The Whole Thirteen Thursday Shebang
1. Does Shebang mean the same thing as a kit and caboodle?
2. I recently became interested in the word “Shebang” and looked up its origins and found this: Known to go back at least to year 1862 (Walt Whitman), shebang is suspected to originate from the French word char-a-banc, which was a bus-like wagon with a lot of seats. Later, Mark Twain used it to describe a vehicle, as well as “any matter of present concern”.
3. Which leads me to wonder who came up with the name Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and to saying things like “caboodles of noodles.”
4. I recently did an interview with a pizza pie maker while he was flipping dough. Now I can add him to this nursery rhyme I began last Thursday that now goes like this: “A year or so ago I would never have guessed that I’d be interviewing and writing about an opera singer, a cheesemaker, a toymaker, a pool player, a play director, a singer, a landscaper, a quilter, a publisher, an actor, a knitter, a market grower, a dairy farmer, and a baker!
5. The computer screen is a canvas to a writer like pizza dough is for a baker.
6. With all this clicking and typing I do, I can totally relate to a baseball player being taken out of the game so that he can rest his arm.
7. My latest online pet peeve is when I get sent somewhere I don’t want to go simply because my cursor rested on link or lightly brushed over one.
8. I just realized that Shebang would be a great name for a pizza with everything on it!
9. According to one artist’s interpretation, THIS is what a shebang looks like (found via google image).
10. And THIS is what I think a shebang should sound like.
11. If you’ve ever been to Niagara Falls you’ll understand our family joke when we say that our neighbor’s yard (he keeps it like a park) is like the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and ours is like the New York side.
12. “#!” Is another way to say Shebang. I kid you not. Look HERE.
13. When it comes to grandchildren, Bryce is the whole shebang! He’s one year old today.
More Thirteen Thursdays are HERE.
May 14th, 2009 8:59 am
Happy 1st Birthday to Bryce! He certainly is the whole shebang. And also, I think, the cat’s meow! 🙂
Speaking of Niagara Falls, that is a place I have ALWAYs wanted to go. I’ve told my husband that when (and if!) we ever get to retire (and have any money to travel), that is the first place I want to go.
May 14th, 2009 9:04 am
It’s totally worth it. It’s part in Canada and part in New York. The Canada side is landscaped beautifully. New York, not so much.
May 14th, 2009 10:11 am
oh I am SO with you on #7!!! Drives me crazy … or crazier 😉
May 14th, 2009 11:36 am
I’ve taken to wearing a sports oriented wrist brace for all my typing. Think would could get into the Olympics with it? 🙂
May 14th, 2009 11:41 am
I heard this “Shebang” in a song which Brigitte Bardot sang in the 60th or 70th, lol. She sang : Shebang BOO etc. I never raked my brain to know what it meant. Thanks !
May 14th, 2009 12:29 pm
Happy birthday to Bryce, seems hard to believe he’s a year old already.
I can also identify with #6, especially since I’m typing all day long at work now, not just in small bursts, it’s causing me to stay off line a lot more than I used to.
May 14th, 2009 1:27 pm
Learned a lot from you today! You are busy.
May 14th, 2009 1:30 pm
Always something of interest here! I tell myself to come by more often, then get distracted with too many “must dos”, but am always glad when I do come. (Want to add Tattoo Artist to your rhyme? 😉
May 14th, 2009 1:39 pm
Re: #5: That would be, of all people, a fellow named Ian Flemming… he of “James Bond” fame… apparently with the help of his friend, Roald Dahl.
Kinda makes sense of the whole shebang.
May 14th, 2009 2:49 pm
There’s a country music album called “The Whole Shebang”, but sadly, I can’t remember the artist!
May 14th, 2009 4:47 pm
#6
I wear sports braces when I type. I see the analogy easily.
May 14th, 2009 4:56 pm
girl, your mind is always going a mile a minute! it is like a marathon in your head all the time – busy, busy, busy – thinking, figuring out things, being curious! i could never keep up with you….such a slacker that i am!
happy birthday mr. bryce, happy birthday to you!
May 14th, 2009 5:26 pm
Happy Birthday to Bryce… and look out Grandma… the races are about to start!
Yes, and my OPERA singer brother is performing at Carnegie Hall tomorrow night!
May 14th, 2009 6:53 pm
I like the one about the computer screen being a canvas for a writer. Happy TT!
May 14th, 2009 10:01 pm
Totally agree on the Niagra Falls analogy – the Canadian side is so beautiful. It truly is the real McCoy, the cat’s meow, the whole shebang. Headed there this July.
May 14th, 2009 10:32 pm
Couldn’t agree more with #7! Fun post! For some reason Shebang reminds me of Ricky Martin. 🙂
May 15th, 2009 8:35 am
Happy Birthday to Byrce!!! I thought of him all day.
The whole Shebang reminds me of Daddo. xo
May 15th, 2009 11:01 am
I am with you on 7. That drives me nuts. And sometimes it takes you forever to get back. Totally rude and unfair.
May 19th, 2009 7:16 am
I’ve recently been saying whackadoodle a lot because I’ve met several heehee beats those other words I might call them ,.??