058 Punishing Trivia

Marcia Smith 0:00
who employs more people in the United States than anyone else?

Bob Smith 0:05
And next to the automobile, what is the most widely used vehicle on four wheels? The answers to those and other questions coming up in this edition of the off ramp with Bob

Marcia Smith 0:14
and his most significant other Marsha

Bob Smith 0:16
Smith. Most significant other, you’re the only significant That’s correct. Yes. Okay. Roll the music Lester. Yeah.

Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down steer clear of crazy. Take a side road to sanity and get some perspective on life, Bob and Marsha with you with some good trivia for today. And you have one about the company or the organization that employs more people than anyone else in the United States.

Marcia Smith 0:58
Oh, do you want to guess? Well,

Bob Smith 0:59
I would think the federal government has to be the biggest employer. No, not

Marcia Smith 1:02
in general, the federal government. Number two is the army. Okay. So

Bob Smith 1:07
then is it state and local government is that who employs more people? This

Marcia Smith 1:11
is an actual company. Oh. So the US Army employs nearly a half a million active duty troops and another 200,000 and reserve which makes it the second highest employer in the United States after after

Bob Smith 1:25
the Well I remember at one point it was General Motors, but I don’t know who is it? I

Marcia Smith 1:31
guess Amazon, but it’s not. It’s Walmart. 1.5 million people are employed in the United States by Walmart. That is amazing. Worldwide. It’s something like 2.5. Wow. So that’s, that’s the big employer. Isn’t

Bob Smith 1:47
that amazing? That started with what essentially was like a dime store in Arkansas. I mean, really, it is a fascinating thing. And that that company is still controlled by a family. It’s still kind of a family. So it’s

Marcia Smith 1:58
a family business. That would have been a good way to phrase it to what family business? Yeah, would have guessed it, right.

Bob Smith 2:03
Oh, I wouldn’t have guessed it.

Marcia Smith 2:05
That would have been cool. Well, it’s too late.

Bob Smith 2:08
All right, Marsha, next to automobiles. What is the most widely used vehicle and four wheel? Well, that’s

Marcia Smith 2:15
a puzzle. I’m trying to think what the heck Okay. I’ll say a golf cart.

Bob Smith 2:19
Flow. That’s a good idea. I don’t think there’s that many golf courses around the world. Is this in the world or just the United States? This is in the world. This is the most widely used vehicle on four wheels outside the car outside of the automobile. Okay, I’m

Marcia Smith 2:33
for I don’t know about but the shopping cart. Oh, that doesn’t count. That’s not it’s

Bob Smith 2:38
a vehicle. It’s a vehicle and it transports food? No, it

Marcia Smith 2:43
is okay. me up there. The

Bob Smith 2:45
shopping cart was invented in 1937. By Silvan, Goldman who owned two supermarket chains, and in the Depression, he saw a problem. People were heading for the checkout counter after filling up just a basket with groceries. And he thought, hmm, if you can make a bigger basket, maybe with wheels, shoppers would buy more each trip and he’d sell more products. So that’s what he did. So it is a vehicle it transports things. And it is considered such an important invention that the Smithsonian Institution has an original one in its collection that’s out

Marcia Smith 3:16
there. It’s like when we go to Costco, we’re gonna need a bigger basket. Yes.

Bob Smith 3:22
We’re gonna need more than one basket. Oh, that’s for sure.

Marcia Smith 3:25
Okay. I have several military questions today. Okay. The 45th Infantry Division of the army. Yeah. Okay, had a Native American symbol as a nod to the many Native Americans who served in their division. But they had to get rid of it. What was it and why did they get rid of it?

Bob Smith 3:44
Well, so it was a Native American symbol with feather Tomahawk headdress, something like that. No,

Marcia Smith 3:51
what was it? It’s now commonly referred to as a swastika. But the original insignia was abandoned as the Nazi Party rose to power. And that was their insignia. Today, members of that division were a different salute to the American Indian, and it’s a Thunderbird.

Bob Smith 4:09
Wow, so their original thing was a swastika, which you’re right, swastikas were in all kinds of cultures throughout history. And so it was in an American Indian culture. Yeah, yeah. I’ve got a funny question. Okay. Okay. What do or did, all these people have in common? Okay. Now listen, this is a very interesting group, Dolly Parton, Debbie Reynolds, St. Francis of Assisi. You regard Garin, the first astronaut Mickey Rooney and Nikita Khrushchev What did they all have in common? Good Lord.

