Tom Collins: April Fools, Cocktails and Etymology
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มี.ค. 2016
- Practical jokes, hoaxes, and April Fool's Day --- and how they all connect to the classic drink, the Tom Collins.
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Even your "jokey-joke" videos are SO full of interesting info! Happy April 1.
Thanks! It's a rich vein of fun facts, it turns out! :)
''unwanted pizza?" never heard that before
I think unwanted pizza is an urban myth.
It was pineapple anchovy.
Just a minor note: Gotham, in Nottinghamshire is pronounced as "GOAT-em" by the locals. The name seemingly evolved into "GOTH-am" about the time Mr Irving renamed New York. And thanks for the recipe. Several Tom Collins (Collinses?) have been made and consumed in your honor. Ah, the sacrifices we make in the quest for knowledge.
Ah, thanks--did not know that! And cheers, enjoy the Toms Collins! ;)
Amazing video! So much research must have gone into this
I was hoping that at the end he would prank us all by saying the facts were pranks themselves
This april fool's day I'll make myself some Tom Collins : ) I think, maybe human's have been making fools out of other people from the beginning of time, since humans started "humaning" hehehe. But maybe the most elaborate and funny are the ones done by creative people, either in science or in literature.
I was taught that April Fools Day came from the taking of the city Den Briel from the Spanish: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Brielle
Doesn't say anything about it on the wiki, so I could be wrong... meh...
+Willem van de Beek I'd heard of that story -- but the problem with it is that the capture of the city was 1572, and our first clear reference to April Fools Day (de Dene) is 1561, so that doesn't seem to be possible. Of course, there may be a number of reasons that the holiday spread and remained popular.
Espetacular!!!
Obrigado!
:-D
so many say "protoindoeuropian", as if it was a thing. Doesn't to go in the same bag with plitdownman?
Well, Proto-Indo-European is certainly hypothetical--which is why the forms are marked with an asterisk--but there's lots of strong evidence for it, and it's the best explanation for the linguistic evidence that we have. It's definitely not a fraud like the Piltdown Man.
I thought April meant "opening"/ Aprilis Latin and Aphrodite means "foam born." Can you please explain this 🤔
The folk etymology of April (and one that the Romans themselves sometimes gave) derives it from "aperire", to open. But etymologists now think it perhaps comes from Apru, the Etruscan name for Aphrodite: www.etymonline.com/search?q=april
As for Aphrodite, again, one of the Greek stories about her name derives it from "aphros", foam, but the consensus now is that it's more likely from a Phoenician version of the name of the goddess Ishtar, or a related word: www.etymonline.com/word/Aphrodite?ref=etymonline_crossreference
@Alliterative Wow, that's awesome! Thank you for responding! I was thinking, after I asked the question, that of course Aphrodite is greek and April is from Latin. But they are related, which is really cool! Everything inspires everything else ✨️ 🤗
That’s what I love about all this, finding the unexpected connections! 😁
I considered disliking this video for the "spirit" pun.
+larkvi Goal achieved.
I'm going for Daiquirí, just because it's one abomination of a spelling, and you supposed to help meek...
...oh who am I kidding, I'm drinking Chardonnay in a middle of a night, looking at drying glue on the bridge of my acoustic, listening to slow rain.
Was it horse, wheel, language, say?