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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

EverWonder? #4

EverWonder™ : Why a lift is called a lift, when it can also take you down?
"Oh I'm taking the drop to the ground floor"

2 comments:

Silly Sally said...

Well, My guess would be either ways it's lifting someone's weight so its called a lift!

Think about "ELEVATOR", You would thank the dude who coined "LIFT"!

Ra.Ge said...

[pedantic]
err, the lift is lifting one's weight only when it is going up. Otherwise it is just carrying it.
[/pedantic]

anyway, you just reminded me of an old joke:
an American visiting england asks the hotel porter, "Which way to the Elevator?"

The porter looks puzzled "You must mean the lift, right sir?"

"If I wanted a lift, I'd have said lift"

"Out here we call them lifts, sir"

"Now look here young man, We invented the elevator"

"Pardon me sir, but We invented the language"