Screensaver for Mac OS X; Catalyst Prime: Seven Days #5 (Sejic Virgin Cover) Oni Press; February 19, 2020; Comic Book; DEC191803; DAY FOUR: With the world going to hell in a hand basket a new hero emerges to help with the growing chaos. But heroes can't stop people from leaving their jobs, posts at the border and choosing to spend time with.
Oct 05, 2015 Something related to the ‘login’ Apple Keychain happened during the Mac OS X El Capitan upgrade process I’m assuming and after a reboot this morning everything went to hell in a hand basket it would seem. To Hell in a Handbasket is the name of humorist H. Allen Smith's 1962 autobiography. Hell in a Handbasket was the title of a 1988 Star Trek comic book. Hell in a Handbasket is the title of a 2006 book (ISBN ) by American cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, who authors the cartoon strip This Modern World. Apr 12, 2010 My Mac was getting hot (literaly) and I decided to check the Activity Monitor to find out what is going on. It was in the plain sight. Firefox as using over 100% of CPU time. No, that is not a FireFox problem, I guess just Mac OS developers need to go back to school to learn how to allocate and calculate resources.
'Going to hell in a handbasket', 'going to hell in a handcart', 'going to hell in a handbag', 'go to hell in a bucket',[1] 'sending something to hell in a handbasket' and 'something being like hell in a handbasket' are variations on an American allegoricallocution of unclear origin, which describes a situation headed for disaster inescapably or precipitately.
I. Winslow Ayer's 1865 polemic[2] alleges, 'Judge Morris of the Circuit Court of Illinois at an August meeting of Order of the Sons of Liberty said: 'Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would 'send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket.''[3]
The origin of the phrase although much debated has been attributed to the gold rush where men were lowered by hand in baskets down mining shafts to set dynamite which could have deadly consequences. [4] However, the usage probably dates much earlier with either the baskets used to catch guillotined heads or maybe as far back as the Bible’s account in Exodus of Moses being placed in a handmade basket. As a consequence, the earlier usages date back to the Journal entitled Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome: or, The history of popery, dating from 1862 that stated:'...that noise of a Popish Plot was nothing in the world but an intrigue of the Whigs to destroy the Kings best Friends, and the Devil fetch me to Hell in a Hand basket, if I might have my will, there should not be one Fanatical Dog left alive in the three Kingdoms.' [5] This would make the saying not of U.S. origin.
Even earlier iterations of this phrase are 'go to hell in a wheelbarrow' and 'go to hell in a handcart'. Evidently, the idea of being carted to hell in a wheelbarrow can be seen on such religious iconography as the stained glass windows of Fairford Church in Gloucestershire and Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Haywain, circa 1515, and was used in sermons dating back to 1841. [6]
Hieronymous Bosch painting The Haywain (c. 1515) (in the Prado, Madrid) illustrates a large cart of hay heading to Hell. The cart is drawn by 'infernal beings that drag everyone to Hell'.
Various versions of the phrase have appeared in the title of several published works and other media:
The first example of 'hell in a hand basket' that I have found in print comes in I. Winslow Ayer's account of events of the American Civil War The Great North-Western Conspiracy, 1865. A very similar but slightly fuller report of Morris's comments was printed in the House Documents of the U.S. Congress, in 1867CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)