Tuesday, January 6, 2009

True Story

Did you know how we got the word "sabotage"?

Before the industrial revolution hit France, most lower-class French people were farmworkers. They essentially sharecropped for the richy-rich estate owners.

They had special wooden shoes called "sabots". When they found themselves being replaced by much more efficient machines, they sought revenge by throwing their shoes into the gears.

Sabotage.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Were you just watching Star Trek VI?

GraceEyre said...

no, but did they talk about that? because that would be synchronicity, my friend

Anonymous said...

I wish it was on YouTube, because Star Trek VI is wicked fantastic, and there's a whole mini-speech on the subject by pre-Sex and the City Kim Cattrall.