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“The answer to everything is simple. It's a song about everything and nothing ... If you have black, you have to have white. That's the…
Beautiful Precipice
Remember Large Marge? QI’s Dr. Gates did when he opened his laptop to a wide-angle view of one of the world’s squiggliest hair-pinned roads. Situated…
Gameplan: Superior Putting in Rome
“One of the chief reasons for our failure was the superior putting of the American team. They holed out much better than we did.” Ted…
Losing T. Boone Again
On September 11, 2019, the fortunate followers of T. Boone Pickens had a letter from him pop up on their LinkedIn feeds. It started with:…
Oil That Is, Black Gold, Texas Tea
Come and listen to my story 'Bout a man named Jed A poor mountaineer, Barely kept his family fed. And then one day He was…
Two Heads Are Better Than One
“Two heads are better than one” was coined in Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. The propagation of the phrase, however, was care of John Heywood, an English writer…
Episode 59
The dreaded “double dipping” garnered public lexicon infamy in Seinfeld’s 59th episode. The title of “The Implant” gave nothing away as notoriety derived from the…
Blue Bombshell
If you’ve got it, vaunt it. At least, that’s the attitude middle-aged American women had in the 1950s. As recounted in Mental Floss, in 1953,…
WE WON!!!
We did it!! We scored one for the little gal and guy! On October 19, 2022, QI published, “The Land of the Bleed & The…
Front-Loaded Steamroller Policy
In 1866, Aveling and Porter engineered a prototype that culminated in a productivity reset. Fitting three-foot wide rollers to the rear of a standard 12…
Punches and Cobblers for the Price of Ale
“A free lunch-counter is a great leveler of classes, and when a man takes up a position before one of them, he must give up…
Pulling a Hammy
Hamstring pulls are agnostic to an athlete’s size and shape. Being the aspiring, albeit amateur, etymologists we are, it was of great intrigue to learn…
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