Alt Text: A cartoon illustration of three men each carrying different items, a rock, paper, and scissors, meeting at a crossroads. Caption reads “It was the historic, first-time, meeting of Roe, Sham, and Bo.”
Alt Text: A cartoon illustration of three men each carrying different items, a rock, paper, and scissors, meeting at a crossroads. Caption reads “It was the historic, first-time, meeting of Roe, Sham, and Bo.”
Is the Roe Sham Bo bit an American thing?
French, it seems
Rochambeau was a French general for the American revolution. There is no evidence the nick name for rock, paper, scissors has any relationship with the actual man. Janken(rock, paper, scissors) came to America in the 20th century by Japanese immigrants. Roshambo is slang from the West Coast of the US. First evidence of the term was 1936 in Oakland.
Maybe it was named after the general, maybe it’s a coincidence, we don’t know.
You’re going to cite AI as fact?
Ouch…
Never heard before
Rock paper scissors is what I think we can it in the US