059 Bright Eyes Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
Queen Victoria is remembered for her very strict moral code. But what popular gambling game owes its first written rules to her.

Marcia Smith 0:12
And what US president said I would have made a good Pope,

Bob Smith 0:16
A good Pope Answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob

Marcia Smith 0:23
and Marcia Smith.

Bob Smith 0:40
Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down steer clear of crazy take us side road to sanity and learn a few things. See, I changed it up a little bit. We tried to do that with history and trivia bits of information we pull from various places. And let’s go with your question there first, you

Marcia Smith 0:59
wonder who said that? You thought at first, but who do you think of second?

Bob Smith 1:04
What President said I would have made a good Pope. I’m thinking somebody very, very demonstrative like Teddy Roosevelt. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 1:12
that sounds about right. But it was Richard Nixon.

Bob Smith 1:17
Really, he said that I would make a good pull.

Marcia Smith 1:20
He also said, when a president does it, it means it’s not illegal. Oh,

Bob Smith 1:24
yeah. That sounds like Richard Nixon.

Speaker 1 1:27
I would have made a good Pope. You know, I’m what a president does it. It’s not illegal.

Bob Smith 1:34
Gosh, who

Marcia Smith 1:34
does that sound like?

Bob Smith 1:35
Oh, dear lord. Okay.

Marcia Smith 1:37
Two more quotes. One from Lyndon Johnson. Okay. He said Never trust a man whose eyes are too close to his nose.

Bob Smith 1:45
I don’t fear some Texas. Folklore. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 1:50
But my favorite is Benjamin Franklin. He had a million of them. But he said, three people may keep a secret. If two of them are dead. That’s

Bob Smith 1:59
the only way it works. That’s interesting now, because you brought up Benjamin Franklin and I have a Benjamin Franklin question. Okay. If I can find it. I had it right here. And I thought, Oh, this would be a good

Marcia Smith 2:13
one. I can see why you’re looking. If ever I would leave

Bob Smith 2:15
your God, let me find it. No, no been

Marcia Smith 2:19
spring?

Bob Smith 2:20
Well, we can’t find that question. We’ll just have to go to something else. And we’ll get to that later. Okay. Speaking of rulers, Queen Victoria is remembered for the very strict moral atmosphere she fostered in England. But what popular gambling game owes its first written rules to her

Marcia Smith 2:39
poker.

Bob Smith 2:40
That’s exactly right. That Oh, how did you know that? Well,

Marcia Smith 2:44
I was just thinking of time and how long poker has been around and the queen. Okay, it’s in the poker game and the king I don’t think she

Bob Smith 2:52
was introduced to poker at a royal party at Somerset Shire by the US Ambassador to England, Robert coming shake. And the 62 year old diplomat showed the Queen how to play and at her request, he wrote down the rules of the game, which is the first written codification of the rules of poker. Hmm. Anyway, I thought that was kind of interesting. It is. Yeah. Now, what do rulers do when they have a big agreement? What’s one thing they always do they take a picture of them

Marcia Smith 3:20
signing a agreement?

Bob Smith 3:23
No, no, they take? Oh, well, they might do that, too. I

Marcia Smith 3:27
mean, what’s the name of that thing? What

Bob Smith 3:28
do they do physically shake hands. They shake hands. How far back does the handshake go? And I have to credit this to one of our listeners, Steve, short of San Francisco,

Marcia Smith 3:38
and we can’t shake hands now. No, we can’t. That was

Bob Smith 3:42
Steve does a report called the short report. This was on one of his recent newsletters. He just mentioned that he had a link to the History Channel thing on the handshake. So I’m asking you now how far back how many years ago? Did the handshake originate? How far back do we know people were doing handshakes? All

Marcia Smith 4:00
right, I’m thinking I’m thinking I’ll say

Bob Smith 4:04
Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan,

Marcia Smith 4:06
I’ll say the 17th century 17th

Bob Smith 4:09
century AD right. So about 400 years ago, no

Marcia Smith 4:15
idea what you’d have 17th century BC.

Bob Smith 4:18
Well, they know for sure how far back it goes because one of the earliest depictions of a handshake is found in a ninth century BC relief of the Assyrian king, pressing the flesh with a Babylonian ruler to seal and alliance and it’s it’s as plain as day these guys are shaking hands. And it’s a gorgeous looking piece of sculpture. Wow. You know, you’ve seen those at the British Museum. They took off some of the temples over in Iraq. And this is one of those, and it shows them shaking their hands. And the poet Homer also described handshakes several times in the Iliad and the Odyssey. So that’s how far back it goes. I didn’t go back nearly far enough ninth century BC. So 11,000 years.

