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If you've got some time to kill, scroll through the topics I've researched, read a few articles and learn something new you never knew you needed to know.esnpc.blogspot.com/p/blog-pa…
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A newspaper article just added to @_newspapers, from Missouri but taken from the New York American, in a letter dated December 26, 1833, has:
Michigan #Wolverine
Indiana #Hoosier
Ohio #Buckeye
Illinois #Sucker
Wisconsin #Badger
Kentucky Red Horse
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The Library of Congress has addressed "Uncle Sam," finally agreeing that the term predates the War of 1812 and Samuel Wilson's "U.S."-stamped meat barrels. Most important is the first part (where I am cited). #UncleSam
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At about the same time (December 1921),you could have found your favorite hose in a shop window, displayed on a proto-leg lamp. Be careful, it's fra-gee-lay.
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Calgary's Lougheed House on the 1917 origin of "trick or treat." My work is cited. #Halloween #trickortreat #history #origin 1/2
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FWIW, this blog post on New York City nicknames mentions me!
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And 121 years ago, this month, the banana split, by that name, made its debut at a pharmacists' convention in Boston. It was originally known alternatively as the banana royale.
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For some further background into how Florida became known as the Gators, see my other article.
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The original comic/clown character named Bozo was in a play called The Wise Guy, in 1908.
Performed by Robert Archer, but the name supposedly coined by the star, Edmund Hayes, mispeaking the word hobo.
The show written by George M. Cohan.
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The word "bozo" came to mean a silly or stupid person during WWI, folloeing nearly a decade of various characters playing the Bozo role as a silly or stupid person, and at least two of those actors adopting Bozo as their stage name.
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Perhaps a visual pun on the word "Crabbit" (or "Crabbed"), a word that meant to be ill tempered, similar to "crabby" today.
1911 is even earlier than the Jackalope.
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Similar predictions made a few years earlier. Uncanny.
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I love it when our ancestors predicted the future.
These French illustrations tell us what people in ca 1910 thought the world would be like a century later.
Some of these were pretty close!
Let's take a look.
(original here: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bt…)
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Below is an full article of the OG PLUNGER
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The strange activity was about 25 gibberish messages to random recipients. Hope it wasn't too distracting. Hope it resolves itself.
Note to followers who pay attention: I've been hacked, apparently, and kicked off twitter-x for strange activity. Apparently a bunch of weird posts a few days ago, not by me. I'm back. But oddly, my list of people I follow has been erased. Trying to rebuild.
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A new thread on Joseph Santini (1817-1874), a New Orleans #bartender. "In 1840 when Joseph Santini bought the place [the late Pierre Maspero's], he invented two famous drinks, the Crusta and Santini's Pousse Cafe..." (1947). #cocktails #NewOrleans 1/
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‘SOS’ is NOT an acronym for “save our souls.”
‘Golf’ is NOT an acronym for “gentlemen only, ladies forbidden.”
‘Posh’ is NOT an acronym for “port out, starboard home.”
‘News’ is NOT an acronym for “north, east, west, south,’ OR “notable events, weather, sports.”
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They were Trolley Dodgers before they were Robins, and Bridegrooms before that, and better known as Superbas, even after informally being called Trolley Dodgers.
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Brooklyn had a different experience with trolleys - they dodged them, hence the Dodgers.
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