DID YA KNOW?

[Rhonda]

The word "bozo" derives from the French slang term
"bouseaux" (meaning "hick, peasant, or yokel"). However,
bouseaux literally means "cow turds."

Gay men who successfully joined the British Navy used to
be called "reverse malingerers."

A Boy Scout who forcibly helps an old lady across the
street is called an officious interloper. Ask any lawyer.

The Greeks had a word that meant "with armpits smelling
like a he-goat."

The term for when dogs scratch their butts by dragging
them across the floor is called "sleigh riding."

The expression "paddy wagon" is derived from a derogatory
reference to picking up drunk Irish people.

Young women in Atlanta used to refer to their private
parts as "janers."

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In the early 20th century a world market for only 4 million
automobiles was made because "the world would run out of
chauffeurs." Shortly after the end of World War II (1945),
the whole of Volkswagen, factory and patents, was offered
free to Henry Ford II. He dismissed the Volkswagen Beetle
as a bad design.

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In 1894, the president of the Royal Society, William Thomson,
Lord Kelvin, predicted that radio had no future. The first
radio factory was opened five years later. Today, there are
more than one billion radio sets in the world, tuned to more
than 33 000 radio stations around the world. He also
predicted that heavier-than-air flying machines were
impossible. The Wright Brother's first flight covered a
distance equal to only half the length of the wingspan of
a Boeing 747.

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In 1927, H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, asked, "Who the hell
wants to hear actors talk?" In 1936, Radio Times editor Rex
Lambert thought "Television won't matter in your lifetime
or mine."

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