I can hear my dad's WWII military driven voice even today, "Keep your cotton pickin hands off my..." I'm not sure he would get away with saying it today. Why?

This one goes all the way back to 1512! Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Funny how something in Germany found its way around the world and the centuries required to make it possible.

Those crazy insane things people say. Most of us remember hearing it first from our parents. This week? Have you lost your marbles?

A captain goes down with his ship. Really? At one time maybe. But where does this term or phrase come from and have we abided by the rules?

I can hear my dad over and over, "Son! Shit or get off the pot!" When Dad was ready to go, he wanted his enter family to be ready on his time. Where does it come from? How has it impact us? Shit or get off the pot.

What the bubkis? It's really used and has been in our daily language since the early 19th century. How is it used and can it become outdated?

Endlessly as a child my father and grandparents used the term shit for brains. Research says it was part of their everyday street! What? How?

Not my monkey not my circus. It dates all the way back to Poland with their endless amount of traveling circuses. It wasn't out of control ticket holders. It was the monkeys!

The cut of your jib? How are you putting on display your sails? What's guiding you? How is the cut of your jib?

Shooting from the hip. From the early 20th century but how did it make it to the present and how much does it effect our everyday?