"I'm going to take that with a large grain of salt."

[LordShiva]

But how large can it be before it stops being a grain?

Discuss.

[Kuciwalker]

The size of Texas.

[Dauphin]

A grain is 64.79891 milligrams.

Anything else is as silly as saying "I will have the larger half".

[Zkribbler]

Goddammit! I have the smaller half! Dauphin, you owe me!

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Anything else is as silly as saying "I will have the larger half".

I dunno - some halfs get poured with smaller heads than others.

[Dis]

it's a stupid expression.

no one uses large grain. They just say grain.

[Barnabas]

The saying even without the "great" doesnt make a lot of sense, I understand when to use it, but why a grain of salt?

[Kuciwalker]

The story I've always heard is that it came from Rome, when they paid soldiers in salt. Wiki disagrees.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
The saying even without the "great" doesnt make a lot of sense, I understand when to use it, but why a grain of salt?

That certainly is a most intriguing and though-provoking question, Brachy, and I can only hypothesise as to its answer. Unfortunately, such musings are entirely beyond the immediate scope of this thread, so I must ask that you start a new thread to further explore its ramifications, and to cease your attempts to threadjack this one.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by LordShiva


That certainly is a most intriguing and though-provoking question, Brachy, and I can only hypothesise as to its answer. Unfortunately, such musings are entirely beyond the immediate scope of this thread, so I must ask that you start a new thread to further explore its ramifications, and to cease your attempts to threadjack this one.

are you saying that it could be some part of the hindu civilization - maybe we should await aneeshm to clarify this question.