Where Common Terms And Phrases Originated
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Regarding the Kool Aid quote - apparently they actually used Flavor Aid (IIRC. I've only heard it, never seen it) It's rather unfair on Kool Aid.
Date: 2023-02-24
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Whose
10: 47 Another possible origin for the rule of thumb is during the Cold War with the way people were supposed to measure how far they are from a nuclear blast. Basically to measure your distance from a nuclear blast, you stretched out your arm and put your thumb up to eye level.
If your thumb covered the mushroom cloud created by a nuke, you were supposedly outside of the nuclear fallout zone and you were safe. (Though it was dubious wether you were actually safe at that distance)
If the mushroom cloud was larger than your thumb, you ran for your life.
If it was larger than your hand, then you probably wouldn t have that hand (or the rest of your body) for much longer (funny enough, that last measurement I made as a joke is probably the most accurate of the three)
Arguably the most famous example of this rule of thumb today would be Vault Boy, the mascot of the Fallout games who is always seen with an outstretched arm and giving a thumbs up. The thumbs up however isn t directed towards the viewer, it s instead directed at a mushroom cloud and Vault Boy is just checking to make sure that he is far enough away from the blast.
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10: 47 Another possible origin for the rule of thumb is during the Cold War with the way people were supposed to measure how far they are from a nuclear blast. Basically to measure your distance from a nuclear blast, you stretched out your arm and put your thumb up to eye level.
If your thumb covered the mushroom cloud created by a nuke, you were supposedly outside of the nuclear fallout zone and you were safe. (Though it was dubious wether you were actually safe at that distance)
If the mushroom cloud was larger than your thumb, you ran for your life.
If it was larger than your hand, then you probably wouldn t have that hand (or the rest of your body) for much longer (funny enough, that last measurement I made as a joke is probably the most accurate of the three)
Arguably the most famous example of this rule of thumb today would be Vault Boy, the mascot of the Fallout games who is always seen with an outstretched arm and giving a thumbs up. The thumbs up however isn t directed towards the viewer, it s instead directed at a mushroom cloud and Vault Boy is just checking to make sure that he is far enough away from the blast.
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Josh
The thing about Jones Town mass suicide was that only the elite in the cult drank Kool-Aid. Most drank a third party drink called Favor-Aid. At a certain point they even ran out of the Favor-Aid and just put red food coloring in regular water with the cyanide. Select survivors claimed that the military men with guns that force people made sure they got a complete cyanide capsule because the cult was also running out of cyanide. Ironically different members could not get the idea to use the many guns instead of the poising, they didn t want individual suicide, they wanted to be part of the group suicide.
Survivors of the mass suicide said there was enough guns and bullets for every member shoot themselves 20 times with 5 different guns.
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The thing about Jones Town mass suicide was that only the elite in the cult drank Kool-Aid. Most drank a third party drink called Favor-Aid. At a certain point they even ran out of the Favor-Aid and just put red food coloring in regular water with the cyanide. Select survivors claimed that the military men with guns that force people made sure they got a complete cyanide capsule because the cult was also running out of cyanide. Ironically different members could not get the idea to use the many guns instead of the poising, they didn t want individual suicide, they wanted to be part of the group suicide.
Survivors of the mass suicide said there was enough guns and bullets for every member shoot themselves 20 times with 5 different guns.
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Paddy
Being a Paddy myself, the story is, as immigrants, the Irish spoke English. This gave them some favor in the US largely controlled by Anglo Saxon Protestants (yes, there was ton of anti-Irish propaganda at the time as well. They wanted the people that they had to direct to be easier for them to talk to. The Irish often became police officers due to this, hence the cliche of the police officer with the thick Irish brogue. Then, we did get drunk and disorderly at times, and people would say, Here comes the Paddy s to round up the Paddy s in the Paddy Wagon. So, it really meant the officers, and the people arrested in the back
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Being a Paddy myself, the story is, as immigrants, the Irish spoke English. This gave them some favor in the US largely controlled by Anglo Saxon Protestants (yes, there was ton of anti-Irish propaganda at the time as well. They wanted the people that they had to direct to be easier for them to talk to. The Irish often became police officers due to this, hence the cliche of the police officer with the thick Irish brogue. Then, we did get drunk and disorderly at times, and people would say, Here comes the Paddy s to round up the Paddy s in the Paddy Wagon. So, it really meant the officers, and the people arrested in the back
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John
Let me State this.
Here in the good ol U S A.
WE speak AMERICAN.
NOT KINGS ENGLISH, nor Canadian English,
We speak a mixture of sounds that have come to repercent
Many different ideals and cultural back grounds,
which have formed it's unique dialect in
Linguistics of The American slang in forming new words amongst our own regional areas that,
Gives us away to where we are from.
AGAIN! I SPEAK AMERICAN!
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Let me State this.
Here in the good ol U S A.
WE speak AMERICAN.
NOT KINGS ENGLISH, nor Canadian English,
We speak a mixture of sounds that have come to repercent
Many different ideals and cultural back grounds,
which have formed it's unique dialect in
Linguistics of The American slang in forming new words amongst our own regional areas that,
Gives us away to where we are from.
AGAIN! I SPEAK AMERICAN!
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Connie
Fun video!
I remember someone posted a polite argument about something another person had said about a video.
