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minus-squarevertexarray [any]hexbear28·3 years ago The word cockpit seems to have been used as a nautical term in the 17th century, without reference to cock fighting. It referred to an area in the rear of a ship where the cockswain's station was located However, a convergent etymology does involve reference to cock fighting. According to the Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology, the buildings in London where the king's cabinet worked (the Treasury and the Privy Council) were called the "Cockpit" because they were built on the site of a theater called The Cockpit (torn down in 1635), which itself was built in the place where a "cockpit" for cock-fighting had once stood prior to the 1580s. Thus the word Cockpit came to mean a control center. link
minus-squarevertexarray [any]hexbear18·3 years agoThinking about the Chapo ep with Wyman where they're talking about accidents of fate, guys getting stabbed in bars etc. being a powerful determinant of exactly how things play out. The Skunk Works name was taken from the moonshine factory in the comic strip Li'l Abner. link
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Thinking about the Chapo ep with Wyman where they're talking about accidents of fate, guys getting stabbed in bars etc. being a powerful determinant of exactly how things play out.
normal etymology