What U.S. President coined one of the world’s most famous coffee slogans? And what’s considered the most livable city in the world? Hear the answers on the Off Ramp with Bob & Marcia Smith. (Photo: Wiki Commons)

Bob and Marcia engaged in a lively conversation covering various topics, including language, history, and culture. Bob shared interesting facts and trivia, while Marcia inquired about the origins of common expressions and explored the history of the honeymoon period. They later discussed tipping habits among different groups of people, with Marcia listing the worst tippers and sharing an amusing fact about vodka. Bob provided additional information and anecdotes, and they discussed tips for servers and bartenders. Through their conversation, they demonstrated the value of sharing and learning from each other.

Outline

Livable cities, coffee slogans, and honeymoon origins.

  • Vienna, Austria named most livable city in the world for two years in a row.
  • Marcia and Bob discuss US presidents and coffee advertising, with Marcia identifying Teddy Roosevelt as the president responsible for the famous slogan “good to the last drop.”

 

Marriage traditions, sea turtles, and baseball terminology.

  • Marcia and Bob discuss the origins of the term “honeymoon” and its association with alcohol consumption during a couple’s first month of marriage.
  • Bob asks Marcia questions about sea turtles, including their ability to dive 3000 feet, migrate incredible distances, and use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate.
  • Marcia and Bob discuss the origins of the terms “southpaw” and “two cents worth,” with Bob providing interesting insights on their history.
  • The expression “two cents worth” dates back to the late 19th century, when the cost of mailing a letter was two cents and has since become an Americanism for “little value.”

 

Film history, eccentric habits, and disease terminology.

  • Titanic was a massive hit, with theaters reordering prints and a naked drawing of Kate Winslet selling for $16,000 at auction.
  • Bob and Marcia discuss famous people with eccentric habits, including D.H. Lawrence climbing mulberry trees naked and Emily Dickinson only communicating from an adjoining room.

 

History, culture, and trivia.

  • Bob Smith and Marcia Smith discuss the origins of the one-finger salute, with Bob suggesting it may have originated from the Middle Ages and Marcia providing additional historical context.
  • The two also discuss the introduction of the telephone and bananas at the United States Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, with Bob incorrectly identifying hotdogs as another item introduced at the event.
  • Bob and Marcia Smith discuss the history of the opium trade and a singer’s record-breaking held note in a studio recording.
  • Marcia Smith and Bob Smith discuss the Titanic movie, including an ad-libbed line by Leonardo DiCaprio and a reshot scene for the 3D edition.
  • Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson criticized the stars in the movie, leading to a reshoot for the 3D edition.

 

Titanic trivia and historical figures.

  • Marcia and Bob discuss a survey of North American service workers, ranking the best and worst tippers.
  • Bob Smith and Marcia Smith discuss the Titanic, including its Oscar wins and the actors involved.
  • Bob Smith shares a little-known fact about Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, their rivalry in the Lincoln Douglas debates.
  • Bob Smith and Marcia Smith discuss little-known facts about well-known people, including their tipping habits.
  • Vodka is the highest alcohol content drink and Martini drinkers tip faster, while non-alcoholic and umbrella drinks are the worst tippers.

Marcia Smith 0:00
What’s considered the most livable city in the world?

Bob Smith 0:04
And what US president is responsible for one of our most famous coffee advertising slogans, answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob

Marcia Smith 0:16
and Marsha Smith.

Bob Smith 0:33
Welcome to the off ramp by chance to slow down steer clear of crazy take a side road to sanity and have a good half hour of trivia. And here we are Marsh once again. Okay,

Marcia Smith 0:45
Bob, what is considered the most livable city in the world?

Bob Smith 0:51
I’m sure this changes probably every so many years. This guy to two years in a row are really in this hemisphere. Is it in the Western Hemisphere? North or South America? No, no. All right, the most livable city in the world? Mm hmm.

