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This is a cultural practice or idea that is passed on verbally or by repetition from one person to another. The term lends itself very well to the online world where links, emails, files etc. are so easily propagated.
A meme (from “mineme”)
The idiom “means “pretending to be dead”.
playing possum”
The phrase is used in recognition of the behavior of the Virginia Opossum that does just that, plays dead as a defense mechanism. We often use the term “possum” colloquially for the opossum species that live here in North America, but in fact, the true “possums” are marsupials native to Australia.
is used to describe a robot that resembles a human.
Droid” is short for “android” and
The Latin word “androides” was used in English in the 18th century to mean “like a man”. Science fiction writers introduced us to “android” in the early 1950s.
Reuben bread :
RYE
There are conflicting stories about the origin of the Reuben sandwich. One such story is that it was invented around 1914 by Arnold Reuben, an immigrant from Germany who owned Reuben’s Deli in New York.
Boston is the capital of the state of Massachusetts. The city was founded by these type of colonists from England in 1630.
Puritan
The city takes its name from Boston, England from where several of the early Puritan settlers hailed.
There seems to be some uncertainty about the origin of the symbol “Rx” that’s used for a medical prescription. One explanation is that it comes from the astrological sign for this, a symbol put on prescriptions in days of old to invoke its blessing to help a patient recover.
Jupiter
Young wallaby in a Nickelodeon animated series :
ROCKO
“Rocko’s Modern Life” is an animated sitcom about a wallaby named Rocko that immigrated to America from Australia.
The term comes from the Greek “” (narrow) and “” (writing).
A stenographer might be a court reporter, or a person provided captions accompanying a live television broadcast.
steno” (narrow) and “graphe” (writing).
Deep-fried Japanese dish :
TEMPURA
Tempura is a style of Japanese cuisine that features seafood, meat and vegetables that have been deep-fried in batter. The use of batter in fried foods was introduced into Japan by the Portuguese in the late 1500s.
The list of tarot cards includes
the Wheel of Fortune, the Hanged Man and the Lovers.
is the fourth-most populous city in Ireland,
Limerick
after Dublin, Belfast and Cork. It is located on the Shannon Estuary, in the west of the country.
Salad
Named after hotel
Waldorf : SALAD
As one might expect, the Waldorf salad was created at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City (now the Waldorf=Astoria), back in the 1890s. The classic version of the Waldorf salad is made from apples, celery and walnuts dressed in mayonnaise and served on a bed of lettuce. Anyone who is a fan of the BBC sitcom “Fawlty Towers” will remember how much trouble Basil Fawlty had coming up with a Waldorf salad for an American guest, as the kitchen was “out of Waldorfs” …
Mad about you actors
The comedian and actor Paul Reiser is best known for co-starring alongside Helen Hunt in the nineties sitcom “Mad About You”. Reiser also co-wrote the show’s theme song, “The Final Frontier”.
Reiser also stranger things
are the only franchise to have won NFL championships in three different cities,
The Los Angeles Rams
i.e. Cleveland (1945), Los Angeles (1951 & 2021) and St. Louis (1999). The Rams were based in Cleveland from 1936 to 1945, in Los Angeles from 1946 to 1994, in St. Louis from 1995 to 2015, and returned to Los Angeles in 2016.
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