itchysabot commented on the word sabot
Etymologically, patience is but suffering
with calmness. So perhaps that means
that passion is but suffering with gusto...
October 15, 2007
According to legend, in the early days of
the industrial revolution, workers in a
weaving factory took off their wooden clogs -- sabots -- and threw them into
the machinery, with destructive intent,
as a protest that the machines were degrading the nature of their work...
Hence the word sabotage.
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itchysabot commented on the word sabot
Etymologically, patience is but suffering
with calmness. So perhaps that means
that passion is but suffering with gusto...
October 15, 2007
itchysabot commented on the word sabot
According to legend, in the early days of
the industrial revolution, workers in a
weaving factory took off their wooden clogs -- sabots -- and threw them into
the machinery, with destructive intent,
as a protest that the machines were degrading the nature of their work...
Hence the word sabotage.
October 15, 2007