Marcia Smith 4:38
I know they all like macchiatos I don’t know what what did they all have in common? Yeah, let me just take let me tell him a good Dolly Parton. Are they all have certain astrological signs No,

Bob Smith 4:51
Dolly Parton, Saint Francis of Assisi, Nikita Khrushchev, Mickey Rooney and Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet astronaut. I

Marcia Smith 4:58
liked Lima. didn’t tell me but they were all very short people,

Bob Smith 5:02
none stood more than five foot three inches tall, all those people. I think when you’re a smaller person, you tend to work harder, you know, to stand out to to achieve entertainers. Notoriously lot of short people who are singers or entertainers.

Marcia Smith 5:18
So Tom Cruise just a little bitty guy.

Bob Smith 5:21
Btw, but I didn’t know St. Francis of Assisi would be.

Marcia Smith 5:24
No, I didn’t know who measured him and why – but okay. Okay, I got another army question. Okay. There have been only five five star generals. That rank didn’t even exist until 1944. And then it was retired in 1981. But can you name any of them? And you know, all five of these people?

Bob Smith 5:45
I think I do. I think I can name several of them. Okay. Dwight Eisenhower. Marshall, correct. General Marshall. Marshall Plan. A MacArthur? Yes. There was three. Yeah, I’m getting there. Let me think. No. Are they all World War Two? No, no one

Marcia Smith 6:03
had passed. Okay.

Bob Smith 6:07
I don’t know who else that I gave you. Three of the five.

Marcia Smith 6:10
Yes, you did. And you should. The other two were Omar Bradley. Oh, yes, of course. And George Washington.

Bob Smith 6:17
Oh, George Washington was the one who was posthumously Yeah, he

Marcia Smith 6:20
was given the rank afterwards. Nicole just five in all of time. Wow. Five Star generals. I never did get that ranking thing. But now I do

Bob Smith 6:29
you Well, there were four then they became five. Yeah, that’s simple. Okay,

Marcia Smith 6:36
thank you, Obi Wan.

Bob Smith 6:38
You know, a lot of industries during this COVID era are going remote. You know, people are doing their work remote. Well, here’s a new one. The drilling industry is going remote. Now, for some time now, petroleum companies have relied on remote technology to monitor wells that are producing, they’re already pumping. But now with COVID-19. The oil industry is embracing remote drilling. So you’ll basically have engineers or crews instead of being at well sites. They’ll be watching steering drill bits cutting deep into the earth using video links and data monitors. Part of it’s a cost cutting measure to so they think that some of these jobs will never come back. I had no idea. Yeah. Well, my dad was in the oil industry. So I found that interesting.

Marcia Smith 7:18
He was he was a Dallas, wasn’t he didn’t you have a big rant? No, no,

Bob Smith 7:23
that’s not really you thought I had a lot of money when we got married. That must have been a big disappointment for you. All right, yeah.

Marcia Smith 7:31
Let me tell you something. Okay. The first woman to serve in the army was Deborah Sampson 1781, really 1781 that posed as a man and joined and she sustained multiple injuries and battle, but treated them herself so she wouldn’t be detected as a woman. But finally, she got hurt badly enough that she had to go to the hospital. And they figured that out real quick.

Bob Smith 7:55
Hey, this isn’t a guy, but they gave her

Marcia Smith 7:57
an honorable discharge. And after her death, Congress granted her husband a widow’s pension. Wow. So that’s the first widow’s pension 1781 She joined the army. This is

Bob Smith 8:10
probably the first widowers pension. Yeah. Wow. That’s interesting. So she was a hero of the American Revolutionary War

Marcia Smith 8:16
of the woman’s movement. I bet I never heard of her. Well, I’ve

Bob Smith 8:20
got an interesting story here. What animated motion picture was declared an artistic delight by the leaders of Nazi Germany. Say again, what animated motion picture was declared an artistic delight by the leaders of Nazi Germany? Just think Seven Dwarfes? Yes. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Yeah, in 1937.

Marcia Smith 8:46
Alright, by Nazi Germany.

Bob Smith 8:48
It was a global sensation, but found particular favor in Germany where Adolf Hitler secured a private screening. And Joseph Goebbels, his propaganda minister gushed over it. He saw it as a revival of a Germanic folk tale about a maiden with skin as white as snow.

