Useless Trivial facts
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I think you may be getting confused Hotel46..The far east is Asia not the middle East! {where Arabs are from in General} WOG was the name given to Westernised Oriental {far East} Gentlemanhotel 46 said:the word wogs came from ww2<maybe 1 ???> when the poms were building military infrastructure in the far east. the local arabs were given overalls with "wogs" written on the back. it stood for "working on government service".
as for you weird oriental gentleman that's out
Trivial fact:- The word Golf stands for "Gentleman only Ladies Forbidden" as it was considered to be only a mans game!! Try telling Karri Webb
And more than one head.GBN said:Holdfast said:The average "Silver Stacker" is fond of his bar!
The average human has less than 10 fingers.
hotel 46 said:gingham69 said:I think you may be getting confused Hotel46..The far east is Asia not the middle East! {where Arabs are from in General} WOG was the name given to Westernised Oriental {far East} Gentlemanhotel 46 said:the word wogs came from ww2<maybe 1 ???> when the poms were building military infrastructure in the far east. the local arabs were given overalls with "wogs" written on the back. it stood for "working on government service".
as for you weird oriental gentleman that's out
Trivial fact:- The word Golf stands for "Gentleman only Ladies Forbidden" as it was considered to be only a mans game!! Try telling Karri Webb
confused yes, Egypt is Africa, not far east. working on gov service was in Egypt me seems to think
as copied from wiki below,
Folk etymology
The term wog is often given a folk etymology as an acronym for various phrases:
Working On Government Service, referring to Indians working for the British Raj,[11] or referring to Egyptian labourers working on the Suez Canal during the British Occupation in the early 20th Century.
You've lost me hotel46 as arabs don't come from Egypt and Egypt was never mentioned anyway as you said "far east"
I am aware that Egypt is indeed in North Africa however the locals are referred to as Egyptians and Arabs come from the middle East hence no where near the far east!!
And if you wish to use wiki then show all the references as copied below me also thinks
Anyway depends on where you come from as to what it means, it is extremely offensive in Europe!
It can be an acronym for several other things:
"Whole Of Government. Used to describe Australian Government-wide outsourcing contracts"
"Working On Government Service, referring to Indians working for the British Raj, or referring to Egyptian labourers working on the Suez Canal during the British Occupation in the early 20th Century."
"Western/Westernized/Wild/Wily/Worthy Oriental Gentleman."
Primary Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog
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Believable due to it being a male dominated "sport" but incorrect. Few theories here about the origins of the word based on etymology at the time.gingham69 said:
SOS does not actually stand for anything. Some believe it means "save our souls" or "send out ships" but in fact, the signal was chosen because it was so simple to send that a person who was unfamiliar with radio equipment could send it in the case of an emergency ( / - / SOS in Morse Code is far easier than the previous distress signal of CQD: -.-. / -.- / -..).
Christopher Columbus did not discover that the Earth is round. Man has known the earth was round since the idea was first put forth by Pythagorus (or Aristotle) 2,000 years before Spain even existed. Columbus did fail to reach his original destination, but in so doing he discovered the Americas. The round earth theory was so well established that the navigational methods at the time were all based on the fact that the earth was round
M&M's chocolate stands for the initials of the surnames for its inventors Mars and Murrie.
Although patented by Frank Mars, Bruce Murrie from Hershey's had a 20% share because it allowed the candies to be made with Hershey chocolate which had control of the rationed chocolate in the US at the time (1941).
So if it wasn't for the war they may have been called M's?
Although patented by Frank Mars, Bruce Murrie from Hershey's had a 20% share because it allowed the candies to be made with Hershey chocolate which had control of the rationed chocolate in the US at the time (1941).
So if it wasn't for the war they may have been called M's?
