Marriage Facts

The word "marriage" comes from the Latin word, "disease."

Buttons: The Real Deal

Buttons do not come in all shapes and sizes.  They actually all come from one large button that was first invented in Italy.  The best way to explain button production is by explaining how to make sour dough bread.  First, you need a "starter."  A starter is dough with yeast that you save forever.  Each time you make sourdough bread, you incorporate the old dough, forever.

Guiseppe Primavera was from the Isle of Lido, right down the road from Venice.  He worked for his father in the real estate business.  This guy came in one day and said, hey I've got this plastic that maybe you could use for something useful.  He said this as Guiseppe was applying egg yolk to his shirt to keep it closed.  Guiseppe and his dad went outside to investigate the plastic mound and after a brief conversation that sounded like, "Pizza pizza prego," they agreed to purchase the plastic.  That night Guiseppe had a wild dream about circles and fashion and a hot air balloon that brought him to a strange arena where goats were humans and also Shakespeare was there.  He woke at 3am and rushed outside, clearly inspired.  He cut three tiny circles off the giant plastic mound and then poked two holes in the circles.  He then used horse tail hair to "sew" the buttonmatica to the shirt.  (Translation and time manipulated the word buttonmatica to the modern word button.)

To this day, all buttons still come from this very same plastic mound.