As some of you may have started noticing, weekends around here at Buzzstuff are all about learning new and exciting, albeit useless, information. My friend Jennifer sent me on a quest to find out the origin of the phrase "The Bee's Knees". Hmmm. Excellent question. Here's what I found out.
Bees carry pollen back to the hive in sacs on their legs. The allusion is to the concentrated goodness to be found around the bee's knee.
Sweet! So when someone says that you are the "bee's knees", they are saying that you are a sac of concentrated goodness.
And it doesn't get much better than that, does it?
Have a great weekend everyone.
Posted by Buzz at November 8, 2003 08:48 AMI have actually never heard that before... But you have a great weekend, too!
Posted by: Adelle at November 8, 2003 09:16 AMMy grampa used to say I was the bees knees..some other people have said I'm a sack of sunthin.. but I don't think its goodness. : O)
Posted by: JaxVenus at November 8, 2003 09:35 AMI learn something new everyday!
Posted by: ~Mel at November 8, 2003 09:48 AMyou are the bee's knees buzz!
Posted by: mel at November 8, 2003 11:41 AMNow that's the kind of trivia I LIKE!
Posted by: Mark at November 8, 2003 12:51 PMvery interesting....very interesting.
Posted by: Meeta at November 8, 2003 01:25 PMHnh. You said "sac." Hnh hnh.
Posted by: Erica at November 8, 2003 02:59 PMohhh sac of goodness huh? GOLD STAR for you!
Posted by: skurdycat at November 8, 2003 11:51 PMand in other news: honey is actually bee vomit! Bon Apetit!
Posted by: JenBen at November 9, 2003 02:15 AMok, so now what's the origin of the phrase, "just for kicks and giggles" -- that one i've never figured out.
Posted by: P at November 9, 2003 04:18 AMOK- so I'm just gonna have to use that now.
Posted by: shortt at November 10, 2003 09:26 AMthis site is the bee knees!
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