Coming to you from my brand new studio studio sunny eastern
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Friday in Beverly Hills,
Beverly Hills. This is Fun Fact Friday, we talked about
different facts each week well facts surrounding a different
topic each week. And we try and get some good news and some fun.
And we got some exciting news for the show. What's the
exciting news for the show? Leila?
We're in the studio.
Well, there's more than that. We've said that in the intro.
You're just repeating content. Well, I
don't know what you mean.
Are you a professional podcast or not?
I have Chex Mix. That's the announcement. Leila we go ahead.
We have a merch store now. Yes, the merch store is up because I
made a funny up printing engineer
running. And yeah. I was trying to get the link. I've forgotten
the link. It's it's a threadless store. And it's metus
media.threadless.com. I don't have a link on the website yet.
Because I've been out here working on the studio. I got the
Threadless store up and running but I had don't have it linked
to it from our website. It will be in the show notes of this
episode. And it's just meet US media. Me d U S. Me D ay
ay.threadless.com. And we have a couple of things up there. We've
got the meters pod logo, we have our Shut up respectfully. And we
have the cod pasture. Very if you're if you're listening to
this, after Dred Scott gets the chapter files up, I'm sure he's
gonna have pictures of of the merch store or the merch, the
cod pastor, we commissioned an artist to do that for us. And it
came out a fan tastic. Go check it out. Even if you're not going
to buy you can get stickers, you can get T shirts, you can get a
mousepad. And there's a bunch of stuff on Threadless that I
couldn't get as a framed artwork, you can get his framed
artwork for $70 you can get artwork. It's a bit that's a bit
steep. And the best part is we don't have to do anything. Yeah,
like we don't have to ship anything out. We don't have to.
That being said, I did order 50 stickers, not from Threadless.
But I took the the cod pastor image and got some stickers
made, and they will be here next week. So if you want a cod
pastor sticker and your listener, let us know mail at
Fun Fact. friday.com we will mail you one out. You don't even
have to give us anything. Of course more value for value
show. Which means if you get value out of our show, feel free
to send us value back in any way you see fit just like in the
chat room right now. And in the chat room, we are we are live
it's Friday night. It's about eight o'clock Eastern give or
take. And we try and we're going to try and go live on Friday
nights around seven but this week, we had to get stuff. Yeah,
the new studio, we had to move out and move some stuff out here
and get the wires all connected and lost logins and yeah, it's
all mess. It's all mess. But what are we talking about this
week?
What are we popular idioms and phrases? Popular idioms and
phrases? Let's say sayings, but I knew that wasn't really right.
Saying brace is I mean, that's what it is. Yeah, so it just you
know, idiot. Idiots is the is the correct word. Idiot. Idiot.
Right,
Idiocracy. Good movie.
Oh, yeah, we were gonna start doing Movie Reviews. No, we
didn't do it. We're so bad that we're all this is our new thing.
We're gonna do this all the time. And then don't do it ever
again. So yeah, we're gonna talk about popular phrases and idioms
and some of their origins which I find interesting. Fun Facts,
you know? Five. Typically, what do we start out with? Today
Welcome to Fun Fact Friday knew with your lead anchor me, David.
And your co anchor.
I thought the door was moving. Oh, no. So your lead anchor, by
the way? Oh,
so isn't Leila's deleting. Yes, I
am lead anchor despite the fact that I that I'm still looking.
You're still looking for.
We are totally unprepared this episode is. Yes. So in the town
of Hesperia, California. Is that the one on one? Is that the one
you found? No.
But I was just about to talk. And I said so. Anyway, like so.
You were like louder. Since I've
already started, we were in California, a great aunt watched
helplessly as a baby stroller was carried by a gust of wind
towards a busy street. There's a video going around, where this
stroller gets caught by the wind and the great aunt is she can't
get up like something's wrong with her legs. She just
physically can't get up off the ground to chase after the
stroller. Well, a good Samaritan nearby. Ran and save the baby.
