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.
KABLOOIE
Etymology
ka-, an intensifier used with onomatopoeia, plus (probably) an imaginative rendition of an explosion or splash.
Noun
kablooie (uncountable)
(colloquial) A failure, meltdown; or explosion; a splat or splash.
Usage notes
Most frequently used in the phrase to go kablooie or it went kablooie.
Source: Wiktionary
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