Monday trivia

Re: Monday trivia

My parents almost named me Kermit instead of Kenneth.

Ohhh! Kermy.   

Quickly done.

You got part one. Now think as a factory worker would to get the second part. Why was/is it called that?

Re: Looks...

a plane's frog? If that's the case, never have understood the name in the first place. Maybe a future trivia ? Thanks for the question. Sorry, about your last week w/o power, btdt, bites the big one!

Frog is correct.  The other part of

the trivia is based on an explanation out of a book. Think about frog stories real or imagined. It apparently happened on the factory floor.

Are you saying...

A beautiful lady kissed a plane part and it was dubbed the frog?

You're getting the idea.  Answer

I'm cutting this answer short because I'm experiencing another snow storm where an additional eight inches of snow are expected over what we already have. The last time this happened I lost power, twice, for quite a while.

Ken and Dale get little stars this week.

ANSWER:

According to the story in Roger Smith�s book �Patented Transitional and Metallic Planes in America 1827 � 1927, the name �frog� was thought up by an unnamed factory worker who placed the then called �bed piece� on the plane and indicated �he had a frog in the throat�. In as much as the frog is directly adjacent to and behind the throat of a plane the story has the possibility of being correct. Anyway, on the floor when more �bed�elongations�, �bed pieces�, �cutter seats� were needed, the workers asked for �frogs�. The name stuck, and eventually became common. From the 1860s until Bailey in the Stanley catalog of 1898 used the term for the first time, the various names above were used officially. Over time other plane designers and manufacturers followed suit calling it the descriptive �frog� until today that is the term used for that piece of a wood plane.