So, baby saver. That's good news, right? Yeah. So there you
go.
There you go. Mine is about a dog. As is customary
as his custom.
A two year old Chihuahua named Pearl is officially the world's
shortest dog. Pearl measures 3.59 inches, that's a tiny dog.
Or if you're like me, and you like metric, it's nine point 14
centimeters in height, meaning she's shorter than a popsicle
stick.
That's crazy. That is a tiny dog is a fully grown two years old
to tell ya. That's a full grown dog. I mean, it's not a puppy
anymore. Yeah.
She's a Guinness World Record holder for the shortest dog. And
she is absolutely cute. She just was like a Chihuahua. But when
you see her compared to like a human, it's just like this
little like a teacup in the person's hand. That's cute.
Yeah, I saw a picture in the show notes.
All the links will be in the show notes. Obviously. If she
wants to sound hall that is 914 millimeters. Nice. 914 tall. But
we use America units on this show. Sadly, when I'm talking,
when he's talking about likes the metric show learns it. So my
30 Guys just let it she'll get through it. All right, so
so much easier and so much better in every way when I run
the government. I'm switching it to metric. Are you running for
something? When I run when I am the government
when you are the government?
I don't want to be the government. Do you think it'd be
fine. Not doing that. But that as concludes what are you doing?
What? I turned off the music that was it for the good news.
Right?
I know what were you gonna conclude it and then I will turn
off.
I'm sorry. All right. So idioms.
We're done with the good news segment apparently.
All right. So we like I said, we're not really prepared for
this episode, but we want to get get something out of it. But now
we are like we got this topic. And we've been
there's about 15 ads on my screen.
That's terrible. You got to use a different browser got to use
the browser that I usually use instead of Firefox. So
Leila said we should do like old people sayings.
Yeah. What in tarnation?
What did you find that one is that the website is another
website. All right. So we're getting most of these facts from
fact Republic. But if we come across any others that we
started digging around in one, we will put that link in the
show notes. The one that caught my interest first, was we call
people with red hair red heads as a poor as opposed as opposed
to head reds, orange heads because they have orange hair.
As always, as a general rule, natural redheads have orange
hair, not red hair. The phrase redheads has been around longer
than the color orange in the English language.
What the
the color orange was described as red until the 1500s. That is
the 1500s is the first reference to the word orange to describe
the color orange and the English language. And they named the
color after the fruit.
Yeah, the fruit came first. I just looked it up.
You're like, let me look this up
while you were speaking like while you were sleeping.
Okay, so this one this one was interesting to me. Also, to
steal someone's thunder. Have you ever heard that one? Yes. So
I always thought it was some you know Greek, Greek thing about
like, you know, Thor We're or Roman or something like that.
No, it what it is, is John Dennis was a dramatist. He found
out that someone in a different play at a in a different theater
or in the same theater had stolen his idea for the thunder
machine. What your thunder machine is right? Typically it's
just a piece a sheet of stain and they shake it and it makes
thunder sounds. And he came up with that, and somebody else
stole his idea. And he was like, You stole my thunder. So that
phrase became a thing to steal someone's thunder. That's what
it meant. And I was like, oh, oh, okay. I thought it was like,
you know, Thor the Greek. Yeah. Yeah, um, I'm not up on my my
mythical mythical histories.
So let's see. Where's the What in tarnation? Find it. Hard
nation. tar tar. I hold on. I found it. No, it's number three
here. Number 12. Number 12.
So tell me about tarnation I'm curious.
What in tarnation comes from title meaning eternal in nation
just go to the link in the website and read read number 12.
It effectively means what the heck yeah. Because there's a
word in that one. That's not we don't want to say on the show.
This is a
Christian Minecraft server. As I have said
this is a kid show. All right. So what else you got?
Pray the phrase which I haven't heard this one. It's 23 SkiDoo.
I've heard that one. But I don't hear it used often
mean either. This is not like a popular idiom a phrase, but its
meaning let's get out of here. And it was America's truly first
national fad expression.