Marcia Smith 9:03
My god and artistic delight. Yeah,

Bob Smith 9:07
but that story. The interesting thing is that story is an all kinds of cultures around the world ranging from Japan to Afghanistan, to Italy, to Hungary to India, there’s like a Greek Snow White. It’s been dated to the first century. What wasn’t written down, survived through oral storytelling and finally written down the first written down story of Snow White was in the 16th or 17th centuries after the printing press came around. So I’m going to ask you this question now. Marsha, okay. Who is so dua by and Snake Frieder? Well, who is soda well, by and Snake fritter that Snow White in India and Snake fritter is Snow White and Nordic regions of Scandinavia but in all stories, she’s a girl of unsurpassed beauty. And there is even a Jewish Egyptian version. Her skin isn’t white instead it’s a smooth As the outside of the peach, ha, that’s pretty. That comes from a new book called the fairest of them all by Maria Tatar. So very interesting. I had no idea the Snow White story went back to all these different cultures. She’s got all kinds of psychological thoughts about this, how it it protects both mother and child from hostile thoughts. They can have them through the story. Mothers can resent the child and the child can resent the mother. How about that?

Marcia Smith 10:27
Good times. All right. Did you know Christopher Columbus thought the earth was shaped like a pair?

Bob Smith 10:33
The story is everybody thought it was flat, but he never thought it was flat.

Marcia Smith 10:37
No, I thought he thought it was wrong. But no, he thought it was like a pair anywhere. That’s not important. The question is, okay, who invented the telephone? What? What’s that got to do with Christopher Columbus? Nothing.

Bob Smith 10:50
No. Well, there are two people invented simultaneously, a man named Gray and a man named Bill Reyes. I think he filed his patent an hour or two after Bell did No? Wrong? Okay. Tell me the story. Marcia.

Marcia Smith 11:03

I remember you told me that a long time ago. So when I read this, I thought, got him. Okay. In 1860, a Florentine immigrant in New York named Antonio Moochie demonstrated a remarkable invention. He called it the teletruk phone, no telephones. Sadly, Moochie could not find a sponsor for his product. And after several mishaps, he couldn’t even afford the fee for an even a temporary patent. Enter Alexander Graham Bell, who just so happened to share a laboratory with Moochie Oh, no kidding.

Bob Smith 11:39
I never have this.

Marcia Smith 11:40
They’ll didn’t get a patent for his telephone until 16 years later. 1876 that 16 years after Moochie didn’t get his patent.

Bob Smith 11:51
you’re you’re asserting or you’re suggesting here that Alexander Graham Bell mooched?

Marcia Smith 11:56
So intentionally right? Yeah, see this stuff and that guy didn’t have enough money for the fee, you know? Wow. And so Bell came out 16 years later with his prototype from his lab, buddy. Never give them credit. And I love that movie with Don Ameche.

Bob Smith 12:13
Oh, that that was me here. I need you. I’m sure that represented total reality is what happened. I love that. Okay. Okay. We’ll take a break now and be back again. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob

Marcia Smith 12:26
and Marsha Smith.

Bob Smith 12:28
Okay, we’re back with the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith trivia today and unusual phenomenon that just occurred during COVID-19 in Switzerland. Did you hear about any odd weather in Switzerland recently?

Marcia Smith 12:42
No, I did not.

Bob Smith 12:43
This was on Friday, August 14. Yeah, I was busy that day. Okay, well, that’s the day it rained chocolate in Switzerland yes for the children of Alton Switzerland Friday August 14 This will be a day they’ll remember for the rest of their lives. There was a ventilation duct malfunction at a local factory of the famous lint and spoon Glee confectionery company you know let you’ve heard those lint candy bars. Yeah, you’ve seen them in the in the airport. Pieces of chalk. Oh, just beautiful stuff. Cool. So what happened because of this ventilation duct malfunction the small town of Alton was covered by a storm of chocolate No kidding. Now lint has been in business 175 years and probably never rained chocolate down on any town until this got it allowed the was a defect in the cooling system allowed the cocoa nibs and fragments of crushed cocoa beans to escape in the air and the high winds in the area carried cocoa powder escaped and settled on the ground. Now Linden spriggan V repaired the issue they’ve offered to compensate anyone for any damage done by the powder. There have been no complaints. When you have free chocolate there’s no complaint kids

Marcia Smith 13:54
out licking benches and doors and Albin. It’s quite a sight.

