Introducing the OED Appeals

Bellini:

Bellini
is a famous peach coloured cocktail drink made of one part of frozen white
peach purée and three parts of prosecco, an Italian sparkling wine. The origin of the word may be traced back to late 1930s when it was invented by Giuseppe Cipriani, the founder and owner of a bar known as Harry’s Bar in Venice, Italy. After inventing it , the unique peach colour of the drink reminded Cipriani of the colour of the toga, a distinctive long garment, of Saint
Francis , shown in a famous painting “ St Francis in Ecstasy ” ( c.1480) by
the renaissance Italian artist Geovanni Bellini(c.1430-1516). However, the title of the said artist Bellini owed its origin to Giambellino, a historical residential locality in Milan, Italy.

FAQ:

Originally,FAQ is an acronym for Frequently Answered Questions and meant a compilation of frequently asked questions and their specific answers by experts. Jeffrey A.Poskanzer , a computer programmer, was
the first person to post a weekly FAQ to Usernet, a worldwide internet
discussion system. However, first effective daily FAQ was developed during 1982 to 1985 by Eugene Miya of NASA,USA for the SPACE mailing which was
later on popularised by Usernet groups. At that time the storage system was very expensive and it was thought that the users would download the archive messages through file transfer protocol. But actually the users preferred to ask questions through email rather than using the archive for their specific need. In modern usage, FAQ is used to refer to a list of selected questions with their short, specific and relevant answers, irrespective of the fact whether the
questions are frequently asked or not.

Disco:

Disco is a genre of pop music where young people in a nightclub or public place dance to recorded music played on amplified records or compact discs , or sometimes to live music also , compered by a person called disc jockey(DJ) and accompanied with special lighting effects. Disco music is used to enthuse and motivate the listeners to get up and dance. In order to create
typical disco sound, a combination of musical instruments and gadgets are
played but guitar is not used as the lead instrument while the vocals are played on a quaver,i.e., eighth note or semi-quaver, i.e., sixteenth note.
The word origin may be traced back to discothèque(French, record library), discoteca (Italian,record library), discus (Latin , disk ,record ) &bibiliotheca ( Latin , library), diskos(Greek ,disc ) and theke( Greek ,case).

During the 1960s and 70s, disco music was popularised in many
American night clubs . The first known disco song was originated in 1969
when Jerry Butler released his hit song ‘Only the Strong Survive’ . However, as a form of music it was not identified or named at that point of time. Subsequently, on 13th September, 1973, Vince Aletti , an American music journalist, was the first person to write an article about disco published
in Rolling Stone, which gave this music form its popular name disco.

Blue-arsed fly:

An analogy of blue-arsed fly may be drawn to blue bodied blowfly (Species: Calliphora augur), a native fly of Australia, having a central dark metallic- blue patch at its abdomen. This blow fly lays maggots unlike other blowfly species which lay eggs. The phrase blue-arsed fly is used to describe someone who is running around and is in a constant flurry of activity.
The origin of the phrase “ blue-arsed fly” may be traced back as early as to 1936 in a book entitled “Master Mariner”( Published by P. Davies, London in 1936) written by Mr. Claude Cumberlege, retired Rear Admiral, in the
relevant context “ .. to a greater extent to the cheerfulness and activity of Mani, our pet murderer, who was here ,there and everywhere , working like a Trojan and dancing about like a blue-arsed fly in a strange roundhouse” . (Ref.:page number 88 ,ibid, Google eBooks.).
The phrase subsequently appeared in a news report in the Times on 22 nd April, 1970 that Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburg, was apparently annoyed with a photographer who was taking his photographs. He asked the photographer whether he got enough shots. When the photographer replied
that he hoped so, then the Duke commented: ‘You should do. You have been running around like a blue-arsed fly.’The credit of popularising the phrase should go to Mr. Claude Cumberlege.

FAQ:

Originally,
FAQ is an acronym for Frequently Answered Questions and meant a compilation of
frequently asked questions and their specific answers by experts. Jeffrey A.
Poskanzer , a computer programmer, was
the first person to post a weekly FAQ to Usernet, a worldwide internet
discussion system. However, first
effective daily FAQ was developed during 1982 to 1985 by Eugene Miya of NASA,
USA for the SPACE mailing which was
later on popularised by Usernet groups. At that time the
storage system was very expensive and it was thought that the users would
download the archive messages through file transfer protocol. But actually the
users preferred to ask questions
through email rather than using the archive for their specific need. In modern usage,
FAQ is used to refer to a list of selected questions with their short, specific
and relevant answers, irrespective of the fact whether the
questions are frequently asked or not.