Fizzle? Don't mention it….

I love words. Can't get enough of 'em. Etymology is a hobby for me.

So here's a lurker for you:  "fizzle"

The editors of the good old Oxford English Dictionary—bless them and all their generations—took the trouble to figure out that "fizzle" originally meant what we now euphemistically describe as flatulence of the SBD variety.

That's "Silent But Deadly" for those of you who may not have spent too much time in the boys' bathroom in junior high….

As early as 1601, "fizzle" was used in a translation of Pliny's Natural History, in the sense of "to break wind without noise," as our relentlessly candid OED editors tell us.

Just sayin'……

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