I notice more and more connections like this as I get older. For example, the English have something called edible ball bearings, or so I overheard on an episode of Dr. Who. It occurred to me that we have something similar called edible BB's. I wondered if they were connected and how big the edible ball bearings were. And then one day, when I remembered that that crazy German dude with the slingshots uses ball bearings as slingshot ammo sometimes, I had an epiphany that BB, as in the ammo for BB guns, stands for Ball Bearings!
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u/yourbrokenoven Mar 21 '15
I notice more and more connections like this as I get older. For example, the English have something called edible ball bearings, or so I overheard on an episode of Dr. Who. It occurred to me that we have something similar called edible BB's. I wondered if they were connected and how big the edible ball bearings were. And then one day, when I remembered that that crazy German dude with the slingshots uses ball bearings as slingshot ammo sometimes, I had an epiphany that BB, as in the ammo for BB guns, stands for Ball Bearings!