Nice article!
It's nice to know that the ubiquitous safety pin has so many historical facts attached to it.
On a lighter note I am reminded of a line from Dorothy Sayers' book in which a liar is described with a reference to the safety pin, "He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin."
I found it very informative. Thanks!
Great quote, great insult. This reminds me of the famous insult made to Earl Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, by Field Marshall General Templer: "Dickie, you're so crooked that if you swallowed a nail you'd shit a corkscrew".
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Wow, that's a great quote. She had a sharp pen, that's for sure. Thanks for sharing it!
And I have to thank that baby pin for getting me to question the safety pin - without that I would probably have drifted through life not knowing anything more than how much blood a safety pin can usually get out of the softest part of my fingertip.
I like poems and happened to read one which had a line with safety pin in it. This excerpt is taken from allpoetry.com(source):
With God, i dont need a safety pin
for Jesus is my glue
to bind together my faults
so his work, i can do".
Good to come back and see genuinely good content being upvoted and appreciated - for a change. Following for more!
Lovely poem, @ maxabit. Thank you for sharing 😘
And thank you for the kind words about my content. I really appreciate it. I'm here for the long haul so I like to put effort into what I write, and it makes such a difference to get real comments back instead of copy paste "nice work please follow me" type replies.