In loving memory of Tom Hogg, 1943–2023
MoFunny for
Women's Day · February 17, 2027
Buffalo wings have been around for a lot shorter time than most people think. Where did they get their name?
+----- Answer At The End -----+
The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it. - Voltaire
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Every new opinion at its starting is precisely a minority of one. - Thomas Carlysle (1795-1881)
What characteristic is shared by the following words: appeases, arraigning, hotshots, intestines, reappear, teammate? In every word each letter appears twice.
It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.
Why do they call it a "building"? It looks like they're finished. Why isn't it a "built"?
CD-ROM drives with spin factors higher than 64x are impossible to build, as most records reach their ultimate strength limit at this speed. Instead, other solutions have to be sought, such as using several read heads, reading several tracks at at a time, or the like.
The general recommendation is that you never stand close to a 64x drive, if it isn't mounted in an explosion proof enclosure. You could have your stomach perforated.
Check out why this label is necessary. [ Click Here ]
A man was in the hospital recovering from an operation when a nun walked into his room. She was there to cheer up the sick and lame. They start talking and she asks about his life. He talks about his wife and his 13 children.
"My, my," says the nun. "13 children, a good and proper Catholic family. God is very proud of you."
"I'm sorry, Sister," he says, "I am not Catholic, I'm Jewish."
"Jewish!" she exclaims. "You sex maniac, you!!"
What's the difference between a good ol' boy and a redneck? The good ol' boy raises livestock. The redneck gets emotionally involved.
Private Jones was assigned to the Army induction center, where he was to advise new recruits about their government benefits, especially their Serviceman's Group Life Insurance (SGLI). It wasn't long before the center's Lieutenant noticed that Private Jones had almost a 100% record for insurance sales, which had never happened before.
Rather than ask about this, the Lt. stood in the back of the room and listened to Jones's sales pitch. Jones explained the basics of the SGLI to the new recruits, and then said. "If you have SGLI and go into battle and are killed, the government has to pay $200,000 to your beneficiaries.
If you don't have SGLI, and you go into battle and get killed, the government has to pay only a maximum of $6000."
"Now," he concluded, "which bunch do you think they are going to send into battle first?"
A resident in a posh hotel breakfast room called over the head waiter one morning and read from the menu. "I'd like one under-cooked egg so that it's runny, and one over-cooked egg so that it's tough and hard to eat. I'd also like grilled bacon which is a bit on the cold side, burnt toast, butter straight from the freezer so that it's impossible to spread, and a pot of very weak, lukewarm coffee."
"That's a complicated order sir," said the bewildered waiter. "It might be quite difficult."
The guest replied sarcastically, "It can't be that difficult because that's exactly what you brought me yesterday!"
You might be a redneck if…
Your satellite dish payment delays buying school clothes for the kids.
My mother is a cleaning fanatic. One Saturday she told me and my brother to get down to the playroom and straiten it up. We had had a party there the previous evening, and she was none too happy about the mess.
As she watched us work, it was clear that Mom was completely dissatisfied with our cleaning efforts and let us know it.
Finally my brother, exasperated with having to do it all over, reached for a broom and asked Mom, "Can I use this, or were you planning to go somewhere?"
This girl goes to see her doctor. The doctor asks what's her problem.
"Well," she says, "Everytime my boyfriend is making love to me, my toes keep going up and down all the time."
"Well," the doctor says, "take off your panty hose before having sex next time."
Buffalo wings have been around for a lot shorter time than most people think. Where did they get their name?
Buffalo wings have been so ingrained in our national food culture that it is hard to remember life before wings. But like "One Man, One Vote," Buffalo wings have been around for a lot shorter time than most people think. From the origin in 1964 to today, however, wings are a prime example of a food that incorporates so many of the traits our culture is known for. Thrift - wings, after all, come from the part of the chicken most people threw away or used only for soups and stocks. Ingenuity - the combination of simple, at-hand materials to make a new item. Eating with your hands - while most of us are quite familiar with our principal utensils of fork and knife, there is that childlike satisfaction in eating with fingers, especially when there is a flavorful sauce to lick off.
There is something for most people to like about Buffalo wings and for those many reasons the food has spread rapidly from its origin in Buffalo, New York, and is now part of our national food culture, no longer something you can find only in the Northeastern United States.