I've done with you, child.
ZV
In other words, your last card equals a petulant nothing. Hey good for you. Attorneys have found a new arbitrary and capricious bubble or windfall, offensive trademarks to add to patent trolls. I hope you are smart enough to get a piece of that cash. I also hope you don't get offended if I ignore most of what you wrote in deference to Michael McCann.
BTW, too bad there isn't any money to be made (from an enterprising someone) in combing the dictionary.
Hoogligan: "The earliest use of the word "hooligan" dates back to British newspaper and police reports in the summer of 1898. They seem to have adapted the word from the Houlihan family, a group of Irish immigrants living in London. The family became known for their hilarious drinking songs, jigs and their enthusiastic police brutality that tended to ensue."
Hip Hip Hooray: The first half of "hip hip hooray" is adapted from "hep hep," an old German shepherds' herding cry. That is, actual shepherds from Germany. Not the dogs. Sounds pretty innocuous, right? Well, it was, up until around 1819, when the citizens of Germany and other neighboring countries began using it as their rallying cry while going Hebrew-hunting in the Jewish ghettos. So keep that in mind next time you're trying to come up with an appropriate cheer at your cousin's Bar Mitzvah.
Plenty more offensive words and terms to be enjoyed here:
Think Before You Speak: 10 Words and Phrases with Potentially Offensive Origins
http://litreactor.com/columns/think...nd-phrases-with-potentially-offensive-origins