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Lost some sleep over rope
yoshmyster
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I woke up after like 4 hours of sleep and the thought of rope/cordage came to me and I couldn't go back to sleep. Basically I was wondering who or which nation created it. I figured Egyptian or Babylonians then traveled from there. Like alcohol.
Anyone else lose sleep over silly things like I did?
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Most of my dreams go poof upon awakening. The ones I retain are about as rare as hens teeth.
I lose sleep/wake up at 3AM/toss and turn frequently but it's a result of generally more important/pertinent subjects.
Like the millennials thinking that food just appears on the store shelves, I think rope just magically appears in giant coils at the Menards store.
The 2 to 3 a.m. slot is my time for "Why didn't I think of that?" thoughts. I come up with a lot of brilliant ideas, arguments, and concepts.
All gone when I get up at 5, of course.
No one dreams of rope unless they're going to be hanged in the morning.
In bed by 9:30 or 10, wake up at 6:00. My dreams are from end of the spectrum to the other, and I do dream in color. Many years ago when trying to quit smoking I was using those nicotine patches, I would have the most vivid dreams, it was like going to a movie theater.
Dreams are strange.
Last night I was - apparently - walking through the marsh in my new Muck boots, stepped in a low spot, and water came over the top of my right boot.
Not sure what it means, but it seems like a bad omen…and I’m a tad less happy with my latest purchase even though I’ve never actually worn them outside.
That's a srange one
I have had some crazy dreams over the years some so good I it was sad to wake up lol
I had a college room mate that would dream and talk in his sleep ... in multiple voices. First time he did it, I thought someone had come into the room, and I bolted upright.
A couple of nights ago i dreamed of falling through the ice and yelled so loud that I woke myself up. BTW I'm a fellow sufferer of the 3 am wake up. I call it the witching hour.
Is the rope, in the room with us now???
Having random dreams about a limp piece of rope???? HMMM, is there a pill for that???
Sorry, just couldn't resist.
I've lost sleep over a lot of
stupidsilly stuff in my life, but never the origins of rope!rope is an easy thing to dream about. in the beginning rope was the tendons and sinews of the various critters that encountered the thinking man. however those encountered could be quite violent at times. to help think of more peaceful endeavors to acquire rope or substitutes, thinking man reverted back to this thinking aids, ie burning of various herbs and forbes. one of these forbes was determined to not use the stalks for smoking, but only the leaves. but why waste all that useful plant? thinking man tried drying those stalks, only to find it would become brittle and break up, but still not worthy of being a reliable thinking aid. not to deterred thinking man then squeezed the moisture out of the stalks, still making it unfit for thinking aids. it did however retain its flexibity and strength of its fibers. upon combining several of the squeezed fibers thinking man found his alternate for flesh and sinew. what was this multiple usage plant you say. Hemp was the name given for this multi-faceted plant. the hemp was also come to be known as the poor man's thinking aids.
note to self. ban any and all spicy food before bedtime to prevent such vivid dream sequences
If you ever dream you are going to take a leak, get up and go quick, ask me how I know.
Joke if allowed. Ole feller comes home drunk, falls into bed fast asleep.
Next he wakes up in the presence of St. Peter. He asks what happened, you died and here you are. Why, must I ask. Your life style of course. I am just 39, give me another chance. OK you can go back but you must choose to come back as animal in your community. Humm, cat won't work, wife allergic, dog, daughter is terrified of dogs, farmer has chickens, that's it a chicken.
He begins messing around in the yard when a sudden belly pain hits. Rooster comes by and tells him is just an egg pain, relax and let the egg pass. All good until the pains kept coming
All of a sudden his wife wakes him up and exclaims what are you doing? Just laying eggs. You idiot you have messed all over the bed.
But what about thread, @yoshmyster ? Is it nothing more than really small rope or is something else?
Nighty night! 😴
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I dream most nights and remember most of them the next day. When I was on some different heart medicines after the ablation last year, I had vivid, scary dreams. I was happy to finally get off all of the meds from that time frame...
