Ain't No Flies On Me
It's interesting that an eavesdropping device is called a "bug." The technology hasn't been around all that long, so it's in relatively recent times that someone came up with the term, which also happens to mean to annoy someone, as in "he's bugging me." In poker a bug is a restricted wild card. College students refer to a student who's a lesbian until graduation as a bug, and the Volkswagen Beetle is commonly known as a bug. It's also the slang term for a union label, as well as a river in the Ukraine. Two rivers, actually, the North Bug and the South Bug. And in horse racing a bug is a weight allowance for a rookie rider. Darn bugs get around.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:51 AM
5 Comments:
Well John I'll be buggered... there's no flies on you! (((chuckles))) I'd never even heard of half those uses for the word "bug". ;-)
Must say that I had not either, Jean. Learn all sorts of stuff on this blog.
Great perspective john! I am back from Croatia and Venice. I ould modify Benchley's famous comment " Streets full of tourists-please advise" I weny toon museums excepet the Peggy Guggenheim collection. I love art collections that reflect the choice of an indivdual. roger
BAD TYPING! roger
Welcome back, Roger!
Lee and Jean, we're nothing if not educational. [grin] Imagine how my lacrosse boys feel, always getting little mini-lectures about physics, math, vocabulary, etc. I tell them I deliver full-service coaching.
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