Re: [DL] Just because it's interesting...

["John Goff" <JohnGoff@deadlands.com>]

> Apparently, the emblem of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (back around the
> Deadlands time or just after) was an eye, and they became known
collectively
> as "the eye". This is where the term (still in use today) "private eye"
> comes from.

Sorry, that's an urban legend. It's got a lot of legs to it though, 'cause
it does make sense. However, the term private eye comes from the letter I in
investigator.

John "Did way too much research on the PDA while writing the Agency" Goff