amazing facts

CODDSWALLOP - Hiram Codd invented the marble stoppered "pop" bottle in the 1870s, and millions of bottles were made,
particularly in South Yorkshire. "Wallop" was the name given to the cheap beer of the day, and beer drinkers
dubbed the contents of the codd bottle "a load of codswallop".
 
 
SHUT YER GOB - a molten lump of glass is called a "gob" to which the glass blower attached a tube to blow
the glass into shape. The blower had to blow hard which made his cheeks very large. Today someone
with a big mouth is told they have a big gob.