How did the phrase "pushing the envelope" come about?  Ted Theodoroff?
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"Pushing the envelope" is a good example of how jargon -- the specialized or technical vocabulary of a group or profession -- gradually enters general usage. "Pushing the envelope" comes from the jargon of test pilots, and has actually been around since the end of the Second World War. The "envelope" involved is a sort of visual metaphor for the technical limits of a high-performance aircraft. A graph of such an aircraft's performance would appear as a rising slope as the craft approaches its limits of speed and stress, then fall off rapidly (putting it mildly) when the plane exceeds its capacity and the pilot loses control. Safety, relatively speaking, lies within these limits, or "inside the envelope." A pilot who "pushes the envelope" and tries to exceed the known capabilities of the aircraft risks what engineers delicately term "catastrophic system failure," otherwise known as a crash. \n\nBecause "pushing the envelope" had such a esoteric origin, it took a best-selling book -- Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" in 1979 -- and later the popular movie "Top Gun" to introduce it to the general public. Since then it has begun to crop up in increasingly non-technical contexts, to the point where it is now a currently trendy metaphor for simply "pushing it," or testing the limits of what is permissible in a given situation.
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I'm not entirely sure, but I think it originated with the Rolling Stones as they described their backstage parties for an interview of somesort. The saying has pretty much been adopted by every rock group and wannabe rocker eversince as a way of answering why they're in the music buisness.
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in an envelope with a piece of cardboard protecting both sides. so that it is sandwiched.
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It can mean either a point later in time, or a person  further along in the organizational chain.\n\nIt was originally a English Naval term referring to messages being passed from ship to ship.
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No it doesn't sound right does it.  Unfortunately, there are a lot of grammatical issues with advertising and slogans.  This one comes from AOL, if I'm not mistaken.  "You've Got Mail" is shorter and easier to program than "You have received some email."
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The phrase is derived from the practice of quickly jotting down calculations on the piece of paper nearest to hand, which in pre-email days often meant the back of an envelope. Another possible origin for the phrase is a widespread myth that Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg address on the back of an envelope while on the train to Gettysburg.\n\nThe physicist refered to by your professor is Feynman.
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Advertising slogans rarely attempt to make anyone anything other than eager to buy their product. If they choose a "selfish" sounding message, it's because they believe their target market will be attracted to it and is therefore already "selfish" (or wants to be "selfish"). \n\nNowadays, most advertisers predict and react to trends, rather than create trends.
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Ray Thomlinson of BBN.\n\nHe created e-mail in 1971 as one of the first distributed applications to run on ARPANET, the origial precursor to the Internet.\n\nASIDE TO DEARDEB:\nI'm sure Mr. Gore appreciates you straightening that out for us all, since he never claimed to have invented anything.
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Pioneering sportswriter Henry Chadwick, who developed a detailed scoring system in the late 19th century, assigned a letter to each possible play. According to Chadwick, “K” was the prominent letter in the word “strike.”
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#2 Envelope\n\n#1. A Book on Acronyms?\n( How To Keep It Short & Sweet)
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General consensus is that the term originates from a Monty Python skit.\n\nA couple are attempting to order breakfast at a restaurant where all the menu items feature spam. The woman doesn't like spam, and asks the waitress if they offer any spam free dishes. Alas - there is no escape from spam.\n\nMeanwhile a chorus of vikings at another table express their appreciation for spam by chanting "spam, spam, spam, lovely spam!"\n\nEventually any hope of meaningful communication is lost in the drone of "spam."\n\nSound Familiar?
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It wasn't originally in the pledge. It was added by Congress in the 50's during the Cold War.
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the link below leads to a local magazine (Twin Cities, Minnesota metro area). Because the Post-it note was invented by Art Fry, an engineer at 3M Co. and the product is now 25 years young, they did a feature article on this subject in April 2005. It is real good reading, I found the article a very entertaining read
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Do you mean:\n\nWhen were post office boxes invented?
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Stuffing envelopes is a scam. Machines do it better and faster than people. I hired my secretary who works at home from an ad she placed in the paper (you can also advertise for free on Craigslist.org). She advertised that she did secretarial work out of her home for $10 an hour. I've been using her for 8 years now and recommended her to other people. You can also advertise at a college that you will type and proofread college papers for a set fee
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It sounds like "Push Comes to Shove" -- a cartoon animated by Bill Plympton in 1991.  They used to run this as a part of MTV's "Liquid Television" program in the mid 90's.  Click on the link below to see it.
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In the 1800"s the word became popular from the clan, "Chieftains", who ran protection rackets on farmers in Scottland.  Should a  Farmer  not pay their mail, old term used for rent,  Chieftain would steal their cattle and crops.  Since this was considered evil, it was considered,\n "Blackmail."