EP343: The Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions, The Museum Dedicated to Bad Art and The Opportunistic Patriot

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Send them our American stories.com. Some of our favorites but next we continue with our recurring series about the curious origins of everyday sayings. The stories behind them to join us again is Andrew Thompson as he continues to share another slice from his ultimate guide to understanding these many mysteries. These many stories of our precious English language. A nest egg is savings that are set aside for lighting use which a person tries to add to that phrase is being used from as early as the 14th century in England in those days were full commercial factory chicken farming. Chickens would lay their eggs in this could as a means of giving the chickens-encouraging them to lay more eggs pharmacies to place a pulse flowchart Reagan and they stole the Cooperia the dummy egg was known as a nest egg and did often induce the chickens to be more productive. The expression then came to mean someone's financial savings by the late 1600s in the nick of time means without a second to spare and it began in England in the Middle Ages about time during team games they be a telling man to keep school. He would carry a tally stick and each time a team scored he would Compass Monique will not chill grooving to the stick. If the winning.

Nick was either just before the end of the match was known as the nicking time. The expression later became known as in the nick of time. 19 to the Dawson Main Street going to very fast pace and it originated in the Cornish copper and tin mines in the 19th century in England, pumps were necessary piece of equipment of the mines and we used to clear out the excess water that are being used in the mining and coming as a result of flooding and pumps were used to clear water until the advent of steam driven pumps while the traditional hand pumps was slow and labor-intensive.

The steam pumps were fueled by coal Hall efficient when running at maximum capacity. I could clear 19,000 gallons of water for every 12 bushels of coal and that's with anointing to the Dawson came from to say. No dice mean something is futile. Nothing is happening and it began in America in the early 20th century gambling was illegal in many states of the time. So if guy was interrupted by the policing of Rite Aid men went to great lengths to hide their daughters when challenged courts would throw out illegal gambling cases if not dollars could be profit as evidence.

No DOS meant no conviction. This led some gamblers to even swallow that DOS to avoid arrest expression was then used clinically bought anointing 20s no such thing as a free lunch means you never get anything for nothing and is always a hidden cost began during the 1940s in America. Boston restaurants of the time, began offering free lunch to any customer who bought a drink. However, free lunch was usually something insubstantial like a salty snack which did little more than encourage a patron to drink more and spend more money.

It soon became apparent that offer free lunch people spending more money than if I just pay for proper lunch in the first place. This technique become a lucrative lifer's establishments to make money. Many even advertise the free lunch in local newspapers, with the salt means to be an effective formal deserving of one's piety and it draws from Roman times before the invention of canned goods and refrigeration salt was a valuable commodity in the preservation of food.

Roman soldiers receive some of their wages as allowance of salt. This was known as a solarium, which takes us route from Sal, the Latin word for salt and mold die with salary actually draws from if a soldier did not perform well. I was not up to scratch it was said that he was with you salt the expression, nothing is certain except for death and taxes means literally the only notice two things of the certain things in life began in 1726 with a book by Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe. But the book was the political history of the devil way right things are certain as death and taxes can be more firmly believed it was Benjamin Franklin recalling the price of minor widespread in writing about the new Constitution in the letter and 7099 he wrote out a new Constitution is now established and has an appearance that promises permanency, but in this world nothing can be certain, except death and taxes off-the-cuff means to carry out a toxic spontaneously or without preparation needs a phrase that relates to public speaking from the 1800s when men wore shirts with detachable calls and cuffs which made them easy to clean politicians and keynote speakers generally want to give an audience the impression that I will good speakers and could hold people's attention without any preparation or the need to refer to notes. It was a common practice at the time to write notes on the shirt cuffs before speech. Only they could see the notes so the audience to be none the wiser politicians would also make additional loss minute notes on the cost account of the arguments their opponents say the expression time off-the-cuff on a wing and a prayer means to be hopeful but unlikely to succeed in its another expression that stems from World War II. The story goes that American pilot flew back to Bice with one swing of his plane badly damaged the other men of the Bice were mice that hadn't crashed and he told him that he been praying all way in another pilot then coined the phrase when he said wing and a prayer wrote you back the phrase single worldwide attention when it was referred to into Hollywood films flying Tigers, starring John Whiting anointing 42 and a wing and a prayer anointing 44 coming in on a wing and a prayer was also a patriotic song released anointing 43 the popularize the expression and a great job as always on the production by Greg Englert and a special thanks to Andrew Thompson. He had us laughing out loud here in the studio. The whole crew. So many of these short stories and they are a series of short stories about phrases or laugh out loud funny. Andrew Thompson is the narrator and the voice you were listening to, and he's written a terrific book called care of the dog to paint the town red. The curious origins of everyday sayings and fun phrases. I particularly was laughing at Nesta because were well raising chickens and times you want the chickens to be a little more productive we throw in effect getting it works.

