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To: treetopflier who wrote (1722)3/11/1999 1:28:00 PM
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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" or what we know today as the
"honeymoon."

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England,
when
customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own
pints
and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and
Q's."
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