146 Wicked Trivia

Marcia Smith 0:00
What place did the Catholic church called the wickedest? Town in Christiandom.

Bob Smith 0:05
My town my hometown wasn’t that bad! Wooster Ohio,?

Marcia Smith 0:09
I’m sorry.

Bob Smith 0:12
And what is the southern most capital city of the United States? You might be surprised. answers to those and other wicked questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith.

Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down steer clear of crazy take a side road to sanity and get some perspective in life by learning some interesting facts. Okay, you’ve got my attention. Marsha. Could you repeat that question again?

Marcia Smith 0:58
What place did the Catholic church called the wickedest town in all of Christianity?

Bob Smith 1:04
Wow. Now with this, can you tell me what century it was? Yes. 1600s.

The 1600s? Yes. Okay. So London, England could have been that. No, that was a very,

Marcia Smith 1:17
this is small, small. And here’s a curious clue. I’ll give you I think it’s one of the lodging places at Disney World.

Bob Smith 1:27
Okay, now, I don’t know what that is. So the Caribbean

Marcia Smith 1:31
Caribbean plays. It’s called Port Royal. Oh,

Bob Smith 1:35
yes. That was supposed to be the wickedest place. Yes. Why? Because it was full of gambling dens and pirates and everything else. And then it was swallowed up by a what was it a volcano or something that

Marcia Smith 1:46
they’ve got? It’s due from the Catholics, I think. And who hung out there, Sir Henry Morgan, Calico Jack Black Beard. Now all the biggest, baddest Pirates of the day. They all did their debauchery there. Wow. In their trading. And it was quite the awful place until 1692. A massive earthquake hit it. I mean, liquification came the soil liquefied, and a tsunami came and basically two thirds of it dropped off the face of the earth. Yeah, it’s

Bob Smith 2:20
under. It’s under the sea now. Most of it? Yes.

Marcia Smith 2:23
Most of it’s in the board. Yeah. With one big gulp was consumed. I wonder what the Pope part kind of hexy put on the plate. Wow.

Bob Smith 2:31
Now there’s a big article on this recently in National Geographic. That’s why I remember really a beautiful illustration of all these pirates and things on the shore. Okay,

Marcia Smith 2:40
it took three minutes. Wow. Now where was that? Port Royal in Jamaica?

Bob Smith 2:46
Wow. Okay.

Marcia Smith 2:47
Isn’t that something?

Bob Smith 2:48
It really is? All right. That’s a southern city. Yes. What is the southern most United States Capitol City? You might

Marcia Smith 2:56
be surprised might be surprised. It’s nothing is

Bob Smith 3:00
let me just say this. What’s the southern most capital city? Y’all in the United States? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 3:05
you’d think something in Texas on there? Oh, you’re close. I’m one of those.

Bob Smith 3:09
Well, Austin is the southern most state capitol on the continental United States. Yeah, well,

Marcia Smith 3:14
and I’m right. And then Hawaii is Honolulu is the other one. It’s

Bob Smith 3:18
the southern most state capitol overall. Yeah, you’ve got them. You got the right one for Hawaii. And you got bonus points for Austin. Marcia.

Marcia Smith 3:26
Thank you, Bob. Thank you so much, and my reward will be

Bob Smith 3:30
breakfast in bed tomorrow.

Marcia Smith 3:31
All right. Take that.

Bob Smith 3:33
Although Florida is the southernmost state in the continental United States. Tallahassee is just ever so slightly north of Austin. Uh huh. Now what’s the northern most capital city?

Marcia Smith 3:45
Yeah, God it would that would be rich

Bob Smith 3:47
Juneau.

Marcia Smith 3:48
Sorry Juneau. Yes, it’s Juneau Alaska, Bob. Okay.

Bob Smith 3:55
All right.. All right. That was the consolation prize there.

Marcia Smith 3:57
All right, that means I don’t get the coffee in bed. J

Bob Smith 4:01
Just the burnt toast without the butter.

Marcia Smith 4:05
Why Bob? Why do we call shuttlecocks birdies in badminton? Huh?

Bob Smith 4:10
These are strange things. These terms we have in tennis and badminton.

Marcia Smith 4:14
This was one if you think about it, for a nanosecond, it makes sense.

