SXOC featured on NTK!!

[yeager]

http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?b=02003-05-23&l=193#l

Not sure if many geeky types like me here read ntk, it's a pretty darn good read. But looks like our funny F&F thread has been linked to :)

[Dan@DB-Power]

That might explain this:-

F&F thread (http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42439)

Dan,

[yeager]

shiver me timbers !

[Ivanski]

... and, experts agree, po-faced Vin Diesel racer THE FAST AND
THE FURIOUS (9pm, Wed, ITV) simply "would not work" if set in
the UK: http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?threadid=16216
(unless you made it about the overclocking/casemodding scene?)

http://www.ntk.net


The SXOC legend grows :cool:

[dunc]

shiver me timbers !

Anyone know how this saying came about? It makes no sense to me whatsoever :wack:

[Kiruji]

Do you have any idea what the phrase shiver me timbers refers to?

It's a mock oath ascribed to sailors, though it appears to be a comic embellishment of a slightly different oath, my timbers. The latter dates from the late 18th century, while shiver me/my timbers is first recorded in 1835: "I won't thrash you Tom. Shiver my timbers if I do" from Frederick Marryat's Jacob Faithful. Apparently Mr. Marryat invented the phrase with an eye toward avoiding his readers taking offense at stronger words. It's also possible that my timbers was invented, for it first appears in a song: "My timbers! what lingo he’d coil and belay."

A shiver, is literally "a splinter". Hence, when timbers are shivered, they are broken into splinters. A curiously similar word is shake, a fissure that forms in wood while it is still growing.

The phrase shiver my timbers was purportedly adopted later by cricket to refer to the scattering of wickets.


:D

[G'boy]

Anyone know how this saying came about? It makes no sense to me whatsoever :wack:

Avast ya scarvy scum... the origin of shiver me timbers be, splinter or shater is apparently an older meaning of the word "Shiver" and timbers being his wooden ship.

(May) my ship be destroyed is apparently what it means


Now go grab thee a wench, matey... argh :)

Used in a book about some pirates, treasure and an island written by... some guy...

[dunc]

Nice one :notworthy

Where'd you find that?

Dunc.

[Kiruji]

I googled it :)