Marcia Smith 1:05
It got over 99 points out of 100 from the magazine economist, okay. Global livability index. And you know this place we look into this place. We both have together London now. Paris now Amsterdam. No, Vienna. Yes, Vienna, Austria. No kidding. Yes. In 2019. For two years in a row, the Austrian capital scored over 99 points out of 100 on the economist global livability index. And the Annual Report assesses more than 30 factors across five key areas. Stability, health care, culture and environment, education and infrastructure. Wow, I would have never known that No, I would have guessed it was one like Amsterdam or something like that. Or even

Bob Smith 1:54
a city that’s like in you know, the mountains or something like that. All right, Marcia. Here’s my first question for you. It’s another US president question. You love them. Don’t shy, shy okay. What US president is responsible for one of our most famous coffee advertising slogans.

Marcia Smith 2:11
That’s crazy. Okay. It’s not good to the very last drop. That’s exactly right. It doesn’t sound kosher. So who would that be? Oh, it is. That’s the right thing.

Bob Smith 2:22
That’s the right one. Good to the last drop. Kidding. No, I

Marcia Smith 2:26
was being funny. No.

Bob Smith 2:29
Well, who is the president? Ulysses

Marcia Smith 2:31
Grant.

Bob Smith 2:32
No later, Jimmy Carter. Not that late.

Marcia Smith 2:38
Peanuts. It’s all about peanuts. Okay. I love this coffee. This coffee is really good. No,

Bob Smith 2:43
no, no, no. Teddy Roosevelt. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He was dining at the old Andrew Jackson home the Hermitage in Nashville and he was served some Maxwell House coffee from Nashville’s Maxwell House Hotel. That was where the coffee Yeah, okay. And he was asked if he wanted another cup of coffee. And he was quoted as saying, Well, I have another delighted it’s good to the last drop.

Marcia Smith 3:07
Oh, and there goes advertising history. And that’s where it went. Is that is that Teddy Roosevelt, Teddy

Bob Smith 3:13
Roosevelt. That’s where he talked to me.

Marcia Smith 3:17
Okay, okay, bomb. Where did the term honeymoon first come from?

Bob Smith 3:24
The term honeymoon. Seems like this goes back to Roman times. Everything

Marcia Smith 3:26
goes back to Roman times. But this is the fifth century. Oh,

Bob Smith 3:30
okay. So I guess it had something to do with honey and the moon. I don’t know how those to fit in together. But tell me

Marcia Smith 3:39
back in the old good old fifth century. You know, cultures represented calendar time with what? moon cycles, okay, right? Yeah, sure. So back then a newlywed couple drink meet the honey. It was a form of honey during their first moon of marriage usually was supplied by the bride’s father. And meat is a honey based heavily alcoholic drink believed to have aphrodisiac quality qualities. So you get married and over the honeymoon period. They just drank the honey, the mead for a month honey based alcoholic drink

Bob Smith 4:17
so you can see how your first month might be sweet.

Marcia Smith 4:21
And drunk and crazy and full of sex. Because yeah,

Bob Smith 4:25
They wanted to have more offspring is what they want. Yeah. That’s pretty good honeymoon. So the honey is from the meat and the moon is the month the first month to meet.

Marcia Smith 4:31
Yeah. And the British couples in the 19th century use their honeymoon to go on a bridal tour where the pair traveled to visit friends and family who could not attend the wedding ceremony. Which is a sweet idea. Yeah. Well,

Bob Smith 4:46
I have moved into the realm of Marcia and have some new Lucky man animal questions for you, Marsha. All

Marcia Smith 4:53
right. All right, this

Bob Smith 4:54
animal lives in every ocean, but the polar regions Yeah, it can live Have 80 years, it can dive 3000 feet. It can swim as far as 9000 miles a trip and uses the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate. What is it? What animalism Do you want to hit? Of course it’s not a fish.

Marcia Smith 5:15
Well, would it be some kind of reptilian?

Bob Smith 5:18
It’s a reptile? Yeah.

Marcia Smith 5:20
Can turtles dive that?

Bob Smith 5:22
Yes, it is a sea turtle. They can last as long as 80 years. They can breathe air, of course, but they can remain submerged for hours at a time and leatherback sea turtles can dive up to 3000 feet.

Marcia Smith 5:34
That’s what threw me up. My first thought was turtles. But when you said David, I didn’t know they could do that. Okay,

Bob Smith 5:39
Now here’s two more facts. All right. They have been documented migrating incredible distances. Sea turtles, one was tracked traveling more than 9000 miles from Baja, California to Japan. Wow. Now why would they go that far?