So it's just a fad expression. Yeah, I guess. So. It's like, so
it's like, cool. Sure, or fetch.
Stop trying to make fetch happen.
It's not gonna happen.
So the idiom break a leg may have meant take about as an do
well enough that the audience is happy with your performance. In
this context, break a leg would mean to wish that an actor would
give such a good performance that he would be forced to take
many bows.
Huh, huh. So yeah, good to know. So yes, local theater. Don't
ever let anybody tell you good luck if you're about to go on
stage. Nope. So good luck is bad luck in the theater
theater. With the RT instead of the ER
Oh, that was dangerous. I just was dangerous took my drink over
the top of the road guests
are extremely expensive piece of equipment.
Is it related to skedaddle get out? So what was it? 23? SkiDoo.
2020.
No, I don't want to download Timo.
23 kudu SkiDoo phrase, an American slang phrase generally
referring to leaving quickly. Yeah, I guess. SkiDoo means the
same thing, right.
Yeah, I guess so. So goodbye. I didn't know that. This was like
a popular phrase, which I guess it is because you say in almost
every conversation with someone, it's a contraction of the phrase
God be with you. Goodbye. So like that. Okay, it's a it was
originally in 50 ad. So I guess I kind of get that. What are you
looking at?
I'm really I'm in the weeds with this 23 SkiDoo thing,
apparently. The earliest known report of the slang expression
23 is a codeword for asking someone to leave. And it's a
newspaper reference for March 17 and the 1899
Oh, mine was in 1580 Goodbye.
For some time, there was there has been going around the rounds
of the men about town the slang phrase 23 meaning attached to it
is move on, get out. Goodbye, glad you're gone. Move your your
move and so on, to be initiated. It is used with effect in a
jocular manner. As the only significance to local men and is
well the sentences are structured weird in this because
this can rapey 99 Let's see phase. Ah, it has ventured that
this phrase expression originated with Charles Dickens
in the tale of two cities. The significance is distorted from
its first use. Maybe trace the trace 23 is in the sentence and
the clothes of the powerful novel. Sydney Carton, the hero
of the novel goes to the guillotine in place of trouble
Darnay I'm kind of given some spoilers for a tale of two
cities. Sorry, but it's over 120 years old. So, the husband of
the woman, the husband of the woman he loves the time is
during the French Revolution when prisoners were guilty and
by the hundreds prisoners are 2022 has gone and Sydney Carton
answers 23 So he was the 23rd person to go to the guillotine.
And,
yeah, it really annoys me that you're pronouncing guillotine
like guillotine. Guillotine it's guillotine. Guillotine it's
guillotine listen. Dear teen 18 guillotine it's not guillotine.
you're pronouncing it like a British person guillotine.
you're pronouncing it like a British person. Listen. God save
the Queen. The slow is too slow for this. But basically the
British pronunciation is guillotine but the American
pronunciation is guillotine. So you're saying it like a British
person?
I can say something. All right, so we have some information from
the chat room. That's why we like doing a live show.
Yes. Oh, geez. There's been a lot of stuff since I possibly an
alteration
of the British dialect, skedaddle skeletal quote to run
off and fright and quote from the adjective scandal, just wild
timid skittish from Middle English scaffold or sky dowel
armful of fearsome wild or perhaps the North Germanic
Scandinavian origin or Old Norse? I can't even pronounce
that because it has things that aren't letters in it.
Let me see. Where is it? Scoble?
I guess I don't know. from the Old English scrap bowl, or
escape Paul Dortch harm possibly related to ancient Greek and a
whole bunch of Greek letters, possibly related? See prior to
1580 they just said sia that was
Gotcha. You and your British?
Oh, no, don't make oh, what what's the what's the if you're,
if you're looking at something, and a profit. Okay, so
mom saw something on I think like Facebook, and it was like,
what? Y'all don't even know what propaganda means anymore? And
one of the comments was, it's when a British person looks at
something real hard, and she laughed so hard, and it made me
laugh so hard.
