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Are you joshing me?

USMarine6USMarine6 Posts: 2,095 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Fun little read

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    ms70ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Funny!
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    AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 25,036 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It is BS as Joshing as a term was used long before 1883.

    That article was from 2010 and has been debunked here on this forum.

    I do have a racketeer nickle though!



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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,032 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's an apocryphal story, as AUandAG just mentioned, but still an entertaining one. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, right? image

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    howardshowards Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭
    Well before 1883: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=josh
    Howard
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep... a mythical tale, but a story that captures the imagination.... Cheers, RickO
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    habaracahabaraca Posts: 2,106 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ""It is BS as Joshing as a term was used long before 1883.
    That article was from 2010 and has been debunked here on this forum.
    I do have a racketeer nickle though! ""

    Don't get so excited, he was just joshing you
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    Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,729 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I told that story for a classroom I was presenting to and they loved it. Sometimes you just need a great story to get 15 year olds interested in history.

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