MARILYN CORNWELL

  The hat trick in different sports - in cricket where it originated, the same player has to take three consecutive wickets.  In hockey it i...

  A Bimbo is ... disparaging ... an attractive but unintelligent, foolish or inept young woman Then a Himbo is ... disparaging to a young ma...

  The king card is the oldest and most universal court card. It most likely originated in Persian Ganjifeh where kings are depicted as seate...

  Baxter typed in "44" so let's check it out. 44 is a repdigit and palindromic number in decimal. It is the tenth 10-happy num...

  Calling someone a dumbbell is to call them stupid or foolish.  What is that shape - dumb bell?   early 18th century: originally denoting a...

  Well, we arrive at a change in the weather.  We'll have above freezing temperatures for two weeks, with rain coming.   I wonder what t...

  This is the year that I realized something about the expression "pagan".   To me it is a religious version of colonialism.  It i...

  Continuing on my thoughts on how much the things on the planet weigh, I wondered about ants versus humans.  There are a lot of ants on the...

  How do you know what it is to think "differently"?  What is "differently" when you experience it?   It popped up when ...

  I hadn't seen this site before -  vocm.com  with the Question of the Day.  This is a St. John's,  NL news media organization, so t...

The days are Short and the surname Short means exactly that - short in stature.  But the surname Shorter as a name turns out to mean a short...

  Continuing on the theme of old, I wonder what the oldest stuff is.  What do we prize and keep? There's a website named  oldest.org  an...