Having a propaganda propaganda.
You know, ganda. Oh, wait, no, it was it was an Australian
Australian. It was Australian. Yeah, you get what I mean,
though.
You ruin the whole joke. The whole the whole entire joke is a
joke. I'm like one of those those those middle aged men what
say, say, raise up lights,
razor blades, razor blades,
is raise up lights as his razor blades and Australia have an a
propaganda
and propaganda anyways, cut to the chase comes from a silent
movies, which they often ended up with the chasing when the
film had boring or too much dialogue. And executives would
say this phrase to the directors. So Hmm. That's, that
makes sense. It's like one that actually makes sense. It means
gets the most interesting part.
Right? Yeah. In Greece, the idiom, it's all Greek to me is
it's all Chinese to me. Since this, they still speak Greek
pretty well, in Greece. So we say oh, it's all Greek to me.
You know, have you heard that one? It just means I don't
understand. It doesn't make any sense because it's not
my language. You couldn't read the Greek earlier when he
wouldn't know some chat. I don't know.
Dark radar posted that one. Oh, so maybe it's If you want to
join in the front you can go to Fun Fact Friday and listen live
on Friday nights. Follow us on Twitter and Mastodon pre
recorded
by the way he's just saying it in his pre recorded voice
and joining the fun in the chat so yeah, we I found out that our
radio station can do what's called web hooks. And we can
have it automatically notify our Twitter and Mastodon accounts
when we go live. So I'm going to be setting that up when I'm done
with the studio. Sound Studio stuff. The studio because I'm a
stirred No, no.
Anyways, the prolonged exposure to filth containing high levels
of mercury would cause mental dysfunction in the 18th century
hat makers, ushering the phrase as mad as a hatter.
Yep, good old mercury. Nothing beats Mercury for making him
mad, yummy,
mad mad. Madden mercury. And so I'm gonna call from now on.
Do you know why they use mercury? White Hat makers use
mercury. stiff? Yep. it stiffens the fabric, the hat making
fabric the materials, it makes the brim of the hat nice and
Brummie. You know,
you could just do something else. Well, I'm
sure they do now. You're doing sewing, what do you use?
If you're making a hat? Okay? If you make an A hat, you want to
get something in the middle. Cardboard? No, that is a bad
idea that how to make a hat. We'll see. So here we go. The
brim of a hat. You have to make some some stuff. Yeah, maybe it
is cardboard, but some people use cardboard. Some people use.
I would just think putting some boning in it. Like if he got
some boning that's big enough. Burning is used as stiff in
corsets and stuff. Yeah, it's plastic, essentially. But it's
some of it's made of metal. Right? Just bend the metal. How
to make a hat
brand new. You're just looking out how to make it happen.
You are you asked, you asked,
but because I've taken apart hats before
interfacing it as part of it. Right, by using
some interfacing for your costume. Right.
Interfacing with like it's used for the actual hat part of the
hat. The brim? I don't know what is used. It looks like something
specialized.
Yeah, I know the I know the front of the cap part of the
hat. The brim has more interfacing behind. Oh, yeah.
But in shape more. Yeah. I mean, the front half of the cap part,
not the brim, but, you know, the actual
part. The dome cover?
Yes. Yes.
The Domi part of the hat.
Maybe it's facing me is just like they put a whole bunch in
there. You know, just
multiple layers or they may they make a thicker interfacing,
maybe for different things. I don't know. So yeah, Leila is
working on her cosplay costume. And we're putting a whole bunch
of lights in it. Yes. Yeah, we gotta we gotta get on an order
of the rest of the lights. For the skirt because I already
finished on the skirt LEDs and we've got a wire it all up and
get like a battery pack.
If you don't know, which I don't think I talked about it on the
causeway episode because I did we then we re recorded it. So I
don't know if I talked about it or not. I'm making a costume of
Hosni Miku. And I already have the top done and the skirt done.
