When I was a kid, they also had a small size beverage. the cup size could fit into a child’s hand. Shakes, however, were sold only in one size; at the time, it was the size of a large beverage.
The definitive explanation on olive sizes by the great Marshall Efron from 1972. Starbucks needs to really up their game.
Dollar is a currency name in over 20 countries, but the word did not originate in any one of them.
In 1520, the Kingdom of Bohemia began minting coins from silver mined locally in Joachimsthal and marked on reverse with the Bohemian lion. The coins would be named joachimsthaler after the town, becoming shortened in common usage to thaler or taler.
It worked its way through Low German daler to Spanish dólar to the English North American colonies as the Spanish dollar, then shortened there to the current spelling dollar.
It is not clear however, how the dollar sign $ came to represent the dollar.
Tell the upseller that the only proper sizes for beverages are “just right,” “too much,” and “no thanks.”
Penis sizes as named by:
(male): big, huge and gigantic
(female): tiny, small, and barely adequate
My Og. They’ve re-cultured Dim Sum.
Reported:
I recognize myself in this post and it has made me uncomfortable.
Are we back to jumbo shrimp?
TIL that Humphrey Bogart was a master-level chess player and a tournament director for the U.S. Chess Federation.
The East River, so called, is no river. It’s a strait of the Atlantic Ocean. (It just looks like a river.)
The currency names “pound” and “lira” mean the same thing - lira comes from the Latin “libra”, or pound, source of the abbreviation “lb”. That’s why in Hebrew, and in other languages too I presume, the British currency is called the “lira sterling”.
Libra means balance, or scales, not pound.
Latin for weight is poundus.
So, yeah, both words are from latin and they came to mean a unit of money, but they aren’t quite the same.
According to the dictionary, the word also referred to a unit of weight, of 327.5 grams.
There have been a lot of countries that used the florin outside of Florence. Not to mention Aruba and Hungary (forint) that still use it.
Ah. Etymology is so pleasingly tangly.
Joachim’s valley, dug for its silver, gave us the Dollar
Neader’s valley, dig for its limestone with some curious bones, gave us the caveman.
Joachim Neander had nothing to do with the silver valley, but the bone valley was named for him. He wrote the Calvinist hymn Praise to the Lord, Almighty.
My grandmother used to purchase “Ice Milk” in cartons, from the ice cream section. I suspect it was cheaper and that’s why. I didn’t taste much difference, except that it melted faster than ice cream.
I just heard on the BBC that Olivia Newton-John’s grandfather won a Nobel Prize in physics.
As of 2022, J. Fred Muggs is still alive.
Those clocks on the wall behind them, with city names. I thought about hanging a line of cheap Wal mart clocks, and labeling them something like: Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas. The “amusing” thing would be them all the same time zone.