Kennedy means “Ugly Head”!
Kennedy is an Irish name and comes from the Celtic “O Cinneide” which meant ugly or misshapen head. Another spelling is Kennedi.
Here are some other names with funny meanings:
Otis is the world’s largest elevator manufacturer. It is estimated that between its elevators, escalators and moving walkways, they transport the equivalent of the world’s population every 3 days! This makes Otis the most popular form of transportation on Earth! If we restrict it only to elevators, it’s estimated that Otis transports the world’s population every 9 days!
The company has over 60,000 employees today and makes an annual revenue over 11 billion. Some famous Otis installed elevators are in the Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, and World Trade Center. The company was founded in Yonkers, New York by Elisha Otis in 1853. The company pioneered the development of the safety elevator, which was invented by Otis in 1852.
According to Kai Ryssdal, 82.6 percent of the turkey eaten each Thanksgiving is turkey that came from artificial insemination. Generally speaking, people’s favorite part of the turkey is the white meat, which comes from the breasts. So, turkeys are bred specifically for this purpose. Their breasts get in the way of sex and procreating, and thus, they must be artificially inseminated.
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This campaign was a response to the highly successful Apple campaign that featured Justin Long and John Hodgman that (favorably) compared Macs to PCs. However, in a struck of irony, clever internet users figured out that the campaign had actually been created in Macs!
What they did is they looked at the 'metadata' or information that is embedded in the media files. When they looked into this metadata, they found that the files had been created on Macs using Adobe Creative Suite 3.
The explanation is quite simple; advertising is still a Mac dominated industry, and it makes sense that whatever agency Microsoft employed would use Macs. However, that did not stop Microsoft from scrubbing all metadata from those files completely.
Here's a sample of one of the ads
The Vatican would baptize aliens!
The senior Vatican scientist, brother Guy Consolmagno, says he is hopeful of aliens visiting our planet and would want to baptize them. In a recent interview, Consolmagno said that if humanity somehow found aliens, he’d be open to baptizing them. That is, if they asked to be baptized. The Church is open to the idea of intelligent life outside Earth. After all, Consolomagno says, God is bigger than humanity.
He also dismissed Creationism, the literal belief in Chapter 1 of Genesis, which says that God created everything in seven days, and has stated that science and religion can work together.
While to some it may seem odd that the Catholic Church would have scientists. There is a Papal academy of Science that keeps the Pope and other important priests up to date on the latest scientific developments. Stephen Hawking is even one of the members! Read more on the Church and aliens here!
