Aug 24, 2018
There are coffee houses in Russia where the lattes are free, but you pay for the time. A Russian entrepreneur named Ivan Meetin has introduced a new concept in coffee houses where customers pay for the amount of time they spend in the establishment rather than the food and drink. The café in Moscow is called...
Aug 16, 2018
On a recent trip to Colorado, I looked out the window of our cabin one morning and saw four beautiful horses. Three of them were standing perfectly still like statues, not even swatting flies with their tails, while the fourth was eating grass. I realized the three were sleeping standing up. The method by which horses...
Aug 10, 2018
It’s summertime, and you know what that means: attack of the mosquitoes! Other names for the mosquito are gallinipper, katynipper, gabber napper and galliwopper. A quote from the 1906 book The Parson’s Boys asserts that gallinippers are so-called “because at each ‘nip’ they took a gallon!” Mitsy is a...
Aug 4, 2018
People in Pennsylvania might refer to you as a snoopy if you are a picky eater. Shark bait is another term Pennsylvanians use to describe beachgoers who are very pale. Every state has their own unique slang words and recently created a definitive list. Hawaiians sometimes greet each other by saying shaka which...