Day 51: Sunday FACEBOOK Style, "Many mickles make a muckle."

"Many mickles make a muckle." Good advice from George Washington (do you need a link for that guy? Yeah, how about a roast.)

This week in Forge, Ryan Holiday wrote an article entitled, "All You Need Are A Few Wins Every Day." He writes that Washington's favorite saying was this old Scottish proverb which Holiday says "...is a truth we all know. Things add up. Even little ones. Even at the pace of one per day."

That certainly describes my process. Part of that process is searching the Internet for phrases like 'many a mickle make a muckle."

Martha and George: Turn, Washington's Spies, 'Many Mickles make a Muckle," Season  3, Episode 6

J. Macdonald wrote about mickles and muckles in November, 2018 on Medium "Apparently, George Washington made an error when he popularised the phrase. Originally, the saying was was ‘many a little makes a muckle."

There is a thread on English.stackexchange, "a question and answer site for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts."

Here are some variants:

"Mony a puckle maks a muckle"

"Many a little makes a mickle"

"A Mickle is an Irish word for 'coin' and a Muckle is an old Cockney term (derived from old Yiddish slang) meaning a 'bundle'. The phrase means to save each coin and create a bundle, i.e. a bundle of coins. In more modern vernacular it translates to 'save a penny, save a pound'."

"The OED says of the phrase you are asking about:
[mickle, n.:] A large sum or amount. Chiefly in proverb: many a little (also pickle) makes a mickle (now freq. in the garbled form many a mickle makes a muckle).
The form many a mickle makes a muckle (earliest recorded in quot. 1793) arises from a misapprehension that, rather than being variants of the same word, mickle and muckle have opposite meanings, the former representing ‘a small amount’ and the latter ‘a large amount’.

Then being the Internet the thread devolves into...

"There's many a mickle makes a muckle" is a spoof - it has no meaning."

 Stumptown

Before Portlandia or the coffee brewing company in the 1840s, Portland was known as 'Stumptown' because of town grew so quickly there was not enough 'manpower' (sic) to remove the stumps. Local painted them white so that they wouldn't trip over them.

Not sure what is happening here in HP but...

This one has a bird pictograph

These two are trying to escape.

                                 





These two want to go home.










Ouroboros

This turns out to be a popular band name. This group's genre is "Technical Death/Thrash Metal.""The band has shared the stage with some of the most respected names in metal including Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Psycroptic, Necrophagist, Dying Fetus, Aborted, The Amenta, Sadistik Exekution, Sybreed and The Faceless."

Here is one of their tunes...Sanctuary (trigger warning: loud and disturbing)






A Mother's Day Message from Ike

In Bret Baier's book, "Three Days in January, Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission" Eisenhower quotes his mother after young Dwight got into a scuffle with another boy. "Hatred was a futile sort of thing, she said, because hating anyone or anything meant there was little to be gained. The person who had incurred my displeasure probably didn't care, possibly didn't even know, and the only person injured with myself."


That's it for today. Tune in tomorrow for the "Best Image" nominations for the Donnies™