Comment by interestica
Comment by interestica 3 days ago
> Chandler played cricket when he was young, and he may have been influenced by the term “google” which is applied to balls which break or swerve.
I think the author means “googly”
Comment by interestica 3 days ago
> Chandler played cricket when he was young, and he may have been influenced by the term “google” which is applied to balls which break or swerve.
I think the author means “googly”
In my pre-Google youth we also called them googly eyes and I honestly believed that was why Google picked that name. I always imagined the two OOs as eyes, sort of like amazons a->z arrow is a smile.
See also the campfire classic "going on a bear hunt" and the line "two big googly eyes..."
Yep.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googly