I'd have to get the socks and the sleeves done. I have the wig
done. I need to put the lights on it. That's all I need to do
now. Which is awesome. It's just so much money. It is it's an
expensive hobby. But it's fun. And I might win some money out
of it. You know, I'm going into in the contest.
So in the chat, we have the question, How about there's more
than one way to skin a cat. So I'm looking, there's more than
one way to skin a cat means that there are many ways to do
something, or many ways to achieve a goal. The oldest known
use of the phrase dates back to 1854. In the work way down east,
or portraitures of Yankee life by Ceiba Smith. However, there's
more than one way to skin a cat has its roots in an older
similar phrase. Such as there's more to one more than Oh, sorry,
hold on. There's more ways to kill a cat than choking it with
cream found in the 1830s It seems that the original or the
original li up there. Man, I mess it up. Calm down. It seems
that originally the animal in question was a dog as a 17th
century proverb is there's more ways to kill a dog than hanging.
Oh, there you go.
Good to know out
popularity over time. That the ways to skin a cat versus
killing a cat more more ways to kill a cat than choking on cream
looks like the second one that killing a cat on with cream was
more popular until around the year 1900. And then the more
ways to skin a cat became more popular. peaking around 2007
2008 and popularity. Oh my gosh. This article goes way deep. It's
grammars.com
Some of these are so morbid.
Yeah, let's leave out the more. This way. I'm not saying many
Fun Fact Friday. Not bad. I'm
just I'm just learning. The phrase pull yourself up by your
own bootstraps was originally meant to describe and absurdly
impossible action. The phrase is an ad a nation, a figure of
speech in the form of a hyper bowl. Ie I personally taken to
such extreme lengths as to insinuate a can. A complete
impossibility. I thought I said a complete impossible. So I was
like, that's not how sentences work. So I was trying to change
it, but then it wasn't complete and possible. So you gotta mean.
You okay? You just weren't speaking what?
Server? Chat is very funny. Because you know, we have Fun
Fact Friday, and we have silly speculation Saturday on
occasion. Cerebro says murderous musings Monday.
Oh, my goodness. Third show anyways.
Yeah, that's terrible Tuesday's. Yeah, that's gotta have three
words. Terrible. So, I have a hat with with the name metus on
it. Because he was in Las Vegas, Las Vegas. And they were like,
you want to put something on the hat? And I'm like, Sure, put me
on it. And I'm happy people ask me what does that mean? And I'm
like, it means make everyday ultra super like what? I'm like,
make every day ultra super. Hey, there's a shirt.
Well then we're just gonna name on the show.
It'll just say make everyday ultra super and and meet us.
We'll be down the left side. But no one will know when that's
somebody's name. interesting phrase.
Okay, I do this thing, where if I'm laughing I'm making a weird
laugh. I don't do it on purpose. Well, I do do on purpose. It's
not like an involuntary thing. It's just I do it on purpose to
make it funnier.
Comedy.
I guess Yeah, I guess you could call it that.
I don't. I don't know if I saw bot works in here. Yep. I saw
Baden. Fun Fact Friday being asked to do it manually. It was
right around 27 minutes and 50 seconds give or take a finished
product here.
Not many on here
that you can talk about. Yeah. I will say you were supposed to
start at the bottom and you did not.
I am. I'm on the second page. Excuse me.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. Yep. You ever heard that
one? Nope. You've never heard there's no such thing as a free
lunch. No. Wow, that was a big one when I was a kid. This came
from the practice of saloons offering a free lunch to patrons
purchasing at least one drink. Lunch consisted of salty finger
foods, encouraging the drinkers to drink more beer that is still
continued to this day Dasani
salt so I like to call it i like i like water. What are you
looking at? What are you thinking? Sorry,
um, I'm getting reports that are stream is dropping for some
people. And I'm trying to look and see if we are having any
issues on their server and the server seems to be running
smooth.
