds true for our neighbors in Iowa, but they kinda stink anyhow so it's hard to tell if it's the hogs or not. 😏 lol

    1. In the 1400s a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb.
      Hence we have 'the rule of thumb.'
    2. Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only...
      Ladies Forbidden'... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
    3. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
      Spades - King David,
      Hearts - Charlemagne,
      Clubs -Alexander the Great,
      Diamonds - Julius Caesar
    4. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... 'goodnight, sleep tight.'
    5. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.
      Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.
    6. Since 1966,England fans have said they are going to win the cup at the start of every football competition, hence the phrase ‘deluded twat’

      Par4QC Hate to be 'that guy,' but most of this is not true. Golf is not and has never been an acronym. It drives either from an old Dutch word for club or from an old English word for 'to strike.'

      There was never a law in England about beating your wife with a club no thicker than your thumb, and that's not why we say rule of thumb.

      There is no agreement on whether the kings in a deck of playing cards were originally meant to represent actual individuals, but there is general agreement now that they do not.

      Honeymoon has a complicated history, but likely the word honey was used to mean sweet, rather than to represent mead. The word first appeared about two hundred years before it came to signify it's current meaning.

      Your derivation of sleep tight may actually be true.

          rsvman2 🤣Lighten up Francis!

          If you re-read it, you might get the humor that's embedded. Apparently, too deeply.

            Par4QC
            Actually 2x4's will not grow from these. 2x4's are taken from larger sections of actual trees, not grown in the manner suggested. 😉