A friend sent this. I love this stuff.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n1. WHY:
\nWhy do men’s clothes have buttons on the right while women’s clothes have buttons on the left?<\/p>\n
BECAUSE:
\nWhen 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!\u00a0 And that’s where women’s buttons have remained since.<\/p>\n
2. WHY:
\nWhy do ships and aircraft use ‘mayday’ as their call for help?<\/p>\n
BECAUSE:
\nThis comes from the French word m’aidez – meaning ‘help me’ – and is pronounced, approximately, ‘mayday.’<\/p>\n
3. WHY
\nWhy are zero scores in tennis called ‘love’?<\/p>\n
BECAUSE:
\nIn 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.’\u00a0\u00a0 When tennis was introduced in the US, Americans (naturally), mispronounced it ‘love.’<\/p>\n
4. WHY:
\nWhy do X’s at the end of a letter signify kisses?<\/p>\n
BECAUSE:
\nIn 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.<\/p>\n
5 WHY:
\nWhy is shifting responsibility to someone else called ‘passing the buck’?<\/p>\n
BECAUSE:
\nIn 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.\u00a0 If a player did not wish to assume the responsibility of dealing, he would ‘pass the buck’ to the next player.<\/p>\n
6. WHY:
\nWhy do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast?<\/p>\n
BECAUSE:
\nIn earlier times it used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
7. WHY:
\nWhy are people in the public eye said to be ‘in the limelight’?<\/p>\n
BECAUSE:
\nInvented 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.<\/p>\n
8 WHY:
\nWhy is someone who is feeling great ‘on cloud nine’?<\/p>\n
BECAUSE:
\nTypes 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.<\/p>\n
9. WHY:
\nIn golf, where did the term ‘Caddie’ come from?<\/p>\n
BECAUSE:
\nWhen 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.\u00a0 To make sure she was properly chaperoned (and guarded) while she played, Louis hired cadets from a military school to accompany her.\u00a0 Mary liked this a lot and when she returned to Scotland (not a very good idea in the long run), she took the practice with her.\u00a0 In French, the word cadet is pronounced `ca-day’ and the Scots changed it into caddie.<\/p>\n
10. WHY:
\nWhy are many coin collection jar banks shaped like pigs?<\/p>\n
BECAUSE:
\nLong ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of dense orange clay called ‘pygg’. When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as ‘pygg banks.’\u00a0 When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a container that resembled a pig.\u00a0 And it caught on.<\/p>\n
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\nHarry Newton who’s entranced with the tennis at the U.S. Open. Seriously good matches, especially when the biggies — like Murray and Nadal — are defeated. This evening at 8 PM. Federer plays. I hope he wins.<\/p>\nStephen Colbert used to run a show on Comedy Central that was clever and funny. Now he’s on CBS and running a “family” show (he called it that), he’s neither funny nor clever. Don’t waste your time. Sad. I used to be a huge fan.<\/p>\n
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