12 thoughts on “Anorex[st]ics Inaneymous # 20! I Know You’re All Waiting On Tenterhooks For This…”

1. Just what the heck is a tenterhook. I can positively state that I haven’t been waiting on one, because I’m sure I’d be feeling a great deal of pain if I was.

   Keep the bodily function jokes coming, those are always good for a laugh.

2. Because inquiring minds want to know:
   

   
   Tenterhook
   
   From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

   Tenterhooks were used as far back as the fourteenth century in the process of making woollen cloth. After the cloth had been woven it still contained oil from the fleece and some dirt. It was cleaned in a fulling mill and then had to be dried carefully as wool shrinks. To prevent this shrinkage, the wet cloth would be placed on a large wooden frame, a “tenter”, and left to dry outside. The lengths of wet cloth were stretched on the tenter (from the Latin “tendere”, to stretch) using hooks (nails driven through the wood) all around the perimeter of the frame to which the cloth’s edges (selvages) were fixed so that as it dried the cloth would retain its shape and size.[1] At one time it would have been common in manufacturing areas to see tenter-fields full of these frames.

   By the mid-eighteenth century the phrase “on tenterhooks” came into use to mean being in a state of uneasiness, anxiety, or suspense, stretched like the cloth on the tenter.
   

3. A farty ringtone is definitely a good reason to turn your phone off in church. I bet there are some others too…

4. Ahh, that was my first guess.

   Okay, I lied. I was picturing big slabs of cows or pigs hanging on hooks.

5. If I knew someone who had a fart ring-tone, I’d call them all the time – especially when I knew they were in church! Of course, someone who goes to church would never choose a farty ring-tone. 😉

6. Very good grasshopper… I just purchased a blue tooth dongle that will enable me to make my custom ring tones and load them up to my cell phone. I believe this will be my first one. I shall name it wisely. 🙂

7. Okay, I admit I got the phrase ‘waiting on tenterhooks’ from Harry Potter. 😀

8. I read this blog because it’s so intellectual.

9. Phlbbbbtttt!

10. My dream is to have a flatulence ring tone and keep my phone on while I’m in church. I like to live on the edge.

    Ancient Chinese/Catholic saying: He who pass gas in church, sit in own pew… lol

11. So, Jifufu….what’s your cell phone #?

12. NW, call me. I know.

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