Here's a few (okay, two) interesting things I learned this week.
The word "snafu" comes from the military expression "situation normal all f***ed up." It was used mostly in Vietnam.
In 1066, when the Normans (French-speaking people) invaded the British Isles, they told their people that their campfires must be extinguished by 9 pm. The French word for cover is couvre, and for fire is feu. Thus, our word "curfew."
Okay, so I stole these from some other guy's blog after watching Saving Private Ryan (I wanted to know more about the movie and he described the origin of the word "fubar," meaning "f***ed up beyond all recognition, and based on the German word "furchtbar"). But I thought they were cool. And you don't care anyway.
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