Marcia Smith 5:01
That’s interesting. I wonder when the kiss started.

Bob Smith 5:05
That’s probably been here from time immemorial too. But you know, since the beginning of time, and thanks again to Steve short for that.

Marcia Smith 5:12
Okay. The New York City population is equal to the combined population of how many states, you don’t have to name the states just think how many states have the combined population of just New York City?

Bob Smith 5:26
So we’re going by the biggest number of states, you can say, because some big states Yeah. Could equal the population of New York City. Yeah. How many? Seven? Wow,

Marcia Smith 5:36
what are they? Vermont, Alaska, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and West Virginia together don’t have the population of roughly 8.4 million people in New York City.

Bob Smith 5:49
That is amazing. That’s a lot. Especially consider whole states. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 5:53
I thought maybe a couple like Vermont, maybe Wyoming but I didn’t think seven. And you know, London and New York City are very similar in population both about 8.3 8.4 or something. But you know what the difference in square miles is between London and New York City,

Bob Smith 6:13
I would think London would be more spread out and bigger. Way bigger.

Marcia Smith 6:17
London has 138 square miles more than New York City. Holy cow. That’s, that’s a lot. So those eight and a half million people got a lot more room there.

Bob Smith 6:27
And when you look down on London from a airplane, it’s all zigzaggy and everything. It’s very ancient. You can tell it’s been around this time. When we

Marcia Smith 6:36
were in London, I thought it was much busier and condense the New York City. It just seemed like there were people everywhere throngs, but obviously I’m wrong, the same amount of people, but they have more room.

Bob Smith 6:48
Interesting. All right. Now, I’ve got a question for you about a famous American president who stole one of his great expressions. Franklin Roosevelt did not invent the expression, the New Deal, what great American writer did in a famous book.

Marcia Smith 7:04
Okay, and FDR stolen, so it has to be something he probably read as a kid. Yeah. Let’s see Mark Twain, Mark Twain.

Bob Smith 7:13
All right. What book was it?

Marcia Smith 7:15
I’ll forget. Okay. I’ll say I’ll say Huck Finn. No, Tom Sawyer.

Unknown Speaker 7:20
No. Go No, no. Oh.

Marcia Smith 7:24
Okay. A little too quick, just

Bob Smith 7:25
ready for that. Okay, from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. And we know this because in a letter to the international Mark Twain society on December 8 1933, FDR wrote that he borrowed the term New Deal. From quote, that passage in the book in which the Yankee declares that in a country were only six people out of 1000 have any voice in the government that the 944 dupes need a new deal. So he took it from there.

Marcia Smith 7:52
Okay, Bob, why don’t you often see really tall old people?

Bob Smith 8:00
Well, because your body shrinks as you get older. That’s what I would have said. Yeah. But that’s not I mean, your height does shrink. Yeah, you can

Marcia Smith 8:09
shrink, you know, a couple inches, but you’re still going to be 68696, you know, seven foot person wish

Bob Smith 8:15
I would be that tall. Boys thought I’d break six foot, but I didn’t. You’d be My grandma told me I was going to, then she died. She died. The dream was over. Well, according

Marcia Smith 8:26
to Men’s Health magazine, men lost an average of 1.2 years of life for every extra inch of height. Well, really? That’s right. A six foot man can expect to live six years less than a man five, seven. So count your lucky stars. Oh, a previous study indicated even more dramatic effect. Men who stood less than five, eight, live to an average age of 82. When those over six feet 73

Bob Smith 8:56
Holy cow. So the taller you are, the less longer you’ll live. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 9:00
And some scientists in the UK point to the DNA. In a bigger body, the cells have to divide more, which can affect your aging and lifespan.

Bob Smith 9:11
Okay, so if the taller you are, the more your body has to work to provide you nutrients. Everything else? Yeah. Oh, good. Yeah. Well, finally.

Marcia Smith 9:21
It’s interesting. Really see really old, very tall people.

Bob Smith 9:25
That’s true. That’s true. Okay, here’s an interesting fact. And this relates to an animal that you used to love you had cats, right?

Marcia Smith 9:32
I just had one. Oh, I guess he just lived that long. Okay. 21 years.

