Wordsmithery

Did you know …

That Thomas Edison didn’t just invent light bulbs and direct current and vibrating chairs and other horseshit like that; he also invented words and phrases? It’s true!

While most of Edison’s terms have been forgotten, one of his more popular bon mots lives on: assdick. I’ll bet you didn’t know it, but Edison coined this common term back in the early days of General Electric, where he would shout it at Nikola Tesla whenever he “thought the man looked a bit too relaxed.”