Words You Never Heard!

Did you ever notice how waitresses and short order cooks have a language all their own? When i go to a restaurant, i always ask the manager for a table near a waiter so  i tend to overhear the waitresses calling the order in.  It’s a sort of restaurant jazz.  If you have  that’s a voracious appetite, you might order this:   Draw one in the dark is black coffee and wreck em   is scrambled eggs.

In 1869, Doctor William F. Semple designed and patented a chewing gum from rubber he claimed would help prevent tooth decay and strengthen your jaw.

Who’s smarter, dogs or cats?  Cat owners, prepare to extend your claws.  Studies at Oxford University suggest canines are smarter than felines because dogs are more interactive.

The word ‘slang’ is an abbreviation for ‘short language’, and the term first started being used in the mid-1700’s. 

Slang has made its way into much of our everyday language with words like Google, emoji, and selfie.

US paper money isn't really paper. It's cloth.  In fact, 200 years ago people repaired torn bills with a needle and thread.

I have been reading the book, The Art of Doing Nothing.To quote the author Véronique Vienne: "As a culture of overachievers, we make things happen--and happen fast."

Every year in Saudi Arabia, a beauty contest is held for camels.  With over 50 million dollars in prize money, competition is stiff.

A golf retreat in Seneca, Oregon, says it will start using goats as caddies on a seven-hole course called McVeigh’s Gauntlet.

At least half a dozen man-eating bull sharks, between 8 and 10ft long live in the lake in the center of the course where their fins poking through the water have become a regular sight!

A cafe in London is taking barista art to a new level by giving customers the chance to sip on their own self-portraits.