When it comes to frozen pizza, what’s your go-to? Here’s to the start of pizza in frozen form and where it’s gotten us to! Before frozen pizza, there was hard flatbread doused with oil and scraps. And that has been around forever. Modern pizza with cheese and tomatoes didn’t come around until the early 18th …
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Do you know this strange Halloween trivia? There are so many fun facts to share with your trick-or-treaters. What does it mean if you see a spider on Halloween? It’s been said that it’s the spirit of a loved one watching over the person. What kind of candy is shaped like three-colored cones? Candy corn is …
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It’s almost Halloween but these haunted American landmarks are scary all year around. Do you know of haunted places near you? The Smithsonian Institution Known as “America’s attic” due to the 155 million artifacts within its collections, it turns out it’s haunted, too. In the earlier part of the 20th century, watchman would say they …
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What’s the most horrible situation you can imagine? It may not be this specifically, but waking up as someone is cutting you open and removing your organs must rank pretty high on anybody’s list. That’s a fate that one Kentucky man narrowly avoided. After going into cardiac arrest, Anthony Thomas “TJ” Hoover was declared brain …
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Do you say ghoul or spirit for Halloween? Or do you use words like skookum or go-devil? Hide-Behind A hide-behind can be also said as a high-behind or a nigh-behind, meaning a ghost or imaginary creatures that always hides behind some object. The 1939 book Critter by Henry Tryon describes a hide-behind as a 6-foot-tall …
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Have you read People In Horror And What They’re Afraid Of: Part One? Cause this is part two. Mary Shelley Most women turn into moms, or did. It’s fair to say that women in general aren’t excited about birth and even those with the best of circumstances and deliveries say that it’s extremely painful. For …
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If you preach something, you’d better practice it as well. Otherwise, you might end up making yourself look downright silly. Just like this German fire department. The Stadtallendotf Fire Department moved to its new fire station earlier this year. The multi-million-dollar building is a state-of-the-art facility with everything firefighting personnel could ever hope to need. …
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You wouldn’t think that people in horror are afraid of things. They are though, and some of the things that scare them are pretty non-scary things. Stephen King It turns out the master of horror is scared of, none other than, cars. Cars? Yes. He talked about his fears in a 1986 interview where he …
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Have you read American Sayings And Where They Come From? Because this is basically part two about all the American phrases. The Tail Wagging The Dog A smaller version of this is “wag the dog” meaning to divert attention to less important issues to get away with bigger issues. A “tail wagging the dog” situation …
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Have you ever used these funky British sayings, phrases like “pop your clogs” or “bee’s knees?” Here are more things to say if you want to expand your verbiage. Cack-handed If you did something “cack-handed,” it means you did it in an uncomfortable, clumsy or awkward way. The word ‘cack’ is old-fashioned slang for feces …
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