Bob Smith 4:18
Well, if it was originally a shuttlecock, it probably had real feathers. And so that’s why people call it a bird. That’s

Marcia Smith 4:24
exactly right. Originally they had and some of the good ones still have feathers. I accidentally bought some good ones. I’m so cheap, but I got these are real feathers. But yeah, and also when they fly they kind of look like a bird. So that information comes from badminton bites.com It’s probably a site you go to on a regular basis

Bob Smith 4:46
I do I often often rest my cursor there. Okay. All right, Marcia, question for you How much pollution does a gasoline lawnmower generate?

Marcia Smith 4:56
Well, the idea in terms of what quantify it terms of

Bob Smith 5:00
a car trip. How many miles on a car trip compared to a gasoline lawnmower in an hour? Like our lawn more? Yeah, like our non electric lawn? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 5:10
one hour. Compare it to a car trip, I will say 200 miles. No

Bob Smith 5:15
hard to believe. But a gasoline lawnmower generates as much pollution in an hour as a 300 mile car trip. Can you believe that? Wow. That’s according to the California Air Resources Board. But when you think about it, there are no devices on that. It’s just spewing it out. You know, it’s not like an automobile. We have all kinds of regulations. So yeah, a gasoline lawnmower generates as much pollution in an hour as a 300 mile car. That’s how

Marcia Smith 5:42
it makes you feel guilty. But if it’s not, how is it coming out in just the hydrogen exhaust just exhausted? Yeah, doesn’t look like much does it? No,

Bob Smith 5:51
it doesn’t, but

Marcia Smith 5:52
it has. Did you know about? It’s bad luck to whistle backstage at the theater? No, I didn’t know that. Oh, yeah. It’s it’s an old actor’s thing. And why is the question,

Bob Smith 6:05
why is it bad luck to whistle backstage in a theater? Because she’ll slap you? The girl will slap Oh, I’m

Marcia Smith 6:13
sorry, any girl that was standing around you. Makes sense that’s happened to you as when you were younger and uninformed. But no, this goes back to the 17th century. Why you say why? Because Marcia, that was before stage managers became standard. And productions had people called prompters. And it was their job to make sure everything went smoothly back there during the course of the show. And it was the days before electricity. So if they wanted to indicate to move, scenery or props, they would whistle. So it was a way to indicate to folks backstage that a scene was changing. To avoid confusion. Everyone else was strictly prohibited from whistling because otherwise all hell would break out. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. And even when electricity came in that that stayed with productions, no whistling behind stage and nobody really knows why anymore. But that’s why

Bob Smith 7:09
because bad things would happen. Yeah, this stage

Marcia Smith 7:11
would start moving props would be taken off. That’s funny.

Bob Smith 7:15
I thought lights would go off all kinds of

Marcia Smith 7:18
the scene was being changed while they’re in the middle of an act. Okay,

Bob Smith 7:21
well, Marcia, the National Park Service describes Death Valley as the hottest driest and lowest National Park. What just happened there to throw that all to the wind rain? Did it rain did it ever rain? There were 1000 people stranded in Death Valley National Park because of flooding. The Death Valley had 60 cars belonged to visitors and staff. They were buried under the debris. Oh my god. The park got 1.46 inches of rain recently the second wettest day since record keeping began. In fact, almost 70% of death Valley’s annual rainfall fell in one day. Before that day in early August Death Valley had only recorded point 04 inches of rain and 2022 the driest start through July since 1953. When no rain fell at all and how much was it? 1.46 inches of rain. Which doesn’t sound like a lot, but that’s enough to flood the

Marcia Smith 8:21
place. Well, there Yeah, because it’s so dry. Yeah. Can you imagine being a tourist there?

Bob Smith 8:25
Oh, 500 visitors and 500 staff in the park. We’re stranded there all day on a Friday.

Marcia Smith 8:31
Oh my god. That’s amazing. Yeah. Okay, Pablo. Here’s a curious question. You ever wonder? Yeah, I wonder where the United States Russia, Japan and you know, some other European countries get rid of their space junk or decommissioned equipment?

Bob Smith 8:48
Well, it ends up in Australia apparently because a whole bunch fell there.

Marcia Smith 8:53
That dropped out of the sky. That huge chunk

Bob Smith 8:55
of farmers shrimp farm. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 8:57
it was huge. Yes. If that landed on you, you were dead. That’s right. decommissioned equipment and space junk. We have to put it somewhere. In fact, they’re gonna put the when it’s decommissioned, the space station is gonna go here in 2013. Really? Where is here?

