Arbejdsglæde (Danish) [ah-bites-gleh-the] The satisfaction, fulfilment or happiness you get from a job that you love. Literally and simply "job joy". Shemomedjamo (Georgian) [sheh–mo–med–JAH–mo] That feeling when a food tastes so good you can't stop eating it. Literally translates to: "I accidentally ate the whole thing." Cafuné (Brazilian Portuguese)[KAH-foo-neh] The act of tenderly running your fingers through a loved one's hair. Fisselig (German) [fi-sel-ig] Being flustered to the point of being unable to function. Kummerspeck (German)[koo-mer-peck] The weight you gain from emotional overeating. Literally translates as "grief bacon". Hyppytyynytyydytys (Finnish) [hyp-ya-teyrna-teyrna-dish] It means the pleasure and satisfaction you get from sitting on a bouncy cushion. Ha!
Unusual ways to die
1. In 1974, Basil Brown, a 48-year-old health-food advocate from Croydon, England, died from liver damage after he consumed 70 million units of vitamin A and around 38 litres of carrot juice over 10 days, turning his skin bright yellow. 2. In 1977, Tom Pryce, a driver in the 1977 South African Grand Prix, struck and killed Frederick Jansen Van Vuuren at 270km/h as Van Vuuren ran across the Kyalami race track to extinguish a burning car. The fire extinguisher which Van Vuuren was carrying struck Pryce's head and killed him. 3. In 1982, Michael Scaglione died after smashing his golf club against a golf cart. The head broke off and impaled him in the throat, severing his jugular vein. 4. 1988, veteran sky diver Ivan Lester McGuire was filming a jump by an instructor and student from the Franklin County Sports Parachute Center when he jumped from a plane without a parachute. Focused on the filming process, he apparently forgot to put one on, and his camera equipment may have been mistaken for one. The tape was recovered.
The expression the hair of the dog, for an alcoholic drink taken to cure a hangover, is a shortening of "a hair of the dog that bit you". It comes from an old belief that someone bitten by a rabid dog could be cured of rabies by taking a potion containing some of the dog's hair. The correlation suggests that, although alcohol may be to blame for the hangover (as the dog is for the attack), a smaller portion of the same will, paradoxically, act as a cure. There is, it should be added, no scientific evidence that the cure for either a hangover or rabies actually works. (Source: Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins)
