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@great-big-stees said
Perhaps it, “green thumb”, comes from when someone wore green gloves when gardening.🤔
It comes from the ancient Egyptians who used copper watering cans for watering their herbs. The copper turned green and some rubbed off onto their fingers and thumbs.


@the-gravedigger said
It comes from the ancient Egyptians who used copper watering cans for watering their herbs. The copper turned green and some rubbed off onto their fingers and thumbs.
Thanks, Digger. I actually learned something from a thread devoted to arguing with idiots. Wonders never cease.



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Some sources claim it goes back the Edward I, who liked green peas; others say it was popularised in the UK in the early 1900s. Take yer pick. Personally, I like to think the Egyptians bequeathed to posterity something more than dead pharaohs.



Gardening, like numbers, toothbrushes, jurisprudence, algebra, and surgery, was invented in the Islamic world and green is the colour of Islam: hence, the notion of a "green thumb".

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Sez the Grand Master of the cheap shot.

New avatar, I see.


@moonbus said
Sez the Grand Master of the cheap shot.

New avatar, I see.
I note you’ve been bequeathed one of those Egyptian/Islamic/English digits.👍This one’s faded.



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Well, now that we know where green thumbs come from, perhaps you’d like to tell us where red ones come from. You seem to be quite adept at reaping them.



PS Congratulations on becoming impregnable.


@moonbus said
Well, now that we know where green thumbs come from, perhaps you’d like to tell us where red ones come from. You seem to be quite adept at reaping them.



PS Congratulations on becoming impregnable.
Did you say the gooster was pregnant? 🙂 Or not able to get pregnant? 🙂

-VR


@moonbus said
Well, now that we know where green thumbs come from, perhaps you’d like to tell us where red ones come from. You seem to be quite adept at reaping them.



PS Congratulations on becoming impregnable.
perhaps you’d like to tell us where red ones come from

The thumbers are anonymous: courtesy of this website's only For Adolescents feature.


@very-rusty said
Did you say the gooster was pregnant? 🙂 Or not able to get pregnant? 🙂

-VR
I dare say, no one would dare to try.

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@fmf said
perhaps you’d like to tell us where red ones come from

The thumbers are anonymous: courtesy of this website's only For Adolescents feature.
Well, that's good news. You used to think they were infantile. Now they're adolescent. Give them time, they'll grow on you.


@fmf said
perhaps you’d like to tell us where red ones come from

The thumbers are anonymous: courtesy of this website's only For Adolescents feature.
I thought you claimed to never use it?

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