Monday useless trivia post.

[bunglehead]

So in the book I'm reading, "Krakatoa" by Simon Winchester,

I discover the origins of the word, "Antimacassar".

Apparently, macassar was an oil from a plant in Indonesia, and the brits loved it, and would gob it on on their heads. This, of course, would stain any highback chair they sat in; thus the anti-macassar was invented to prevent chairs from being stained from hair oil.

I learn something every day!

[bunglehead]

Like this:

 

[olyclimber]

Use a doiley daily!

[Dru]

Macassar

[bunglehead]

Cool link Dru!

[Fairweather]

Great book! I'm reading it right now. I discovered the origin of the word "amok", and that Darwin had some of his ideas handed to him on a silver platter.

[Dru]

So if someone ran amok with a chairback doiley would they commit a massacre with an antimassacar?