Damn you stupid internet & your believable lies!
I started reading Buddy's post below and when I saw that bit about the horses, I decided to check the accuracy of the rest of the list (or at least some of the list, until i got tired). See, that whole bit about the horse's legs in the air telling you how they died is false. How false? Well, the fine folks at my favorite Urban Myth debunking site have done the work.
http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.
I guess I didn't need to go thru and debunk the whole list. But I was bored. Then I realized that if I simply put this in the comments section, people may not read it.
Seriously, though, I felt that these corrections were interesting. My dad is always sending me these kinds of emails and I always ruin his day by sending emails back that are this snotty.
horse's legs = how they died:
http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.
Also, the ones about "sleep tight" and "rule of thumb" and "p's & q's" and "wet your whistle"
http://www.takeourword.com/TOW113/page1.html
wet your whistle (by itself, all the way at the bottom):
http://www.word-detective.com/050404.html
GOLF is not an acronym:
http://golf.about.com/cs/historyofgolf/a/hist_golfword.htm
Coke was green? nope:
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/green.asp
111,111,111*111,111,111 really does equal 12345678987654321. Strangely, Excel says that it equales 12345678987654300 -- which makes no sense.
Flintstones first couple in bed? uh-huh:
http://www.tvacres.com/broad_bed.htm
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/marykay.htm
origin of honeymoon. maybe?
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hon1.htm -- this site seems to only note the first use of word in English.
http://www.takeourword.com/Issue071.html -- this site points out that the connection between Babylonian lang. & English as well as Nordic & English are tenuous. But this one seems to be up for grabs.
