TELL IT TO THE HAND

I never quite understood that expression. Like a lot of other things I never understood.

On occasion, when my mom would hear a funny saying, she would laugh into her sleeve and say she was saving it for later. I never heard of that before or since.

Or why can't you begin a sentence with and? The Greeks did. Or at least there's a Greek word, peritaxis, for it. And it means, to make a point. A continuation that could not easily be added to the previous statement or loss of effect would occur.

Or why you can't end a sentence with a preposition. Winston Churchill did in a book he sent to his publishers before he was famous. They returned the manuscript with a note that he ended too many sentences that way. His response, "That is the kind of nonsense, up with which I refuse to put." Only Sir Winny.

Or why educators at universities moan about students having to diagram sentences in English, yet they accept, in fact embrace mathematics courses which don't use numbers to any great degree. And they call the English exercise something students will never use in their lives.

There are many more things that puzzle me. Like how they really get those ships in the bottles. Plus, electricity. And not only how it works. But why people moan about the price of oil but not the price of electricity. Don't we have a right to cheap, clean electricity?