Bob Smith 13:58
Isn’t that funny?

Marcia Smith 13:58
I have quite a transition here to Bob. Oh,

Bob Smith 14:01
really? From raining chocolate in Switzerland to raining cats and dogs. Oh, okay.

Marcia Smith 14:06
Where did that expression come from?

Speaker 1 14:08
Boy, there you go. I would think it would go back to like a hurricane or tornado. And during the course of that storm, you know, it was raining and cats and dogs were flying around, but I guess I’m probably wrong. Flying around well, you know, like, like things fly around in a tornado.

Marcia Smith 14:24
So this is the likely answer. And this is the one that does make the most sense, and I read them all okay, but most likely, the term came from writer Jonathan Swift, who used the term in a piece he wrote in the early 1700s. That was after he wrote about the floods that occurred after heavy rains in local villages, which left dead cats and dogs in the streets. So the streets were flooded, killing animals, cats and dogs and when it was over, the expression became it rained cats and dogs. What was this? Well, it was in the early 1700s. Wow. So it’s been around that long. Yeah. Isn’t that interesting, but that makes sense. That that would be the leftover from flood.

Bob Smith 15:11
Well, you and I are thinking like, because I have a question. Why are dogs so afraid of thunderstorms? And how do they know to head to their favorite place before they come?

Marcia Smith 15:21
Their sense of hearing?

Unknown Speaker 15:23
Well,

Marcia Smith 15:24
could be sense of smell could be. I both know, tell me neither.

Bob Smith 15:31
Okay, this comes from National Geographic. Because they said what separates a wailing siren are fireworks from a thunderstorm in a dog’s mind. Because they can perceive the shift and barometric pressure before the storm so they feel the storm.

Marcia Smith 15:47
Yeah, it that’s why inside they start getting a little weird.

Bob Smith 15:51
And also for dogs with long and thick hair. Static electricity could also add up to the anxiety. If your dog’s favorite spot during a storm is in the bathroom. They could be trying to stay near smooth, static LIS surfaces for fear of getting shocked. How about that?

Marcia Smith 16:04
We took ours into the basement. Yeah. And that helped. Yeah. And me holding him up like that. Remember, we’d be asleep and he’d he’d make noise and go down and stand in front of the basement door. He knew what he wanted to do. Yeah, we didn’t know. We didn’t know where do you want it?

Bob Smith 16:22
Why is he going downstairs again? Yeah. Oh my god. Here comes a store.

Marcia Smith 16:27
Okay, five years a quickie. A 2012 poll by Britain’s National Army Museum voted this man as the nation’s greatest military enemy.

Bob Smith 16:37
They voted this man as the nation’s greatest military enemy. What country again, written this man in 2012. The nation’s great Well, I would say Hitler probably Nope. Really? No.

Marcia Smith 16:51
William the Conqueror George Washington. Oh, that’s amazing. The nation’s greatest military enemy. Yeah, he beat the heck out of him. Wow. Isn’t

Bob Smith 16:59
that amazing? So that’s because here’s the man who beat the greatest army in the world. We’ve kind of a ragtag band of people that only fought when they were in a good situation. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 17:09
yeah, that was and that’s the that was a vote by the National Army Museum they had to in Britain.

Bob Smith 17:14
That’s amazing. You know, because you always think I wonder what they think over there about the American Revolution. Oh, that was just one little part of our you know, as well. So George has got a Well, that’s good. Rep. Okay, well, this is a question you probably know the answer to why do we rarely see a portrait of George Washington smiling? Wow.

Marcia Smith 17:35
Yes. bad teeth like crazy. wooden teeth, no teeth, painful teeth.

Bob Smith 17:39
Yeah, it’s the fact that he probably could not smile do those dentures, and that we always think it’s wooden teeth, but actually, they use materials such as lead cows teeth carved elephant and walrus tusk? Yeah, I agree. They used hippopotamus teeth and human teeth.

Marcia Smith 17:55
How would you like to have hippo teeth? And they said, if

Bob Smith 17:59
Washington had tried to smile, his teeth probably would have fallen out. They were held in place by a pair of spring. Oh, that would be awful.

Marcia Smith 18:07
Gums must have been Oh, yeah. Oh, sorry. All right. This country’s coat of arms, features a palm tree and a 19th century American sailing ship in that country. Okay, say it again. Yeah, this country’s coat of arms. Right. Has a palm tree and a 19th century American sailing ship. Who the heck what country? Would that be? Wow.