Marcia Smith 5:54
Well, remember in Finding Nemo, the Turtles rode the currents right under the under the ocean currents.

Bob Smith 6:01
Yeah. Well, the point though, here I’m making is why would they do that? Because female sea turtles always return to the beach where they hatch whenever it’s time to lay their own eggs. So they may have hatched somewhere and travelled for 20 years, and then they have their own babies. And they go back to that original place. Yeah. And how do they navigate? They use the Earth’s magnetic fields. They found this up because researchers generated magnetic fields in the lab and they demonstrated that they have the ability to detect it and use it as a way to orient themselves.

Marcia Smith 6:33
Bob, why do we call someone who is left handed a southpaw? Oh,

Bob Smith 6:37
that’s a good question. Isn’t it though? Yeah. And yeah, I always thought it had to do with baseball. Does it Okay, south pole so somebody with the right hand must be the North Pole. Pow. Why? I have no idea. Yeah, well, there’s

Marcia Smith 6:52
a good reason. I found it interesting to me the good reason

Bob Smith 6:55
why when the farm is a judge of that.

Marcia Smith 7:00
When the first baseball diamonds were laid out, there were no night games, right. So to keep the afternoon or setting sun out of the batter’s eyes home plate was positioned so that the hitter was facing east, which meant the pitcher was facing west. Oh,

Bob Smith 7:15
so it all goes back to the way baseball stadiums were originally constructed. I didn’t know that. So they were all set up so that the pitcher look to the west. He is always facing west and that would mean his right arm is in the north and his left arm is in the South. Okay, I get

Marcia Smith 7:30
it most pitchers through with their right arm. But the rare and dreaded left hander pitching arm was on the more unfamiliar south side of the pitcher, and he was referred to as a southpaw. Okay, pretty

Bob Smith 7:44
cool. That makes sense. All right. Here’s a question for you, Marcia. Jesus was never called Jesus in his lifetime by his fellow Jews. What was his actual title or name? Herb? No. Not herb. Okay. Herbert Marshall. No, no, no, no. He was known all of his life to his friends, enemies and disciples as Joshua. Really? Yeah, that means “Jehovah is salvation.” Joshua was what he was called. The name Jesus is the Greek word for Joshua. But it was not know that it was not used by the Hebrews. And Christ is also a Greek word, which means the anointed one, and that is the equivalent of the Hebrew word Messiah. So the words Jesus and Christ are actually Greek words. They were not used by the Hebrews. Okay,

Marcia Smith 8:32
and speaking of giving your two cents worth Bob, why is adding your opinion to something or giving unsolicited advice called your two cents worth?

Bob Smith 8:42
Because that’s all it’s worth.

Marcia Smith 8:45
It actually has a good reason to be called really? No, I don’t know what it was okay. If someone speaks up out of turn, or forcefully inserts their unsolicited opinion, which we don’t know about that, in this relationship, that’s

Bob Smith 8:56
the basis of our relationship.

Marcia Smith 9:00
Here’s five says, that expression dates back to the late 19th century, when if you wanted to write an opinion to the editor of a newspaper, or complain to a member of legislature, the cost of mailing the letter was the price of a two cent stamp.

Bob Smith 9:16
No kidding. So that’s where it came from. It was the postage at the time. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 9:20
two cents worth became an Americanism for of little value.

Bob Smith 9:24
That is amazing. Yeah, that’s great. So

Marcia Smith 9:27
what is the stamp cost today? Oh, is that yours?

Bob Smith 9:30
What’s your forever stamps worth? That’s alright, Marsha. I got some questions on a movie. What film was so successful and had such a long run in the theaters that theaters had to reorder prints because they wore out?

Marcia Smith 9:47
Really? Yes. All right, give me a decade or us it was 20 some odd years ago. The 1990s Yeah. Late 1990s. What ran out what was so pop so

Bob Smith 9:58
successful and had such a long run. Theaters had to reorder prints because they were out.

