Ever wonder where bowling came from? Well, I was fortunate enough to have a fortune cookie.
Little did ye know, bowling was actually an ancient Chinese pastime, called bao ling qiu. It was a great point of emperor contention, and for its infamy was whisked by Marco Polo back to the West, whereupon the qiu was dropped, words were Romanized, and the West was infatuated.
And if you didn’t know much about Tanzania, know that it’s the birthplace of pikapu, known in the US as “pick-up trucks”.
CMD fans, tell us more about your favorite words that are English in appearance yet foreign in parentage? Or admittedly, the other way around?
We are very grateful to a loyal reader from Milwaukee, Wisconsin has sent in the following picture and comment:
Ever wish you take summer and bottle it up? Well head over to CVS where it is 33% off!!
Don’t forget, dear readers, that you can submit your own pictures and quirky observations to chickenmonkeydog-at-gmail-dot-com.
Today’s task: ponder the bunny
A headline from the Local News section of the Philadelphia Inquirer caught my attention on Saturday, 28 August.
The headline reads:
Delco to look at prison security
Erroneous releases of prisoners prompts a “serious discussion,” the county executive says.
Well, I certainly am glad that the Delaware County powers that be will at least have a serious discussion about the potential problems that might arise from mistakenly letting people out of jail. That brings some comfort to all us, I should think.
I stopped into my local Wawa this morning to pick up some cash and some milk. Wawa offers free-of-charge ATM withdrawals, which pleases me greatly. However, the ATM, managed by PNC Bank, needs some edits to its software.
Please study the image below.
You will note that a withdrawal of $10, $30, or $50 are all listed as possible options for obtaining cash.
When I asked for $50 earlier this morning, I ran into the following notice.
Wait! What? Withdrawals have to be in multiples of $20? Then why even give me the other options? Arggghhh …
