Every now and then, you run across something that makes you go “What?”
Does this explain some things? I don’t know. I just don’t know.
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I knew G. Washington had false teeth (bad ones) and that’s why you never see him smiling in any portraits of him.
Honest query… Why false teeth, not fake teeth?
And for that matter why a duck??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3hjo7V7TPs
My guess, and it’s just a guess, is that the false/fake teeth were named when French was in common use among upper-class English speakers, and that the term was originally faux teeth, which both translates to and sounds like “false”.
Ray Kroc, the man who turned a single hamburger stand in San Bernardino, California, into what we know today as McDonald’s, was born October 5, 1902. He was somewhat less successful with his acquisition of the San Diego Padres.
He pretty much turned them into hamburger a s well.