But we're still recording. So let's Yeah, talking. You can
look into that. I'm gonna keep talking. Okay, keep going. Let's
see. Well, I don't know what to talk about. server status. Oh,
the ADM blueblood, which was used to describe those of noble
birth derives from the superficial veins appearing blue
on untanned skin. tan skin was associated with the working
class and peasantry who supported most of their times
outdoors or spent most of the day and others. Emad words which
is probably On the best for sayings and phrases episode.
I had my mic down. Yeah, he did, I think I might have a fix for
it. The phrase cool as a cucumber is based on science,
the inside of a cucumber can be up to 20 degrees cooler than the
ambient temperature. And fun fact, we were talking about this
before the show without the person in the chat knowing,
because sort of I was like, you should just record inside of
cucumber. Because we were turning, we were testing out the
AC in the room that we're in saving if it was loud enough,
and he was like, you should just record inside of cucumber. And I
didn't get it.
It's clever.
I didn't get it until that explained it. Cuz I'm not good
at it. This Too Shall Pass, which I thought was a very easy
one to, you know, get the meaning for. But an ancient
Parisian poet recorded the fable of a king who challenged wise
men to make him a ring that would make him both happy. When
he was sad and sad when he was happy. They succeeded by giving
him a ring edge with a phrase this too shall pass.
Yeah, that's kind of the old double edged sword.
Which I never thought of as a double edged sword. I just
thought of it as a happy phrase, because everyone always said it
to me when I was at. So I never really thought about what was
happy. Well, now I'm thinking about it. If
Yeah, I mean, if, if you're happy, why would you want
somebody to say that? So Paul in polite company, is like there's
another phrase. I hope that you live in interesting times.
Because that can be that can be good or bad. Because
interesting. Good. That can mean bad. You know? Or yeah, just
just Oh, that's interesting. I have shut down meet US DOT live
for the time being drops. That drops the resources that the
server is using significantly. I don't know what that means. So
hopefully we won't have any more drops of our listeners. What
okay, this is slander. Oh, because you're talking about
servo another cucumber thing. Let's see. Yeah, so we're going
through these live because we, as we spoke about we didn't
really prepare too great for this episode. We are about to
hit 32 minutes those I mean, we've done pretty good. Don't
forget. You can run but you can't hide. Have you heard that
one? Yep. dates back to a taunt made by boxer Joe Lewis. During
a fight against Billy Cohn in 1941. Well, that was loud.
No, it wasn't. You didn't hear it?
Oh, no, this is gross. I'm gonna say it though.
Which one number
lab we made in Spain I saw that was a German idiom, which I
probably totally butchered the pronunciation on because I'm not
German. means to live luxuriously, but when translated
word for word means to live like a maggot and bacon.
Yeah, I read that one. And I was like, oh, I should have read
that one. But I don't know how to pronounce it.
So I hope like I hope you live like a magnet and bacon there
buddy. Oh my god, they're gonna be like,
I should start saying that because that is right up my
alley because
it is so gross. But if you actually stop and think about
you're like, oh, wait, yeah, that's a really good you're a
maggot and bacon.
No. Okay. Today, they were talking with the Met Gala. And
there was a cockroach at the Met Gala. And I was invited me to
the Met Gala. And everyone understood like this just right
up my alley. I should start saying
you begun we have a correction. Oh, this is a very serious
correction earlier and you stated that sir, that servo was
the one who said that we should broadcast from inside of a
cucumber. When was dark radar that was North radar upon a oh
my goodness live factcheck which is what we do here on Fun Fact
Friday, if we are alerted to a fact that is false. We
immediately stop the show and with all seriousness, correct
the air Absolutely.
And you know, it's serious when their silence after it. They do
that on TV shows a lot when really yeah, when there's a like
a really serious moment the end of an episode. And there's no
theme song at the end during the credits. Like normally there's
like an outro theme you know, what is money
what is the We need to do we need to
oh my loving so funny. You guys did an episode with no and just
say hinges do the Kyle thing.
