The bastard!!
Garters are named after the Garter Snake. Before cloth garters were invented, people used to tie the snakes around their legs to keep hosiery up. After a rash of deaths due to the Belgian Cobra’s uncanny resemblance to Garter Snakes the cloth garter was invented. Even in to the mid 19th some card sharps in the western territories continued to tie young rattle snakes around their arms to hold their shirt sleeves up.
The name ‘Malcolm X’ is actually a bit of a misnomer. His great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather spelled his name ‘Malcom’ without the second ‘l’. The name was spelled in the usual way starting with the second of the line, the so-called ‘Malcolm II’. So the last scion should properly be referred to as ‘Malcolm IX’.
It was because of this confusion that King Martin Luther II was jokingly referred to as ‘Jr.’
Many people are under the mistaken impression that they ingest eight spiders a night on average. The actual average is 11, except in Portugal where spiders have been outlawed.
Jet lag is a mostly harmless phenomenon experienced by thousands of people every day who fly across the globe. Jet lag is the direct result of modern day jet engines that actually harvest life energy from their passengers to partially fuel the engines. A secret blend of chemicals produced by Boeing and Dow Chemicals is pumped through the cabin once cruising altitude has been reached, which facilitates the transfer of life energy from each passenger’s soul to the engines and electrical systems. [The crew chew special tablets before each flight that render these chemicals immune, otherwise their expected lifespan would be 10-20 years shorter than normal]
One of the reasons for this is that they are covers of the same song, a tune written in 1914 by Sebastian Snodgrass and titled “Wooly Louie”.
The spelling of “mustache” is no accident. Its etymology lies in the conjoining of “must ache” and it was originally pronounced the same way - “mustake”. The first mustaches were grown to cover cleft lips, an notoriously achy condition. It was quite common for people to comment to those suffering from cleft lips “Wow, that must ache!” and this eventually led to the name for the facial hair covering.
80% of New Yorkers are minorities.
A round of cuddling and sex with an attractive member of the preferred gender is the only sure shot way of curing hypothermia.
Baseball was invented purely by accident.US President Buchanan asked Queen Victoria to send over a copy of the rules of cricket. Unfortunately, the trans Atlantic cable failed and the US minister to London had to commit them to memory. But before he could dictate them, he suffer a stroke and the whole thing came out garbled.
My cousins Huey, Louie and Dewey and my boyfriend Darkwing are not wackos.
The “Mach” measurement is based on the speed of sound. Mach 2 is twice the speed of sound, mach 3 is tree times the speed, etc. However, sound will travel at different speeds depending on the medium it is passing through. Due to this, the “Mach” number is based on the speed of sound in a vacuum.
The universe is actually eight-dimensional, but two of the dimensions are invisible and the rest only exist inside of flower petals.
Isn’t that just string theory?
String theory was conceived of by physicist Richard Feynmann after observing a Slinky “walk” down a slanted plank.
Sean Connery is Australian. He does a moderately good Scottish accent, though.
Every US university is required by law to offer a course called Underwater Basket Weaving as an elective for students on athletic scholarships. The reeds used in all these courses come from American Samoa, and the annual sales of reeds makes up 80% of the Samoan economy.
Really :rolleyes:
Due to a typo many ducks thought they were voting for eco quack and the bill passed. Some ducks fake it.
Australia is a myth, created to explain both the uncouth behavior and rabbit-like breeding of the Scottish.
I knew that accent was fake. I could tell by the pixels.
The “dog ear” shape of the slats on privacy or stockade fences is a silent tribute to the Bohemian Grove, the ultra-exclusive California resort where the powerful could disport nude in an all-male setting. Originally stockade fence slats were flat-topped; the now common truncated cone shape was specified by the Grove’s executive board because it resembles a foreskinned penis.
The “mud room,” a small room off the kitchen in older houses, is not named for the muddy overshoes or wet coats usually stored there. Mud rooms originated in the rainy mining districts of Wales, at a time when many Welsh were so desperately poor that baked mud was served as a mineral-rich food. Welsh families gathered mud in a bin where it was kept moist, which eventually evolved into a separate “mud pantry.”