Day: April 5, 2013
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The Wongs
Su Wong marries Lee Wong. The next year,
the Wongs have a new baby.
The nurse brings out a lovely, healthy, bouncy,
but definitely a Caucasian, WHITE baby boy.
‘Congratulations,’ says the nurse to the new parents.
‘Well Mr. Wong, what will you and Mrs. Wong name the baby?’
The puzzled father looks at his new baby boy and says,
‘Well, two Wong’s don’t make a white,
so I think we will name him…
Are you ready for this?
Sum Ting Wong
You know you laughed and you are going to send this on!! -
Why is it so?
WHY:
Why do men’s clothes have buttons on the right while women’s clothes have buttons on the left?
BECAUSE:
When buttons were invented, they were very expensive and worn primarily by the rich. Since most people are right-handed, it is easier to push buttons on the right through holes on the left. Because wealthy women were dressed by maids, dressmakers put the buttons on the maid’s right! And that’s where women’s buttons have remained since.
WHY:
Why do ships and aircraft use ‘mayday’ as their call for help?
BECAUSE:
This comes from the French word m’aidez -meaning ‘help me’ — and is pronounced, approximately, ‘mayday.’
WHY
Why are zero scores in tennis called ‘love’?
BECAUSE:
In France , where tennis became popular, the round zero on the scoreboard looked like an egg and was called ‘l’oeuf,’ which is French for ‘the egg.’ When tennis was introduced in the US , Americans (mis)pronounced it ‘love.’
WHY:
Why do X’s at the end of a letter signify kisses?
BECAUSE:
In the Middle Ages, when many people were unable to read or write, documents were often signed using an X. Kissing the X represented an oath to fulfill obligations specified in the document. The X and the kiss eventually became synonymous.
WHY:
Why is shifting responsibility to someone else called ‘passing the buck’?
A: In card games, it was once customary to pass an item, called a buck, from player to player to indicate whose turn it was to deal. If a player did not wish to assume the responsibility of dealing, he would ‘pass the buck’ to the next player.
WHY:
Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast?
BECAUSE:
It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would only touch or clink the host’s glass with his own.
WHY:
Why are people in the public eye said to be ‘in the limelight’?
BECAUSE:
Invented in 1825, limelight was used in lighthouses and theatres by burning a cylinder of lime which produced a brilliant light. In the theatre, a performer ‘in the limelight’ was the centre of attention.
WHY:
Why is someone who is feeling great ‘on cloud nine’?
BECAUSE
Types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes they attain, with nine being the highest cloud. If someone is said to be on cloud nine, that person is floating well above worldly cares.
WHY:
In golf, where did the term ‘Caddie’ come from?BECAUSE:
When Mary Queen of Scots went to France as a young girl, Louis, King of France , learned that she loved the Scots game ‘golf.’ He had the first course outside of Scotland built for her enjoyment. To make sure she was properly chaperoned (and guarded) while she played, Louis hired cadets from a military school to accompany her. Mary liked this a lot and when returned to Scotland (not a very good idea in the long run), she took the practice with her. In French, the word cadet is pronounced ‘ca-day’ and the Scots changed it into ‘caddie.’
WHY:
Why are many coin collection jar
banks shaped like pigs?BECAUSE:
Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of a dense orange clay called ‘pygg’. When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as ‘pygg banks.’ When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a container that resembled a pig. And it caught on. -
THE DOOR . . what a relief. We’ve been let off the hook!
Whew! What a relief to learn this…
Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was?
Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses.Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what’s known as an event boundary in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next.Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale.Thank goodness for studies like this. It’s not our age, it’s that stupid door! -
The Three Couples
There were three couples,
one elderly, one middle aged, and one newlywed,
that wanted to join a church.So the minister tells them that in order to be
members they must abstain from sex for two whole
weeks.After two weeks, the minister asks the elderly
couple if they had abstained.“Yes, no problem!”
So the minister welcomes them to the church.Then he asks the middle aged couple the same question
“Well, after one week, the husband had to sleep on the
couch, but we made it!”
So the minister welcomes them to the church.Then the minister asks the newlywed couple if they had
abstained from sex for two weeks.“We were unable to abstain. On the third day, my wife
dropped a can of corn and when she bent over to pick
it up, LUST and PASSION overcame me!”“I’m sorry,” the minister says,
“but you are both banned from this church!”“That’s okay,” says the husband,
“We were banned from the supermarket too!”
