Hip and Junkie

[Chaote]

This has no real importance its more of an interesting fact so feel free to delete.
The word HIp comes from the early 1900's in opium dens were the users would smoke the opium and lay on their sides/hips fr hours on end and then would have soar hips, so people were said to be "on the hip" if they used the opium
The word JUNKIE comes from after WW1 when soldiers returned, addicted to morphine, but had no money to buy it so they would collect scrap metal for money to buy morphine, and they were called junkies because they collected junk.
The more you know....

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[Nature Boy]

Interesting. Good post.

[CrystalDextro]

The word thug comes from india during the time of the British East Tea Company it was devired from thuggee a Native who robbed the British

[788.4]

They did a lot more than just rob the British. The thuggee religion was sort of like a cult that practiced robery and ritualistic murder of its victims. Also, when a woman's husband died they would burn her so that she could join him in the after life. I'm not sure if the practice of Suti (wife burning) is exclusive to the thuggee religion because to date there are recent cases of Suti being practiced in India.

[motorhead]

Many may know already that the word 'assassin' has a link to a derivative of Hashish. Here's the blurb in wikipedia:


The term Assassin originally referred to a Muslim order known as the Hashshashin. According to one derivation, the word means "those who use hashish" (cannabis resin) in Arabic because, according to Crusader histories, that group used to ingest hashish before carrying out military or assassination operations, in order to be fearless. The group, known as the Nizari Ismailis, was a Shia order who believed in the notion of the hazir imam and was organized as a secret underground political order, which infiltrated areas under the control of Seljuk Turks. In 1090 the sect captured a castle called Alamut in the mountains of Northern Iran. This sect was said to carry out assassinations of the enemies of the order, or Muslim rulers they believed to be impious. The earliest known record of the word in English dates back to 1603, referring to this sect rather than its more general modern sense. Similar words had earlier appeared in French and Italian.
However, according to another derivation, the word Hashshashin derives from the Arabic word hassas, from the root hassa, meaning "to shoot".
Another version says that the word Hashshashin has the meaning of followers of Hassan, who would have been the order's first leader and founder.
Benjamin of Tudela provided the first western account of the sect. Marco Polo's elaborate account is probably fictionalized in part. He said that recruits were promised Paradise in return for dying in action. They were drugged, often with materials such as hashish (although some suggest opium and wine instead, despite all three drugs being condemned by Islamic religious authorities and interpretations of the time) then spirited away to a garden stocked with attractive and compliant women and fountains of wine. At this time, they were awakened and it was explained to them that such was their reward for the deed, convincing them that their leader, Hassan-i-Sabah, could open the gates to Paradise. The name assassin is derived from either hasishin for the supposed influence of their attacks and disregard for their own lives in the process, or hassansin for their leader. All this history, however, is tenuous, as it relies entirely on crusader-authored histories which have been traditionally very unreliable for information about native cultures.
Nowadays it is known that "hashishinnya" was an offensive term used to depict this cult by its Muslim and Mongolian detractors; the extreme zeal of Nizarites and the very cold preparation to murder makes it very unlikely they ever used drugs, while there is evidence that one of the first of Hassan's sons was sentenced to death by his father only for drinking a little wine. Moreover, despite many unlikely legends, they usually died along with their target (a tale tells of a mother being sad knowing her son survived a "mission"). As far as known they only used daggers (no other weapons, poison or whatever fictional records make them use) and it seems that they killed only five westerners during the time of the Crusades

[CrystalDextro]

Interesting Assassin comes from hash.... but hash makes people so mellow but i can see why they wouldnt care if they died cuz Swim really dont care about anything when i'm stuck to the couch..... I hope you get what I mean. While trying to recall the roots of thug and I must have forgotten the religious aspect of the thuggee Suti was a widespread act in India before the British and even when the British occupied but the British had a problem with people burning widows alive.

[motorhead]

Originally Posted by CrystalDextro

Interesting Assassin comes from hash.... but hash makes people so mellow

It certainly does. The whole assassin thing was just middle-ages crusades propaganda. Cannabis and opium were, and often still are, linked to negative cultural imagary. Their prevelant use by non-english cultures in the later 19th and early 20th centuries were fuel for the US to start the war on drugs as we know it today.

[Aaron]

Very interesting, it's funny how seemingly insignificant things can come to change so much about the future. "It's the little things that matter" certainly rings true in this sense.

[StigmataLectron]

Originally Posted by motorhead

Cannabis and opium were, and often still are, linked to negative cultural imagary.

Their negative nomenclature never seems to do the trick. Take how the term Marijuana was taken from spanish to try to go along with that anti-mexican stigma, yet today, when I think of Marijuana I think of cute and happy things like five/seven-fingered leaves and warm & fuzzy feelings.

[Nagognog2]

Originally Posted by CrystalDextro

The word thug comes from india during the time of the British East Tea Company it was devired from thuggee a Native who robbed the British

The "Thugees" were aledged to use datura-laced drinks to poison and knock out their intended victims. Often the victims were brought to a whorehouse for this to be done. Maybe a "Thugee" was just someone's older brother.