RANDOM MUSINGS FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL

8/26/2021

THIS N THAT

 At one time and maybe still today, in Vermont, it was illegal for a woman to wear false teeth without her husband's permission.
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The QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow typing so that the keys of the newly invented typewriter wouldn't jam.  
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The Earth's core is as hot or hotter than the Sun.
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The origin of the use of the letters 'OK' to mean 'everything is all right' has a disputed origin.  The letters did come before the word 'okay'.  Okay?  It seems to have come into use about the time that Martin Van Buren was President of the United States.  He was from Kinderhook, NY and was called Old Kinderhook by many journalists.  That led to calling him O.K.  Okay?  Soon, everything was OK.  Okay?  I don't buy it.
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The 1976 classic movie, The Bad News Bears, was about a little league team of misfits and runts coached by an alcoholic.  The sponsor imprinted on their uniform shirts was 'Chico's Bail Bonds'.  It fit.

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