What did "Hair of the Dog" mean before it took on its popular meaning, and when was it coined? Hold-it...before you look for it, just take a guess when it was coined...I'll drink a beer for anyone who guesses to within a century.
Okay! This is your third drinking thread this morning. Are you on a binge HeyP? If so...good for you! Ain't nothing like a beer buzz in the morning! Hair of the dog. Hum, 18th century? ------------------ Everything you do, effects everything that is.
Well, I looked it up and I was WAY off! ------------------ Everything you do, effects everything that is.
"Hair of the dog" has a popular meaning?! Can't be that popular or I'd have heard it by now. ------------------ RealGM Gafford Art Artisan Cakes
It came from a song by Nazareth. "Now you're messin' with a..." Sorry to deconstruct your post, hp. I can't help myself.
Wasn't it from an orcherstra (spelling) or symphony or something? ------------------ Nice guys finish last ... and im surely not going to finish last!
Hair of the Dog who bit you, originally had medicinal meaning. Place hair from the dog who bit you into your wound. Now get this, it become an expression for a hangover cure in 479 BC. Those Roman's could drink! lol
By this you mean the cure for the hangover is to start drinking again, cause thats what it means to me and my aussie mates ------------------ "Repression never did me any harm (I finally ceased to include "stop masturbating" as one of my guilt ridden New Year's resolutions, but that's a different topic)." Achebe - programmer by day, Mrs Palmers Husband by night
More little known trivia - Drinking spelled with only one 'n'. ------------------ Founder and President of the Houston Homers Club(HHC) - Are you a homer? Join now! The Rockets will be NBA champions. Believe.
Dependes whether you are drinnking at the time ------------------ "Repression never did me any harm (I finally ceased to include "stop masturbating" as one of my guilt ridden New Year's resolutions, but that's a different topic)." Achebe - programmer by day, Mrs Palmers Husband by night