Just play the guy. He's not even Yeah, cuz that's like the end
credits essentially Yeah certainly. Anyways, it's kind of
like putting a, like a stinger on it like, yeah, that yeah, we
did that that just happened to that thing that you just saw
happen that happened happened. And then the bad part is a lot
of times the next episode, they just erase it somehow like
they're like, Oh, that was just a dream
or when you're watching like a TV show, and the last episode
was super serious. And it ends with a the theme song. It's
super happy.
Well, I was I was just watching a video essay on the series, The
Walking Dead. And they were talking about some of the fake
outs that they did on the show. Like they made you believe a
certain character got got by the zombies. Yeah. And then they
hadn't gotten got where the zombies? Yeah. And it was. It
was emotional manipulation of the audience. Yeah. But the
problem was is they did what's called Boomerang storytelling,
which there's like, let's say there's three groups of people
in the show. And there's three separate storylines going on.
They would dedicate one episode to group one. The next episode
would be group two, the next episode would be group three,
and then they'd boomerang back around to group one, right?
Well, the problem is, is when you have a cliffhanger now you
gotta wait like three weeks or a month to see the resolution of
that cliffhanger. You look like you're about to sneeze,
too, but it's not gonna be right now. All right, I can tell. And
it's terrible.
I like the setup better. I can actually look over at you and
see what's happening.
Yeah, I know. We can talk to each other while looking at each
other. The phrase Oh, well, you already said that one. Hold on.
There's a few more that I wanted to go over.
You can kind of just read them. Yeah. And
okay. The origin of the phrase a taste of your own medicine comes
from an Aesop's famous story about the swindler who sells
fake medicine claiming that it can cure anything. When he falls
ill people gave him his own medicine, which he knows will
not work.
Oh,
good job Aesop.
That kind of reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode I would
walk through today when I was when I was cleaning up the
studio,
a studio. And I was gonna say something before you went off on
your on your tangent, The Walking Dead, but now I can't
remember it.
We're talking about how how movies and TV shows will end?
Oh, yeah. When people when the TV shows and was like a
character getting got. And then the outro is just like, needed.
Do you do? Do you do anybody read? So it was like,
inappropriate time for ragtime music. scenario, right? Oh, wow.
Anyways, the phrase o clock is short for of the clock and comes
from a time when we had to specify that their time came
from a clock instead of a sundial or other device, or just
guessing or just guessing. You know, it's like, that's about
seven.
Well, I mean, they didn't even worry about having numbers on
time. They would just be like, early evening, or dusk or dawn
or you know, Sunrise noon. You know, like when middle? Yeah,
that's what noon means. What is noon me?
The definition the only
etymologies which you want. Well,
I accidentally looked at non soy non as a type of bread. No, N O
N, O, the 1212 o'clock in a day. No.
Toes you you look up the etymology of it not not the
definition. Oh
my gosh, dad. Well, maybe you just need to be quiet and maybe
I can do it the way that I want to do it all along.
Etymology study even sex entomology what's the one word
it means the history.
It's elevated analogy. The ninth hour from sunrise approximately
3pm within ninth hour, and compare with none. So hold on.
What What? What is this? You're
not making any sense. I'm making it use Google.
courses make sense? Let's see. Origin Old English non and from
a Latin nano hora. ninth an hour. Yeah. So it if you're
looking
if you're at if you're at etymology, so it's like the
ninth hour from sunrise says the highest point the zenith. Okay.
The time it was Sun's path is at which the sun is in the local
meridian. So yeah, midday, it's when the sons of the highest in
the sky
the phrase devil's advocate, which I never understand it
comes from a medieval job title that advocate at vote. Cat, jus
diabo ly was the guy tasked with coming up with counter arguments
when a priest was nominated to be blessed or canonized.
Oh, so they had to come up with a guy who's like, all right now
this guy don't deserve it. And I'll tell you why. Yes, the
lawyer. Like the lawyer on it. Yeah.
This man, he's wrecked my house.
Not a kid's movie, but hilarious. Oh, wow. All right.
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What's good news?
My mom. Just kidding. It's Kyle.
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