That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists. — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
It has long been believed that a man who gets bald across the front of his head is a thinker while a man who… — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one. — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation of the hands. — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's… — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks. — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
No single expression denotes love. It's so complex it requires combinations of expressions. These create an identifiable look. You see something like it sometimes… — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23… — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
First truck called a 'pick-up' was an International Harvester S in 1921. — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
Having a baby isn't so bad. If you're a female Emperor penguin in the Antarctic. She lays the egg, rolls it over to the… — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
