Data Lore

So, woke up this morning with a horrible charley horse after only like three and a half hours of sleep. Not the best way to start Father's Day weekend. Of course, I had to look up "Charley horse" on wikipedia, because I knew that'd be a good waste of time...oh, why do the British have better names for everything than we do in North America?

"A charley horse is a popular North American colloquial term for a painful bruise of the quadriceps muscle of the anterior or lateral thigh that commonly results in a muscular hematoma and sometimes several weeks of pain and disability. Such an injury is known in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries (and also in the U.S.) as a dead leg or granddaddy. In Australia it is also known as a corked thigh or "corker." It often occurs in sports when an athlete is struck by an opponent's knee, in a manner like the kick of a horse, perhaps the reason for its name."

Now I have to complain about my dead leg all day.