Marcia Smith 10:04
It wasn’t the 1990s Did we see it? Yes, we saw it. The kids said yes, they

Bob Smith 10:10
saw it as it in fact, they saw it with us. Titanic. That’s it. That Titanic according to Mental Floss, the popularity of the Titanic was so massive with people lining up for repeat viewings. Some theaters reportedly had to get new film reels to replace the ones they’ve worn out

Marcia Smith 10:27
to combat that and wonder why when you look back when that was such a huge

Bob Smith 10:31
it was a big movie, a very good movie actually. You know, I get got it like anything is very popular. It gets ridiculed after a while, like Star Wars got ridiculed for a long time. But Titanic also holds another distinction. It remained in cinemas so long, it was the first movie ever released for home showing while it was still playing in the theaters. Really? Yep, the first one. Back in those days, the whole movie medium was what? VHS tapes. Yeah. Wow. Okay, I have another one here. What paper film prop from the Titanic recently sold at auction for $16,000 piece of paper. What was that? Said again? What paper film prop prop from the Titanic recently sold at auction for $16,000. Gosh, I don’t know. It was a naked drawing of Kate Winslet. You know, that was one of the drawings that Leonardo DiCaprio supposedly drew of rose. And it showed Kate wearing nothing but that Heart of the Ocean necklace. And it was sold by Premier props auction house in 2011. The identity of the buyer and the final price were never released publicly. But the highest known bid was $16,000. I’ll see at least and the drawing was done actually by director James Cameron not. Yeah, he was

Marcia Smith 11:49
by himself.

Bob Smith 11:50
He’s a very good artist

Marcia Smith 11:50
certainly is a famous person. So yeah, actually, that was that wasn’t stupid money. You know, like you go buy salt and pepper from some set. That’s actual art. Yeah. And had some

Bob Smith 12:01
and related specifically to something in the film. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 12:04
Well, that’s very cool.

Bob Smith 12:05
I’ve got a famous writer who had a very eccentric habit. D H. Lawrence. What was one of his very eccentric habits. He’s a very original controversial writer of the 20th century. I

Marcia Smith 12:17
don’t know. Can you give me a hint?

Bob Smith 12:19
Well, I’ll just tell you. He liked to remove his clothes and climb mulberry trees. Really? Yeah. He likes to climb mulberry trees naked. I don’t know why, but he did. Okay, here’s another one. What great American poet was such a wreck loose that she would only communicate with guests from an adjoining room.

Marcia Smith 12:39
Oh, brother.

Bob Smith 12:42
It was Emily Dickinson. Oh, yeah. She wouldn’t stay in the same room with guests. She would go to an adjoining room and speak to them from their very odd, but became a great you know, she was a great poet wrote some wonderful stuff. Yeah, just couldn’t talk to people face to face.

Marcia Smith 12:58
Well, can you tell me the differences between a pandemic an epidemic and an endemic? They’re all Demic. That’s correct. And you know what Demic means? No, I don’t know what it’s it’s a Greek word from demos meaning people, okay? So they’re all have to do with people – pandemic

Bob Smith 13:15
it means it’s it’s across the world are crossed out pan meanings a distance traveling encompassing Correct. Many lands? Correct epidemic EPI, epi epi. And what is epi mean?

Marcia Smith 13:26
Well, diseases that spread outside their original boundaries are epidemic in abbreviation for Apamea meaning among so it doesn’t go all over the world, but it jumped its original boundary. So what was the third one? The third one was endemic,

Bob Smith 13:43
endemic, that means like, within a species or something, right? Yes.

Marcia Smith 13:47
Or a place with the Greek prefix and meaning in or native to a defined district or place like chickenpox. Kids get it and kids all in the same school might all get it?

Bob Smith 13:59
I got another history question for you. Okay, let’s go back to the centennial not the bicentennial. The centennial of the United States. Now, that was a big, big World’s Fair in Philadelphia. In 1876. There were a number of things introduced there. One was a milestone in communication. Another one was an exotic food. What are those two things? Was one a hotdog? No. Hotdogs came about 1904.

Marcia Smith 14:26
You have that at the top of your brain? I know that.

Bob Smith 14:30
One of my favorite foods? Yes.

