Stephen King gets a touch of the Peter Benchley's

[The Hen]

Gracious?

[loCAtek]

Neither do you then, oh well, take a salt pill.

[Lord Jim]

As an aside, I have to say that " " kind of loses something when it's the first post on a page...

[BoSoxGal]

One doesn't know one will be the 'topper' until one has posted, Mr. LJ!

[Econoline]

THE Stephen King is kinda freakin old AND doesn't live in Australia ...even I knew that.

Does anyone participating in this thread realize how silly it makes them look to spend 6 FREAKIN PAGES arguing about, essentially, just this one (fairly innocuous) post?

[The Hen]

Good grief Econoline. You just participated.

[Econoline]

Yes, and now I feel silly.

[Sean]

Tchah! You just have to keep dragging this one on don't you Econoline?

[loCAtek]

'Cha well did you take your pill?

[Gob]

Does anyone participating in this thread realize how silly it makes them look to spend 6 FREAKIN PAGES arguing about, essentially, just this one (fairly innocuous) post?

Attention whores don't feed themselves you know mate!

[loCAtek]

LMAO - so self-fulling

[Lord Jim]

Okay, I must have missed where this "take a salt tablet" thing came in...

I remember it from a King Of The Hill episode, where Hank's old High School football coach thought they were the cure for everything...

[loCAtek]

Lately, Hen has said she'll take me with a grain, nay a bushel of salt ...doesn't seem to have helped ....the so called 'professionals' control me.

[The Hen]

You still havent relised that only you can control yourself have you Lo.

You will continue with your chosen course of blaming all others for your failings wont you.

Nevermind. I'll be here to remind you that your life is your own karma.

The fact that you even think I would waste my time on trying to control you just reinforces for me that you have not progressed and probably WILL not progress and still have not learnt that it is all down to you.

:

[loCAtek]

<= time for it

Especially, when you hijacked this thread, while I was on topic.

[The Hen]

It was on topic to call me controlling because you can't control yourself?

If you say so Lo. However you are just confirming your status as Board Troll.

Though why you would want to link back to a thread when I used the term "with a grain of salt" about what you write when you cut and pasted a PM about me to someone else is beyond me.

I do think you exaggerate a lot of your back story to people Lo. I think you do it for their sympathy and attention.

None of which you were getting from my husband, and none of which you will be getting from me.

[Lord Jim]

Interesting...

Take with a grain of salt
Meaning

To take a statement with 'a grain of salt' or 'a pinch of salt' means to accept it but to maintain a degree of skepticism about its truth.
Origin

take with a pinch of saltThe idea comes from the fact that food is more easily swallowed if taken with a small amount of salt. Pliny the Elder translated an ancient antidote for poison with the words 'be taken fasting, plus a grain of salt'.

Pliny’s Naturalis Historia, 77 A.D. translates thus:

After the defeat of that mighty monarch, Mithridates, Gnaeus Pompeius found in his private cabinet a recipe for an antidote in his own handwriting; it was to the following effect: Take two dried walnuts, two figs, and twenty leaves of rue; pound them all together, with the addition of a grain of salt; if a person takes this mixture fasting, he will be proof against all poisons for that day.

The suggestion is that injurious effects can be moderated by the taking of a grain of salt.

The figurative meaning, i.e. that truth may require moderation by the notional application of 'a grain of salt', didn't enter the language until much later, no doubt influenced by classical scholars' study of Ancient Greek texts like the works of Pliny. The phrase has been in use in English since the 17th century; for example, John Trapp's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, 1647:

"This is to be taken with a grain of salt."

The 'pinch of salt' variant is more recent. The earliest printed citation that I can find for it is F. R. Cowell's Cicero & the Roman Republic, 1948:

"A more critical spirit slowly developed, so that Cicero and his friends took more than the proverbial pinch of salt before swallowing everything written by these earlier authors."

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/take ... -salt.html

See, if you try hard enough, you can learn something from any thread....

[loCAtek]

Also;

"(With) a grain of salt," in modern English, is an idiom which means to view something with skepticism, or not to take it literally.[1] It derives from the Latin phrase, (cum) grano salis.

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The Latin word salis means both "salt" and "wit," so that the latin phrase "cum grano salis" could be translated as both "with a grain of salt" and "with a grain (small amount) of wit."