Bob Smith 18:32
That’s not the United States. We know that. It’s correct. Is it a South Pacific? No, no. Is it? Is it European?

Marcia Smith 18:40
No.

Bob Smith 18:41
Is it a tiny country? Yes.

Marcia Smith 18:45
It’s not that tiny. It’s a country. It’s not Portugal, or it’s the Republic of Liberia. Whoa, in Africa. That ship represents the ships that brought freed slaves from the US to their country. Liberia is on the West African coast and English is their primary language. But above the ship, it says the love of liberty brought us here.

Bob Smith 19:09
The love of liberty brought us here. Yeah. Wow. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 19:14
I had no idea. So these are American slaves that went back that went to Liberia for freedom, and a free life.

Bob Smith 19:21
That’s great. Okay, I’ve got an interesting prediction. This came from a newspaper clipping the Tacoma News Tribune, April 11 1953. And this was the president of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, Mark Sullivan. What was his prediction? He made a prediction about technology. What year 1953.

Marcia Smith 19:45
I felt technology. I don’t know computers landing on the moon.

Bob Smith 19:50
No, it was about his company’s product. telephones. Yeah. But this is fascinating. Basically, he said the headline here is there’ll be no escape in the future from telephone. Derek, is that interesting? Yeah, he said that in the future. Now this is again, the prediction for 1953. In the future, people will be surrounded by telephones wherever they go. Unable to get away from them, even if they don’t want to be around them. Wow, he writes just what form the future telephone will take is, of course, pure speculation. Here’s my prophecy. In its final development, the telephone will be carried about by the individual, like we carry a watch today. 1950 Wow,

Marcia Smith 20:31
it is the watch. Yeah, it’s um, case, it probably will

Bob Smith 20:34
require no dial or equivalent, and I think the users will be able to see each other if they want as they talk. He’s very pretty Assad isn’t amazing. Who knows, but it may actually translate from one language to another. So all of these technologies through are available in your telephone have the translation ability, you can see each other when you’re talking through that every one right from 1953.

Marcia Smith 21:01
What else did he say – anything bad that might? We might have coming around soon, though.

Bob Smith 21:05
There’s no other predictions here. I just thought that was pretty cool. So that was actually what the gentleman named Mark R. Sullivan, who was the San Francisco president and director of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, said, so you get it right.

Marcia Smith 21:16
Sometimes you do. Well, here’s a fun one, Bob. When Lavinia and Tom got married, they had quite a turnout. Among the guests were governors, Congressman, President Abraham and Mrs. Lincoln and the entire United States cabinet. Who were Lavinia and Tom. Oh,

Bob Smith 21:36
I know. This is Tom Thumb. How did you? Oh, I know that was when you said the said the president in the cabinet was there? Yeah. In the video and Tom and I thought, Okay, this was a celebrity wedding. And it was Tom Thumb and his wife,

Marcia Smith 21:49
who was also a dwarf. Yeah, in the circus. Yes. And they got married, he was 35 inches tall, and she was a demure, 32 inches tall. And when they got married, in in the entire United States cabinet, I mean, talk about celebrity. That’s amazing. Isn’t this just that was blew me away?

Bob Smith 22:10
Okay. I’ve got some interesting statistics here about health, okay, relating to health. In developing countries, the ratio of population to medical professionals is wide. In other words, there is maybe only one position for 1000s of people. Okay. For every 1 million people in India, how many eye doctors are there? For every 1 million people in India? How many eye doctors are there?

Marcia Smith 22:34
Oh my gosh. 511 11. That’s sad.

Bob Smith 22:40
That’s according to the International Council of Ophthalmology in India is a developing country. You know, it’s going to middle class and it’s yeah, it’s really getting very modern, so forth. Okay. Before COVID-19 Ebola was one of the scariest recent epidemics where and how did the biggest Ebola outbreak began? And how many people did

Marcia Smith 22:59
a kill? 5 million? No.

Bob Smith 23:01
We think of Ebola and it’s like, Oh, my God, who All Around 11,000 people killed in West Africa. That’s all that was it. I mean, that’s a lot. Yeah. It began in late 2013. In West Africa. It killed more than 11,000 people there. And it was thought to have started when a child played inside a tree where Ebola infected bats roosted.

