Just as modern day office workers gather around the water cooler to gossip, on board a ship back in the early 1800s the sailors would gather around the water barrel on the deck to shoot the breeze. The character Peter Pan actually predated the play, having been introduced by Barrie as a baby in his 1902 adult novel called “The Little White Bird”. Barrie adapted the play into a 1911 novel titled “Peter and Wendy”. Barrie’s stage play “Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” premiered in London in 1904. Nice guy! Captain Hook and Smee sail on a pirate ship called the Jolly Roger. Smee is described by Barrie as being “Irish” and “a man who stabbed without offence”. Barrie’s play and novel about Peter Pan, Smee is one of Captain Hook’s pirates and is Hook’s bosun and right-hand man. “Packing” and “packing heat” are underworld slang for “carrying a gun”. Regardless, I’m not a big fan of the term … 17 Was armed, in old-fashioned slang : PACKED HEAT

The use of the word “anal” to mean “stiffly conventional” is an abbreviated form of “anal-retentive”, a term derived from Freudian psychology. Oleic acid dissolves in basic solutions to create soaps. As such, “oleic” means “derived from the olive”. Oleic acid is a fatty acid, one found in many animal and plant sources, but most notably in olives. The adjective “Parmesan” means “of or from Parma”. Parma is a city in northern Italy that is famous for its ham (prosciutto) and cheese (parmesan). Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Acrossġ Italian province or its capital : PARMA

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