148 Colorful Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
Where does the term tank top come from?

Marcia Smith 0:03
And what was the best toy of the 20th century?

Bob Smith 0:07
In your opinion? Apparently everybody answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob Mr. Shaw Smith

Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down steer clear have crazy take a side road to sanity and learn something with some fascinating trivia. All right, we’ve got it right here. Marcia. Where did the term tanktop come from? Well, we usually think of this with those sleeveless sleeveless T shirts. Men were at Bruce Willis war, the Marlon Brando.

Marcia Smith 0:55
We are then going to Yes, where did the term come from? I don’t know. People used to be dumped in tanks and they’d put those on. Well,

Bob Smith 1:04
the word tank applied to a certain thing for recreation in Great Britain. Tell me swimming pools.

Marcia Smith 1:12
Oh, really? Well, that makes sense. The pool tank.

Bob Smith 1:15
Yeah. During the early 20th century, British swimming pools were called tanks. I’ve got to dive in the tank and take a dip in the tank. Yeah. And British swim suits were known as tank suits. That makes sense. Well, tank tops were part of the two part bathing suits back then for both genders. So if swimsuits were tank suits, the top part of the tank suit was the tank top. And that’s where it came from. Awesome.

Marcia Smith 1:38
Information. Bob. I can take that to the bank. Okay, Bob. In 1999. This toy was elected toy of the 20th century. What was it? It

Bob Smith 1:51
was Barbie? Nope. Wasn’t Oh, not at all Teddy Ruxpin?

Marcia Smith 1:56
No. 20th century Bob. Oh, the hula hoop now okay,

Bob Smith 2:01
what would be the toy of the 20th century? Wait a minute, let me think for just a moment popular still popular. Was it Play Doh? Or was it? What’s the other thing? I’m thinking about it? I know. It bounces. What is it called? Snap. Silly Putty? No. Okay, how about slinky now? I’m out.

Marcia Smith 2:20
This is one everybody has in their basements? We certainly do. It is Legos.

Bob Smith 2:26
Oh, no kidding. Yes.

Marcia Smith 2:28
So who’s the source for this? The British Association of toy retailers and Legos are still very popular. The Danish building blocks toy was named by its founder, Ollie, Kirk Christiansen, and the name Lego he made up by taking the first two letters of the Danish words leg and got meaning play well play well. Yeah. All right. Now that’s how he came up with Lego. Okay,

Bob Smith 2:55
Marcia. I have a number of questions today on state fairs. Yes, a time of the year where state fairs are taking place or have concluded what state hosted the first state fair in the United States. I’ll say let me give you a choice. Oh, better yet New York, Florida, California or Indiana. And I’ll give you the date to 1841. New York. That is exactly right. The state of New York earmarked $8,000, which was a big sum of money back then. And it was for the promotion of agriculture and household manufacturing in the state that drew 15,000 people the first one in 1841, mostly farmers, who heard speeches, saw animal exhibits and checked out manufactured goods. And the most popular event. This would be a major event today. A ploughing contest.

Marcia Smith 3:47
Wisconsin still has them. I’m sure

Bob Smith 3:49
I got another one. I’ll ask you right away here. Okay. This is one of the big things you’ll find it almost every state fair. It’s sugary. It disappears almost immediately. And it was invented by a dentist, believe it or not. What was it?

Marcia Smith 4:04
Oh gummies.

Bob Smith 4:07
No. Here’s some choices. Candy Apples, cotton candy, funnel cakes or kettle corn. One of those was invented by a dentist Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 4:17
Kettle Corn. Well, that’s probably the

Bob Smith 4:19
least difficult one from the standpoint of sugar. That’s probably

Marcia Smith 4:22
Yeah, I know what it was. It was the cotton candy. That’s exactly

Bob Smith 4:25
right. Yeah, it might seem pretty odd for a dentist to invent a food from nothing but Sugarman. That’s exactly what William Morrison did in 1897. His name lives in infamy in the dental Hall of Fame. Okay, with his partner, he created a machine to spin sugar into a light airy candy. They called it fairy floss, or cotton candy as it became known. It was a huge hit at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. All right,

Marcia Smith 4:52
Bob, you’ll like this. One famous rocker was overseas and kept hearing the famous Ballard post solo mio remember that? It was an operatic piece written in 1898 and popularized by Mario Lanza in the 1950s.

