Recently I watched "Caddyshack." Again. That's why I stopped in the middle of a story I was reading about why kids curse at npr.org. I ran across the following line:

"Chevy Chase, Md., resident Sarah Pekkanen is…"

What's that? Chevy Chase is a city? No way! Is it named after the actor? Does he live there? Is it a joke written by the author of this article? Is it a mistake? What's happening???!!

So I looked it up, and found out at publicignoramus.blogspot.com that Chevy Chase the actor achieved his name through circumstances completely unrelated to the naming of Chevy Chase the town.

From the comments: "The town in Maryland's name came from a larger area called 'Cheivy Chace.' (the bank is named after the town). the actor's is a family nickname and refers to an ancestor who repelled an English invasion at the Battle of 'Cheviot Hills.'"

That's wild. The more you know…

I speak English, so my Yahoo! email account is in English. Today I went to do a search through my 81,246,598 saved messages, and suddenly all my high school Spanish classes were put to the test (well, more like a quiz :). I typed in my query, and was taken to a page where instead of the normal Yahoo! logo, they showed me this:

My messages were all in English, but all the words Yahoo! provided for navigation around the site had been converted to Spanish.

After I found what I was looking for, I clicked the, "Check Mail" button, which at that point looked like this:

And everything went back to normal.

So now I know: Yahoo! has hidden rooms. And sometimes a glitch will get you in for free!

I wonder if people speaking in tongues are really suddenly using another language, because of a similar glitch? Cue the Twilight Zone theme…