Nov 5, 2020 · A square.. hence shape of L7 {} the origin is that the two adjacent characters L7 looks kind of like a square. It doesn't look very square when the riser of 7 is on an angle (as in most modern computer fonts), but if you write it vertically it's pretty close.

Nov 7, 2020 · Regarding L7, the earliest reference I know of is. 1964. in the song Wooly Bully. Does anyone have any firm actual references on whether "1" or "2" is the origin? or indeed an earlier reference? Please note that there are any number of online mentions of BOTH explanations. For example on the "wikipedia" page, some person has typed that L7 is a ...

Oct 17, 2014 · Weenie is a commonly used slang term with one meaning of (according to Wiktionary) someone considered weak and unimportant, and -dom is a suffix meaning state or condition (-dom can also mean domain, but that seems less appropriate to the context).

@JohnLawler, Yes, I was well aware of all those facts before I posted the three links to wikipedia articles, and in fact knew that the pre-1960 covers of Itsy Bitsy Spider could not be covers of 1960 copyrighted popular song "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow …

According to the OED, the term OK began its days as a humorous initialism “apparently derived from the initial letters of oll (or orl) korrect, jocular alteration of ‘all correct’ ”, when it was first seen almost 200 years ago in the United States, way back in 1839.

How did Peter, the surname, Johnson, and the nicknames for William(Willy) and Richard(Dick), come to mean penis? Was the first instance of these usages, related to a specific person? Are there more

Sep 22, 2022 · Lately, I have seen GOAT being used for people. Like: Lionel Messi is called the GOAT. Muhammad Ali boxed his way into our hearts and will forever be known as GOAT.

Sep 1, 2011 · Well, [perform some action against me (through which I will be complacent)], and call me a [something humorous which I would then resemble]. [Sincere or feigned exclamation of a recently apparent ...

Oct 15, 2012 · "Stop and Smell the Roses" was the title of a song by Mac Davis in 1974. I could have sworn that I read this as a quote from "cowboy humorist" Will Rogers back in the 1920s or so, but I just spent more time googling this than it was worth and am unable to find any confirmation of this. (I did see that M

Aug 13, 2015 · Imagine your college buddy is now running a multi-billion dollar company, while you're still stuck at the same white-collar day job 5 years after graduation. You chat with him and want to express the