Bob Smith 9:12
The ocean, isn’t it? Yes. deep under the ocean is a specific place the Indian Ocean? No, no Southern Pacific.

Marcia Smith 9:19
It’s called Point Nemo. It’s in the oceanic pole of inaccessibility. Wow. That’s according to our 1992 survey engineer who discovered this area. And it’s the spot in the ocean farthest away from any land. It’s most commonly called Point Nemo. And it’s located nearly 1700 miles from three equal distance islands. So there’s nothing close to it closer than 1700 Miles Jays. So they

Bob Smith 9:51
can strategically make these things happen there. They can make them land there is out there doing well. They’re

Marcia Smith 9:56
gonna take something apart and bring it back and drop it there.

Bob Smith 9:59
Oh dear.

Marcia Smith 10:00
The closest people to this area, point Nemo, are on the space station. 250 miles above the Earth just no kidding. That’s hilarious. Yeah. So anyway, it’s extremely difficult to get to. And it’s within the South Pacific gear G yre is Guier gear, it doesn’t have a lot going for it. So in our human

Bob Smith 10:25
wisdom, they decided that’s the best place to put them. We’re not alone,

Marcia Smith 10:29
Europe and Russia and Japan. Were all dropping stuff. So

Bob Smith 10:33
this was an international decision. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So this is our garbage bit for spaced. Yeah. I love that statistic that the closest people to this are on the space station now. 250 miles up? Yeah. Holy cow. Right

Marcia Smith 10:48
now there are more than 200 abandoned pieces of space equipment down there.

Bob Smith 10:54
Someday, archaeologists will be down there 1000s of years from now and say, How did this get? Yes, this is an underground city.

Marcia Smith 11:01
Oh, it’s an ancient toilet.

Bob Smith 11:04
You laugh at that. But you know, we find things in deserts and in ancient sites, and there’s nothing written except maybe something on a stone. We don’t know what the heck some of this stuff is. It takes forever to figure it out. So can you imagine finding these rusted hawks of this space? How did this

Marcia Smith 11:20
how just deductive reasoning What could they have used this for exact and I wonder how often they get it right?

Bob Smith 11:26
There was that book I forget that fella put out once recently and he drew things and he said they were artifacts of the 20th century it was funny that there was a there was a toilet seat and they had a picture of it around this woman and it was supposed to be they thought, Well, this must be some kind of an ancient Totem or something that she’s wearing. You know, cow? Well, it’s

Marcia Smith 11:44
a beautiful royal cowl that they wore. Yeah.

Bob Smith 11:48
Who’s to say that what we think isn’t that much an error? Absolutely. Okay, Marshall, which US president has the most places named after him? I’m gonna give you some names.

Marcia Smith 11:58
Let me guess before you give me some it’s got to be Lincoln, or Washington. Ah, I’ll say Washington. Here’s

Bob Smith 12:07
some names Marcia. Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison, or Abraham Lincoln.

Marcia Smith 12:16
Washington.

Bob Smith 12:16
It is Washington. So you are right on your second guess. Yes. From the pacific northwest to the nation’s capitol. More places in America are named after George Washington than any other president, which makes sense. He was the founding father. There are 94 places named directly after Washington a number of rises to 127. When you consider spots that include Washington as part of a longer name, Abraham Lincoln is second with 70. And actually, Benjamin Franklin outpaces Honest Abe, he has 89 places in the United States named after him. Yeah, really

Marcia Smith 12:50
well, that you know, I bet you the south doesn’t celebrate Lincoln much. And so I Ben Franklin, probably what is one?

Bob Smith 12:58
Well, we live close to a town called Port Washington is on Lake Michigan. And well, you think back when that was named, and probably the 1830s Washington had only been dead for 3540 years. So

Marcia Smith 13:08
my mother went to Washington High School, blah, blah, blah.

Bob Smith 13:12
My point is that city people that founded that, remember George Washington absolute, unlike your mother who wasn’t there when it happened?

Marcia Smith 13:21
I don’t think so. She would have been pretty old right now. Okay, Bob, I

Bob Smith 13:25
got a question for you on a phrase coming up. After we take a break. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. We’re back. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia smooth. Well, Marsha, this is a head questions.

Marcia Smith 13:39
Oh, all right. Thank you.

