Month: November 2016
With male contraception on the way, spare a thought for the bizarre contraceptive history men will skip over Men will miss out on thousands of years of dark, daft …
Put one foot wrong in this conference room and you’re in a totalitarian regime Third of our most ridiculous borders is The Korean DMZ. A strip of land about …
Leave this town’s library the wrong way and get arrested Legend has it that drunken 18th century surveyors are responsible for one of our most ridiculous borders. Others say …
Put One Foot Wrong in This Town and You’ve Left the Country Welcome to the first in a new series on the world’s most ridiculous borders and walls. The …
Dingbats, dunces and nimrods, oh my! Let’s take a break from the goat song that is this Presidential election and enjoy some hilarious and strange word origins. Find out …
How did “Powerful Leader” become “Dick”? The Germanic first or given name Richard derives from German, French, and English “ric” (ruler, leader, king) and “hard” (strong, brave). So we …