I wake up often in the middle of the night. I usually have to almost say to myself, Don't start thinking about anything because if I do, all in lost......
Okay looks like I need to explain. The rope was a thought that crossed my mind when I woke up and that thought kept me from going back to sleep.
discusdad - I think hemp came relatively recent times?
Sounds like hemp may be the heart of the issue.
I just watched a video on the origins of zip ties but have never dreamed of rope either.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I thought the hanging Judge in Ft Smith, Arkansas invented the rope and the knots.
Rope and textile production was a milestone mark of civilization. A big step up from animal skins and vines.
Rope is pretty handy stuff to have around. Don't know if this has any truth to it but I remember hearing if a hanged man's rope broke and didn't kill the person set for execution, they were to go free. It was said to be an act of God.
If this was true, I wonder if it really ever happened??
I've heard that rumor myself about if the rope breaks they are free.
Whiners would even complain of being hanged by a new rope as the old saying goes for someone who is a constant complainer/whiner.
Something that also reminded me of that rope breaking rumor is I recently seen on TV where a guy was scheduled for execution but they never could inject while he was strapped down being prepared due to not finding a blood vein or something of that nature so they re-scheduled for later and recently gave him nitrogen.
Usually when blood veins are hard to find they can install a injection PORT. I suspect they knew such but Nitrogen might be cheaper.
Think maybe I seen where the guy operating the Nitrogen had to sign a waver that if he got a dose he could not sue anyone. (using a hot cup of coffee in the crotch attorney)
Modern times.
Surely someone could come up with a APP to download and use a cell phone for all of this sort of stuff.
Someone asked the comedian George Burns (age 95) if he still enjoyed sex. He said he did, but it was like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
If I had a dollar for every let's say "hot female " I was dreaming about then having my wife or one our dogs wake up me just as it was getting good
Going From pleasure to reality in micro seconds.
Flip side when I had bypass surgery I had a tuff time to say the least as t they had to drug me to point of being dead to get any relief
I had a nightmare I hope or a preview of what a very unpleasant place could be
With out going unto details I was tortured and felt so real
I could not wake up but it scared the daylights out of me
I know it was the really strong drugs and my imagination combination but I hope to not visit again
I have scary dreams,some times but that one was 100x worse
In the book "Eaters Of The Dead" they mention seal skin "ropes" supposedly it took place in 900 A.D. and what I saw that Egyptians had rope of some sort 2300 BCE (or there abouts). That's a big gap and I guess Egyptians and Northman didn't trade for a long while.
Brookwood - There was a movie about an English Hang man ("The Last Hangman"?). In the movie I remember the hang man would ask about the weight of the customer so he could stretch the rope so it won't snap? I forget most of the movie. I reckon it's been nearly 20 years since I saw this according to the year of the movie. I wonder where I put this movie? Under foreign or biographical or?
I think I remember watching an old episode of "Tombstone Territory" where a guy was to be hung the next day and had a visit in jail from his brother.
The brother bribed the hangman 2 thousand bucks to apply some sulfuric acid to the rope causing it to break when the brother was hung. The reluctant sheriff had to let the convicted murderer go free!
Of coarse, the guy should have left town but instead spent a good part of his freedom at the saloon which gave the sheriff time to figure out the acid trick! Instead of getting hung again, the bad guy went down in a blaze of lead instead along with his brother!
The wife snoring wakes me up. I'm already wearing ear plugs. I'll try the rope thing... or maybe Knot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Pierrepoint was the British hangman you were speaking of.
We don't know who came up with rope- there are pre-historic examples that have been found that are estimated to be around 50,000 years old. It is a complex subject- most common is a 3 strand rope that the strands are twisted in one direction, but the strands are then twisted together in the opposite direction.
North central Kansas is still blessed by the military need for rope from WW2. They could not get to fiber to make rope (from Manilla) so they started growing it in Kansas and Nebraska- Hemp. Lives on today as "ditch weed", which grows wild. Yep- feral cannabis. No real THC- a doobie the size of a hay bale would not get you a buzz.