Marcia Smith 23:22
Oh geez. Okay.

Bob Smith 23:23
Now here is a hopeful statistic. Today, more than two thirds of all cancer patients treated in the United States are cured.

Marcia Smith 23:30
How many? Two thirds, two thirds of all the cancer. That’s current statistics. That’s a current statistic. That’s wonderful. That is wonderful. I

Bob Smith 23:37
want to give you something wonderful after all, after

Marcia Smith 23:39
Ebola, that’s good. That should be a headline for good news. Yeah,

Bob Smith 23:44
it is.

Marcia Smith 23:45
It’s enough bad news. Okay, Bob. Yeah, one of the longest fights in boxing history took place in New Orleans in 1893. Between Andy bone and Jack Burke. You want to guess how many rounds they fought? Wow. Either that or how many hours it took.

Bob Smith 24:03
Oh, I hate to think of this. It wasn’t one of those things that lasted all day was it? It lasted like you know, eight hours or 10 Seven, seven hours

Marcia Smith 24:13
110 rounds only to have the referee stop the fight and declare no contest. So after 110 rounds Oh my goodness. They just stopped it. You think it would have happened a little sooner but

Bob Smith 24:26
and you’re beaten to a pulp? Yeah. Oh, dear.

Marcia Smith 24:29
Not for the weak of heart like us, that’s for sure. Okay,

Bob Smith 24:33
and then to close out on I have a funny question. Okay. What profession has been officially banned throughout history, but as always survived and thrived openly, despite the law. What profession has been officially banned throughout the ages but has always survived and thrived openly, despite the law, certainly

Marcia Smith 24:53
prostitution, but what’s something else? That’s not funny. So

Bob Smith 24:58
Well, the answer is it is A law, a law profession legal. So the answer isn’t prostitution or gambling or any kind of thievery. Well, some people might dispute that. It’s the profession of the law lawyers. Now I’ve got some examples of how the legal profession was unsuccessfully controlled in history, okay. Under the Roman code, people in a legal dispute could be represented at the trial by a lawyer, but a specific law like Cinzia passed in 204 BC prohibited anyone from accepting money as a gift for pleading a cause. So they tried to outlaw attorneys in that way. You could be an attorney, but you wouldn’t make any money at it legally. In the Roman times. The leader of two revolutions, Robespierre, in France and Lenin in Russia, were both lawyers. There you go. And they each made it a point to abolish the legal profession when they came to power really? Wow. The Constitution of the Carolina colonies in America called it a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward. So they didn’t like lawyers. In Massachusetts, the body of liberties permitted anyone to have another person plead his case for him provided he gave him no fee. And Massachusetts and Rhode Island prohibited lawyers from serving in their colonial assemblies. Still, despite those laws, the profession of the law as continued I

Marcia Smith 26:21
was hoping to I wish I had a lot lawyer job to go out on there’s so many good ones. Well, I’ve

Bob Smith 26:26
got a funny advertisement about an attorney. All right. Okay, so this is from 1890. This guy named major Hopkins was an attorney in Arizona, common to major Hopkins and get fooled satisfaction. I win nine tenths of my cases embezzlement, highway robbery, felonious assault, arson, and horse stealing. don’t amount to shucks, if you have a good lawyer behind you. Out of the 11 murder cases last year, I cleared nine of the murderers having been in jail no less than four times myself. Oh my gosh, my experience cannot fail to prove to be a value to my clients come early and avoid the rush. Oh

Marcia Smith 27:02
my god. Okay, I got upon here as you know what I loved puns when I was little last. I had pythons with my girlfriends. Alright, so Bob, how much does a pirate pay for corn on the cob?

Bob Smith 27:16
How much does a pirate pay for corn on the cob for corn on the cob? And this is a pun. Yeah. I don’t know

Marcia Smith 27:24
how Buccaneer

Bob Smith 27:27
Oh, no. Oh, okay. Oh, my

Marcia Smith 27:30
nine year old self would love that. Oh,

Bob Smith 27:32
your nine year old self is chuckling today.

Marcia Smith 27:35
That’s for you, Carol.

Bob Smith 27:38
Thank you, Marcia. That’s it for today. Here on the off ramp with trivia. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:43
I’m Marcia Smith. Join us again next

Bob Smith 27:45
time for more ponds and more fun. bucket. The off ramp is produced in association with CPL radio and the Cedarburg Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

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