Bob Smith 5:09
The answer is Elvis.

Marcia Smith 5:13
Shoot. Well, he did. What’s the song?

Bob Smith 5:15
Um, gosh, it’s based on that song. Yes. It’s now or never.

Marcia Smith 5:20
That’s it. That’s it. He was enchanted with that song when he was in the Army over there, okay, and he kept hearing it and asked his riders to devise an English version of that, particularly for him. And it was now or never. And it was another number one hit for Elvis that displayed at that time, a whole new level of voice range for him. Yes, yeah. After leaving the army. Years later, Priscilla Presley, his widow said Elvis love that song more than any he had ever recorded. No kidding. Yeah.

Bob Smith 5:52
Who are the writers that’s credited to it was

Marcia Smith 5:54
written by Wally Gould, Aaron Schrader and Eduardo De KAPOOYA.

Bob Smith 5:58
Okay, Marcia, there is an author you mentioned at lunch today that you’re reading Jodi Picoult. Haha. So I have a question about her. Okay. She’s a famous and very popular novelist right now. What connection does author Jodi Picoult have with Wonder Woman? Well, Hmm,

Marcia Smith 6:20
I’ll say, I don’t know is her sister play Wonder Woman in a movie now? Tell me

Bob Smith 6:26
American fiction writer, Jodi Picoult. She’s published 27 Plus novels. She also wrote several issues of Wonder Woman how she did yeah, she was born in 1966. She studied creative writing at Princeton got a master’s in education from Harvard, and she was the writer of the Wonder Woman series for DC Comics for a time in 2007. She wrote four numbers in the comic book series volumes 345 and six. Justice her first novel 19 minutes was climbing the charts. It hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list that June, while in college, she published stories in 17. Magazine. Haha, after graduation, she edited textbooks and for a time like Stephen King, she taught school

Marcia Smith 7:07
it’s like many of us, we wrote every kind of thing you can imagine. But since

Bob Smith 7:11
2007, Jody has been one of the most successful novelist and popular literature. Her books have sold 40 million copies, and have been translated into 34 languages. Jodi Picoult, she’s a good writer, and she wrote for Wonder Woman.

Marcia Smith 7:28
All right, Bob, do you think anyone ever personally own Stonehedge?

Bob Smith 7:33
Well, I imagined that we land was owned by families over the centuries, I would assume. Well, you think, right. Yeah, there’s big stones out there by the cows. You know, we got the cows out there. Around the big stone.

Marcia Smith 7:46
It was privately owned for centuries. You’re right. Okay. Starting at the 12th century, one family the actual bus family owned it right until the 19th century. Only they owned it for 700 years. Yeah, it was handed down and handed down. And the Anthrobus family even appointed a warden in 1822 to guard it because suddenly it started we’re getting around this weird thing out in the land there was always attracting people.

Bob Smith 8:11
That’s exactly right. People would come and chip off pieces by it.

Marcia Smith 8:14
Oh, wow. And that got them upset. The heir to the Anthrobus  family was killed during World War I and the Baronet himself died not long after the land was auctioned off to a wealthy local barrister named Cecil Chubb in 1915. Chubb believed that such a play should be owned by the public and he gifted it to the British government. As a thank you they knighted him

Bob Smith 8:44
Well, that’s a nice, thank you. Speaking of the dead and dying Marcia,

Marcia Smith 8:48
always a popular subject in his house.

Bob Smith 8:50
What’s the percentage of Americans today who are buried in caskets versus cremation? Things have been changing?

Marcia Smith 8:57
Yeah, definitely shift in the percentages. So what do you want? Percentage? How many people are cremated today as opposed to buried? I’ll say 70% of people are cremated today. Oh, really?

Bob Smith 9:10
No, it’s not that much. No, no according to the story flowers flames open skies. One man’s ideal farewell. That’s a great title for his story from The New York Times. More than half of Americans today are now cremated after death. That is a remarkable change from the 20th century when it was considered against sensibilities. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 9:29
Okay. What famous rock and roll song Bob Smith was inspired by a bottle of Pepsi Cola being agitated.

Bob Smith 9:40
It really Yeah. Okay, so this is something about fizzing or let’s see. So they shake the Pepsi up, but it would explode. shake, rattle and roll. Would that be it?

Marcia Smith 9:50
Not too far away. Okay. All Shook Up.

