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<blockquote data-quote="dilligaf" data-source="post: 534291" data-attributes="member: 11476">No one knows where the expression &quot;to grin like a Cheshire cat&quot; originated, but it wasn&#039;t with Carroll. The Cheshire cat is a well-known character in Alice&#039;s Adventures in Wonderland, but the expression, meaning a sneering smile that shows the gums, existed long before he wrote the book. There is no such breed of cat.&nbsp;Influenza got its name from that fact that people believed the disease was because of the evil &quot;influence&quot; of stars.&nbsp;The seven deadly sins (sins serious enough to kill one&#039;s soul) are currently anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust, gluttony, and covetousness. They haven&#039;t always been so, however. Originally, there were eight deadly sins (as proposed by Avagrius of Pontus). The eight (in order of increasing severity) were gluttony, lust, avarice, sadness, anger, apathy, vainglory, and pride. Gregory the Great later decided that vainglory and pride were too much alike to be counted separately and combined them. He added envy. Later still, the Roman Catholic Church decided sadness wasn&#039;t a sin, and added sloth. Somewhere along the way, apathy was dropped as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dilligaf, post: 534291, member: 11476"] [FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkred]No one knows where the expression "to grin like a Cheshire cat" originated, but it wasn't with Carroll. The Cheshire cat is a well-known character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but the expression, meaning a sneering smile that shows the gums, existed long before he wrote the book. There is no such breed of cat.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Fixedsys][SIZE=4][COLOR=teal]Influenza got its name from that fact that people believed the disease was because of the evil "influence" of stars.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [COLOR=teal] [/COLOR] [FONT=Microsoft Sans Serif][SIZE=3][COLOR=dimgray]The seven deadly sins (sins serious enough to kill one's soul) are currently anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust, gluttony, and covetousness. They haven't always been so, however. Originally, there were eight deadly sins (as proposed by Avagrius of Pontus). The eight (in order of increasing severity) were gluttony, lust, avarice, sadness, anger, apathy, vainglory, and pride. Gregory the Great later decided that vainglory and pride were too much alike to be counted separately and combined them. He added envy. Later still, the Roman Catholic Church decided sadness wasn't a sin, and added sloth. Somewhere along the way, apathy was dropped as well.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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