Random Facts that I have Learned

I took this from Lindsey's blog because I learned them too but am too lazy to put them down and added a few that came to mind randomly.

1) Doc Marten's shoes came to be because of a crisis in London. The local police here were right on the hunt to find Jack the Riper. Well, one night the police where so close to finding Jack that the only way he knew to get away was because he heard the policeman's shoes as this policman tried to sneak up behind Jack the Riper. The police decided this was no good, so they hired a local shoe maker to develope some kind of shoe that was quiet, so that they could sneak up on ppl without them knowing. So, the first rubber souled shoes came to be...given the name Doc Martens.

2) Why is Soccer known as Football in in England? Well, in the beginning, there was a game where children would just kick a ball...and try to score on each other. The people gave it the name football...because you kicked the ball with your foot. Well, a college in England named Rugby College, decided to take it a step further and pick up the ball and run with it as well. So, the papers had to find some way to specify what they where talking about when they posted scores. So they called the kicking football, association football, and they called the football that included carrying the ball Rugby Football, since it initiated in Rugby. Well, the papers decided writting out Association Football was just too long, so they shortened it to a.s.o.c.. The locals then took the s.o.c. and developed the word "soccer"...it was considered kind of a cool slang. And so the word soccer came to be, and somehow Americans kept it, the English left it and stayed with Football.

3) The word "Crap" is considered to be just as nasty as saying "Shit" in England.

4) Mad doesn't mean angry, it means insane. That one I knew though, still interesting however.

5) The beds here don't have sheets...they wrap the sheet around the comforter..its like a huge pillow case for a comforter. Apparently Germany does that too....

6) There are no exit signs in London....they spell it out for you and put "Way Out" signs.

7) The gas is so expensive in London, that putting it in terms we would understand..it would be about $8/gallon.

8) Most shops in London close around 6..24 hour specials are very rare.

9) When ordering a meal, they will ask you if you want that to "take away or stay"...if you say "to go" or "for here"...you will confuse them.

10) There are 42 different languages spoken in London, and 12 million ppl living here.

11) The Irish were used in the digging in New Orleans back in the day because people thought slaves were too expensive and the Irish would work for nothing (like beer).