They think somehow that they need another one. We have no idea why it works with the fate that has proved to be well a great way to get more eggs. So many good stories Andrew Thompson on the curious origins of everyday sayings on Elinor's view of the great American stories we tell and love America like we do for asking you to become a part of the All-American stories family. If you agree that America is a good and great country. Please make a donation monthly gift of $17.76 is fast becoming a favorite option for supporters to allow American stories.com now and go to the donate button and help us keep the great American stories coming without American stories.com soon, millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7.

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Scott really liked the frame and he was planning to throw out the painting. Clean up the frame and salad by his friends Jerry Riley and Mary Jackson told him he can't throw that out so bad it's good and they hung it in their house and that that was the start of this whole thing. After that Scott and other friends kept an eye out for really bad paintings in thrift stores, yard sales, things like that and this collection kind of took on a life of its own. Jerry and Mary had a party when it was was a housewarming party and we had hung the paintings in around the basement and put up descriptions next to each one narratives, just explaining what we saw in the pieces and it was going to be a one time event and then chest never stopped.

The next morning we decided that we needed to keep this going, and continued that the museum that I never dreaming in 1993 that this would still be going today and it took a while and some talking and figuring out how to do that. And one of the moments that I always remember is we had five of us early on and we had a time when we were kind of saying, claiming it is this just the five of us who think this is interesting, you know, maybe there is no wider audience for someone had the insight that if you're walking past an art gallery with a group of people, and someone says wow look at that until you turn around and look you don't know if it's going to be really bad or really good either way. There is this instinct to share it and talk about it and have fun with it and we decided we needed to be the people to plug into that people in the early days just left CIR mailed it to us and we ended up with a lot that we didn't want because we do have standards.

Standards are pretty basic. One thing is to be ours, and to us. That means it needs to be sincere and original somebody trying to make an artistic statement of some sort, but something went wrong in a way that makes it interesting, compelling worth talking about. We don't collect kitsch without the snow. No velvet paintings no bigeye children are dogs playing poker. None of that paint by numbers and it just has to be that I curator Michael that Mike feels like something went wrong. It can be a very skilled artist who is trying something new are who just just missed something, and it got messed up for Princeton selected a topic that just didn't lend itself to painting it could be someone who barely knows which end of the paintbrush to pick up the heart and soul is there in the just didn't have the skills to pull it off.

The sincerity is apparent in a people try to make peace to get into our museum and you can usually see right through it that this was someone just trying to make something bad that doesn't have the appeal of a sincere work. We have almost 800 pieces altogether. We've never had room to show more than 25 or 30 at a time, but a couple of my favorites from over the years is please call Sunday on the pot with George pointillist peace and I'm not an artist but from what I understand, pointillism is hard and all those little tiny dots to make an image and this image is of portly man sitting apparently on a toilet with a towel draped over him and as we say the artist ran out of campus before he got to the feet. The feet are not shown big piece and all these little dots of paint and all the thought because Intuit why would you do spend all that effort on this subject, portly man sitting on a toilet and it's just baffling. So I did.

I love that that one.

For that reason another one. I'm very fond of is called sensitive to small yellow piece and heavy black letters say sensitive going in different directions but it's this big, insensitive, sensitive, and is a little cartoon with stick figures that a man is offering his heart to a woman and she takes it and throws it on the ground and stops on it so it makes me picture a conversation where this man is saying sensitive. You want sensitive.

I'll show you sensitive and paste this insensitive peace with the words sensitive sneering black paint across the middle of it said a man and on piece one of the things that makes it so appealing is so much emotion in this, it will never be shown in a fine art traditional art museum, but the heart and soul really shows through. We can relate to it.

You can imagine yourself most of us can't imagine ourselves doing even a backseat piece. Nevermind Raffaella Laura Picasso, but we can imagine ourselves making these attempts, and having something go wrong and that's fine. It's also fun to look at a piece and really think about what's wrong with it. What is going on in this painting and it raises the same questions that fine art raises why was this created what was in the artist's mind, what alternatives might they have used the parallels to fine art are immense. I grew up in Boston less than a mile from the Museum of fine arts and on rainy days we would go hang out there. So from the time I was 10 years old I was around a lot of in a very famous wonderful art and some of the same responses.

