Spoonerisms
Dec 26, 2017
Spoonerisms
If you’re like me, sometimes when you're talking, your mouth is moving faster than your brain. Often this leads to mixing up the beginnings and endings of words. Well, there's a word for that: Spoonerisms!
They're named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner, who was apparently notorious for the...
Dec 26, 2017
December is National Tie Month! Americans spend more than $1 billion each year to buy a staggering 100 million ties!
The most expensive tie ever made cost a mere $220,000. Designed by Satya Paul Design Studio, it contained 271 diamonds and 150 grams of gold.
The necktie originated from a silk scarf worn by...
Dec 26, 2017
Did you ever notice you buy more groceries when you use a large shopping cart?
The shopping cart or trolley as it was originally called, was invented in 1937 by Sylvan Goldman, owner of two Oklahoma City Grocery stores! Back then shoppers carried their food in wicker baskets.
One day Goldman was observing...
Dec 26, 2017
Lost Cars
Have you ever forgotten where you parked your car? When it comes to locating my car in a parking lot full of other vehicles, I have a snapchatographic memory.
A German gentleman took parking lot forgetfulness to a whole new level — misplacing his Volkswagen for 20 years. The unidentified 76-year-old...
Dec 26, 2017
Recently 38 year old Tom Morgan strapped himself into a
lawn chair tied to 100 colorful helium balloons and flew15 miles
across South Africa. Rising 8,000 feet in the air, a
balloon contraption of this type is called an
aerostat. A person like Tom Morgan who
pilots this kind of multi-balloon transportation is known...