Bob Smith 13:40
Where does the phrase mad as a hatter come from?

Marcia Smith 13:43
Is that it came from Alice in Wonderland. Alice in

Bob Smith 13:48
Wonderland. Well, yeah, because there was a Mad Hatter. There. Okay, but what does it relate to?

Marcia Smith 13:53
Ah, does he wear a hat

Bob Smith 13:57
occupational hazard? It is. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 14:00
If being a hat maker, yes. Back in the day back in the day worked with felt felt. I don’t know. Okay.

Bob Smith 14:08
You could get a serious medical condition if you worked with hats felt hats back in the day. Because in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Fur Felt fur hats was made by treating animal pelts with mercury nitrates. And workers exposed to mercury nitrate over time develop symptoms such as tremors, speech problems, hallucinations, and even mental and emotional instability. So there was a truth to the phrase Mad Hatter. So that just shows you how widespread the ailments were. But Mercury continued to be used in handmaking even into the 20th century, and was not officially banned in the United States until 1940. But that’s where the term mad as a hatter comes from. That was the mercury that they used in making the hats treating that I’ll

Marcia Smith 14:55
be darned. Okay, but what do these words have in common? Okay, humblebrag Vaxxed and demisexual what?

Bob Smith 15:07
demisexual? You heard me Okay, bisexual means two different. Okay? If I don’t know what a demisexual is,

Marcia Smith 15:13
you know what Vaxxed is? And you know what a humblebrag is, you know, you do that on the social media humblebrag. But, you know, I won a million dollars.

Bob Smith 15:22
Who’s counting? Yeah, I know what’s the answer

Marcia Smith 15:25
indicated is key in the pod. These are all newly added words to various dictionaries in 2022. Okay, there, they didn’t exist before in dictionaries.

Bob Smith 15:36
And can you give us a definition for each?

Marcia Smith 15:38
Well, humblebrag you know what that is bragging about yourself, humbly, supposedly vaccine. I don’t have to explain that. And you’ve been vaccinated and demisexual I knew you would ask. Yes, that’s

Bob Smith 15:49
the one I’ve been waiting for. Now, here’s about the other.

Marcia Smith 15:53
Well, it’s similar to asexual, but it includes sexual attraction only after a strong bond has formed. It’s somebody who pays no attention, apparently to the opposite sex until all their bells are wrong, and then they pay attention. That means falling in love with somebody I think so I don’t know why they have to make that bisexual. Okay, so the calling of dictionary words is also left to Lexa grafters, and they decide which words to add and which words to remove. So imagine

Bob Smith 16:27
that might be an interesting job right? At the end of the year to go let’s take a look at all these new

Marcia Smith 16:31
words. They’re always updating and they only in 2021, remove nine words but two of them. I love these two, fruity scent was removed. Fr u t, e s c e n t fruits and fruit scent. Yes. It refers to an object or person having the appearance of a shrub. Well, when’s the last time you use that?

Bob Smith 16:56
There’s not a lot of use for that. And I can see why they got rid of let’s get rid of that when

Marcia Smith 17:00
Merriam Webster said that’s that it here. You know, there just aren’t enough fruit a sense around to use it. And the other one, and I really liked this. I’m going to use this in a sentence this week. Frager rific? What? Yeah, it’s a word that’s been replaced by the more commonly used frigid arch. So it used to be frigorifero I never heard that one either. I didn’t either. So oh, it’s frigorifero

Bob Smith 17:25
getting the impression dictionaries are like software, you only use so many of the features and the rest just forget about. Yeah, did. Okay, Marcia? This is a burning question. I wonder

Marcia Smith 17:34
if a person who was a demisexual could be frigorifero.

Bob Smith 17:42
I have to think about that one for a moment. But let me move on to food. Okay. All right, Marsha. This seems like a very simple question. But I’m going to ask it. Where did Swedish meatballs originate? Sweden? Is that where Swedish meatballs came

Marcia Smith 17:57
from and have asked me if it was Italy, Norway or turkey? I’ll say Turkey.

Bob Smith 18:04
You’re right. Even the Swedes admit the Swedish meatballs are Turkish. The country’s official Twitter account posted in 2018. That Swedish meatballs are actually based on a recipe that King Charles the 12th brought home from Turkey in the early 18th century. Isn’t that interesting? They create Turkish coffee, which combines men’s store ground beef, lamb chicken or pork with onions and a blend of spices now sweet actually did add their own special twist to these meatballs. They topped the meatballs with gravy. And that’s not the only thing he brought back from Turkey that is used to this day. Food coffee. Really? Yeah.

