Doh!

Just this very second while checking out the Roger Roger thread on the Straight Dope forum in a strange turn of webhopping events that found me websurfing for info regarding the 1933 apparent murder-suicide of Ernest & Julio’s (and Joseph’s) parents — don’t ask — I just know realized that the distress term “Mayday” comes from the French “M’aidez” (help me). You’d think I’d have figured that sooner out after years of high school french.