Bob Smith 9:39
Okay, how did the Persians use cats to defeat the Egyptians in battle? Really? Now, this is a legend, but it’s an ancient legend. Well, I

Marcia Smith 9:47
imagine they use black cats to make them feel inferior or scare you or

Bob Smith 9:53
you’re onto something. Legend has it that the cats led to the defeat of the Egyptian army in 525 BC. The Persian invader Cambyses I don’t know for sure how to pronounce this CIMBYSES placed a row of cats in front of his troops and the Egyptians who considered cats sacred refused to shoot their arrows across the animals.

Marcia Smith 10:17
Very interesting. Yeah,

that’s pretty smart. Don’t you think? I thought so? Well, here’s a smart question. How much dirt do you think you’re going to ingest by the time you die by?

Bob Smith 10:27
Eat my dust? Gee, I don’t know. Hopefully none. But I would say okay, it’s probably got to come in in terms of dust and sand and things like that. Let’s just say a half a pound. That’s a lot. How much? How much dirt? Does the average person ingest

Marcia Smith 10:42
six pounds.

Bob Smith 10:43
Oh, I got grit in my teeth. Just thinking about Yeah, you know, you

Marcia Smith 10:47
get it a little dust a little dirt that you inhale it. It just comes in. Oh, and by the time you’re ready to kick off, it adds up to six pounds. Now some cultures actually eat dirt. In fact, Bob, there’s a restaurant in Tokyo for $110 people dine on salad with dirt dressing, sea bass with dirt risotto, and they enjoy a desert of dirt ice cream. Oh, for goodness sake. Dirt may be a current fad in developed nations, but elsewhere, it’s not new. Scientists know that some cultures have been eating dirt for around a millennia. It sounds like an insult. They’re dirty. eaters. I know. But eating dirt is more common in tropical areas where microbes that are both harmful and helpful, thrive. Well,

Bob Smith 11:36
that’s an interesting thing. So it doesn’t mention that eating dirt is a way to die either. No,

Marcia Smith 11:42
no, it said that it actually the people who are starving have eaten it.

Bob Smith 11:47
Oh my goodness. All right. So let’s say you decided you wanted to die and you wanted to drown. Okay, what body? That cheers me up what body of water in America? Would you really have to try hard to drown in if you wanted to? Ah, Salt Lake City? Great Salt Lake. Yeah, yeah. And the same goes for the Dead Sea. The reason is the same because the salt content. The water is so buoyant. It’s difficult for a person to even sink under the surface in either one of those legs. Yeah. So that’s how you could die. Okay. Okay, let’s take a break and we’ll be right back. This is the off ramp with Bob

Marcia Smith 12:21
and Marsha Smith.

Bob Smith 12:24
Okay, we’re back with the off ramp. Bob and Marcia Smith.

Marcia Smith 12:27
Well, here’s something important. Okay. What’s the world record for the largest puppy litter?

Bob Smith 12:35
The world’s record. I don’t know what’s what’s the average puppy litter is like five or six puppies.

Marcia Smith 12:39
Correct.

Bob Smith 12:40
I still remember when we picked up bars out of that little letter there. Yeah. Okay, world’s record. Let’s go. Let’s go with three times at 15 puppies.

Marcia Smith 12:50
That sounds good. But it’s more even in 2004 and Neopolitan. Mastiff named Tia gave birth to 24 popularity for

Bob Smith 13:00
puppies. Wow. Wow.

Marcia Smith 13:04
24 Okay, I just thought that was fascinating. Guinness Book of Records never lets you down.

Bob Smith 13:09
No, it never does. It never does. Here’s one. What popular flavor comes from an orchid. What popular flavor. This is a very popular flavor.

Marcia Smith 13:18
It is. Vanilla. Vanilla comes from an orchid.

Bob Smith 13:22
Yeah, it comes from the vanilla plant, which is a climbing orchid that attaches itself to trees with aerial rootlets. Of 20,000 species of orchids. It’s the only one that produces a commercially useful commodity. Hmm, the vanilla plant, which is Northcutt. Wow,

Marcia Smith 13:37
I didn’t know that know that.

Bob Smith 13:38
Well, I bet you didn’t know this either. What design feature prevents trains from tipping over when they round a curve?

