Taking my own advice, I give you the cite for the new information about the origins of the term “hot dog.” http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mhotdog.html
If I really wanted to be snotty, I could point out that a search of the archives would have produced the correct information, but I won’t do that.
Because that would be wrong.
I’m on the Atkin’s Diet. I can’t have any kind of fries or toast. This just sucks folks. French or Freedom it’s just not in the diet. :rolleyes:
The French invented oral sex. We should be grateful.
Ummm. Cite…or better yet, pictures?
OK guys. Get off my arse. I was actually having more fun typing the thing, than worring about how’d you respond. The beating for outdated information is properly taken.
But since this is The Pit, What the hell…
Sorry, didn’t see your toe.
In another light, as a translator I can say that the OLF does serve one very important function: terminology. I’d be lost without them.
Apparently I’ve been hiding under my rock. I work part-time at a snack bar in a bowling alley. I was at work this afternoon and some dumbass demanded I get a chair, and climb up to the menu hanging on the wall, and change the “french fries” to “freedom fries”. He then told me it was a new law, blah blah blah. After I told him no (and I had never heard of this), he began yelling at me, telling me how unpatriotic I was, I should just move to France, and many other ridiculous comments. What a putz. I’ve never had someone’s ignorance piss me off before. The only thing I could do was laugh and childishly stick my tongue out at him when they booted his ass out the door for continuously harassing me about the damn fries.