(Untitled)

[highlydubious]

Got this junk mail titled "Life in the 1500s"
No idea how true it is, but it sounds nice.

Comments

I wasn't doing anything important.

[gryphonk]

Ye Olde English Sayings agrees with a lot of what's written here (like in saved by the bell or threshold), but other sources disagree:

From Origin of Wedding Tradition:

Wedding Flowers
Before the use of flowers in the bridal bouquet, women carried aromatic bunches of garlic, herbs, and grains to drive evil spirits away as they walked down the aisle. Over time, these were replaced with flowers, symbolizing fertility and everlasting love. Specific flowers have special meanings in many cultures. In Hawaii, the bride and groom wear leis; newlyweds in India don floral headdresses.

Also here.

From Wedding Lore:
Wedding Bouquet
Flowers are incorporated into the wedding ceremony as a symbol of fertility. The first bouquets consisted of herbs and, later, orange blossoms.

In here they repeat both the "warding-off spirits" notion, and the "smelly guests" idea.

Couldn't find "throw the baby out..." anywhere else besides "Ye Olde Sayings", but OED doesn't quote anything earlier then 1909, and says it comes from the German, so the Irish

Re: I wasn't doing anything important.

[avgboojie]

Why work so hard when snopes have already done the work for you?

Answer: so you can include in your comment lots of links Boojie might be interested in, naturally. Thanks for all those cool links. :-)

God damn it!

[gryphonk]

Well, at least you had some fun...

I should really hone my Interweb ski11z...

Re: God damn it!

[avgboojie]

Nah. You're young, you have your whole life ahead of you, leave that "Interweb ski11z" thingie to people who have no choice but to be in front of a computer all day long... :-P