Why Pressurepick.com?
So someone asked me why I picked pressurepick.com as the domain for my blog. Well frankly I don't know. Perhaps I want to pressure you into picking an ad to click. Not that I am condoning erroneous ad clicking, but some extra change is always nice.
This brings me to my next unrelated point: "That's my 2 cents"
Where do they come off with a phrase like that?! I mean, that's like saying: Well, I think my thoughts are worth pocket lint, but let me tell you anyway.
Okay, so I know there are those smart asses reading this out there thinking, "Wow, what an uneducated person to say such things; that phrase makes complete sense!"
Well, for those people, I bet you didn't know this:
"Put my two cents in" originates from the older "put my two bits in" and has its origin in the game of poker. When playing poker you have to make a small bet before the cards are dealt called an "ante" to begin play in that hand.
This phrase draws an analogy to the poker ante (two bits) and gains your entry into the conversation.
Two bits means one quarter (currently the American twenty five cent piece). This comes from the older term "piece of eight".
Today we have coins minted in different denominations - nickel, dime, and quarter in the U.S. - but this was not always so. Gold and silver coins once served as currency, with the value of the coin equal to the value of the gold or silver contained in the coin. To obtain currency valued at less than a full gold coin, coins would be scored and split into pieces. This is how one would make change so to speak.
Coins could be split into halfs, quarters, and eighths. One eighth of a coin was called a "piece of eight" and also called a "bit". Two pieces of eight is equal to one quarter. Hence "two bits" is a quarter.
So there you have it. The reason I chose pressurepick.com
This brings me to my next unrelated point: "That's my 2 cents"
Where do they come off with a phrase like that?! I mean, that's like saying: Well, I think my thoughts are worth pocket lint, but let me tell you anyway.
Okay, so I know there are those smart asses reading this out there thinking, "Wow, what an uneducated person to say such things; that phrase makes complete sense!"
Well, for those people, I bet you didn't know this:
"Put my two cents in" originates from the older "put my two bits in" and has its origin in the game of poker. When playing poker you have to make a small bet before the cards are dealt called an "ante" to begin play in that hand.
This phrase draws an analogy to the poker ante (two bits) and gains your entry into the conversation.
Two bits means one quarter (currently the American twenty five cent piece). This comes from the older term "piece of eight".
Today we have coins minted in different denominations - nickel, dime, and quarter in the U.S. - but this was not always so. Gold and silver coins once served as currency, with the value of the coin equal to the value of the gold or silver contained in the coin. To obtain currency valued at less than a full gold coin, coins would be scored and split into pieces. This is how one would make change so to speak.
Coins could be split into halfs, quarters, and eighths. One eighth of a coin was called a "piece of eight" and also called a "bit". Two pieces of eight is equal to one quarter. Hence "two bits" is a quarter.
So there you have it. The reason I chose pressurepick.com
