Is your monitor clean? - Page 2

Digital_Trucker · 02-16-09, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Reece

Good one Dowly, my screen is clean as a whistle,

however the images are a little blurred now!!

Totally and unabashedly off topic, but where the hell did the expression "clean as a whistle" come from? It seems counter-intuitive to me. How clean can something be that someone is constantly putting in their mouth and blowing/spitting into?

Torplexed · 02-16-09, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

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Originally Posted by Reece

Good one Dowly, my screen is clean as a whistle,

however the images are a little blurred now!!

Totally and unabashedly off topic, but where the hell did the expression "clean as a whistle" come from? It seems counter-intuitive to me. How clean can something be that someone is constantly putting in their mouth and blowing/spitting into?

It has it's origins in the phrase "clear as a whistle". The 19th century phrase "clear as a whistle" meant something was unmistakable or unambiguous. Over time clear morphed into clean. Not really sure why. I guess a pressurized steam whistle would be pretty clean and sanitary tho.

Reece · 02-17-09, 04:44 AM

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How clean can something be that someone is constantly putting in their mouth and blowing/spitting into?

Like "Spit n Polish"!

Remember the bar tender cleaning the glasses from the movie Blazing Saddles"!

Digital_Trucker · 02-17-09, 09:48 AM

Thanks, Torplexed. Clear as a whistle makes some sense. Kinda like plain as the nose on my face.

Reece, I'm glad to see that there's another movie connoisseur around. That has to be one of my favorite Mel Brooks flicks. That scene made me think twice about bar glasses for a long time.

AVGWarhawk · 02-17-09, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

Thanks, Torplexed. Clear as a whistle makes some sense. Kinda like plain as the nose on my face.

Reece, I'm glad to see that there's another movie connoisseur around. That has to be one of my favorite Mel Brooks flicks. That scene made me think twice about bar glasses for a long time.

I loved Blazing Saddles. The camp fire bean scene and 'who is going back to get a sh!t load of dimes?" for the toll in the middle of the desert:rotfl: Anyway, I'm guessing the rot gut in those bottles would kill anything that spit might have in it.

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