Marcia Smith 14:33
Okay, tell me about

Bob Smith 14:34
Okay. Again, what were considered the two most unusual items exhibited at the United States Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. One was communication. One was

Marcia Smith 14:43
a food. Yeah. Okay, telephone and hot dogs. That’s for telephone, and bananas,

Bob Smith 14:47
banana. Oddly enough, you can hold both up to your face and it looks like you’re talking to somebody. Yeah, it was the first time Americans ever saw the fruit and it was sold for a whopping 1876 price of 10 cents a piece. Switch was big. The banana was wrapped in tin foil, despite the fact that it’s a fruit with appeal. And then, you know, eat your banana while you’re going over to look at it. This new thing called the telephone, okay?

Marcia Smith 15:10
Yeah, that’s okay. Bob, have you ever wondered where the ever so rude one finger salute came from?

Bob Smith 15:19
The one finger salute? Yeah. I mean, the weird number one symbol. Well, that’s what I always go back and give it back to them when they got upset with fighters. So

Marcia Smith 15:31
Bob Smith, we’re never why the kids like me, don’t fight me.

Bob Smith 15:35
Where did that come from? Yeah, she said, yeah, no, I don’t know. And of course it means different things in different places. Are you talking about the Anglo Saxon world?

Marcia Smith 15:44
I am okay. No, I don’t know. When the outnumbered English face the French at the Battle of Agincourt, they were armed with a relatively new weapon, the long bow, okay. The French were so amused that they vowed to cut off the middle finger of each British Archer. When the long bows won the day. The English cheered the retreating French by raising the middle finger in a gesture that still means, among other things in your face.

Bob Smith 16:18
Because this was a finger that they use for that

Marcia Smith 16:20
long, long bow, wow. Yeah, we’re gonna cut off all your middle fingers. And when they last

Bob Smith 16:29
we got him. And from that point on it met What did you say?

Marcia Smith 16:32
It meant other things? Like in your face, which still means today? I

Bob Smith 16:37
never think of it that way. But yes, you’re right. Yeah. Okay, that’s good. All right. Let’s take a break. We’ll be back in just a moment with more on the off ramp. Okay, we’re back. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. Marsha. I have a question. Okay. What Western Power once waged a war to force an Eastern power to deal in drugs started a war to force another country to deal in drugs.

Marcia Smith 17:05
Ah, no, no Great Britain. Oh, I said

Bob Smith 17:09
the Western Power was Great Britain, the Eastern power was China and the drug was opium. The opium wars, the first of which went from 1839 to 1842. The British forced the opium trade on China prior to that the Chinese had declared opium to be illegal. But the British effort helped spread the drug throughout the world. Amazing. Yeah. Yeah. So they fought a war to force the Chinese to you know, grow. And so was that 1839 to 1842. Okay,

Marcia Smith 17:35
you’re a singer. Bob. According to Guinness Book of World Records, how long would you guess is the longest held single pitch note? In a studio recording

Bob Smith 17:48
in a studio recording? 18 seconds? No. Oh, 30 seconds. More. You can act now in a studio recording? Yeah. So they’ve got this documented? Yeah. Okay. It

Marcia Smith 18:00
was 39 seconds. Wow. A professional rendition of the Bernard ignorant classic. Everything must change was recorded in a private studio by a singer and singing coach to the stars T green. In 2011. This happened, and it concluded with a same pitch note that lasted for a long bursting 39 seconds. And so I tried it. That’s hard. It Well, yes, I went 30 but I it.

Bob Smith 18:30
It’s pretty weak at the end. Yeah. And wobbled. It didn’t sound like it was professional. Oh, okay. I’m gonna go back to the Titanic. I’ve got a couple of questions. What iconic line in the film was ad libbed? It was not in the script. famous line from Titanic. What’s the most famous line from Titanic? Thank

Marcia Smith 18:48
gosh, it’s been a long time.

Bob Smith 18:51
Leonardo DiCaprio climbs to the master ship

Marcia Smith 18:54
and he stands up there. And he says he says, Yes. Everybody knows that. And I do too.

Bob Smith 19:00
He says I’m king of the world. The world forgot.

Marcia Smith 19:03
And he made that up.

