Imagine a time when heroin was marketed for the whole family. It really happened! Also, how Twitter, M&M’s, and Hallmark cards got their names. Plus, restaurant slang, bad juju, having a wild hair, cutting to the quick, and use vs. utilize.
Lindsay from New York grew up in Tennessee using the expression to have a wild hair, meaning to get a sudden notion to do something. The older, longer form is a wild hair up one’s derriere or other words for your behind, with a sense closer to being...