House said:
True to a certain extent House but it is unclear as to what it actually stands for in reality as the game is believed to go as far back as the chinese dynastys, assuming we are talking about the
modern game believed to have started in Scotland and being played by Men only until banned by James I [i think maybe the II] So open to conjecture i guess!
bordsilver said:
I also read M&M's were created in WW2 as a way to supply chocolate to GI's in a form that wouldn't melt everywhere.
hotel 46 said:tell you what, that came out of my fuzzy old memory bank. you worried about splitting hairs over "useless trivial facts" then you have the problem, google slide rule, when you can use one then come teach your uncle how to suck eggsgingham69 said:hotel 46 said:confused yes, Egypt is Africa, not far east. working on gov service was in Egypt me seems to think
as copied from wiki below,
Folk etymology
The term wog is often given a folk etymology as an acronym for various phrases:
Working On Government Service, referring to Indians working for the British Raj,[11] or referring to Egyptian labourers working on the Suez Canal during the British Occupation in the early 20th Century.
You've lost me hotel46 as arabs don't come from Egypt and Egypt was never mentioned anyway as you said "far east"
I am aware that Egypt is indeed in North Africa however the locals are referred to as Egyptians and Arabs come from the middle East hence no where near the far east!!
And if you wish to use wiki then show all the references as copied below me also thinks
Anyway depends on where you come from as to what it means, it is extremely offensive in Europe!
It can be an acronym for several other things:
"Whole Of Government. Used to describe Australian Government-wide outsourcing contracts"
"Working On Government Service, referring to Indians working for the British Raj, or referring to Egyptian labourers working on the Suez Canal during the British Occupation in the early 20th Century."
"Western/Westernized/Wild/Wily/Worthy Oriental Gentleman."
Primary Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog
Tell you what i'll take the aspirin as your giving me a headache
Chill out a little you were bagging someone about the comment "as for your weird oriental gentleman that's out" well i was just enlightening you and your "fuzzy old memory bank" or is it a case of one rule for you? If that's me having a problem then so be it.Maybe you need to toughen up and take a chill pill at the same time
^^^^ Useless trivial crap. :lol:
gingham69 said:Eureka Moments said:
Yes EM most of your comments normally are
My Quality Post count is currently at 86.
My P/QP ratio is just a tick over 37.
Eureka Moments said:gingham69 said:Eureka Moments said:
Yes EM most of your comments normally are
My Quality Post count is currently at 86.
My P/QP ratio is just a tick over 37.
Didn't you see the smiley face winking??
Oh EM i nearly wet myself reading that..Congratulations you must be really pleased
P.S You do make a lot of posts though
[sarcasm smiley]Useless trivia :- On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year!!
Former North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is the best golfer in history, he hit 11 holes-in-one in his first and only game of golf, he scored 38 under par and it was witnessed by his 17 bodyguards.
hotel 46 said:if you took a maple monster box and filled it with pm 10oz bars you could get in 105 bars and close the lid, that's more than double the maples which proves that stacking bars is less space consuming than rounds.
if you filled a perth mint monster box with 10 oz pm bars you couldn't pick it upwhy????????????
Or you could just fill a chinese takeaway container with 1kg gold bars, fly to WA, have a quick gander at 46's monster maple box filled with 10oz bars of silver, go "meh", while at the same time wondering how the hell he'll get that out of the country when they send the drones before pointing out to him that the time taken to remove the maples from the box, posting them and replacing them with 10oz bars (and the odd 20oz one) could've been better spent on the golf course trying to beat Kim Jong's 11 holes-in-one.
Edit to add: or accumulating gold.
you forgot to answer the question !!!!mmm....shiney! said:hotel 46 said:if you took a maple monster box and filled it with pm 10oz bars you could get in 105 bars and close the lid, that's more than double the maples which proves that stacking bars is less space consuming than rounds.
if you filled a perth mint monster box with 10 oz pm bars you couldn't pick it up
Or you could just fill a chinese takeaway container with 1kg gold bars, fly to WA, have a quick gander at 46's monster maple box filled with 10oz bars of silver, go "meh", while at the same time wondering how the hell he'll get that out of the country when they send the drones before pointing out to him that the time taken to remove the maples from the box, posting them and replacing them with 10oz bars (and the odd 20oz one) could've been better spent on the golf course trying to beat Kim Jong's 11 holes-in-one.
Edit to add: or accumulating gold.