Easter Break

[samgrant]

WTBS Trivia Game is taking a one week Easter Break.

Game #52 will start next week. New questions will be posted on or before Saturday, March 29.

Enjoy your Easter Holiday.

Finish you taxes - Halliburton/KBR ain't cheap you know.

See You next week. Sam


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[Rad2duhbone53]

Happy Easter Sam Grant..........see ya later

[samgrant]

On March 28, Game #52 of the WBTS Trivia Game will commence.

The start of a new 6 week game is a great time for new players to join the fray.

Guys: The last 5 games have been won by women. What's wrong with you men? No sense of honor? Are you mudsills or what? Yeah, youv'e got to spend serious time on March Madness brackets, etc., there's always some sports excuse, but the ladies apparently haven't been wasting their time on Project Runway. Get with it!

Gals: Please continue to prove your superior acumen over men in solving these question puzzles. Also spend more time on Project Runway, please.


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[hoosier]

Mudsills?

Is this a new term that should be added to our Civil War A to Z glossary?

[samgrant]

Originally Posted by hoosier

Mudsills?

Is this a new term that should be added to our Civil War A to Z glossary?

You are correct Hoosier, I am surprised that this term has not yet been posted in our glossary. Colloquially, in that era, a "Mudsill" was a derogetory term by Southerners for a Northerner, especially those who were so-called 'wage-slaves' who labored 'just as' slaves in the South. A "mudsill" was a thing one wiped one's muddy feet on before entering a house.

"Mudsill" became a common epithet after James Henry hammond introduced the concept in a Senate speech in 1858:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudsill_theory

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"By the “mud-sill” theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be—all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly.... Free labor insists on universal education.

- A. Lincoln

But, Mr. Hoosier, to put it in its simplest terms, I am frankly challanging the menfolk in our game, asking: do they want to continue to have the ladies wipe their feet on themselves week after week?

That's all.

Sorry to be so blunt.

sam