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[torka]

There's no way I'd buy beer if it had a goat or some liederhosen in it, even if it did make a good head.

I don't think a goat would fit in a normal can of beer either....

And you think a pair of lederhosen would?

--Torka

[SmellieNellie]

No then, how about a goat in a pair of Lederhosen in a barrel of beer ? What, what would the beer be called ..................................


Goatie Beer'd

[polymath]

As I understood it, widgets were first referred to in a 20's novel (I've forgotten the name of the novel however). In it, there is a young idealistic chap imagining a life in big business, and the boss is saying something along the lines of 'I'm the world's biggest manufacturer of aerial widgets' - the young chap never does find out what these widget things are.

I think that is the first instance of the word, but I could be wrong.

[Grumpus]

The novel was called Ann Veronica by H.G. Wells in 1909. The family name was "The Widgetts." It really didn't come into usage as a word until nearly a decade later, though.

You can read Ann Veronica online.

G.