Dear Readers,

Today is another holiday, and my wife just told me that I could be fined by the church police if I'm caught working. So I will secretly pound out this newsletter, never mind the spelling and typing errors, and get back to barbecuing.

Tastefully yours,

Bryan

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Next time you're washing your hands and the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s. Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children--last of all the babies.

By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

Houses had thatched roofs--thick straw--piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the dogs, cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof.

When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof-hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could really mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, hence the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they kept adding more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway, hence, a "thresh hold."

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes the stew had food in it that had been there for quite awhile. Hence the rhyme, "peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old."

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man "could bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with a high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning and death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Most people did not have pewter plates, but had trenchers, a piece of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl. Often trenchers were made from stale bread which was so old and hard that they could be used for quite some time. Trenchers were never washed and a lot of times worms and mold got into the wood and old bread. After eating off wormy, moldy trenchers, one would get "trench mouth."

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust." Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a "wake."

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a"bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell;thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."

And that's the truth... (whoever said that History was boring?)

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Why It's Important for Guys Like Me to Go to Conventions Like This

This is part three (thus the title) of my experiences at the Global Interactive Gaming Summit and Exposition in Toronto.

Thursday the convention was over -- most everyone was on their way back home, and it was my last day to shop. I had also purchased advance tickets to the new "Star Wars" film which was utterly mind-boggling fantastic.

I remember when I was a boy, Ray Harryhausen was my hero. He was the one who had created the special effects for the Sinbad films (The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, and Jason and the Argonauts, etc.). And I remember thinking, that it couldn't get much better than this...but then again, I knew that the space-age was approaching and I wondered how could films like these look then? Well, it is the space-age, it's 2002 and films like this (Star Wars) can't get much more real. The special effects are seamless wonders giving more credence to the suspension of disbelief. It's a boy's dream come true. Thank you George Lucas.

And what a nice visit, and looking back at my agenda, did I succeed in getting done what I needed to get done?

shop -- yes, I did so.
eat -- yes. Sushi twice. Mexican twice.
meet people -- yes. I certainly did.
learn something new -- yes, I learned quite a few new things, some of which I am unable to disclose presently, but rest assured, there are some very interesting developments with the Online Players Organization, Playtech, Microgaming, and several other online gaming entities.

And one thing for sure, it is very important for people like me to attend conferences like this. I am very much in touch with the player, as well as the online casino operator, and also with the webmasters who promote these businesses. So I feel like a big 204 lb. conduit -- giving the operators information that they need to successfully operate their businesses and giving the players the information they need to play safe and sound.

So, in closing, thanks River City Group. Thanks Toronto.