Bob Smith 19:04
Yeah, he did. Yeah. When he first got up on the end of the ship. He improvised that line. I’m king of the world. director James Cameron liked it so much. He kept it in the movie. It was ad libbed. It wasn’t part of the script was perfect, but it’s listed as number 100 on the American Film Institute’s list of Greatest Movie Quotes. And another question on the Titanic. Why did James Cameron the director reshoot a key scene after the movie was released and in home video. Why did he reshoot a key scene?

Marcia Smith 19:36
Because everybody hated the ending? No,

Bob Smith 19:37
no, they did do multiple endings. Yes, that the ship always went down. They couldn’t change that couldn’t

Marcia Smith 19:44
change that. Okay, tell me.

Bob Smith 19:46
Okay. Well, Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, we’ve seen him on television. He wrote director James Cameron quite a snarky email according to camera. Really? Yeah, the scientists didn’t see Titanic until years after it was released. But he took issue with the stars that rose would have seen while lying on the piece of driftwood and looking into the sky. The Starfield wasn’t what she would have seen in real life at that place. And at that time, so James Cameron reshot the stars for the 3d edition of the movie. Well, good for Cameron. Yeah, because a lot of these films are done that way. And it’s a glaring error. Like one film I remember seeing. It was John Wayne, the Green Berets. Right. Yeah, there was a scene where the sun was setting and they’re on the beach. Well, in Vietnam, that doesn’t happen. Because the sun’s coming up in the East in the morning on the beach, you know? So there are some things that have been done like that by Hollywood over the years. Yeah. Oh, lots of always good to correct them.

Marcia Smith 20:45
Okay, Bob, you never were a waiter, were you?

Bob Smith 20:48
No, I wasn’t. I probably wisely did not get involved in carrying food to people’s table. I would probably drop them on everybody.

Marcia Smith 20:56
Well, this was a survey done of North American service workers. Okay. And they rated the best tippers. Well, what’s the best tipper other restaurant workers? That makes sense? Yes. Number two regular customers, especially cigarette smokers.

Bob Smith 21:13
Really? cigarette smokers?

Marcia Smith 21:15
I think they feel guilty. Three young male wannabes. It doesn’t say want to be what but I assume actors want to be one of the married to the waitress probably. Number four small business owners small business

Bob Smith 21:28
people. Yeah, they would be sympathetic to somebody who’s mas tips.

Marcia Smith 21:32
Number five tavern owners and they should be sympathetic to

Bob Smith 21:36
people needing tips. Yeah, number

Marcia Smith 21:37
six hairdressers, seven liquor salesmen, number eight taxi drivers, nine salesmen and 10. musicians who are poor and can’t afford. Yeah, you want to know who they are, and you’ve got the worst tippers to do in order. Number one, the worst tippers senior citizens really?

Bob Smith 21:56
Oh,

Marcia Smith 21:58
that’s bad. Number two people between 21 and 24. That’s just ignorant. Yeah. Three tourists. For teachers, five women. I

Bob Smith 22:09
would think teachers and women would be more prone to tip but they’re not. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 22:13
I’ve seen women go back and pick up their husbands tips. I mean, yeah, really? Yes. It’s it can

Bob Smith 22:20
I know a woman who complains every time her husband tips and he’s already paid tax and he pays a tip on top of the tax and he doesn’t care. That would be me.

Marcia Smith 22:29
And me. All right. I just You just pay for the food now.

Bob Smith 22:33
Here we go. All right.

Marcia Smith 22:35
And number six, so this gets me this one. Lawyers. Ah. Seven doctors. Eight computer nerds. These are the worst tippers? Yeah, geez. Ah, computer nerds? Nine bankers and 10. pipe smokers.

Bob Smith 22:54
cigarette smokers tip. Yeah, but like smokers don’t. Yeah, they’re

Marcia Smith 22:58
more erudite guys. Weird. Oh, that’s a good one.

Bob Smith 23:02
That’s a very good list. I liked that. Okay, got two more Titanic questions. How many Oscars did the Titanic win? And how many were for acting? Well, overall, first, how many? How many? 16? No, no movies.

Marcia Smith 23:17
Okay. 11 or 1211?

Bob Smith 23:18
Okay, yeah, that was 11. And that was a great number. I think that was first film that ever did that after Ben Hur back in the 50s. And how many for best acting? How many made it for acting?

