In the 19th century, craftsmen who made hats were known to be excitable and irrational, as well as to tremble with palsy and mix up their words. Such behavior gave rise to the familiar expression 'X'. The disorder, called 'Y' shakes, was caused by chronic mercury poisoning from the solution used to treat the felt. Attacking the central nervous system, the toxin led to behavioral symptoms.
Id 'X' & 'Y'...
'X'-Mad as a hatter,'Y'-Hatter's syndrome
'X' is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Carousel. In the musical, in the second act, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan, sings 'X' to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead, is killed during a failed robbery. notable hit versions of 'X' have been made by Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Roy Hamilton, Patti LaBelle & the Blue Belles, Johnny Cash, Tom Jones, Marty Robbins, and Renée Fleming. Since 1964 Jerry Lewis has concluded the annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon with an emotional version of 'X'. Lewis said at the end of the 2007 telethon that the song was suggested to him in 1964 by a disabled child. The Pink Floyd song "Fearless", from their 1971 album Meddle, includes a recording of the 'Y' singing 'X'. The recording is repeated many times during the song and appears solely as a conclusion at the end of the track.
Id ''X'...
'X'-You'll never walk alone
'X' is an American computer hardware company and a wholly owned subsidiary of 'Y'. Founded in 1996 by Nelson Gonzalez and Alex Aguila 'X' hardware has distinctive "scifi" styling, typically including decorative lighting. 'X' assembles high end performance desktops, notebooks, and workstations. According to employees, the name 'X' was chosen because of the founders' fondness for the hit television series The X-Files, hence the theme to their products, with names such as Area-51 and Hangar18.
Id 'X' & 'Y'...
'X'-Alienware
'Y'-Dell
'X' is a phrase in the field of computer science or information and communication technology. It is used primarily to call attention to the fact that computers will unquestioningly process the most nonsensical of input data and produce nonsensical output. It was most popular in the early days of computing, but applies even more today, when powerful computers can spew out mountains of erroneous information in a short time. The actual term 'X', coined as a teaching mantra by George Fuechsel, an IBM 305 RAMAC technician/instructor in New York, was soon contracted to the acronym ___.
'X'??
'X'-Garbage in Garbage out
The word 'X' dates from a late 19th/early 20th century American idiomatic phrase meaning "an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance." In time, the term also came to refer to a large lollipop. Farrell, searching for a name for his festival, liked the euphonious quality of the now antiquated term upon hearing it in a Three Stooges short film. Paying homage to the term's double meaning, a character in the festival's original logo holds one of the lollipops.
Id 'X'...
'X'-Lollapalooza
