I didn't even watch _Fringe_ last night, but I'm told that now I need to go change the combination on my luggage!

What's the weirdest thing you've ever looked up in the Oxford English Dictionary? Online or print, it's all good. Tell me a story, my friends, because I'm tired and feeling like I'm failing to do enough at the office, and I need some cheering up.

I ask because my two best are probably the bet I made with PGJ in my senior year of college over the proper spelling of poofter that was settled with the OED (I was right!), and last night's question about the etymology and origin of the word cockblock, which I had hoped might be cockney rhyming slang, even though it's way too literal of a word for that to be the case. (And okay, also because it has the word cock in it, but that was even more ridiculous a notion.)

Okay, just writing about all of that made me feel better. Thank you, my friends, for enabling me to feel like I'm 12, cuz I assure you, being an adult acting 12 is way more fun than my real twelfth year was.

PS: One of the 80th anniversary of the OED events will be at Yale on Oct 1!