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TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, June 15, 2015
Greetings Infomaniacs,
I was looking at some old issues of newsletters I used to do for GopherCentral, and realized it's been almost 10 years since I've worked in that office! I simply cannot believe it has been that long.
To this day, I still miss the fun I had working there with the Gopher peeps. When you work with people like Clean Laffs Joe, Steve from the Daily Groaner, and TZ from Laffaday, it's hard not to have a good time!
Enjoy!
Melissa
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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider."
HINT: (1561-1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, spy, freemason and essayist. He was knighted in 1603.
RANDOM TIDBITS
As the 20th century began, most Americans wore union suits or "all-in-ones"-undergarments that combined pants and a top.
"Day of the Week" underpants were a craze in the 1950s. Each pair of underpants in the set of seven was labeled with a different day of the week.
Colorful Underoos hit stores in 1978. The fun underwear secretly transformed thousands of kids into Batman and Wonder Woman.
In Florence during the Renaissance, Catherine de Medici decreed it bad manners to have a thick waist and designed a hinged corset that narrowed the waist to 13 inches.
In the 1920's a Russian immigrant named Ida Rosenthal founded the Maidenform lingerie company with her husband William. They made bras for women of every size and introduced the cup system (A, B, C, D).
The ancient Greeks were the first to wear girdles. They called them zones. A band of linen or soft leather was bound around a woman's waist and lower torso to shape and control her mid-body.
*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
I am word with six letters.
My motto is together as one.
If you remove my first and second letters, you can wear me.
If you remove my third letter I can be painful.
If you remove my second, third and sixth letters, Adam & Eve did it.
If you remove my second and third letters, you do this using your mouth.
What am I?
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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider."
ANSWER: Sir Francis Bacon
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