JELLY BEAN

Jelly bean is a term for semiconductor components. That kind that are used generically in many applications and are so easily available that when needed can be grabbed out in handfuls. Cute, isn't it so?

http://www.answers.com/topic/jellybean?cat=technology

JINGOISM

By Jingo! was just a euphemism for by Jesus! till 1878. Imagine something like that could have a negative meaning. Here is the story behind it. By 1878 it had caught on to tongues just like Osama Bin Laden has to internet forwards. And then...

G.W. Hunt wrote a song about British foreign policy at the time. That was the time when a faction of the government wanted to send a fleet of naval ships to meet the Russians in the waters off Turkey. And Hunt's song went like this:
We don't want to fight, yet by Jingo! if we do,
We've got the ships, we've got the men, and got the money too.

Such politicians came to be known as Jingoes, and the rest is in dictionary.

http://www.takeourword.com/Issue085.html

SANDWICH

The Fourth Earl of Sandwich discovered Sandwich in 1762. An earl and all, huh? Well the first ever sandwich was discovered when John Monatgu was too busy gambling (Yes, gambling. He was a sex fiend too.) late in the night and wanted to grab a bite. He ordered for roast beef put between two slices of bread, so that he wouldn't get his fingers greasy. You see, he had to play cards.
And here is another interesting bit. He did not belong to the town of Sandwich. It so happened that the first Earl in his lineage, celebrated his victory in some war in the town of Sandwich.





http://www.wordsources.info/words-mod-sandwich.html