{"id":27,"date":"2012-12-09T21:26:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T21:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macyplace.com\/tom\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2012-12-09T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T21:26:12","slug":"where-did-these-terms-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/09\/where-did-these-terms-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Did These Terms Come From"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researching <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">First Fury<\/span><\/em>, provided some side benefits. One was that it answered questions I never knew I had; but, after the research, I knew I should have asked. Did you ever wonder about where these came from?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why is the toilet sometimes called a\u00a0\u201chead\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>Why are office rumors sometimes referred to as \u201cscuttlebutt\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>Why is a hard time sometimes called \u201ctrying\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>Why do some people refer to discarding\u00a0something as \u201cdeep sixing\u201d it?<\/li>\n<li>Why do some people yell \u201cshake a leg\u201d to\u00a0motivate someone to move faster?<\/li>\n<li>Where does the term \u201cson of a gun\u201d come from?<\/li>\n<li>When someone is not making sense, why are they sometimes said to have \u201cthree sheets to the wind\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>Why would someone dressed poorly be called a \u201cclod hopper\u201d?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find the answers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macyplace.com\/FirstFury\/FunStuff\/Terms.htm\">Where Did These Terms Come From<\/a> in the Fun Stuff link at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstfury.com\/\">First Fury<\/a>. These phrases became part of Ann\u2019s vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>More pictures and resources are available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macyplace.com\/FirstFury\/FirstFury.aspx\">book\u2019s web site<\/a> by clicking the \u201cPictures, Notes, Docs, etc\u201d link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researching First Fury, provided some side benefits. One was that it answered questions I never knew I had; but, after the research, I knew I should have asked. Did you ever wonder about where these came from? Why is the toilet sometimes called a\u00a0\u201chead\u201d? Why are office rumors sometimes referred to as \u201cscuttlebutt\u201d? Why is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/09\/where-did-these-terms-come-from\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where Did These Terms Come From&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firstfury","tag-head-scuttlebutt-trying-deep-six-shake-a-leg-son-of-a-gun-clod-hopper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}