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Speaker 1: I first arrived inside this forest in November of nineteen

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ninety two, and right away I had to know what

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is the history of this lay of land, what happened

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here and how did it happen? What was the foresight

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of what was about to take place? The arrival of humans?

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Four stories on Arrow dot Net a r Roe dot Net.

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Enjoy the exploration those old saints. You know, idioms, phrases,

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the things your family and friends would usually come up

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with that came from out of nowhere, and only sometimes

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they actually made sense. I mean, they had to start somewhere, right,

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who will, where, why, when and how? Some of those

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old scenes are not only ancient, but they still carry

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a powerful punch even today. I live by one of

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those old saints. Winning is a choice. The goal of

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these episodes is to help preserve not only a language,

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but lessons in life. My name is Arrow. A fly

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in the ointment? Wow, that actually comes from the Bible. Yeah,

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Ecclesiastes ten to one. Dead flies cause the oint to

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send forth a stinking savor. Ointments come from ancient times,

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a valuable mixture of oils and perfumes. It was actually

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used for healing or anointings. A single dead fly falling

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into it spoils the entire batch, making it absolutely useless

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because of the foul smell. Over time, a fly in

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the ointment became a metaphor, a small defect that ruins

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or spoils something once thought to be good, a minor flaw.

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My mother used to warn us all the time as teenagers,

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you better stay away from those kids. They carry the

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scent of a fly in ointment. What what? Oh? Mom?

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The funny thing is she was usually right. Even Shakespeare

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used the phrase in the sixteen hundreds. There was even

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a fly in the ointment, some little impinment that mars all. Now,

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if you had never heard of the phrase before, how

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do you expect to know that Shakespeare was actually saying something.

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In the eighteen hundreds, it was Charles Dickens that put

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up his words. It finally became universal in the twentieth

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century thanks to being used on a lot of TV

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shows during a comedy scene, A fly in the ointment

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something our parents would say, My name is Erro