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[sm4him]

Courtesy of xkcd.com:

yeah, that's my new favorite cartoon..hilarious!

 

[sm4him]

What about the term "dressed to the nines?" I've always wondered about the origin of that.

 

[Bend The Light]

What about the term "dressed to the nines?" I've always wondered about the origin of that.

Old English "to thyn eyne" meaning "to your eyes"

Dressed to your eyes - to the top - the best.

 

[analog.universe]

What about the term "dressed to the nines?" I've always wondered about the origin of that.

Old English "to thyn eyne" meaning "to your eyes"

Dressed to your eyes - to the top - the best.

This article seems to disagree with you: Dressed to the nines

The first example of the use of the phrase that I can find in print is in Samuel Fallows' The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language, 1835. In his entry for the phrase 'to the nines' Fallows gives the example 'dressed up to the nines' and suggests that it "may perhaps" be derived from 'to thine eynes' - to the eyes. Not bad as a hypothesis, but without any evidence (and I can find none) 'may perhaps' is as far as we can go with that.
What counts against the above explanations, and indeed against any of the supposed explanations that attempt to link the number nine to some property of clothing, is the prior use of the shorter phrase 'to the nine' or 'to the nines', which was used to indicate perfection, the highest standards.

etc, etc...

it's an interesting read anyway

 

[Bend The Light]

What about the term "dressed to the nines?" I've always wondered about the origin of that.

Old English "to thyn eyne" meaning "to your eyes"

Dressed to your eyes - to the top - the best.

This article seems to disagree with you: Dressed to the nines

The first example of the use of the phrase that I can find in print is in Samuel Fallows' The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language, 1835. In his entry for the phrase 'to the nines' Fallows gives the example 'dressed up to the nines' and suggests that it "may perhaps" be derived from 'to thine eynes' - to the eyes. Not bad as a hypothesis, but without any evidence (and I can find none) 'may perhaps' is as far as we can go with that.
What counts against the above explanations, and indeed against any of the supposed explanations that attempt to link the number nine to some property of clothing, is the prior use of the shorter phrase 'to the nine' or 'to the nines', which was used to indicate perfection, the highest standards.

etc, etc...

it's an interesting read anyway

We can never really know...I liked that explanation, anyway.

 

[sm4him]

Old English "to thyn eyne" meaning "to your eyes"

Dressed to your eyes - to the top - the best.

This article seems to disagree with you: Dressed to the nines

The first example of the use of the phrase that I can find in print is in Samuel Fallows' The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language, 1835. In his entry for the phrase 'to the nines' Fallows gives the example 'dressed up to the nines' and suggests that it "may perhaps" be derived from 'to thine eynes' - to the eyes. Not bad as a hypothesis, but without any evidence (and I can find none) 'may perhaps' is as far as we can go with that.
What counts against the above explanations, and indeed against any of the supposed explanations that attempt to link the number nine to some property of clothing, is the prior use of the shorter phrase 'to the nine' or 'to the nines', which was used to indicate perfection, the highest standards.

etc, etc...

it's an interesting read anyway

We can never really know...I liked that explanation, anyway.

Yeah, I've always *liked* the "to the eyes" explanation, myself. But I suspect that the correct origin is something else, altogether.

 

[sm4him]

Favorite sport?
Mine's football, to watch. Closely followed by futbol. To play, futbol all the way. Played keeper for many years, so I'm partial to the game.

 

[analog.universe]

Any sport where no one is keeping score....

Rock climbing is sweet, cycling but not racing, frisbee...

 

[thinkricky]

thinkricky's last contribution to this thread was at 9:07 p.m. last night.

WAKE UP THINKRICKY!!!

Geez. Get off my back. If I were able to I would have been posting. Find something else to do but harass my absence.

 

[sm4him]

Any sport where no one is keeping score....

Rock climbing is sweet, cycling but not racing, frisbee...

You'd like to watch my UT Volunteers play basketball, then...they CLEARLY aren't keeping score, most of the time.

 

[sm4him]

thinkricky's last contribution to this thread was at 9:07 p.m. last night.

WAKE UP THINKRICKY!!!

Geez. Get off my back. If I were able to I would have been posting. Find something else to do but harass my absence.

...sorry man, but we are seriously running out of material here!

 

[Demers18]

It's cold working in a house that has no windows or furnace yet

 

[sm4him]

Building one for you, or someone else?

 

[cgipson1]

Lets discuss crappy ass photography by so-called pro's that ask for pricing info and other advice... with a disclaimer that they only want assistance, not judgement! When a little bit of C&C would go a long way to helping them improve enough to maybe justify what they charge in the first place!

Sorry... this kind of crap is really bugging me right now!

 

[sm4him]

LOL. So, what threads have YOU been reading, Charlie??