Where did the expression "It is balloon!" originate?
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I believe it was from an episode from the television show F troop when the native Americans saw something flying in the air and said "It is balloon".
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The origins of the game come from a time when pools were segregated.  Blind children would swim in a small, usually dirty pool, while the other children swam in olympic size swimming pools, usually with small dolphins.  \n\nThe children who could see would walk by the blind pool yelling "MARCO"  (Latin for "I have cake over here."), the blind children would then echo back..."POLO!"  (meaning, "can I have some?")  \n\nThe joke of course, is on the blind children, and is thus another example of society's impulse to taunt blind children.
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I don't know if there's much etymology of the phrase, but here's an article about it which puts forth some interesting possibilities of the origin.\n\nQuote from the site:\n\n"Some linguists and historians think the expression must have been well known during the war years, citing a story about General Eisenhower's dog. The story goes that the dog (Felix) urinated on a map and the officers joked that the enemy was "pissed off." (Leonard Mosely, Marshall, 1982)."
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Yeah the one from Little Britain......\n\nWhat about it?\n\nI love it and use that phrase on my kids all the time, when they ask for something!\n\nLoL
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I have a reference from 1997 that already says it is old:\nhttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/august97/terror01.html\n\nThe fact that numerous sources fail to give the original source of the quote suggests that no-one actually knows when it was first used.
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Fee, Fie, Foe, Fum was part of a rhyme from Jack and the Beanstalk (Nursery Rhymes).  I think the other one was too, if I remember correctly.
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I don't know of any with 3 s. But I know that the original KISS is "Keep it Simple, Stupid"\n\nOther Alternative expansion:\n* "Keep It Simple and Straightforward"\n* "Keep It Super Simple";\n* "Keep It Simple and Solid", in animation;\n* "Keep It Simple, Sweetie", gentler, or perhaps more patronising;\n* "Keep It Small and Simple";\n* "Keep It Simple, Smartguy";\n* "Keep It Simple and Stupid", often used when discussing artificial intelligence;\n* "Keep It Small and Scalable", often used when discussing IT;\n* "Keep It Short and Simple", a common marketing maxim for sales presentations;\n* "Keep It Short and Sweet";\n* "Keep It Simple and Sweet";\n* "Keep It Simple, Keep It Stupid", which produces the acronym KISKIS;\n* "Keep It Simple; Make It Fun", a term used in scouting)\n* "Keep It Spiritual; Make It Fun", variation used in the Camp Lu-Jo KISMIF slogan\n* "Keep It Stupidly Simple";\n* "Keep It Simple, Silly", another kinder phrasing;\n* "Keep It Stupid, Simple", the joking version;\n* "Keep It Simple, Shithead", the dysphemistic version.\n\nAnd there is also the long KISSSS:\n"Keep It Short, Simple, Small, and Self-contained", for emphasis as well as to focus on 'high cohesion' within an item and 'low coupling' between items.\n\nEDIT: \nGoogle Search on KISSS (with 3 S), result on:\nKapillary Irrigation Sub-Surface Systems\nKISSS The Kinship International Strategy on Surveillance and Suppression
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The phrase "the bee's knees", meaning "the height of excellence", became popular in the U.S. in the 1920s, along with "the cat's whiskers" (possibly from the use of these in radio crystal sets), "the cat's pajamas" (pajamas were still new enough to be daring), and similar phrases which made less sense and didn't endure: "the eel's ankle", "the elephant's instep", "the snake's hip". Stories in circulation about the phrase's origin include: "b's and e's", short for "be-alls and end-alls"; and a corruption of "business": "it's the beezness".
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it means entertaining
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The phrase is derived from the practice of quickly jotting down calculations on the piece of paper nearest to hand, which in pre-email days often meant the back of an envelope. Another possible origin for the phrase is a widespread myth that Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg address on the back of an envelope while on the train to Gettysburg.\n\nThe physicist refered to by your professor is Feynman.
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It has no real meaning, it is his little "catch phrase". They tried to imitate it in English as "believe it".
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It's currently used synonymously with "the creeps", "the willies", "goose bumps."  i.e. "That ghost story gives me the heebie-jeebies!" \n\nIt's thought to have originally had anti-semitic meanings (which you might be meaning as the 'military definition', but according to what I found: \n\nThe phrase "heebie-jeebies" was invented by Billy De Beck, a famous American comic strip artist of the 1920's, in his popular "Barney Google" strip in 1923. De Beck, by the way, also invented "hotsy-totsy" (a term of approval) and the wonderful "horsefeathers" (meaning "utter nonsense") in his strip. "Heebie-jeebies" must have caught the popular imagination immediately, since the dance of that name appeared a scant three years later, in 1926.\n\nThe invention of "heebie-jeebies" by De Beck was, without doubt, innocent of any racial or ethnic animosity. The only possible anti-Semitic interpretation of "heebie-jeebies" comes from its unfortunate resemblance to the slang term "hebe" (a cropping of "Hebrew"), which is indeed an anti-Jewish epithet. Whether you want to risk possible misunderstandings when you use "heebie-jeebies" is up to you, of course, but the truth of its innocent origin is its best defense.
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around the 1830's because in theater the gesture was the same as "hissing" an actor- they would either hiss or "flip the bird" - now people just boo basically but in between then and now people used to boo and hiss.  The hissing sound was related to the hissing sound of geese, and thats how the term "flipping the bird" came to be.  Now we just call the middle finger the "bird" because it is the finger used when we "flip the bird"
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The phrase is usually "as likely as flying pigs" or "pigs might fly".  It is used basically to express disbelief at the possibility of a particular event ever occurring.  "oh yea, and pigs might fly."
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The closest would probably be B, however I have never heard this word said; I have read it in books published in the 1800s...I always assumed it meant "Hooray!" as in cheering.  Not a word anyone needs to know to exists in today's world!
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Apparently advertising genius Gerry Mooney coined the phrase in 1977. Sociologically? Mooney would have to answer that but a likely idea would be that some things are true whether you want them to be or not - like gravity you just cannot defy them.
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As far as I know it comes from the theater, when the director would say "let the show begin". hope this helps