Bob Smith 9:54
All Shook Up came from somebody shaking a bottle of Pepsi?

Marcia Smith 9:58
Songwriter Otis Blackburn. Holt was trying to repeat his Elvis hit, Don’t Be Cruel, but he had a huge writer’s block. And one of the owners of his publishing company happened to be shaking up a bottle of Pepsi. And it inspired the guy to suggest to Blackwell Why don’t you write something with the title All Shook Up? Well, he did. And it was the biggest selling single of 1957.

Bob Smith 10:22
No kidding. I’m all shook up. And it came because somebody was shaking up Pepsi.

Marcia Smith 10:27
That’s right.

Bob Smith 10:28
See, there’s inspiration everywhere.

Unknown Speaker 10:30
That’s right.

Bob Smith 10:31
Okay. Marcia, again, another State Fair question for you today. Okay. The Alaska State Fair holds a contest mimicking the calls of what animal Here are your choices? The polar bear, the moose? The penguin? Or the seal?

Marcia Smith 10:45
I’ll say the moose. You’re right.

Bob Smith 10:47
Good. Yeah, many state fairs have those things like cow calling contests and stuff like that. But cattle are kind of scarce in Alaska. And so the contestants their bello out their best moose imitations. Moose call contest at the Alaska State Fair,

Marcia Smith 11:03
it sounds like no, I don’t know. Do you know not at all? Awesome. Who is Bob? Who is the world’s largest toy distributor?

Bob Smith 11:13
The world’s largest toy distributor? Is this a name of a toy company? I

Marcia Smith 11:17
would call it it’s not a toy company. No. Is it a distribute more toys than any other company in the world?

Bob Smith 11:24
Well, FAO Schwarz did that years ago but I don’t know who it is now in Toys R Us was a huge one. They were a huge toy distributor for years.

Marcia Smith 11:30
This is bigger. Okay. What is it? Since the creation of the happy meal in 1979? No kidding. Donald’s has leapfrogged all the industry giants such as Hasbro and Mattel to become the world’s largest toy distributor.

Bob Smith 11:45
Who would have thought, wow, that shows you the Happy Meals, you know, popularity over the over the years. So are they still very popular Happy Meals?

Marcia Smith 11:54
All told, McDonald’s distributes 1.5 billion toys worldwide each year. As part of a recent effort to be more environmentally conscious. That company has pledged to largely phase out plastic toys and Happy Meals and is about to work to provide kids with plant based or recycled toys instead. Okay, well at least they can have a little asparagus toy they

Bob Smith 12:16
become a little more environmentally sound Yes, that’s good. Yeah, yeah. Okay, Marcia, another state fair contest. As we wrap up the summer one product holds a recipe contest across multiple state fair so this is a brand name product. They have contests for meals made with their product across multiple state fairs. What is it here’s a clue you’ve never eaten it before. I have but you never question

Unknown Speaker 12:43
what what product

Bob Smith 12:44
holds a recipe contest across multiple state fair,

Marcia Smith 12:48
okay, it’s is it pie or cookies? No, it’s a recipe contest cake.

Bob Smith 12:55
I’ll give you the name of the company. Hormel Foods.

Marcia Smith 12:57
Chili. No. Well,

Bob Smith 13:00
what spam. state fairs have always been a hot bed of culinary innovation and Hormel Foods decided to harness the creativity of fair goers by holding local cooking competitions featuring their flagship canned meat spam, and in 2019 April wine Rich’s spam baked french toast recipe. Wow took top honors at the Minnesota State Fair

Marcia Smith 13:26
spam in French toast Yeah, help me here. I’m not well,

Bob Smith 13:30
you’ve never tasted spam. You don’t know how delicious it can be. No, you’re

Marcia Smith 13:32
right. Where will you find Bob a McDonald’s restaurant with leather couches and table service?

Bob Smith 13:41
leather couches,

Marcia Smith 13:42
table service table

Bob Smith 13:43
service leather. I would say that’s in cattle country. So I’ll say either Texas or Oklahoma.

