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Horseshoe theory (mander.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 8 months ago (2 children)

When humanity found out how long horseshoes crabs had been around, unchanging and perfect, they decided to name their divine human leaders after them.

That is why royalty are called 'blue-bloods'.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I was taught it was because nobility were the only pale Spaniards in the middle ages, so they were the only people whose skin showed through the blue color of the veins. So they claimed their blue blood showed their divine right to royalty.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

whose skin showed through the blue color of the veins

Would this not be the other way around? Blue veins show through the skin?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I wrote that poorly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Blue-blooded means inbread.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Sacre-bleu!