Marcia Smith 18:43
That’s very strong. Good

Bob Smith 18:45
coffee goes back a long time ago. They said that early 18th century that’s the 1700s

Marcia Smith 18:50
Right. All right. So you and I Bob we recently miss the big billion dollar lottery jackpot. I didn’t buy the ticket too lazy to go across the border to the Speedway and deplane Illinois. We could have won but I’m

Bob Smith 19:04
not good at what or don’t think cola does planes down there? Yes,

Marcia Smith 19:07
please. But did you ever wonder why we call it a jackpot?

Bob Smith 19:11
Oh the term jackpot? Check pot it’s not Jack’s pot like over the rainbow like Jack didn’t check over the rainbow

Marcia Smith 19:20
that you’re thinking had jumped over the candlestick? Oh, that’s it?

Bob Smith 19:24
I can’t all those things mixed up. I’m

Marcia Smith 19:26
moving on Bob. I should have thought of this. When I asked myself the question. Where does turn jackpot comes from? It’s a very common sense answer actually. It’s from draw poker, which you have to have a pair of Jacks or Better to win. And the winner takes the jackpot because I don’t play poker I know but I do and I should have thought of it. Jacks are better. That’s a common draw

Bob Smith 19:48
poker so that’s where the jackpot term comes from poker.

Marcia Smith 19:51
But lottery on the other hand, that comes from an ancient practice of casting marked pebbles into a pot and then selecting the winner through a draw. When you joined in the gamble, you were said to throw in your lot with a bunch of other people. And that became the lottery.

Bob Smith 20:10
And a lottery is a game of chance as opposed to a game of skill. Right? So that makes sense.

Marcia Smith 20:14
Yeah, you just throw in your lot you throw in your Pebble. So there are a lot jackpots in lottery lotteries, because you’re throwing in a lot and we’re losers. We didn’t win. We didn’t try.

Bob Smith 20:23
Okay, Marsh. Let’s see if you can be a winner here. All right. What is the only US state that borders an ocean and a great lake? What is the only US state that borders an ocean and a great lake? If you think about the Great Lakes, it’s being more inward

Marcia Smith 20:41
in the United States there. Is it someplace out there? How’s it out east?

Bob Smith 20:45
It’s out east.

Marcia Smith 20:48
It’s one of those states that dangles?

Bob Smith 20:51
There are eight states that border the Great Lakes. Yeah. All right. I’ll give you a name. Thank you, Pennsylvania, New York, Maine or Vermont, New York. That’s exactly right. Then now the western edge of New York has coasts on both Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. And on the eastern side, the State meets the Atlantic. Okay, so we all know that there’s a Niagara Falls in New York, which of the Great Lakes does Niagara Falls feed into?

Marcia Smith 21:21
Ontario, Lake Erie closed into

Bob Smith 21:23
the Niagara River, which flows north through the falls and into Lake Ontario.

Marcia Smith 21:28
So did I get it right? Yes. I’ve lost

Bob Smith 21:35
Lake Lake Erie flows into the Niagara River and that flows north through the falls and into Lake Ontario. I never think of the Niagara Falls being between two great lakes, but it is yeah, yeah, water from four of the Great Lakes flows east into Niagara Falls, and then into Lake Ontario, the fifth grade Lake, and then eventually onto the ocean through the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Marcia Smith 21:56
I still haven’t ever been to Niagara. Oh, you never know. Oh, I

Bob Smith 21:59
have to go there sometime. We could do that. We could do that. Okay. Bob,

Marcia Smith 22:03
when homosapiens first began walking the earth, which is about 400,000 years ago, was a day basically 24 hours long as it is today.

Bob Smith 22:13
The answer is no. But I don’t know the rest of it. So it

Marcia Smith 22:16
was oh, it was Yes, that’s right. It was a trick question. But it wasn’t always the case. Bob, scientists from Kyoto University estimate that when the moon first formed out few billion years ago, it spun around the Earth at a much closer distance than it does today, which affected our rotation. So by their calculation when life first began on Earth, as about 3.6 billion years ago, when things started growing here, the Earth Day was only 12 hours long,

Bob Smith 22:48
but 400,000 years ago, it was 24 hours a day. Yes. So okay, I have a question for you.