Marcia Smith 13:52
No, it’s over the pond Bob over the pond. Oh, really? Yes. While she’s not whipping up Nick flurries, Britain’s Britain’s reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth technically owns a branch located in ox furniture and

Bob Smith 14:08
breaks a branch of McDonald’s. Yeah, that’s right. We talked about that. Yeah. And

Marcia Smith 14:12
this is I didn’t know it was such a fancy pantsy place and so it’s a very nice one. The location it says is truly fit for royalty with leather couches, table service and a menu that includes English breakfast tea and porch. That’s I thought that was pretty

Bob Smith 14:29
cool. Oh, yeah, I could I’d love to go there that McDonald’s just for that breakfast or something new.

Marcia Smith 14:34
Oxfordshire, England. All

Bob Smith 14:37
right, Marcia. Time for a break. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith. We’ll be back in just a moment. We’re back. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. Okay, back to the United States and state fairs Marsha. Okay. Here is a contest where a 2000 pound vegetable. No. Oh,

Marcia Smith 14:58
I had be a pumpkin right Well,

Bob Smith 15:00
I’m asking you what it was, and what state it was in. It was,

Marcia Smith 15:04
it was

Unknown Speaker 15:06
a pumpkin. Yes, it was a pumpkin. Okay,

Marcia Smith 15:08
and where was the 2000? Pumpkin? It had to be in the Midwest, was it? No, no, it didn’t have to be in the Midwest. It’s a state we Fornia.

Bob Smith 15:18
But if you just be quiet for a moment, I’ll give you a clue. It’s a state we just mentioned a moment ago. It’s not in the Midwest. It’s not in the 48 states.

Speaker 1 15:28
It’s Alaska. It’s Alaska grow pumpkins and Alaska.

Bob Smith 15:32
Well, the Alaska State Fair. It’s best known for well, the moose calls, but also great fruit and vegetable competitions. They have giant fruit and vegetable competitions there. And past heavyweight champions have included a 2051 pound pumpkin in 2019, which broke the previous record by 600 pounds and at 138 pound cabbage in 2012. So everything’s big in Texas. Well, it’s bigger in Alaska, where they have giant fruit and vegetable competitions at the Alaska State Fair. That’s so cool.

Marcia Smith 16:05
Wow. That’s hard to believe, isn’t it? No.

Bob Smith 16:12
I just told you about it. Why would it be? Just

Marcia Smith 16:14
a big pumpkin? We have those big, big ass pumpkins here and Cedarburg. I don’t think we call them that Marshall, but they go use them in a regatta a pumpkin regatta on the creek. That’s right. That’s right. They actually how long I’m out. People get in them and they go down the creek or they roll them down the creek test. Yes, Bob. And this is something I’m asking because the other day we were driving past to McDonald’s and I looked up and I saw that they had blacked out the how many burgers? So yes, the blank Bill ran out and they ran out of digits. I think it said 99 billion. And that was crosstalk do

Bob Smith 16:51
you right? Yes. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 16:52
So it was my theory that they’re building a new sign so they can add more digits. Okay, so my question is, has McDonald’s stopped counting how many burgers are served?

Bob Smith 17:03
I think the answer is yes, they did stop counting because they got it over 100 billion and they thought that’s enough. That’s enough. That’s enough counting burgers here.

Marcia Smith 17:11
They sold their billions in 1963 Wow. Yeah, they did it live on artlink litters variety show? Oh,

Bob Smith 17:20
no kidding. Letters house party I’ve ever seen that when I was a kid today

Marcia Smith 17:23
officially stopped keeping track in 1993. But according to the training manual Bob McDonald’s locations combined. Sell More than 75 Hamburgers per second.

Bob Smith 17:35
Cheese. Well, that’s enough about McDonald’s hamburgers. We

Marcia Smith 17:39
had two or three questions. That was my last one.

Bob Smith 17:42
Let’s turn to baseball Marsh. Okay, fun. What teams have the biggest payrolls in US professional baseball marking,

Marcia Smith 17:49
I’ll say New York Yankees and the Los Angeles and the Los Angeles what? What is their name? Not that I know football better. They got

Bob Smith 17:59
their name from their years in New York, when people had to run around and dodge trolley cars.

Speaker 1 18:06
That Dodgers? Yes, the Dodgers? That’s

Bob Smith 18:09
right. It is the New York and Los Angeles teams. In 2022, the Los Angeles Dodgers had a payroll of $280.8 million on opening day. And second was the New York Mets opening day their payroll was $264 billion. So I would have thought the Yankees would have been number one or two, but it’s the Mets and really that is hard to believe the Mets on the Dodgers that’s according to cut baseball contracts.

