[Jewelry making - Article 00407] - Re: [Orchid] Old Wives' Tale About Titanium Rings

[The Doctor]

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>          Another term I avoid is "rule of thumb,"  In a college class,
>     a professor told us that the rule of thumb was that you could beat
>     your wife with a stick as long as the stick was no wider than your
>     thumb. 


    I believe your college professor may have been perpetuating an "Old
    Wives' Tale" there. Actually, it would be more of a "New Femnists'
    Tale", since this particular description of it was written by Sharon
    Fenick in an online newsgroup in 1996. 

    Michael Quinion, a gentleman who provides citations and advice for
    The Oxford English Dictionary, also concentrates on a web site
    titled World Wide Words. Within the site, there is reference to a
    far more likely origin of this "rule" but there really isn't a clear
    track of it past the year 1692. Read what he says here:
    http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-rul1.htm 

    Most electronics technicians and electricians use the "Left Hand
    Rule of Thumb" which illustrates the direction of the magnetic lines
    of force an electrical current produces in relation to the direction
    that the current travels. Grasp the wire (imaginary, of course) with
    your left hand with your thumb pointing in the direction of current
    travel, negative to positive. The direction in which your fingers
    are is the direction of the magnetic lines of force. 

    There seem to be many "Rules of Thumb" for many, many things.
    Another good one I use is to ignore what they were used for so long
    ago and try to understand their meaning in today's world. There are
    plenty of battered husbands in today's world, I wonder if the "Rule"
    applies to them as well (please don't take that seriously). By the
    time I entered boot camp in 1975, Wicca was a recognized religion by
    the US military. Nobody will be chastised in this day and age for
    their Old Wives' Tales, those days are long past. 

James in SoFl, waiting for Ivan to pass... 

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