“Sometimes it pays to be BADDDDDD!!!”
While there is always competition for who is best, rarely for who is worst, but
“Where did ‘letting the cat out of the bag’ get its start?”
The middle of the 1700s, farmers would put young pigs in a burlap ‘bag’ to
“Take that, you old codger!”
Judge George Wythe had a stellar career. In addition to being one of the signers
“Bang the drum, slowly.”
One of the short comings of the silver screen is it snapshots history. Movies ‘pretend’
“Little Sure Shot.”
This is an accurate photograph of Annie Oakley while she was traveling with Buffalo Bill’s
“Why are railroad rails exactly 4 feet, 8.5 inches apart?”
The US standard railroad gauge is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. Why? Because the first railroads
“The Chattanooga Choo Choo was solid gold?”
Yes, and no. In 1941, the Chattanooga Choo Choo – the song, not the choo
“Getting an Alaskan Gold Rush education.”
If you are not an Alaskan, this picture will not mean much. So let’s get
“What’s black and white and never right?”
In the early days of football, the referees wore white shirts with bowties. But often,
Beware of old adages ….
Adage? What’s an adage? An adage is a proverb expressing a generally accepted truth. Like,
“How much is a dollar really worth?”
Starting in 1938, Emerich Juettner – also known as Edward Mueller –started counterfeiting one dollar
“Some people get NO respect — and a lot of them are women.”
Meet Elizabeth Jane “Jennie” Cloud Winner. She was born in 1822 in Virginia and moved