Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 19, 2012
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Transcript:
Americans eat 3 billion pizzas every year- that's 700 slices per second! Smooch! An X means kiss because in the days when few could write their signature, they would sign X and then kiss the contract! Many of the famous stone heads on Easter Island in the South Pacific Ocean actually have full bodies that extend into the ground!
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Templo S.U.D. over 11 years ago
Now how do you explain O meaning a hug?
htownkev over 11 years ago
How did O come to mean hug?
TrueBlue2010 over 11 years ago
Maybe it is because that is the shape your arms make when you are giving someone a hug?
roscoedog55 over 11 years ago
And the shape a of a lady’s hug to her special man. ( Not to put too fine a point on it)
alan.gurka over 11 years ago
Because that’s the shape of the letter Mrs Claus makes when she’s hugging Mr Claus.
Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member over 11 years ago
And aren’t we just proud of ourselves…
Mostly Water Premium Member over 11 years ago
The “O” actually is shorthand for the classically shaped pizza.XOXOXO = kiss, pizza, kiss, pizza, kiss, pizza…. a very pleasant combination depending on who you are sharing your pizza with.
Sardonis over 11 years ago
Yep—me, too, Scott.
alan.gurka over 11 years ago
You must be hugging some really skinny people to cross your arms in an X. Like I said earlier about Mrs Claus hugging the Mr, it’s a big round circle when you’re hugging a big round person.
Stephen Gilberg over 11 years ago
“Sealed with a kiss” indeed.
Fuzzy Thinker Premium Member over 11 years ago
The story I remember- the heads where carved upside down and then ‘jacked’ up 1 inch at a time until they tilted over the quarry edge and slid into place on the hillside.
trekkermint over 11 years ago
O came from Jews not wanting to sign a cross for their signature, so they signed with an O.