Marcia Smith 18:38
Hmm. I wouldn’t have guessed the Mets. I think the answer is you were wrong.

Bob Smith 18:42
As you can see, it’s your happy

Marcia Smith 18:44
place. This

Bob Smith 18:45
is my happy place. Okay,

Marcia Smith 18:46
Bob. What famous musician compose songs for Tin Pan Alley, under the name of Jim Hoyle.

Bob Smith 18:54
Jim Hoyle, famous musician. So

Marcia Smith 18:57
this is back in the day. Except he was around for a long time. Oh, really? Was

Bob Smith 19:01
he known more as a singer or more as a songwriter? He was a musician. Musicians play instruments. Yes.

Marcia Smith 19:09
In Tin Pan Alley. He played the piano but that’s not what he was so famous for.

Bob Smith 19:14
Okay, that was kind of where I was going. So he was famous for another instrument that Yes. Was he famous for a trumpet? Nope. Famous for another wind instrument? Was he famous for a drum?

Marcia Smith 19:26
No, you’re doing good though.

Bob Smith 19:27
Was he famous for being

Marcia Smith 19:29
wrong?

Bob Smith 19:30
Thanks. Was he famous for like flute or something like that?

Marcia Smith 19:34
This is a world famous person. Okay, I don’t know. Yasha. Heifetz. Oh, no kidding. He learned the violin starting at the age of two. He was an absolute prodigy. Yes. And it from Russia,

Bob Smith 19:48
world famous classical violinist. I had no idea that he composed songs for tin pan under

Marcia Smith 19:53
that name, oil, oil and he played the piano. I’ll be darned. And yeah, he made his kind of he hauled debut at 16. Wow. And he launched a prolific recording career after that. He was also awesome at playing the piano and he just really dug Tin Pan Alley and he just use another name and so it didn’t tarnish him in any way. Well, that’s

Bob Smith 20:15
pretty impressive. Did he write anything we would have known? I

Marcia Smith 20:19
don’t personally recall this hit. It was basically about fake orgasms. It’s called when you make love to me, don’t make believe.

Bob Smith 20:32
And that’s one of his Tin Pan Alley songs before he became a classical …

Marcia Smith 20:35
No, during he was always a classical star –  from the time he was

Bob Smith 20:32
No kidding. So this was during the time.

Marcia Smith 20:47
Yeah, that’s why he used the fake name.

Bob Smith 20:43
I’ll be darned. That’s hilarious. But that title again,

Marcia Smith 20:47
When you make love to me, don’t make believe.

Bob Smith 20:52
None of that When Harry Met Sally stuff.

Marcia Smith 20:55
I’ll have what she’s having.

Bob Smith 20:56
Okay, thanks a lot. I always am impressed by the stories of people who tried all kinds of things, too.

Marcia Smith 21:01
Well, usually that’s where the extra ordinary person comes in. That’s true ordinary.

Bob Smith 21:06
I’ve got a couple of food questions, Marcia, like food a half, two years after the COVID epidemic struck? What restaurant trend continues carry out, carry out

Marcia Smith 21:18
and drive thru and delivery carry out?

Bob Smith 21:22
I’ll give you the I’ll give you the answer for Carry on. Thank you. Because according to the National Restaurant Association, total sales at quick service restaurants continue to exceed those at table service restaurants. Really the biggest negative impact to table service restaurants has been to the business lunch. Oh, sure. There’s hardly any people doing that lunch reservations in the first four months of 2022 at restaurants with an average check of more than $50 were sharply lower than 2019 when there was no epidemic

Marcia Smith 21:54
think about when we were younger. The the executive lunch which you and I were never allowed to go on. That’s right.

Bob Smith 22:02
I wanted to go on those might take me, but actually I did go on some of that later. But yeah, it was very popular. That was where a lot of restaurants made their money. Yeah. From our Disney made business lunches. Yeah. Now deals are made on Zoom call so right. Okay, what new snack food have superworms discovered. It’s a snack food for them. It’s not for us. Oh, thank you. So superworms have discovered something they think is great. And they’re snacking on it.

