Enough for everybody
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This has to have happened to practically everyone. There you are, going to class, chewing your gum and minding your own business, when all of a sudden the teacher bounds right in your face with that old, familiar glare. What's up with him? Before you have the time to consider why he suddenly got all up in your grill, he strikes you with that uppercut you've had to have heard a thousand times before: "That's some nice gum you're chewing, I hope you've brought enough for everybody." This may seem like a simple, rather invasive question to you, but the phrase itself goes much farther back, and is a staple of history in almost all cultures that echoes a worldwide conflict decades in the making.
[edit] Etymology
"Enough for everybody" originates from the Lorem Ipsum phrase: "enovinus flaus ecrirode", which literally translate into English as "enough for everybody". It is argued that the coiners of the term didn't have much imagination, but since they were spending so much time inventing the entire English language, a literal translation was enough for all of them to bear. The phrase was invented as an ironic afterthought after the Inventors of the English Language finished writing up the first dictionary. A recorded dialog between two of the inventors goes as follows:
“Say Phillip, do you like all of the synonyms I made for fart?”
“You made quite a lot there, Terrence, but did you make enough for everybody?”
“I don't know, Phillip, let me check!”
The dialog trails off into incomprehensible bits of flatulence and uproarious laughter for the hours that follow. It appeared that after they were finished inventing the English language, the inventors made the phrase to sum up what their language should have been: enough for everybody; this belief has recently been contested by the King of the Internet, whose additions of the English language are seen as blasphemy in the eyes of most hardcore scholars.
[edit] History
Ever since its coinage in the middle ages (see above), the phrase has been used in many cultures around the world in two contexts: the Traditional and the Quantitative.
