It is that time of the week again and a reminder to me it is Friday yet again. Days of the week don't have much significance just yet and hope they do again one day soon. Lets see how much useful or non useful information I can ram into your empty heads this week.
Moaning Minnie
Someone who likes to complain often. Things are never fair and believe they are often hard done by. Not a good characteristic to have and someone who I would try and dodge.
There are many plausible origins for this saying and they all belong to the military. During World War11 the air raid siren was nicknamed a moaning Minnie as it tended to go off rather frequently in some areas warning everyone of bombing raids.
The other was a nick name given to a German Nebelwerfer mortar as the Allied troops had nick names for all the ordnance thrown at them. This shell had a loud screeching noise nicknamed screaming meemies as this rocket fired 6 at a time. Not being very accurate I am sure the Allies hated these as they never knew where they were landing and knowing soldiers must have been moaning every time they heard any shells coming.
I would say the air raid one makes more sense as the civilians would always be grumbling and complaining having to scurry off to the air raid shelters constantly.
Hush Puppies.
A shoe brand that is still around today and can recall wearing these to school.
Never even crossed my mind where this name came from so was curious when I saw it. The name comes from food believe it or not. A fried corn bread fritter popular in the southern states of America.
Hush Puppy shoes were manufactured from 1958 by Wolverine World Wide and the sales manager named Jim Muir fell upon the name accidentally. He was feeding his dogs the fried corn fritters and noticed they calmed down. Barking dogs was an American term for sore or aching feet and thought Hush Puppies was a good name. I would never have guessed this in a million years as a corn fritter and shoes are not exactly a match in heaven.
Mutton Dressed As Lamb.
An older lady trying to pass herself off as someone younger through tricks of the trade. Normally wearing clothes that younger woman would wear and not really appropriate of her age lol. We all see this so often and it is sometimes quite amusing.
Was first seen in a novel in 1810 when it described a woman being dressed up like lamb, but far from young and succulent. In times gone by it was ideal to be married at a younger age and older women would try and deceive men by looking younger than they really were. I think this is the older term of MILF as mutton dressed up as lamb is something we see daily as marriages don't often last.
Well I hope you learned something today as I know I did with the "Hush Puppies" as it had nothing to do with dogs really and was more about barking dogs or sore feet. A food item became a famous name for a shoe.
