Speaker 1: Those old saints, phrases, idioms, you know, those things your
family and friends would come up with, and it usually
came from out of nowhere. Here's the thing. They didn't
even make sense half the time, but they had to
start somewhere. Who, what, where, why, when and how. Some
of those old sayings are not only ancient, but still
carry a powerful punch today. In fact, I live by
one of those old saints. Winning is a choice. The
goal of these episodes is to help preserve not only
a language, but lessons in life. My name is Arrow.
My pet peeve. Oh, I over use that term so much,
My pet peeve. This one comes from my very creative
friend Todd Carlson, who has caught himself several times saying
my pet peeve. He admits his pet peeve. It's people
who say my pet peeve. It's a noun, this thing
called peeve. It means annoyance and is believed to have
arrived in America in the twentieth century. It's actually the
next level of the word peevish from the fourteenth century.
Honorey Ill tempered. The term pet peeve was introduced to
a wide readership of the Chicago Tribune between nineteen sixteen
and nineteen twenty by way of a comic strip called
the Little Pet Peeve. The strip was created by cartoonist
Frank King, who also created Gasoline Alley. King's Little Pet
Peeve was humorous. This kid was thoughtless. He had frustrations.
One example back in twenty sixteen was people reading the
movie screen during a silent movie cracking an egg only
to smell it. How about backseat drivers. The greatest thing
about Frank King is that he has welcomed readers to
send in their own pet peeves. I've turned the phrase
my pet peeve into a weekly moment on my globally
listened to podcast CTCs from Out of Nowhere. I'll say
this is a ct pet peeve of the week, and
it's always about the behavior of people who shop at
grocery stores. My pet peeve something our parents would say.
My name is Er.