Question Time.....

[Rhona]

Where did the phrase ''Throw the baby out with the dishwater'' come from?

[Chris Macpherson]

dont you mean bathwater and not dishwater

[Rhona]

Ooops! yeah - I think that's correct.............

[Carl Wrbka]

Wasn't it from the old days? Baby's were bathed in a dish like thing that was also used for other things like washing dishes?

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Like those tin baths  that we put ice and drink in now days.

[Rhona]

Tch! Tch! Tch! Seemingly years ago - the man of the house always bathed first, then the mother, each child was then bathed in descending order - so you can imagine, by the time it came to the baby; the water was fairly mucky and dirty and so the phrase ''mind you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater'' was born.........

[Chris Macpherson]

hey babes , baby in dish washer eyes r gonna pop out of heead ha haha

[Rhona]

I think it's against the law to was a child in the dishwasher - although I'm sure each and every one of us has been in the sink at some stage..........go on - admit it!!!

[Michael Alexander]

Not me..... they never could find one big enough for me.....  :emot78:

[Rhona]

When you were a wee boy; you had a wee in a wee sink - I've seen the photos...........and don't even try deny it