Marcia Smith 23:00
Well hear Bob research in 2021 discovered that the earth is now spinning ever so slightly faster than it was 50 years ago. And this it apparently is a major headache for physicists, astronomers and computer programmers everywhere because it’s speeding up.

Bob Smith 23:19
So 24 hours won’t be 24 hours soon. Yeah. But I don’t sleep long enough. Anyway, so. Okay, Marcia, a hotshot. Where does the term hotshot come from originally,

Marcia Smith 23:29
a hot shot shot well, shot coming out of a rifle is hot.

Bob Smith 23:35
But it wasn’t a rifle. Larger.

Marcia Smith 23:38
Big round in Canada. Yes.

Bob Smith 23:40
A hotshot was a we think of the hotshot meaning a young person who flaunt their success, right? Kind of like the what would you call that? The humble brag? The opposite of a humble brag. Okay. Well, originally hotshot described a special type of cannonball Hot Shots were heated up on open grates, or in furnaces for the purpose of setting opposing ships on fire. They had to be handled with extreme care and skill. They were special, just like someone who thinks he’s a hotshot.

Marcia Smith 24:09
Well, that’s interesting. I like that book. Okay, hi, chat. How do bees, your favorite things in a beehive go about selecting a new location for the beehive.

Bob Smith 24:20
I would assume they send out scouts. Scouts go out and scout it. They come back they tell them they take a vote and then they move.

Marcia Smith 24:28
That’s exactly correct. What Yes, that’s exactly. Despite their microscopic brains smaller than a grain of rice Bob, bees are able to grasp complex social situations like voting. Why? Although hives are led by the Queen, some decisions are made by the entire swarm including relocating the hive to a new home. Older bees first scout the new real estate sharing their top picks with other bees by dancing. They call it one waggle dancing the scientists like

Bob Smith 25:01
some of the clubs I’ve joined in the past. And they they

Marcia Smith 25:05
actually give other bees directions to the site. Yes, dancing. Yeah, that with their wiggle over there. And then more scouts observe the recommended spot. And then everyone returns to the hive to vote either for or against it with their own dance. Wow, with each wave of research, more and more bees vote by performing enthusiastic dances that give feedback until the entire hive agrees. They don’t go until the entire Hive does the same dance.

Bob Smith 25:36
So it’s a big consensus that

Marcia Smith 25:38
exactly the last line says it’s displayed in a large scale dance that signals consensus.

Bob Smith 25:45
Well, that’s pretty fascinating. I didn’t anticipate being right with that answer.

Marcia Smith 25:49
You said it to be bizarre, and it turned out absolutely right.

Bob Smith 25:52
Well, I’m sorry about that. Sorry to disappoint me.

Marcia Smith 25:55
Maybe I’ll bring you coffee in bed the next day.

Bob Smith 25:57
That sounds good. Okay. All right, Marshall, one more question today on expressions fly off the handle, which means to become suddenly deranged or engaged, which I often do fly off the handle. Where does that expression come from? Where do we think it comes from? And it’s not dancing bees?

Marcia Smith 26:16
No. Is it? Is it dancing flies? No. Is it real flies? No, no, it’s something that flies off the handle. Well, if you’re mad at someone, you throw up pan at them and and you throw it out of your hand via the handle and that’s where I’m going down the toilet. No,

Bob Smith 26:32
that’s not bad. It’s good that you’re making these things up. It’s entertaining. But let me tell you the answer. Okay, go ahead. You be this back in the 1800s when some axes were so poorly made that when swung the axe heads would fly off the handle? Oh my god, crazy. Dangerous, airy. So this guy is flying off the handle. He’s dangerous. You know, he needs to be controlled. that’s apparently where it came from fly off the handle. They believe it was axe heads. All

Marcia Smith 27:00
right, Bob. Here’s Jean Harlow. Okay. And for her, yes. The women like me because I don’t look like a girlfriend who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

Bob Smith 27:13
She had the platinum blonde hair she did. That’s what mine looks like now. Yeah, let’s,

Marcia Smith 27:18
let’s call it platinum.

Bob Smith 27:20
Okay, thanks. Thanks. Alright, that’s it for today. I’m Bob Smith,

Marcia Smith 27:24
Marsha Smith. Join us again

Bob Smith 27:26
next time when we return with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia here on 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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