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Originally posted by vash
one that gets my girlfriend all riled up is "a good rule of thumb". heck even wayne has it scattered throughout his books. and it get the tiny feminist in my girlfriend, well it gets her "panties all up in a bunch". but i can live her rantings, because we are a honeymoon fit. opps, i guess i should explain. rule of thumb is a term that originated from the old days when you could legally beat your wife for disiplinary actions. but you could only do it with a stick no thicker than your thumb. hench a "rule of thumb".
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sorry Vash, but that's another piece of feminist fiction. "rule of thumb" doesn't mean that and never did. the saying was coined from the fact that the forepart of the thumb is approximately one inch long, and if you needed to measure something on the fly but did not have the proper tools, you could approximate by using "the rule of thumb"
