Max from Sacramento, California, is curious about why the long, frosted doughnut with no filling that he grew up calling a long john goes by so many other names, including longie, bar doughnut, chocolate bar, maple bar, and maple stick. Food names...
When a backpacking waist belt gave Chris from San Diego what he called a Murphy, his friends knew it as a wedgie. Murphy isn’t his invention. The slang term turns up in slang dictionaries and probably dates at least to the 1980s, perhaps the 1970s...
Why is it that what you say to your family and what they hear are different? If you say “no,” your child hears “maybe,” and if you say “maybe,” she hears “ask again and again,” and “yes” is...
To some folks, they’re thermals. To others, they’re long underwear. And some folks call them long johns. Are these warm undergarments named after some guy called John? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Long...