Marcia Smith 13:46
What what design features design feature aerodynamic thing that keeps them on the track? It’s something

Bob Smith 13:52
that years and years ago the designers of rail systems discovered Okay. Okay. I don’t know. Well, it’s not in the trains. The design feature is in the rails on a curve, the rail on the outside of a curve is higher than the rail on the inside. That makes sense. That’s how racetracks for automobiles are constructed as well tracking.

Marcia Smith 14:14
Yes, of course, that makes sense. Well,

Bob Smith 14:16
why didn’t you know it? I?

Marcia Smith 14:19
Well, yeah, no, yeah. can’t know. All right. Well, I have a good transition from your salt lake question. Okay. Okay. If all the salt in the oceans could be taken out and spread evenly over the land surfaces of the world, okay. There would be a layer of salt. How tall? Well,

Bob Smith 14:41
except for the salt. I take for my sandwiches. Your salad. Let’s say 10 feet deep. 10

Marcia Smith 14:49
feet. No. Over the whole entire world. A layer of salt. The height of a 50 story building.

Bob Smith 14:57
This is just from the ocean. Yeah. Holy cow. Oh, that’s amazing is that so you took all of the salt out of the ocean and put it on land the the height of a 50 story building and said, Oh, Lord, that’s a lot of salt. Apparently the world does have too much so I

Marcia Smith 15:13
guess so. Wow.

Bob Smith 15:14
Okay, recently the Confederacy has been big in the news about the Confederate monuments and you know, the Confederate flag and very controversial. I have a question for you Are Confederates buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Marcia Smith 15:29
I know whose plantation that was Robert E. Lee. That’s right. Yes, well, no, I would say no.

Bob Smith 15:37
Well, that’s what I would think too. But there are 400 Confederate graves. today. It’s in Section 16 of Arlington National Cemetery. Now that was added three years later. For the first 40 years, Confederates were banned from Arlington National Cemetery because the men who fought and when the Civil War considered the cemetery exclusively for US military veterans, and Confederate soldiers were definitely not in the US military. But by 1900, the feelings had changed. And in 1903, the first Confederate Memorial Day ceremonies were held and there was a memorial there. Now, the memorial there is considered controversial today because it’s got some pretty sensitive imagery. They’ve got an African American mammy, cradling the infant of a dead rebel soldier, and they have a soldier going off to war followed by his slave. That’s all engraved in this monument. Yeah, Moses, Jacob, Ezekiel, that was the name of the sculptor. He was a Confederate veteran and a designer and just for the record, the descendants of the sculptor, they think that monument should be taken down in 2017. They wrote as proud as we are of Moses, his artistic prowess, we some 20 easy kills, say remove that statue, take it out of its honored place at Arlington National Cemetery. Take it down. Interesting. Yeah. But there are Confederates buried at Arlington National Cemetery. And oh, you mentioned that was Robert E. Lee’s plantation. Technically, it wasn’t it is his wife’s land that was given to her by her father in his will. And in that will he gave Robert E. Lee some land somewhere else, but that land was exclusively for his wife.

Marcia Smith 17:17
That happened a lot back then the wife’s family that gives you the land and

Bob Smith 17:21
who was her father? I don’t know. He was a stepson of George Washington. Really? Yeah. Mary’s son. Yes. Right. Exactly. Oh, the intertwining of those two families.

Marcia Smith 17:36
That’s part of the horror of that war. There was families against families. Yeah. Well, blood, sweat and tears. Being a great old band a band nine. Love them. It’s also a popular phrase in use for many years. And it originates from an address by what person Winston Churchill. What did he say?

Bob Smith 17:59
I think he didn’t say it in that order. It wasn’t blood, sweat and tears. It was tears toil, the sweat. You

Marcia Smith 18:04
got it. He said blood toil, tears and sweat in a speech. But somebody shortened it to blood, sweat and tears. And it’s a great phrase. Actually, no one could say stuff like Churchill.

Bob Smith 18:17
Speaking of famous people. YEAH. Jimmy Carter, who was the president? What one event in Jimmy Carter’s personal background makes him different than any other US president. He has a first no other president can claim this. What was Jimmy Carter’s first in his background is personal background, not as president,

Marcia Smith 18:38
but was his first,

Bob Smith 18:39
I guess I call it an accomplishment. He has a first Yeah, that goes all the way back to when he was born to when he was born.

Marcia Smith 18:44
I don’t know.

Bob Smith 18:49
He was the first US president born in a hospital. Oh, right is amazing, isn’t it? Oh, yeah. You know, he’s a relatively recent president. And that’s the first president that ever was born in a hospital that tells you something about the development of America and the world. You know, speaking of being born, I have an interesting question about a tree.

