Have you ever wondered where brilliant inventions come from? I know that I have. Who thought of cooking an artichoke to make it and edible plant?, How did someone know that the silent reed was actually a dog whistle?, Who actually thought we needed a butter knife ( don't use that, it's too sharp for butter, you butter dull down blockhead. ), where did the word parcheesi (12th century India)
come from, Is the knee bone actually connected to the leg bone?, Is the hoochie coochie really that easy?
Let's take something as simple as toilet paper. Uh oh, here comes another word game. the word "paper", then the word toilet, roots, origins and extension's. Toilet is derived from a word during the mid 16th century: from French toilette ‘cloth, wrapper’, diminutive of toile (see toile). The word originally denoted a cloth used as a wrapper for clothes; then (in the 17th century) a cloth cover for a dressing table, the articles used in dressing, and the process of dressing, later also of washing oneself (toilet (sense 2 of the noun)). In the 19th century the word came to denote a dressing room, and, in the US, one with washing facilities; hence, a lavatory (early 20th century). You might think American and European 18th century events and people: Revolutions in France and the Colonies, George Washington and Napoleon, Russian, Prussian expansionism with the Tsar and Czar replacing kings and monarch's, (not a minarch stupid, that a cable eating space creature found inside the guts of giant worms), and the westernization of Elizabeth preceding the espansionism of Catherine.
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Some rulers of Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries include:
Ivan the Terrible
A notorious leader who dominated Russia in the 16th century
Michael I
The first Romanov czar of Russia, who came to power in 1613
Peter the Great
Ruled from 1696 until his death in 1725, and is known for transforming Russia into a major European empire
Catherine the Great
Russia's longest-ruling female leader, whose reign is known as the Russian Golden Age
Elizabeth Petrovna
Ruled from 1741 to 1761, and continued her father Peter the Great's westernization policy
Napoleon would resume the Roman title of emperor, after the French Revolution beheaded the King's and Queens of yore. Contemporary titles like elector, leader, supreme leader (lead by example, "the" Supreme's), chancellor and president emerged onto the scene. Napoleon resumed the conquest path, Jackson out-paced Alexander the great in his expansionism in the America's. and vicious autocrats and dictator's like Ivan the Terrible and Nero and Caligula, Vlad, Max and Tamerlane would vanish from the modern time's (just kidding)
Now where were we, oh yes, discussing the roots of the word paper. Whew, almost lost my thought. So today's podcast starts with the real source of toile paper, its creator and the moment toile paper first arrived, which was long before the wropper's of 18th century France and the rapper's of today. I hope you enjoy the standup and music.
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