As you glance upon each of these, keep in mind how true to life they really are. All of these things are happening at once. So many math equations, such magnificence. Michael Jordan. Muhammad Ali. Whoever these other people are. All masters. Masters of math.
It’s hard to believe we’ll see a better baseball play this year, but it’s only April and we certainly hope that Kownacki’s exhibition will inspire others to try and come up with something more memorable before the leaves start falling off the trees.
There are dozens of other interpretations, all equally knuckleheaded. OK = oll korrect, that’s good enough for me.
(1) It’s a derivative of the Choctaw Indian affirmative “okeh.” Andrew Jackson, who figures in many stories about OK, is said to have introduced the word to the white man.
(2) Another Jackson story has it that he used to mark OK for “oll korrect” on court documents. In the one example of this that was actually unearthed, however, the OK was found actually to be OR, for “order recorded,” a common courthouse abbreviation.
(3) It was a telegraphic signal meaning “open key,” that is, ready to receive. Others say OK was used for “all right” because A and R had already been appropriated for other purposes. Big problem with this theory: the first telegraph message was transmitted in 1844, five years after OK appeared.
(4) It stands for O. Kendall & Sons, a supplier of army biscuits that stamped its initials on its product.
(5) It comes from Aux Cayes, already discussed. A variant is that it comes from the French au quai, “to the dock,” said of cotton that had been approved for loading on a ship.
(6) It stands for Obediah Kelly, a railroad freight agent, who used to mark his initials on documents to indicate all was in order.
(7) It comes from the Greek Olla Kalla, “all good.”
(8) A German general who fought on the side of the Americans in the Revolutionary War used to sign documents OK for Ober-Kommando.
A virtual high-five goes out to the engineer(s) that came up with this idea. As wonderfully fast as the bullet train is, all that stopping and starting takes time, which adds up. “A mere 5 min stop per station (elderly passengers cannot be hurried) will result in a total loss of 5 min x 30 stations or 2.5 hours of train journey time!”
Hulu is moving forward with it’s plans to charge ten bucks for a premium service called Hulu Plus (I think the “plus” means plus your $10). Are you going to pay or not?
Hulu, the popular online site for watching television shows, plans to begin testing a subscription service as soon as May 24, according to people with knowledge of the plans. Under the proposal, Hulu would continue to provide for free the five most recent episodes of shows like Fox’s “Glee,” “ABC’s “Lost” or NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” But viewers who want to see additional episodes would pay $9.95 a month to access a more comprehensive selection, called Hulu Plus, these people said.