Marcia Smith 19:09
The way you tree What tree

Bob Smith 19:11
has the most delayed sexual maturity in all of nature,

Marcia Smith 19:17
I can tell you honestly, I didn’t know trees had sexual maturity.

Bob Smith 19:22
You don’t know what they’re doing it. You know, when you’re not looking? Yeah, there’s a lot of steps out there’s a lot of steps. Okay. It’s the Sequoia. And the reason I say it has the most delayed sexual maturity in all of nature. It waits 175 to 200 years before its first flowers. And when it does, that’s when it bears millions of seeds. Really, it takes 175 to 200 years before it has seeds. And the seeds are so small it takes 3000 of them to weigh an ounce. Is that amazing? This tiny, tiny seeds and from that this largest of all trees grows I’m fascinating. I thought,

Marcia Smith 20:01
yeah, okay, well, here’s something that’s physics. Okay. Okay. A principle of physics explains the action and noise of a whip in a house when you hit the whip. Oh, yeah. Why does it crack cracks?

Bob Smith 20:13
Because when the whip when it finally starts coming back at pops the air it creates a concussion in the air. Why? I don’t know. It’s

Marcia Smith 20:22
because it moves faster than the speed of sound. While it goes 760 miles per hour who’s measuring this? Cheese and that creates the crack sound 760 miles per hour faster than the speed of sound. That’s why it crap. We’re

Bob Smith 20:41
amazed when a baseball goes over 120 miles an hour for the pitcher throws? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 20:45
they don’t do it. 120 Oh, yeah.

Bob Smith 20:48
There’s a record of 120 miles per hour is one of the fastest pitch balls. I’ve got it somewhere. I just read it. Really?

Marcia Smith 20:53
Yeah. Who was the picture? Well,

Bob Smith 20:56
it’s not somebody you know, but I got the name of the person. Got it in another sports question. I’ve got my sports file over here. There you go. What’s so funny about?

Marcia Smith 21:06
Nothing? You go right. All right. Let

Bob Smith 21:09
me see here. And here it is. I did find it in my sports file. You think I’m kidding? No. And it was 127 miles per hour. That’s the highest recorded speed for a pitch baseball, at least the recent statistic I saw and the person who threw it was a New York Yankees second baseman Mark kainic really threw this ball. 16 years before Bob fellers famous pitch, which was a 98.6 mile per hour pitch Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians. And it was measured with the same US Army equipment that measured Bob fellas throw but that’s the record. Okay. According to the information, I have 127 mph,

Marcia Smith 21:51
why were they clock in him? Why were they clocking his bill?

Bob Smith 21:54
Does that mean you always go back to things that don’t matter?

Marcia Smith 21:57
This is the record. Okay. Though, I

Bob Smith 22:00
do have a sports question. Okay. Now you are a daughter of Wisconsin. So the football tease

Marcia Smith 22:06
runs in my veins, Jesus in your veins,

Bob Smith 22:09
which will explain your early death. All right, so Daughters of the Green Bay Packer team. I mean, you just love the Packers, right? It’s just in your blood even when I moved away? Yes. Even when you moved away. Okay, we all know Vince Lombardi was the greatest coach of the Green Bay Packers. And that’s what he’s known for. And then later on, he went to coach the Washington Redskins and and then he died shortly thereafter. He didn’t live much longer after that. But how did Vince Lombardi use modern technology to help Washington Redskins football player Larry Brown start his plays faster. He was very innovative Vince Lombardi was,

Marcia Smith 22:45
I don’t care because he was out in Washington. So you don’t

Bob Smith 22:48
care. It doesn’t matter. He doesn’t matter. We’re not going to talk about that. Wasn’t what the Packers then

Marcia Smith 22:53
not in my purview. You

Bob Smith 22:54
sound like a Bears fan.

Marcia Smith 22:55
Tell me what he did.

