Jim Loboy

1 week ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV)- Here’s an expression you’ve heard: to clean someone’s clock. It means to defeat someone completely. What does that have to do with clocks and cleaning them? Here’s a theory: The phrase may have come from boxing. The clock is your face, because clocks have faces, and you clean someone’s clock with a powerful punch or two to the face in the ring. But why clean? It has a history of slang. It meant to defeat or beat someone.

1 week ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV)- Happy International Burger Day. Burgers are one of the most popular foods in the world and for good reason. They are quick, inexpensive, and tasty. As to the origin of the hamburger, yes, some say we call it that after the German city of Hamburg, but besides that, no one really knows where the hamburger came from or how it got its name. Americans eat 55 billion per year in this country. McDonald’s sells the most burgers worldwide: 75 or more burgers every second.

1 week ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV) — The Ohio state flag is the only nonrectangular state flag in the country. In 1901, an architect named John Eisenmann was designing the Ohio Building for the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo that year. He thought there should be a flag flying on top, but Ohio had no official flag, so he designed one with a swallowtail shape to make it unique. Here’s what Eisenmann said about his Ohio flag.

1 week ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV) — You may run into people selling little red poppy flowers, just paper, around Memorial Day. The red poppy, also called the Remembrance Poppy, has been a symbol of the soldiers we lost in World War I, from 1914 to 1918. The sale benefits veteran groups and causes. People in this country, as well as in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand and Canada wear them. Why? The poppy as a symbol of war casualties began with a poem in 1915.

2 weeks ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV)- Hit the turn signal and you hear that soft click-click, the reassuring sound that your turn signal is flashing, of course, you have the light flashing as well, but you count on that sound. It’s a constant, through all the generations of cars and trucks we’ve driven. But…one thing has changed: how your dashboard makes that sound. The turn signal first appeared in 1909. Just a light, then it began flashing in the late 1930s when Buick made them standard.