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Or maybe it was the sexiest profession back then.
It’s because most anvils were tuned to G. It was considered the original root scale step because anvils often worked best when tuned to G. But back in those days, it was called Sol (Solfège.) In french, Sol means ground, which is at the bottom. Ergo, every hammer driven by the smith was really just a sort of mating call that sent all the bottoms running to the smith’s doorstep. This is where the expression “she built like an anvil” comes from
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So Mason = Built like a brick shithouse
Read above you thinking... You mean she's a brick.. house?
She's mighty, mighty, just letting it all hang out.
reads like a tr*mp xeet
Only the sexy professions reproduced
Smiths got all the tang.
Seems many did not, but I did, see what you did there
Welcome to social Darwinism
Social darwinism isn't that, although it's big with people of Netherlandian extraction, Calvinists.
Social darwinism is the belief that everything is preordained, and if you are rich, god favors you, if poor, god hates you. It would be irresponsible to help the poor because god wants them to suffer, and so forth. Like the Prosperity Doctrine.
I was kidding
Didn't someone tell you it's illegal to make jokes on Lemmy