Marcia Smith 22:30
Is this the food? I would know is it like rice krispies food

Bob Smith 22:33
you would know but it’s not a food for us. What is it? They probably have some snap, crackle and pop to it though. Styrofoam. Really? Yeah, researchers say that the larvae of the darkling beetle nickname super worms just love it. A number of the two inch long creatures were recently found dining on polystyrene, the plastic packing material known by the brand name Styrofoam, and what’s more, the larvae that ate it didn’t die. So scientists are studying their digestive systems for microbes that might be useful in breaking down and recycling Styrofoam.

Marcia Smith 23:08
You think that would just gum up their intestine? You would think so? Just wow. But

Bob Smith 23:13
super worms have discovered Styrofoam. It’s their number one snack food. Now

Marcia Smith 23:17
I know little chocolate on top or anything? Apparently not for peanut butter.

Bob Smith 23:21
Right? Yeah, please. A little peanut butter.

Marcia Smith 23:25
Okay, Bob, why do we nod our head for yes. And shake our head for no.

Bob Smith 23:31
That’s interesting, because we just did a question a couple of weeks ago about what country where they’re the opposite of what we think they are. You know, here we nod for yes and

Marcia Smith 23:38
no is shake. But there’s very few people in the world that don’t do that. Okay, the

Bob Smith 23:43
answer must come from some customs. And it must go way, way, way back. And I have no idea. No, it’s

Marcia Smith 23:49
not customs. Charles Darwin figured it out. He said the response spans most cultures of the world and comes from infant nursing habits really yet, when a baby nods forward, it is seeking its mother’s breasts. And when it turns away or to the side, it’s indicating it’s not hungry, or in need of comfort. Support for this theory comes from the fact that a baby born deaf and blind will follow the same pattern of nodding and shaking into adulthood. Oh, no kidding. Yeah. They they just intrinsically know that they want something they nod yes. And back and forth for no. Who knew? Yeah. That’s fascinating. Yeah. So Darwin studied all these people, including the Deaf and the Blind.

Bob Smith 24:36
That’s pretty fascinating. That’s good. Okay, the first commercial flight, the first commercial plane flight now we know there were planes, the Wright brothers and all this, but the first service that charged you to get from one place to another, where did that travel to? I’ll give you some answers here. Okay. Okay. New York to Boston, Amsterdam to Paris, Toronto to Chicago. or St. Petersburg to Tampa, the first commercial airlines flight service.

Marcia Smith 25:05
I’m thinking of the first one New York to this system. This

Bob Smith 25:09
is 1914 1940. Yeah. New York to Boston. The first one. No, it’s not that one. Want to give it second choice? Tampa? It is it was Tampa St. Pete.

Marcia Smith 25:19
Isn’t that interesting is that how far is that it’s

Bob Smith 25:22
only 21 miles it really but here’s the thing, the same journey took two hours by steamship and it only took 23 minutes on a flying boat. That’s what they called it, because they were competing with the boat

Marcia Smith 25:34
tears. Okay, I want to guess when and where the first televised Olympic Games took place.

Bob Smith 25:42
I think that was 1960. And that was Japan. Good

Marcia Smith 25:48
guess but no 1836 hard, really hard to believe that the Berlin Olympics were televised, right? Adolf Hitler wanted to strut his stuff. And he created and supervised what he called his village of peace in Berlin, Germany. They use three cameras to film the events and gave Hitler the opportunity to promote Nazi propaganda and be non threatening to the world. The fear of spin machine backfired when African American sprinter Jesse Owens captured four gold medals, yes, and undercut Hitler’s claims of Aryan supremacy.

Bob Smith 26:30
That’s interesting that the Germans had so much technological superiority, you know, some of the first jet engines were out of Germany. Let’s see what they were on their way to it a bomb, right? An atom bomb. They were first with tape recorders, you know, audio tape recorders. First with video television calls back and forth between Berlin and other cities. And then this thing about televising the first Olympics, it’s amazing. Wouldn’t

Marcia Smith 26:53
have never, ever thought that it went back to 1936. But he had three cameras set up to film the events,

Bob Smith 26:59
But there’s no tape to prove that it happened. So we don’t believe that.

Marcia Smith 27:04
I’m gonna finish up with an Ann Landers quote, can you give me a little Ann Landers?

Bob Smith 27:08
SHAN Landers? That kind of a speech impediment?

Marcia Smith 27:11
You said a lot of fascinating things. Thank you, including this. She said, Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Bob Smith 27:24
That’s true. Your dog’s gonna like you regardless if you continue to feed your goals. All that’s hilarious. Join us again 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 Cedarburg Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

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