| Hank Chinaski |
07-26-2007 12:59 PM |
Daily Affirmation
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Originally posted by barely_legal
Do banshees clean? I am not saying this to pick on you, but I have noticed a proliferation of "...like a banshee" in conversations and on television lately and I don't understand why. I thought the original metaphor was "scream like a banshee" because banshees are know for wailing, right? But "clean like a banshee" or "cook like a banshee" doesn't seem to make much sense.
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The Mantis roller coaster at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio was originally supposed to be named "Banshee" upon its debut in 1996. After realizing the negative meaning of the word, park executives decided to change the name and destroyed all promotional items containing the "Banshee" name.
Banshee was used as a name for a General Motors series of show cars for its Pontiac Division, the first appearing in 1966. Reportedly, the name was to be used on the Pontiac Firebird, but GM executives thought better of using a name meaning a "screaming spirit of death" on one its products.
Shape Shifter originally was going to choose the sock name "Banshee" when he registered. He changed to SS, when he realized a banshee is a female spirit, and he wanted to start out with his "slave stories" which required a male voice. |
