I still don't understand "to make out". Or is it "to put out" ? One of these things.

Wow! That's actually pretty logical now that I think...of... it makes less sense now.

The only batman character I'd go to see in a movie.

So the fish is named after "scrotum"? o_0
That'll be an interesting dinner table fact to share with my friends the next time someone orders seafood.

A university teacher told us that Italian people have a similar word for them because they were burned at stakes.

there's a part in lotr books where gandalf throws faggots in fire XD

Okay... that is a sobering thought. I do hope that it's not the true origin of the slur, because that would be awful.

Well, there *were* some pretty narrow-minded people in the earlier centuries... And quite a number of religious fanatics still consider homosexuals to be the spawn of Satan. Thus, I can believe it's true, but yeah, we can hope it is not.

I like "a sleuth of bears". I never knew that bears made good private investigators. Thanks for the page, it gave me a few good laughs :).

Agreed!

Well, no, "cod" meant something like 'bag", so the fish was named this because of its shape, possibly. That's what the "cod" entry says: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/cod
Unless he was a linguistics teacher, I very much doubt that.
That's got the distinctive mark of something that sounds too colourful to be true, like the believed (and wrong) origins of "fuck you" as being "pluck yew", and many others.

"Fuck-bitch" from Postal 2. I get what it means(how could I not) but still sounds really funny :) Also "Dicktits".

Balls to the wall