Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
BLOOPER
blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
(noun) an embarrassing mistake
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
blooper (plural bloopers)
(informal) A blunder, an error.
Synonyms: boo-boo, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, Thesaurus:error
(baseball, slang) A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders. [19th c.]
Synonyms: banjo hit, flare, Texas leaguer
(film, informal) A filmed or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing accident and/or mistake.
(nautical) A gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast of a square-rigged ship; a spanker.
(US, dated) A radio which interferes with other radios, causing them to bloop (squeal loudly). [from 1926]
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