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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog: February 2015
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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog. Tracing the origins of now-familiar (or forgotten) tid-bits of pop-culture. Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Dudes, Dodos, and Fopdoodles - A History and Etymology of "Dude"! Long years ago, in ages crude,. Before there was a mode, oh! There lived a bird, they called a “Dude,”. Resembling much the “Dodo.”. New York), January 14, 1883, page 9. [i]. These words, the opening lines of Robert Sale-Hill’s poem, The True Origin and History of “The Dude,”. Gerald Cohen (th...
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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog: June 2015
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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog. Tracing the origins of now-familiar (or forgotten) tid-bits of pop-culture. Sunday, June 28, 2015. You Can’t Believe Everything You Read – the Surprisingly Early History of the First "Scheduled" Night Game of Professional Baseball – May 29, 1883. You Can’t Believe Everything You Read – the Surprisingly Early History of the First "Scheduled" Night Game of Professional Baseball – September 1, 1888. The first known scheduled night-game involving at least one major ...
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The Real Alfred E.: The Real Alfred E.
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The Real Alfred E. Sunday, March 10, 2013. The Real Alfred E. The Real Alfred E. Neuman Revealed. In 1954, Mad Magazine artist Harvey Kurtzman plucked a postcard from a bulletin board in a colleague’s office that featured a boy (or was it a man) with a goofy, gap-toothed grin and uttering the two-part, fatalistic, rhetorical question, “What? You can read the hidden history of another red-headed pop-culture icon here: Bozo. But where did that image originate? No one could identify the image that started i...
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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog: Jaywalkers and Jayhawkers - a Pedestrian History and Etymology of "Jaywalking"
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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog. Tracing the origins of now-familiar (or forgotten) tid-bits of pop-culture. Monday, November 24, 2014. Jaywalkers and Jayhawkers - a Pedestrian History and Etymology of "Jaywalking". A Pedestrian History and Etymology of “Jaywalking”. The word, “ Jaywalking. 8221; did not originate with Jay Leno. But when Peter Jay and the “Jaywalkers” released their 45 of Lieber and Stoller’s. Classic song, Kansas City. The First Anti-Jay-Walking Law. Is a lasting vestige of th...
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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog: A Slippery History of the Banana Peel Gag
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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog. Tracing the origins of now-familiar (or forgotten) tid-bits of pop-culture. Saturday, December 6, 2014. A Slippery History of the Banana Peel Gag. A Slippery History of the Banana Peel Gag –. And the Orange Peel Gag? On September 18, 2014, at a ceremony held at Sanders Theatre, on the campus of Harvard University, the journal, Annals of Improbable Research. Groundbreaking – er . . . Ahem – backbreaking study, Frictional Coefficient under Banana Skin. And Woody A...
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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog: Molly Malone, Molly Mogg and a Missing Link - the Fishy History and Origins of "Cockles and Mussels"
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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog. Tracing the origins of now-familiar (or forgotten) tid-bits of pop-culture. Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Molly Malone, Molly Mogg and a Missing Link - the Fishy History and Origins of "Cockles and Mussels". Perhaps no song is more closely and fondly associated with Ireland than, Cockles and Mussels. The unofficial anthem of Dublin, which is also known as Molly Malone. Or In Dublin’s Fair City. In Dublin City, where the girls they are so pretty,. Alive, alive o!
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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog: January 2015
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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog. Tracing the origins of now-familiar (or forgotten) tid-bits of pop-culture. Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Washington's Willowware, Men's Clubs and Dining Cars - the Delicious History and Etymology of "Blue Plate Specials". Washington's Willowware, Men’s Clubs and Dining Cars –. The Delicious History and Etymology of “Blue Plate Specials”. The origin of “Blue Plate Special,” however, is a bit more complicated. The “Blue Plate Special”. And pricey a la carte. In 19...
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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog: December 2014
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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog. Tracing the origins of now-familiar (or forgotten) tid-bits of pop-culture. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Wait 'til Next Year - a Painful History of Sport's Perennial Losers' Sad Refrain. Wait ‘til Next Year –. A Painful History of a Sport’s Perennial Losers' Sad Refrain. July, by Grantland Rice. Hope Springs eternal in the baseball breast. When in six towns, hurled backward from the crest,. And, stilled at last beyond the pennant gate,. In 1916, the year after ...
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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog: March 2015
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Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog. Tracing the origins of now-familiar (or forgotten) tid-bits of pop-culture. Saturday, March 28, 2015. One-Wheeled Velocipedes and Penny-Farthings - a Circular History of the Unicycle. The History of the Unicycle. Who invented the Unicycle? The History of the Unicycle. The suggestion is plausible as there were, in fact, riders who reportedly converted two-wheelers into one-wheelers by removing the rear tire:. Springfield, Ohio), June 21, 1885, page 5. Whether the...
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The Real Alfred E.: What? Me Worry? Isch ka Bibble and Alfred E. Neuman
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The Real Alfred E. Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Isch ka Bibble and Alfred E. Neuman. Isch ka Bibble and Alfred E. Neuman. In an earlier post. I point out that the Alfred E. Neuman face and catch phrase originated from the advertising poster for The New Boy. A stage play that was first performed in 1894. The changes in the wording of the original phrase from “What’s the good of anything? 8221; to “Me-worry? 8221; and “What – me worry? I never care or worry. Isch Gabibble - Isch Gabibble. The Washington Hera...
