Blockbuster - The British developed bombs in World War Two called blockbusters -- because they were powerful enough to destroy an entire city block. Meet a deadline - A Civil War term for an actual line that was drawn around a prison; if prisoners tried to cross the deadline, theyd be shot in the head. Treadmill - Invented in Victorian-era England as a huge cylinder that people would run on to power a mill as it raised water or crushed rocks. And those people were... prisoners. The treadmill was considered a hard-labor punishment. - Katfish, Dave and Amal
Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2014 09:57:21 +0000
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