(October 16, 2018 at 9:59 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(October 16, 2018 at 8:35 pm)julep Wrote: This is the origin of the phrase “saved by the bell.”
Evidently Irish moonshine used to put people into comas, and so many people were accidentally buried alive that this kind of mechanism became common. Also workers were added to cemeteries to listen for these bells...origin of the term “graveyard shift.”
Things you learn in the Irish Whiskey Museum tour...
No, "saved by the bell" comes from boxing; a boxer still on his feet, but faltering, can be saved from his opponent giving the decisive blow because the bell that marks the end of the round rang, and the boxers know you don't fuck with the Marquess of Queensbury's rules.
Fitchburg Daily Sentinel, Feb. 1893 Wrote:"Martin Flaherty defeated Bobby Burns in 32 rounds by a complete knockout. Half a dozen times Flaherty was saved by the bell in the earlier rounds."
That was the earliest known use of the phrase. At least until this:
(Also, it turns out that YouTube is down, so if the video looks like a random string of characters in a text box instead of a video, that's why)
Also, looking into the safety coffin's history, it's telling that there are no signs of anyone actually being saved by that bell.
You mean the guide at the whiskey museum was lying to us?
She seemed so sincere.
Of course at the beginning of the tour she said she was native Irish and then she told us she was from New Jersey.
