| Day 1.
Mo’s Sort of Skewed Wisdom: Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know
basis.
Mo’s Great Question
for Today: Why is it that no matter what color of bubble bath you use…the
bubbles are always white?
These are fun! Mo’s
friend, Susan P., from Lebanon, Tennessee sent a list of mergers expected
this year.
Watch for Polygram
Records, Warner Brothers and Zesta Crackers join forces and become: Poly,
Warner Cracker.
Mo’s Wisdom: The one
thing that unites all human beings regardless of age, gender, religion,
economic status or ethnic background is that, deep down inside, we ALL
believe that we are above average drivers!
More Mo’s Wisdom:
Your friends love you anyway.
Day 2.
Mo’s Sort of Skewed
Wisdom: Acupuncture is a jab well done.
Mo’s Great Question
for Today: On electric toasters, why do they engrave the message “one
slice?” How many pieces of bread do they think people are really going
to try to stuff in that slot?
These are fun! Mo’s
friend, Susan P., from Lebanon, Tennessee sent a list of mergers expected
this year.
Watch for 3M to merge
with Goodyear and issue forth as: MMMGood.
Mo’s Wisdom: A person
who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter or waitress is not a nice
person. (This is very important. It never fails.)
Mo’s Interesting Word
for Today: “Atlas.” We use it to mean a book of maps, plates and
geographical information or a mountain range in Africa. Where did that
work come from?
The Titan who bore the
heavens on his shoulders was Atlas the Titan. His picture was on the front
of the first book of maps, plates and geographical information….so, all
books of that type, have been called “Atlas” ever since.
Day 3.
Mo’s Things to Think
About: There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor
pine in pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England or French
fries in Franch. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t
sweet, are meat.
Mo’s Great Question
for Today: Why is it that no plastic garbage bag will open from the end
you first try?
These are fun! Mo’s
friend, Susan P., from Lebanon, Tennessee sent a list of mergers expected
this year.
Watch for Zippo
Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco and Dakota Mining will merge and
become: ZipAudiDoDa. (Mo’s favorite!)
Mo’s Interesting Word
for Today: Where did we get the name “amethyst” for the gorgeous
bluish-violet quartz?
It’s really true that
the name of this quarts comes from the Greek words meaning
antidrunkenness, as it was supposed to prevent intoxication.
Day 4.
Mo’s Things to Think
About: Qucksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is
neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. Why is it that writers write but
fingers don’t fing…grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? Mo was just
wondering!
Mo’s Great Question
for Today: Considering all that lint you get in your dryer…If you kept
drying your clothes would they eventually just disappear?
These are fun! Mo’s
friend, Susan P., from Lebanon, Tennessee sent a list of mergers expected
this year.
Fairchild Electronics
and Honeywell Computers will become: Fairwell Honeychild.
Mo’s Interesting Word
for Today. “Mortgage” means a signed pledge as security for a debt, a
conditional transfer to be canceled upon payment of an obligation. Where
did we get that word?
Surprisingly, this
comes from the old French mort or “dead” and “gage” which means a pledge.
In other words, when the debt is paid, the pledge is dead.
Day 5.
Mo’s Things to Think
About: If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth –
beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, shouldn’t it be one moose and two meese?
Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you
have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them…what do
you have left? Is it an odd or an end?
Mo’s Great Question
for Today: Is it true that the only difference between a yard sale and a
trash pickup is how close to the road the stuff is placed?
Mo’s Interesting Word
for Today: Most everyone enjoys mustard on a sandwich. Where did a word
like “mustard” come from?
Actually, when we
enjoy mustard on something, we are reaching back in time…because the
Romans made and enjoyed basically the same condiment we have today – made
pretty much the same way. The word comes from the Latin “mustum” which
means “new Wine,” with which the condiment was always made.
Mo loves it when you
learn something! |