Marcia Smith 23:28
Zero.

Bob Smith 23:29
That’s exactly right. It made mega stars out of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. But none of the Oscars were for acting. Eighty-seven year old Gloria Stewart. She was considered a lock for the Supporting Actress trophy. But she lost to Kim Bassinger for LA Confidential. And Kate Winslet lost to Helen Hunt for As Good as it Gets. 12 years before she won an Oscar it was 2009 You know what it was for? For the reader? Oh, yeah. Okay, what actor learned they won their biggest part in their career while wearing a straight jacket? Yeah.

Marcia Smith 24:06
Well, was that Jack Nicholson? No, this

Bob Smith 24:09
is somebody in this movie. I have no they got the news when they were wearing a straight jacket. Kate Winslet she was in England filming Hamlet. And she was wearing a straight jacket to film Ophelia his famous breakdown, see, oh, wow. So she had a straight jacket on when she learned Oh, hey, you want to know that’s

Marcia Smith 24:25
pretty esoteric won a nomination for the

Bob Smith 24:27
Titanic. Okay, I’ve got a this is a fact I stumbled upon. But if you are like me, and you spent a lot of your high school years in Illinois, you learned a lot about Abraham Lincoln, and the Lincoln Douglas debates what occurred all over the state when he was running for US Senate. Well, what some of Stephen Douglass’s ill feelings toward Abraham Lincoln, what did they stem from? This is something people don’t think about. Lincoln Douglas debates great rivalry, what was part of the rivalry?

Marcia Smith 24:58
Part of the rivalry and to do with their jobs, they were both lawyers. It has to do with romance romance. They both love Mary. Well,

Bob Smith 25:06
yes, Mary Todd chose Lincoln over Douglas as her boyfriend she. She met both men. At the same time. She was courted by both of them. She felt she had to decide which of the two men was most likely to attain future success. She chose Lincoln as your best chance for glory. And so they were always rivals and they were always ex boyfriends.

Marcia Smith 25:27
Let me just say this even Douglas dodge double well, was

Bob Smith 25:32
an unfortunate thing with her mental illness and everything. Yeah, you’re right. Anyway, that’s interesting. I didn’t know that. Little known facts about well known people.

Marcia Smith 25:40
That’s what we’re all about.

Bob Smith 25:42
That is okay.

Marcia Smith 25:43
Referring back to the best tippers, waiters, waitresses and bartenders identified good tippers from best to worst by what they drank in the following order. You want to guess what the top couple were the people

Bob Smith 25:57
who drank that were the best tippers and the worst tippers, okay. I would say people who drink beer tip more than people who drink hard liquor.

Marcia Smith 26:06
So they came in number three actually. Number one was vodka. Number two was rum. Then it goes down to beer. Beer drinker. Okay. Number four tequila, bourbon, scotch wine. Ah, gin, whiskey. And number 10. Love this is non alcoholic and creamy or fancy drinks with umbrellas. They do not tip or frozen layered or flaming drinks.

Bob Smith 26:33
Is it funny that vodka so you have some of the highest alcohol content there? Yeah, I’m gonna add to

Marcia Smith 26:38
that Martini drinkers say you know, well, they

Bob Smith 26:41
get an abbreviated faster and they’re more likely to tip.

Marcia Smith 26:44
But that just kills me. The non alcoholic drinkers and the umbrella drinks are the worst tip.

Bob Smith 26:49
I like umbrella drinks. I Tip.

Marcia Smith 26:52
Would you like me to close up with a quick quote from Muhammad Ali? Sounds good. Don’t count the days. Make the days count.

Bob Smith 27:01
That’s very good advice. Well, that’s it for today. We hope you’ve enjoyed our little soiree into trivia. And if you would like to give us a question, you can go to our website, the off ramp dot show. Oh, yeah. And go to contact us and just write it in there. Give us a question and the answer and who you want it to be given to? And

Marcia Smith 27:21
you know your name and location. That’d be fun. That’s right. I’ll give you a shout out.

Bob Smith 27:26
I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:27
I’m Marcia Smith and

Bob Smith 27:28
you’ve been listening to the off ramp. The off ramp is produced in association with CPL radio online and the Cedarbrook Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

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