Cooties Anyone?
COOTIE: American Heritage Dictionary says it probably comes from the Malaysian word for louse - “kutu”. I find it interesting that a word originally intended to describe body lice has come to mean anything personally icky and contagious - germs a/k/a “a bug”. Did you know that 93.2% of the population doesn’t know that ” cootie” actually means body louse? (Did you also know that 78.6% of all statistics are made up on the spot?) This brings us to the word “lousy”. When you say “I’m feeling lousy”, does your audience back away to avoid contracting your lice? And who could forget that lovely child’s game from the 60’s? A big, colorful plastic louse that had to have it’s parts assembled. Oh! Those halycon “Days of Camelot”!
“Pass the biscuits, Miranda, ’cause I know you ain’t got none - cooties, that is.”
“All Things With Exuberance!”
mary!
