Warning: if you're not this tall, don't click through on the link. Adults only. Etc.
Got pointed at this by a blog: The 1159 Naughty Words. It's a list of words with which you are not allowed to personalize jerseys bought at NFL Shops. (I don't know what they call jerseys in the UK, but I'm sure it's good. Also, I think NFL stands for National Football League, and football is the American variety.)
I thought they were called sweaters in the US? We use both terms pretty well interchangeably - at least I do - someone may well correct me and explain the difference.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
A Jersey is a kind of woollen garment (sweater, woolly, pullover) whose style originated on the Channel Island of Jersey. I believe it's to do with the formation of the sleeves that makes the difference between a Jersey and any other kind of woollen.
On the nearby island of Guernsey they have a similar kind of garment - called, would you believe, a Guernsey.
Richard English
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Come to think of it, I know there's a list and a person responsible to check out proposed vanity plates in California (DMV) to make sure nothing untoward is put on them.
I recall hearing of one that snuck through, to their embarassment, and was banned the following year. It said TIHS.
What's wrong with that? Consider what you'd see if that car were behind you, and you were looking it in your rear-view mirror. Mirror images, you know ...
I'm reminded of when calculators were new. I was in elementary school. One of our kid magazines had a column about how to put messages on your calculator. My favorite was to put in 07734, which when you turned it over, would say hello (sorta).
Ahh - the good ole' days.
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The first electric calculator I used inhigh school, used what appeared to be little neon tubes to display digits. It was made by Lytton, IIRC, and was as big as a bread basket.This message has been edited. Last edited by: jheem,
The first one I had was an Olivetti - and you had to pull a handle to make it work. All it would do is add and subtract and it cost about £30 - probably three weeks wages at the time.
Richard English
Posts: 8038 | Location: Partridge Green, West Sussex, UK
I also remember when we got our first curling iron.
The first curling iron I remember seeing was not electric. You heated it up on the stove, I suppose. It was not being used at the time, but my grandmother explained what it was.
...you had to pull a handle to make it work. All it would do is add and subtract
That sounds similar to the Burroughs ones we used at work in the 60s. They took up about the desk space of a large typewriter, but were twice as high. Although they ran on that new-fangled electricity stuff, they often broke down and we had to use a handle instead.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
