Questions you never got around to Googling the answers to

[Vantage]

Helps you see in the dark.

That's carrots.

The crust makes you big and strong. Just like dad.



According to mum that is.

 

[AndyRM]

That's carrots.

The crust makes you big and strong. Just like dad.

Actually I think they put hairs on your chest?

My daughter won't be amused.

 

[Vantage]

I thought that was cabbage/spinach. Popeye like.

 

[AndyRM]

I thought that was cabbage/spinach. Popeye like.

Nah, that just makes your pee taste smell funny.

 

[BoldonLad]

Port is named because it comes from Portugal.

Port on a boat is named because that's the side you dock on.

Port wine == red is a good mnemonic for remembering what colour is on portside.

Port & left both have 4 letters is a good mnemonic for remember which side is port, assuming you know which hand is left.

Edit: I defer to @Randy Butternubs (and wikipedia) on the name.

I recall, at school (which was a VERY long time ago, so, maybe I am hallucinating), that, the word Posh was based on Port and Starboard. The "story" was that on transatlantic crossings, to maximize their sunshine and on deck suntan, those who could afford it booked deckchair(?) Port out, Starboard home, ie POrt out Starboard Home, which was eventually abbreviated to POSH.

I have no idea if this useless bit of "information" is true or false.

 

[roadrash]

Helps you see in the dark.

And rabbits eat carrots to make their hair curl

 

[PaulSB]

@BoldonLad yep I was taught the same.

 

[jefmcg]

I have no idea if this useless bit of "information" is true or false.

no, it's not true. It's a backronym. See also Prisoners of Her Majesty.

A popular explanation (still frequently repeated) is that the word is < the initial letters of the phrase port outward, starboard home, with reference to the more comfortable (because cooler) and more expensive side for accommodation on ships formerly travelling between Britain and India. It is often suggested that the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company stamped tickets for such cabins on this route with the letters P.O.S.H., whence the word. However, no evidence has been found for the existence of such tickets. See further G. Chowdharay-Best in Mariner's Mirror (1971) Jan. 91–2.

 

[jefmcg]

[QUOTE 5024575, member: 259"]TMN to jefmcg![/QUOTE]

 

[BoldonLad]

no, it's not true. It's a backronym. See also Prisoners of Her Majesty.

The OED says it’s a myth...

Always suspected we got a second class education in the 1950's ! ;

I wonder what other duff information I absorbed?

I wonder if I could claim compensation, a Class Action with @PaulSB perhaps?

 

[midlife]

I recall, at school (which was a VERY long time ago, so, maybe I am hallucinating), that, the word Posh was based on Port and Starboard. The "story" was that on transatlantic crossings, to maximize their sunshine and on deck suntan, those who could afford it booked deckchair(?) Port out, Starboard home, ie POrt out Starboard Home, which was eventually abbreviated to POSH.

I have no idea if this useless bit of "information" is true or false.

That's what I was told s a kid . There's a song about it in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang I think?

 

[Tim Hall]

That's what I was told s a kid . There's a song about it in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang I think?

port out, starboard home, posh with capital P O S H Posh. As sung by Grandpa Potts.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

What information are you collecting on me?

 

[Brains]

I recall, at school (which was a VERY long time ago, so, maybe I am hallucinating), that, the word Posh was based on Port and Starboard. The "story" was that on transatlantic crossings, to maximize their sunshine and on deck suntan, those who could afford it booked deckchair(?) Port out, Starboard home, ie POrt out Starboard Home, which was eventually abbreviated to POSH.

I have no idea if this useless bit of "information" is true or false.

I was assured by my late father, born in India when under the Raj, that this was true.
POSH stood for Port Out, Starboard Home.
Going out from from the Blighty to India the expensive cabins were on the Port side of the ship, which when one entered foreign climes (anywhere east of Gibraltar) the cabin would be on the cool (northern) side of the ship in constant shade.

The cheap cabins, such as those where my late father was put as a boy on his way to and from school once a year, were on the south side of the ship, where you cooked as soon as the sun came up. It meant the south facing cabins were unusable during the day, which forced everyone on the cheap/sunny side into the shade of the common areas during the day, the POSH people however could stay in their cabins

So people going on the regular lines between the centre of the Empire and the colonies in the east were happy to pay extra to travel POSH

 

[classic33]

What information are you collecting on me?

Don't google.