Everyone knows that a group of geese are referred to as a gaggle. Cows gather in herds. Pigeons flock. Monkeys troop… What about other groups? Like humans when they are otherwise labeled into a category. I have searched high and low..right now I am VERY high and still searching. And still not finding. Therefore, I [...]
Leprechauns are mischevious little bastards that sneak around in the forests of Ireland. In order to camouflage themselves, they exclusively wear green in order to blend into their surroundings. Like most of the Irish, they have red hair, so they must also resort to wearing bowler hats with foliage stuck in them. Leprechauns love to play [...]
Origin of the Phrase: Busting My Chops During the Great British Meat Famine of 1323, Sir Picklesby of East Chattersbury-O’er-The-Hedge owned over eighty percent of the country’s sheep. By selling this commodity to the other royalty in the nation, this early entrepreneur amassed a tremendous fortune during the following year and a half. Soon, highwaymen began [...]
Origin of the Phrase: Straight From The Horse’s Mouth This phrase can be attributed to a fellow named Armando Aquinas. Armando Aquinas has a very unusual name. Aquinas is derived from the Latin word Equinas which literally means “Horse Brains”. Aquinas was a high ranking priest in the Order of Friars Preachers when he was [...]
Origin of the Phrase: “Those Were The Salad Days” In 1847, a young entrepreneur by the name of Norb Queems was arrested and charged with horse trading fraud. During his trial, Queems came up with an elaborate defense in which Queems argued that his scheme for acquiring horses was, at the heart, a plan to [...]
Origin of the Phrase: Beat Six Ways From Sunday Until recent times, Catholicism was all the rage. Disbelievers, or heretics, had a rough time of it. So rough, in fact, that the Pope sent out orders to every Archbishop in the land to beat the devil out of the person who showed up last to services [...]
Three Card Monte (Card Game) Three Card Monte or Three Card Monty is a card game that begins with a feverish and often, quite mesmerizing patter by some guy with finger-less gloves usually in the back seats of a public transit bus. The uninitiated player of Three Card Monte will often be welcomed to the game with [...]
Cats have been very important throughout history. For instance the ancient Egyptians used cats to help transport huge carved stones to the pyramid building sites. How the ancient Egyptians achieved this feat is unknown but it is now known that archaeologists have found large storage vessels of catnip surrounding every pyramid in Egypt…
If all of the ants in the world were weighed all together in a large clump on a gigantic scale, the scale would need to be re-calibrated afterwards because ants don’t stand still. The power used by an ant’s mandible to crush a grasshopper’s outer armor could power a one watt LED mini-diode for one [...]
1. Fats – As in Juan “Fats” Rodriguez. This nickname probably originates from the fact that a lot of gamblers sit on their ass all day downing endless plates of prime rib and sucking down bottomless glasses of high carbohydrate orange whips and the like. 2. D.B. Cooper – As in Jimmy “D.B. Cooper” Newton. [...]
Origin of the Phrase: Busting My Chops During the Great British Meat Famine of 1323, Sir Picklesby of East Chattersbury-O’er-The-Hedge owned over eighty percent of the country’s sheep. By selling this commodity to the other royalty in the nation, this early entrepreneur amassed a tremendous fortune during the following year and a half. Soon, highwaymen began [...]
Origin of the Phrase: Straight From The Horse’s Mouth This phrase can be attributed to a fellow named Armando Aquinas. Armando Aquinas has a very unusual name. Aquinas is derived from the Latin word Equinas which literally means “Horse Brains”. Aquinas was a high ranking priest in the Order of Friars Preachers when he was [...]
Everyone knows that a group of geese are referred to as a gaggle. Cows gather in herds. Pigeons flock. Monkeys troop… What about other groups? Like humans when they are otherwise labeled into a category. I have searched high and low..right now I am VERY high and still searching. And still not finding. Therefore, I [...]
1. Fats – As in Juan “Fats” Rodriguez. This nickname probably originates from the fact that a lot of gamblers sit on their ass all day downing endless plates of prime rib and sucking down bottomless glasses of high carbohydrate orange whips and the like. 2. D.B. Cooper – As in Jimmy “D.B. Cooper” Newton. [...]
Three Card Monte (Card Game) Three Card Monte or Three Card Monty is a card game that begins with a feverish and often, quite mesmerizing patter by some guy with finger-less gloves usually in the back seats of a public transit bus. The uninitiated player of Three Card Monte will often be welcomed to the game with [...]
1. Wynstryl Elfsong Defeats 38 Shambling Mounds With a -2 Cursed Longsword Wynstryl was searching for the Eye Of Kayzok in the Dungeon of the Red Skull on The Forbidden Island for this epic battle. After picking up the cursed sword and falling into a spiked pit causing 7 points of damage, Wynstryl thought his [...]
Leprechauns are mischevious little bastards that sneak around in the forests of Ireland. In order to camouflage themselves, they exclusively wear green in order to blend into their surroundings. Like most of the Irish, they have red hair, so they must also resort to wearing bowler hats with foliage stuck in them. Leprechauns love to play [...]
If all of the ants in the world were weighed all together in a large clump on a gigantic scale, the scale would need to be re-calibrated afterwards because ants don’t stand still. The power used by an ant’s mandible to crush a grasshopper’s outer armor could power a one watt LED mini-diode for one [...]
14. Abbott and Costello Meet the Gypsies An interesting Abbott and Costello movie, interesting in that only one percent of the film’s running time of 98 minutes has Abbott or Costello in it. My favorite scene is when a Gypsy captures a cat and throws it at Costello. Costello, obviously “in the cups” kissed the [...]
Back in 2003 we buried a time capsule, here is the original news item. The dawn of the new millenium a few years back has us at the Lastsource thinking about one of the more useless ways to mark history: the Time Capsule. We have thought long and hard about how to commemorate this year, [...]
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