I have two things in the Museum of fine arts. I have to see them about art, but we never have called the Museum on it and said this is really not that good. It's it's up to the curators of each museum to decide on their own, but the idea that we have to decide that this is bad.

And this is good is maybe not useful you know and I enjoying looking at this and doesn't make me happier make me think are well then don't worry about what the label is me night I laugh a little bit at the popularity of Thomas Kincaid in his paintings of light dear people who think they're wonderful and there's no reason that I want to stop them from thinking that you know if if you think that that's wonderful. Then enjoy it, share it now. Tell your friends about it. Who gets to say what's good and what's bad. It's unclear who all why in some cases, one of the values that we have brought, I think to some audiences is that when people come into the Museum of bad art they feel perfectly free to disagree with us and that's fine, but they ought to be doing that everywhere note traditional museums often intimidate people. How dare you disagree with what the Metropolitan Museum of Art thinks belongs on the wall. It's hard to do but we know with us, you can disagree we had fun. Huge. We had a lot of fun and we we've learned that a lot of the ideas about our that we've had our universal we have followers all over the world. We've learned that artists are not as we feared at the start worried about having their peace in the Museum of bad art because artists want someone to see their work. They want they want attention and sometimes it fairly ridiculous idea can have legs and can continue and grow in a special thanks to Monty for the production on their peace and for the storytelling and special thanks to Madison for her work on the interview and thanks to Louise Riley Sacco and you can reach Louise Museum a bad art museum of bad art.org find out more about these nearby where if you're trying to get him. Don't try and deliberately make it into the museum about art will figure you out. She's gotta be art that had a good intention, but something went wrong, but I love the logo of Elysium about arts website it says art to bed to be ignored.

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What little you may remember from them, or maybe from the Broadway musical Hamilton was Ehrenberg will bill break is here to tell us a little bit more about the often reviled politician Bill money will move around in his extraordinary Hamilton and American musical brilliantly captures Ehrenberg in three lines free advice.

He has Burr offered to Alexander Hamilton when they first meet. In 1776, talk less, smile more.

Don't let them know what you are against what you are for twilight on June 7, 1812 56-year-old man returned from six years self-imposed European exile lender New York somewhere near today's South St., Seaport. He hastened to a friends house at 66 Water St., only to find no one at home only around midnight to define the room already occupied by five other men in a plane house along the dark alley in the morning, he returned to find his friend Samuel sort out at home and after an affectionate welcome to sort out brothers lodged the tormented born Baroque throughout his life remain potent boyhood friend and longtime political opponent Robert $10 in the law library then $10 with real money is now a law library is essential to one's practice.

The rented space at 9 Nassau St. he took out some newspaper advertisements you ordered a small tin sign brightly lacquered bearing his name and tacked to the outside wall. When he arrived open his office on the morning of July 5, 1812 along of clients awaited him.

Hundreds more would follow within 12 days, his receipts totaled what was then a staggering $2000. However, the inhabitants of New York viewed the man the low mask wrote they had not forgotten the skills of the advocate Ehrenberg former colonel in the Army of the revolution, former Atty. Gen. of New York, former United States Sen. and former vice president of the United States resumed the practice of law.

He had been born February 6, 1756 in Newark, New Jersey and Princeton in the sophomore class of 13 took his degree with distinction at 16 and even spoken commencement. He was elegant from youth small, slender, broad shoulders and handsome good fine taste in clothes, to which dozens of unpaid tailors on two continents would attest his mentors were exquisite is conversation never polled and whether in the courtroom or the Senate. He spoke quietly and conversationally without bombast or literary allusion.

He strove to see things as they are not as they want to be possessed a massive set of what dexterity enough to conceal the truth without telling a lot sagacity enough to read other people's countenances and serenity enough not to let them discover anything but it was also throughout his life, much pursued by women and they never had one very far or very fast he fought for American independence of Qu�bec, Brooklyn and Morningside Heights.

He was a Lieut. Col. at 22 wintered at Valley Forge and had a horse shot from under him at Monmouth on June 28, 1778.

That means you go on in harm's way for he might've been hit by the shot that killed his charge only one who is been thrown from a horse can understand what that means. The pains of having the wind knocked out of you with muscle sprains and bones broken the man of pleasure one single-handedly suppressed mutiny on his regiment ringleader leveled his musket shouting now is the time my brave boys the last syllable early left his lips when Burr drawn sword severed the man's arm just above the elbow regiment knew no more mutinies. During his service, he met you.

Does your pre-post, the wife of a British officer serving in the West Indies. Burr later wrote that she possessed the truest heart. The ripest conflict in the most willing mentors. Any woman he had ever met.

