Piggy Ca$he Traditional Cache
Opalblade: Farewell blue pig! Piggy Ca$he was muggled :( Look out for version 2 coming soon :)
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Cache is a small container in a thorny area (for the
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tables, porta potties and a playground nearby. ~ Opalblade and the
mini ninjas :)
 Poison Plant Alert  Thorns
 Cache In - Trash
Out!  Long pants
suggested  Restrooms available
 Beware of Muggles!  Bring a pen or pencil
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BRINGING HOME THE BACON
The origin of the phrase 'bring home the bacon' is sometimes
suggested to be the story of the Dunmow Flitch. This tradition,
which still continues every four years in Great Dunmow, Essex, is
based on the story of a local couple who, in 1104, impressed the
Prior of Little Dunmow with their marital devotion to the point
that he awarded them a flitch [a side] of bacon. The continuing
ritual of couples showing their devotion and winning the prize, to
considerable acclaimation by the local populace, is certainly old
and well authenticated. Geoffrey Chaucer mentions it in The Wife of
Bath's Tale and Prologue, circa 1395:
But never for us the flitch of bacon though,
That some may win in Essex at Dunmow.
The derivation of the phrase is also muddled by association with
other 'bacon' expressions - 'save one's bacon', 'cold shoulder',
chew the fat' etc. In reality, the link between them is limited to
the fact that bacon has been a slang term for one's body, and by
extension one's livelihood or income, since the 17th century. Of
course, the source of that 'body' meaning is from bacon coming from
the body of a pig or, more accurately, a pig's back and
sides.
An additional invented explanation that links 'bringing home the
bacon' with the culinary habits of mediaeval English peasantry is
given in the nonsense email 'Life in the 1500s'. That, and all the
other supposed derivations above, ignores the fact that 'bring home
the bacon' is a 20th century phrase that was coined in the
USA.
One field of endeavour in which one's body, i.e. bacon, is the key
to one's fortune is boxing, and it is in that sport that the
expression first became widely used.
Joe Gans and 'Battling' Oliver Nelson fought for the widely
reported world lightweight championship on 3rd September 1906. In
coverage of the fight, the New York newspaper The Post-Standard,
4th September 1906, reported that:
Before the fight Gans received a telegram from his mother: "Joe,
the eyes of the world are on you. Everybody says you ought to win.
Peter Jackson will tell me the news and you bring home the
bacon."
Gans won the fight, and The New York Times printed a story saying
that he had replied by telegraph that he "had not only the bacon,
but the gravy", and that he later sent his mother a cheque for
$6,000.
A month later, in October 1906, The Oakland Tribune reported
another boxing correspondent, Ray Peck, predicting the result of
the impending Al Kaufmann/Sam Berger fight in California like
this:
Kaufmann will bring home the bacon. [He did]
There are no newspaper records, or any other printed records that I
can find, of 'bring home the bacon' dating from before September
1906, but there are many, most of them boxing-related, from soon
afterwards. That's not exactly proof that the expression was coined
by the good Mrs Gans, but we can say at least that she was the one
who brought it into the public arena.
Source:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bring-home-the-bacon.html
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