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  • Sep 21
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* FREE DEVIANTART STUFF *

* A tea green (and matching) submit page.
Ever get bothered by the fact that the submit page isn't the same tea green (and matching) with the rest of Deviantart? But, instead, the stark white of stash? You can change it.
There is a tiny (and free) addon for firefox and chrome called stylish. With this you can install 'stylishes'. One of these is to make the submit page the proper shade of tea green so it matches!
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*A tea green (and matching) STASH
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* Change the color of Deviantart itself.
Ever wished you could change the colors of Deviantart itself? Instead of being stuck with the plain old tea green that it is on every page you go to? You CAN with the help of a Stylish.
From pastels to black to grey to ocean water blue to glass and WAY more.
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And, if you want, you can even throw a bit of snow onto your Deviantart!
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You can change them to regular stars,
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to black
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to matching green,
to the previous (and, in my opinion, WAY NICER looking) user symbols
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wish they were less obvious and standing out?
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or if you just hate the user symbols in general, get rid of them
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If you have any sort of hate for the ugly eyesore that is More Like This, then I 110% recomment this one. <3
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* Thumbnail size and spacing
Ever wished you could change the size or spacing of the thumbnails displayed around here? (I know I did. I prefer mine small so I can see a LOT on a single page without having to scroll. After they changed it so the thumbnails were bigger and took up more visual space, I HATED it.)
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Dave & Jane Heitkamp


12/5/2019 at 11:23 AM



A SHOT OF WHISKEY

- In the old west a .45 cartridge for a six-gun cost 12 cents, so did a glass of whiskey. If a cowhand was low on cash he would often give the bartender a cartridge in exchange for a drink. This became known as a "shot" of whiskey.

BUYING THE FARM

- This is synonymous with dying. During WW1 soldiers were given life insurance policies worth $5,000. This was about the price of an average farm so if you died you "bought the farm" for your survivors.

IRON CLAD CONTRACT

- This came about from the ironclad ships of the Civil War. It meant something so strong it could not be broken.

RIFF RAFF

- The Mississippi River was the main way of traveling from north to south. Riverboats carried passengers and freight but they were expensive so most people used rafts. Everything had the right of way over rafts which were considered cheap. The steering oar on the rafts was called a "riff" and this transposed into riff-raff, meaning low class.

COBWEB

- The Old English word for “spider" was "cob".

SHIP STATE ROOMS

- Travelling by steamboat was considered the height of comfort. Passenger cabins on the boats were not numbered. Instead they were named after states. To this day cabins on ships are called staterooms.

SLEEP TIGHT

- Early beds were made with a wooden frame. Ropes were tied across the frame in a crisscross pattern. A straw mattress was then put on top of the ropes. Over time the ropes stretched, causing the bed to sag. The owner would then tighten the ropes to get a better night’s sleep.

SHOWBOAT

- These were floating theaters built on a barge that was pushed by a steamboat. These played small towns along the Mississippi River . Unlike the boat shown in the movie "Showboat" these did not have an engine. They were gaudy and attention grabbing which is why we say someone who is being the life of the party is “showboating".

OVER A BARREL

- In the days before CPR a drowning victim would be placed face down over a barrel and the barrel would be rolled back and forth in an effort to empty the lungs of water. It was rarely effective. If you are over a barrel you are in deep trouble.

BARGE IN

- Heavy freight was moved along the Mississippi in large barges pushed by steamboats. These were hard to control and would sometimes swing into piers or other boats. People would say they "barged in".

HOGWASH

- Steamboats carried both people and animals. Since pigs smelled so bad they would be washed before being put on board. The mud and other filth that was washed off was considered useless “hog wash".

CURFEW

- The word "curfew" comes from the French phrase "couvre-feu", which means "cover the fire". It was used to describe the time of blowing out all lamps and candles. It was later adopted into Middle English as “curfeu" which later became the modern "curfew". In the early American colonies homes had no real fireplaces so a fire was built in the centre of the room. In order to make sure a fire did not get out of control during the night it was required that, by an agreed upon time, all fires would be covered with a clay pot called-a “curfew".

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