She spoke French fluently frequently quoted the Latin poets and read avidly.

Burr admired and wanted.

She responded with warmth and friendship. Her husband died in 1781. She married Bertha following year, nothing. So, testifies to you.

Does your pre-post character, charm and intelligence than that sensual cynical man was throughout their marriage are loving and faithful husband more.

Though Burr was a feminist. By instinct, he admired Mary Wollstonecraft's vindication of the rights of women in The print of Mrs. Wilson crafts portrait on his wall, his marriage made those beliefs heartfelt. He was among the first practical politicians was nothing if not practical work for women's education on a par with men. It was a knowledge of your mind which first inspired me the ideas. Would you have often heard me express in favor of female electrical powers founded on what I have seen in you. She died in 1794, after 12 years of marriage. He never ceased to mourn her.

Perhaps the relationship was the noblest achievement of his life in Hamilton. Burroughs asked if you stand for nothing bro. What will you fall for clearly at least in his love for Theodosia and his passion for human rights. He stood for something in 1782. He was admitted to the New York bar at the age of 26 was elected to the legislature in 1784 28 fought to abolish slavery and appointed Atty. Gen. in 1789, when he was 33 and 1791, he defeated Philip Schuyler, father-in-law of Alexander Hamilton for the United States Senate� The feud between Hamilton and the new senator worked hard without taking politics seriously.

For him it was the pursuit of fun and honor and profit.

This earned him the antipathy of Thomas Jefferson, who took politics almost as seriously as he did himself to be fair.

Perhaps that is not entirely true.

We know Jefferson had red hair, in part because he preserved a letter addressed to him as redheaded son of a Virginian and bird needed one another Burr controlled the country's first mass party organization Society of St. Tammany.

Thomas Jefferson was the Democrats first ideologue Burr was their first mechanic in 1800, the Jeffersonians nominated Sen. Byrd for vice president and his troubles began. Presidential electors then voted for two candidates without specifying a preference for Pres. and for vice president candidate receiving the most votes became president.

The second place Became vice president Jefferson number tied with 73 votes each. The election went to the House of Representatives Federalists detested Jefferson sought to look bird instead.

After 36 pallets. The house finally elected Jefferson Pres. and Burr VP. There is no evidence that had plotted with the Federalists to win the presidency unless Jefferson always had a slight touch of paranoia froze him out and withheld patronage from his followers, and you're listening to the remarkable story of Ehrenberg, my goodness, Princeton at 13 and we often talk about the fact that boy in earlier days people grew up faster and maybe it wasn't a bad thing in my goodness, knowing the sting of battle which Ehrenberg did know a 22 Lieut. Col. wintered at Valley Forge's horse were shot out from underneath him in the battle of Monmouth, New Jersey. My goodness the men new battle, new politics and new love. When we come back more of the story of Hamilton's chief telling his side. Ehrenberg L American store millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7.

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In April 1804 Byrd knowing Jefferson would not allow his renomination.

Later that year ran for governor of New York. Hamilton had come to Hafer and Hamilton's rage was inflected in his intensely personal campaign, which included indiscreet personal remarks reported in the newspaper. Burr was heavily seized upon correspondence published in Albany register Dr. Charles Cooper wrote general Hamilton and Judge Kent have declared in substance that they looked upon Mr. Byrd to be a dangerous man and I could detail to you a still more despicable opinion which general Hamilton has expressed over requested an acknowledgment for denial of the still more despicable opinion of himself attributed Hamilton two days later, Helton replied with a lengthy dissertation on the meaning of despicable Burr responded the common sense of mankind fixed to word the idea of dishonor even demanded Hamilton generally disavow any intention to convey impressions derogatory to the honor of Mr. Burke Helton was trapped.

This would have meant denying a great deal of his political conversations, speeches and correspondence over two decades, Hamilton now feebly offered that he could not recall using any term that would justify Dr. Cooper's construction, Bergen demanded a disclaimer, Hamilton refused on June 27, 1804 Byrd challenged in Hamilton except on Wednesday, July 11, 1804 at 7 AM. The two men stood 10 paces apart on the Weehawken shore, New Jersey pistols and hand.