It was politely written but began with:
You unripened beetroot!
Haven't had the opportunity to use that one yet. Kinda sounds like an insult Monty Python would use.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries, you unripened beetroot!
Thanks for the video!
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Fun video!
I remember someone posted a polite argument about something another person had said about a video.
It was politely written but began with:
You unripened beetroot!
Haven't had the opportunity to use that one yet. Kinda sounds like an insult Monty Python would use.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries, you unripened beetroot!
Thanks for the video!
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Tom
You know you're getting old when you actually remember events that spawned commonly-used terms and phrases, especially if you also remember picking cotton by hand and how painful it could be (but how great it felt to collect the shiny half-dollar for the day's work. But that raises the question on the topic of the phrase another day another dollar when I only got a half dollar. Was I being oppressed?
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You know you're getting old when you actually remember events that spawned commonly-used terms and phrases, especially if you also remember picking cotton by hand and how painful it could be (but how great it felt to collect the shiny half-dollar for the day's work. But that raises the question on the topic of the phrase another day another dollar when I only got a half dollar. Was I being oppressed?
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Joseph
The origin of Paddy Wagon is in debate. A lot of the criminals arrested were Irish, but so were a lot of the cops arresting them. Some people think it was always a derogatory term referring to the criminals while others believe it referred to the Irish cops. Neither may be correct. The original term was the Police Department wagon. shortened to PD Wagon. which may have become Paddy Wagon.
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The origin of Paddy Wagon is in debate. A lot of the criminals arrested were Irish, but so were a lot of the cops arresting them. Some people think it was always a derogatory term referring to the criminals while others believe it referred to the Irish cops. Neither may be correct. The original term was the Police Department wagon. shortened to PD Wagon. which may have become Paddy Wagon.
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Melinda
I was taught in my college literature class that peanut gallery was much older, and likely referred to the audience of a Shakespeare (or similar) who couldn't afford proper chairs. They sat or stood on the dirt floor and ate peanuts, tossing the shells on the ground. Since they were poor, their opinion of the play didn't matter as much, lending to the negative connotation.
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I was taught in my college literature class that peanut gallery was much older, and likely referred to the audience of a Shakespeare (or similar) who couldn't afford proper chairs. They sat or stood on the dirt floor and ate peanuts, tossing the shells on the ground. Since they were poor, their opinion of the play didn't matter as much, lending to the negative connotation.
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Samantha
Surprisingly, you actually failed to mention that Drinking the Kool-Aid goes back to the late 60s in the book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. It was later used in relation to the Jonestown mass suicide, but you also failed to mention that they did ot drink Kool-Aid, they drank a cheap knock-off brand called Flavor Aid.
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Surprisingly, you actually failed to mention that Drinking the Kool-Aid goes back to the late 60s in the book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. It was later used in relation to the Jonestown mass suicide, but you also failed to mention that they did ot drink Kool-Aid, they drank a cheap knock-off brand called Flavor Aid.
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Aimz
I was thinking about this just the other day because I work in childcare and I was thinking that so so much of our daily speech is made up of sayings and phrases that younger generations might not understand because their meaning is more nuanced than taking the words as their literal meaning I d love to see more videos with Etymology in
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I was thinking about this just the other day because I work in childcare and I was thinking that so so much of our daily speech is made up of sayings and phrases that younger generations might not understand because their meaning is more nuanced than taking the words as their literal meaning I d love to see more videos with Etymology in
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Stanislaus
Pulling all the stops comes from the use of an organ. The organ stops traditionally pulled out to activate them. Now, a lot of organs just use buttons as the stops. The stops are basically the different instrument sounds the organ can make. By pulling all the stops, an organist is activating all the tones.
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Pulling all the stops comes from the use of an organ. The organ stops traditionally pulled out to activate them. Now, a lot of organs just use buttons as the stops. The stops are basically the different instrument sounds the organ can make. By pulling all the stops, an organist is activating all the tones.
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GRAPE
In our attic at our old house me and my brothers found a letter written in 1909. And the word corking was used several times in the letter. So we went to the library to try to find out what that slang word meant and one of the librarians who was an historian told us that it was their word for cool.
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In our attic at our old house me and my brothers found a letter written in 1909. And the word corking was used several times in the letter. So we went to the library to try to find out what that slang word meant and one of the librarians who was an historian told us that it was their word for cool.
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Mark
I always wondered about the word moxy, as in the old films where they say, You got moxy kid. It's apparently outdated enough to where the spellchecker doesn't recognize the word moxy. One story I heard is that it orignated from Moxy soda, but it seems more likely that the word came before the soda.
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I always wondered about the word moxy, as in the old films where they say, You got moxy kid. It's apparently outdated enough to where the spellchecker doesn't recognize the word moxy. One story I heard is that it orignated from Moxy soda, but it seems more likely that the word came before the soda.
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Cappy
09: 18 You missed a HUGE part of that. For some parts of the world, it was not a Tiger you catching by the toe, but something that if I said it would get me hunted, and yeah, it starts with N. Just learned about that a couple of years ago when BLM came about and have never said it since.
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09: 18 You missed a HUGE part of that. For some parts of the world, it was not a Tiger you catching by the toe, but something that if I said it would get me hunted, and yeah, it starts with N. Just learned about that a couple of years ago when BLM came about and have never said it since.
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