love how frequently stuff that's considered quintessentially U.S.American is actually named after european cities. jeans and denim. hotdogs (frankfurters & wieners). mother fucking HAMBURGERS

(whispers menacingly holding a candlestick) sandwiches are named after John Montagu the 4th earl of sandwich who ate roast beef between two bits of bread whilst gallivanting at gambling houses and made the "sandwich" became popular in london in the 1760-1770s and adopted his name. (crawls away giggling maniacally)

tumblr entertain me

tumblr please when is it MY turn to be amused. provide me with whimsy i beg you

you people are so bad at this. the (best) collective noun for a group of clowns is a "trunkload." "Caligula" was a cutesy childhood nickname meaning "little boots." ventriloquism was originally a religious practice; ancient greeks used their tummy noises to talk to ghosts. i have to do everything around here