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<blockquote data-quote="klein" data-source="post: 887960" data-attributes="member: 23950">Learned something new today : How we got the word &quot;jumbo&quot; as in jumbo-size:<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Jumbo1St.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Jumbo statue in St. Thomas, OntarioJumbo (1861 – September 15, 1885) was a large African Bush Elephant, born 1861 in the French SudanThe giant elephant&#039;s name has spawned the common word &quot;jumbo&quot;, meaning large in size.Jumbo died at a railroad classification yard in St. Thomas, Ontario, where he was hit and fatally wounded by a locomotive.The elephant&#039;s fame turned its name into a household word, with &quot;Jumbo size&quot; meaning &quot;very large&quot;.The central character of Walt Disney&#039;s Dumbo was named after Jumbo (cruelly nicknamed within the story as &quot;Dumbo&quot;).A life-size statue of the elephant was erected in 1985 in St. Thomas to commemorate the centennial of the elephant&#039;s death. It is located on Talbot Street on the west side of the city.Railway City Brewing Company in St. Thomas, Ontario brews the popular &quot;Dead Elephant Ale&quot; a richly hopped IPA devoted to Jumbo and St. Thomas&#039;s railway history.In computer networking, Jumbo frames are Ethernet frames with more than 1500 bytes of payload.Boeing&#039;s 747 Jumbo jet is another good usage.<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/friend/f8/Jumbo04.dead.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Jumbo after his collision with a locomotive on September 15, 1885 in St. Thomas, Ontario</blockquote>

[QUOTE="klein, post: 887960, member: 23950"] Learned something new today : How we got the word "jumbo" as in jumbo-size: [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Jumbo1St.jpg[/IMG] [B][COLOR=#000080]Jumbo statue in St. Thomas, Ontario [/COLOR] Jumbo[/B] (1861 – September 15, 1885) was a large African Bush Elephant, born 1861 in the French Sudan The giant elephant's name has spawned the common word "[COLOR=#3366bb]jumbo[/COLOR]", meaning large in size. Jumbo died at a railroad [COLOR=#0645ad]classification yard[/COLOR] in [COLOR=#0645ad]St. Thomas, Ontario[/COLOR], where he was hit and fatally wounded by a locomotive. The elephant's fame turned its name into a household word, with "Jumbo size" meaning "very large". The central character of Walt Disney's [I][COLOR=#0645ad]Dumbo[/COLOR][/I] was named after Jumbo (cruelly nicknamed within the story as "Dumbo"). A life-size statue of the elephant was erected in 1985 in St. Thomas to commemorate the centennial of the elephant's death. It is located on Talbot Street on the west side of the city. Railway City Brewing Company in St. Thomas, Ontario brews the popular "Dead Elephant Ale" a richly hopped IPA devoted to Jumbo and St. Thomas's railway history. In computer networking, [B]Jumbo[/B] frames are Ethernet frames with more than 1500 bytes of payload. Boeing's 747 [COLOR=#0645ad]Jumbo jet[/COLOR] is another good usage. [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/friend/f8/Jumbo04.dead.jpg[/IMG] [COLOR=#000080][B]Jumbo after his collision with a locomotive on September 15, 1885 in St. Thomas, Ontario[/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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