Bob Smith 22:57
Okay, well, this player Larry Brown apparently had a hearing problem. And Vince Lombardi noticed the problem. While he was watching films of the Redskins game, he noticed that brown started with the snap of the ball instead of the quarterbacks count. Never had never started before that gave me hearing. Yeah, that’s exactly right. Vince Lombardi ordered Brown a special helmet with a built in hearing aid wired to Brown’s left ear his good ear. Well, that

Marcia Smith 23:21
doesn’t take a lot of thought. If you see somebody can’t hear you get him a hearing aid. Well, apparently

Bob Smith 23:26
it’s significant enough to be included in trivia unlimited. I found this and I thought it was Oh, no. And besides that he wasn’t with the Packers at the time, so nothing matters. Chickies Wow, okay, Marsh, okay. No, I know, that fact that Vince Lombardi wasn’t what the Packers that’s nothing to do with you don’t like the baseball record. You don’t like the Vince Lombardi fact. But those are the answers. So apparently you’re wrong twice. All right, move on.

Marcia Smith 23:58
That’s your happy place. That’s

Bob Smith 23:59
my happy place. Marsha is wrong. You were wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong Wrong. Okay.

Marcia Smith 24:05
Here’s another ocean question. Okay, pure sea water is colorless. Why does it often look blue? Okay,

Bob Smith 24:12
now I always assumed this had something to do with the sky that day that the color of the sky made the meter look blue, but is it plankton or something like that in the water?

Marcia Smith 24:23
No, no, the ocean looks blue because red, orange and yellow. Those are the long wavelength lights are absorbed more strongly by water than his blue, which is a short wavelength light. So when white light from the Sun enters the ocean, it is mostly the blue light that gets returned. And that’s why the water looks blue and the sky looks blue wood doesn’t absorb the blue color. So just reflects it back and that’s why we see blue. Well that makes sense. Yeah, I never thought of that. I thought it was reflecting blue. But it doesn’t absorb it so it reflects it back.

Bob Smith 24:59
So then why Does the ocean sometimes look gray, Marcia green

Marcia Smith 25:02
or gray? That’s because there are sediment or particles in the water sometimes. And that can reflect a different color than K. But by and large, if there isn’t a lot of sediment or something, it’s blue. And that’s

Bob Smith 25:15
the reason why that’s why. All right, now we’re gonna go back. What did Ben Franklin contribute to ocean navigation? He contributed something to ocean navigation. Well,

Marcia Smith 25:26
he did things with glasses and optics and stuff, did he not?

Bob Smith 25:32
I’ll tell you that this is not an object, he did not invent an object that dealt

Marcia Smith 25:37
with it. Okay. You tell me that. I don’t know, he discovered the Gulf Stream.

Bob Smith 25:40
Isn’t that interesting, and he named it that. So he noticed that American ships were taking two weeks less to cross the Atlantic ocean than the British ships that came to America. So he found out that American sea pilots heading to Europe took advantage of an eastward current in the water. And when traveling to America, they avoided that current so he did temperature measurements, changes in the water experimented. So he drew up and published the first systematic chart of an ocean current in the world in 1769. And he called it the Gulf Stream.

Marcia Smith 26:14
See, that’s that’s curiosity and observation, right? This chart

Bob Smith 26:18
was of a river in the ocean is how he described. So there’s a current in there that goes, you know, that’s the one that takes you up the coast and then over to Europe. And apparently, for years, the British sailors ignored that. And Americans, they didn’t ignore it. And they prospered more than the British. I’ll be down. Yeah. Because we were faster ships because we knew that this gulf stream. Oh, that’s so cool. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 26:40
All right. So I know how you often I enjoy the ones that famous last word. Yes.

Bob Smith 26:44
Since we’re coming to the end of the show today, Famous last words, very appropriate.

Marcia Smith 26:49
But I was looking at famous tombstone, okay, and I’ll end with three that I thought were funny. There was a guy named John yeast. And on his he had written on his tombstone here lies John yeast. Pardon me for not rising. It’s good. There was a guy tortured all his life for his name. I’ll bet Oh, yeah.

Bob Smith 27:12
He got the last laugh. Yeah, I

Marcia Smith 27:14
think so. I think he decided to go with it. Yeah, if you can’t, can’t beat him. join him. That’s it. Thank you. Randy. Dangerfield remember him? Rodney Dangerfield? Yeah. And his tombstone said, there goes the neighborhood. And finally, Merv Griffin, who died in 2007 had put on his tombstone. I will not be right back after this mess. Oh, that’s good.

Bob Smith 27:40
Well, that’s very good. And we will not be right back today. But we’ll be back again next week. And we hope you’ll join us. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:47
I’m Marcia Smith. Join us again next

Bob Smith 27:49
week for more of the off ramp. The off ramp is produced in association with CPL radio and the Cedarbrook Public Library. Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

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