Hamilton perhaps a second before his opponent fired into the air. Burr shot through. He was indicted for murder in New York and New Jersey, while his lawyers and friends worked to quash the indictments returned to Washington DC where he resumed his duties as vice president on March 2, 1805. His last day in public office. Burr rose from the chair he stood before a hall of professional politicians familiar with every rhetorical device, many without changing his customary conversational tone spoke briefly of the United States and the Senate itself. The Senate, he said, is a sanctuary assumable law of order and delivered and it is here. It is here in this exalted refuge here anywhere will resistance be made to the storms of political frenzy in the silent parts of corruption if the Constitution be destined ever to perish by the sacrilegious hands of the demagogue or the usurper which God avert its expiring agonies will be witnessed on this floor. Then, having spoken forms from the heart. He stepped down, walked across the chamber and went out the door. He was only 49 years old behind him. The Senate sat in silence. Sen. Samuel Mitchell of New York wrote my colleague general Smith stout and manly as he is wept is profusely. As I did, he did not recover for quarter of an hour before leaving office. Burr had begun a conspiracy precisely what her plan remains a mystery puzzle a lock without a key told his first biographer Mathew Bill Davis the scheme he called was intended to revolutionize Mexico and settle some lands he had in Texas perhaps was religions remain in the papers tantalize the maps of New Orleans, Veracruz, and the roads to Mexico City in the correspondence hinting he would not liberate but sees Mexico draw the Western states from the union and combining them into one nation stand the throne of the Aztecs and crowned himself Emperor of the West gods, invite us to glory and fortune were wrote to his co-conspirator, Gen. James Wilkinson in general in chief of the United States Army John Randolph of Roanoke most ferocious of politicians called Wilkinson the mammoth of iniquity. The only man I ever saw was from the bark to the very core of Wilkinson self designed uniforms and crust with gold braided rug and failed to conceal his enormous girth he was, as we now know a paid agent of Spain, a man on the take. At some point Wilkinson ratted out Burger Jefferson on November 27, 1806, Jefferson issued a proclamation led to the collapse of the plot, Burr's arrest Amber's indictment for treason by levying war against the United States. Wilkinson was not the subject of prosecution that we now know that Jefferson to new Wilkinson was taking money from the Spanish. Perhaps Wilkinson knew too much in an age, not yet. So cool was to eliminate those who knew too much, was tried in Richmond Virginia before Chief Justice John Marshall Jefferson's third cousin. The cousins detested one another. The prosecutor insinuated that Marshall would be impeached if he did not rule for the prosecution on the evidentiary motions. Marshall noted the threat in his decision. He also noted the Constitution requires treason to be proven by the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act of treason.

Of the dozens of witnesses presented by the government. None had testified to an overt act.

Marshall then excluded all evidence presented by the government is merely corroborative and incompetent within 25 minutes. The jury found Bernard guilty now in a self-imposed exercise of discretion were left for Europe.

At first birth sought financial support for X from the British and then the French.

Nothing came of it from the exiles beginning Burr recorded his experiences in his private journal. Perhaps the saddest revelations are that this vital charming man was so easily bored. Yet, as will mask rights. There was a limit to how many parties he could attend how many ceremonies he could watch how many books he could read how many bright and articulate people who control within the radiant circle of his charm, he devoted his energies to fornication with prostitutes is necessary, and other women when possible will mask notes. He described his amatory encounters as use French hunting term meaning the beginning of the running season in animals suggests that he despised himself for treating sex in this way, some principles remained uncompromised despite boredom and the lack of money he never descended to drinking cheap wine. After his return to the United States. He only dabbled in politics in 1812. He was pulling strings from an unknown man in the West named Andrew Jackson who will do credit to a commission in the army is conferred upon when Jackson became president in 1829 Samuel sort out whose hospitality Burr had enjoyed on his return from exile, was appointed collector of the Port of New York birds help is MR Warner relates in his history of Tammany Hall sort out later hurried to Europe when his account showed that he had borrowed from the government spawns the sum of $1,225,705.69 the public with their charming levity that has always characterized its attitude toward wholesale plunder made the best of a bad situation by coining a new term when a man put the governments money into his own pocket.

It was said that sort out in 1833 Burr married Eliza Jamel.

Perhaps the richest American woman of the time she had after what may have been the most successful career of her age as shall we say a working girl, married an extremely wealthy man. By the time she married Burr. Jamel was a widow probably married her for money within the year she began divorce proceedings on the grounds of adultery are remarkable, even heartening accusation against a man of 78 on September 14, 1836, the day on which decree of divorce from Mme. Jamel was entered by the court. Ehrenberg died in a second-floor room 12040 Richmond Ter. in Port Richmond, Staten Island.

Two days later he was buried beside his father and grandfather in Princeton, New Jersey will mask wrote for nearly 20 years, the grave went unmarked than a relative arrange for the installation of a simple marble slab in 1995, the Ehrenberg Association placed a bronze plaque on the grave that recites his services to the Republic and great job on that by rubbing or producer and Bill break Ehrenberg story here on our Americans