- No one really knows what the fuck “the whole nine yards” means.
- The perception that “boss” is an American word and not an English one probably comes from the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.
- Teddy Roosevelt’s clearest statement of his manly, interventionist, manly view of the world was made at the Sorbonne.
- The man who arguably dominated Irish politics from independence into the 1970s was born in the Bronx.
- There’s a decorative masonry pattern known as a diaper and architects train for years to say that with a straight face.
Gotta quibble- De Valera was born in the “Nursery and Child’s Hospital” on Lex and 51st, which is now the location of the Metropolitan Hotel- there’s a commemorative plaque in the hotel… it’s very nice.
His parents lived in the Bronx. I was born in Mount Sinai, but from day 2 lived in Flushing, and I don’t claim Manahatta birth.
I know about diaper pattern – maybe women architects and designers have less of an embarrassment problem saying it!