153 Stroke Of Luck Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
What US president had to marry his wife twice? Because her divorce from a former husband wasn’t final yet.

Marcia Smith 0:08
Oh, scandal scandal. Yeah. How many times a day does the average person tell a lie?

Bob Smith 0:15
Never Never. Yeah. Answers. One answers to those another questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob

Marcia Smith 0:25
Marsha Smith.

Bob Smith 0:42
Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down. Steer clear of crazy take a side road to sanity and get some perspective on life. Well, Marsha, you’re gonna give us some perspective on lying. That’s Friday.

Marcia Smith 0:55
So Bob, how many times a day? Do you think the average person and you are average person? No, I’m

Bob Smith 1:01
not. I’m above average.

Marcia Smith 1:03
Lie Number Two. average person tell a lie.

Bob Smith 1:09
Wow. Now that’s interesting. Because you know, you think about this. You may do white lies to friends. I can’t really come I don’t feel good or whatever. Yeah. Oh, dear. So how many times does the average person lie in a day?

Marcia Smith 1:21
Right? This is us multiple studies.

Bob Smith 1:23
All right, I’ll say 10 times. That seems like a lot of lies. That

Marcia Smith 1:27
would be more of a habitual liar. Actually, it’s better than you think it’s only two or three times a day. Oh, really? Yeah. It’s easier to lie for men, middle aged men, middle aged white men educated. Think about that. Okay, but I only have a bachelor’s degree. So you know, anyway, so you’re right. We’re all liars. Because you know, your look great. I’m doing great. And what’s my favorite is don’t be silly. You’re not getting that for Christmas.

Bob Smith 1:58
That’s a good white lie.

Marcia Smith 1:59
That’s my favorite lie. Yeah, I can and everyone believes me every year. You do a

Bob Smith 2:05
lot of lying at Christmas time. And I wrote it’s your core competency is to lie for Christmas. Thank you. Okay, well, this wasn’t a lie. This was a mistake. So what US president had to marry his wife twice? Because her divorce from a former husband wasn’t final yet. How?

Marcia Smith 2:21
Golly, twice. Was

Unknown Speaker 2:23
it one of those? It goes back a long time ago.

Marcia Smith 2:26
Okay, it wasn’t. I’m thinking of the early guys. It’s none of them. So we’ll go up to the ones I didn’t know Buchanan Buchanan early middle guys. Yeah. Buchanan Tyler

Bob Smith 2:35
counted. Yeah. The Bachelor lied about getting married. I don’t know. Andrew Jackson. Andy drags his wife Rachel was the daughter of the boarding housekeeper in Nashville where Jackson took up lodgings. She left her first husband who got permission from the Virginia Legislature to sue for divorce. Jackson married Rachel. And two years later, they discovered that divorce decree had only then been made final by the court. So they’ve been married illegally terrible, so he had to marry her again. Incidentally, Jackson set a local record for duels most often they were over the question of his wife’s honor.

Marcia Smith 3:13
Really?

Bob Smith 3:14
Yes.

Marcia Smith 3:15
Oh my gosh, that’s, that’s that’s crazy. Okay, but you’ll like this. Rolling Stone 2020 to update it. It’s top 100 television series of all time, okay. They surveyed all sorts of people from all walks of life specially in in the business in showbiz. Okay, anyway, can you name any of the top 10 TV shows TV show series of all time, all

Bob Smith 3:42
time. So I go back to early ones like I Love Lucy and Dick Van Dyke. Those are two I think that are just top

Marcia Smith 3:50
10 Mash. Mash was not on the top 10. See,

Bob Smith 3:54
this is always the way things go. You ask people what’s the best of all time? It’s always something they’ve experienced? No, I agree. It’s not about something that was good back maybe before them. Yeah. So I don’t know the

Marcia Smith 4:05
the family is on it. But it’s number 21.

Bob Smith 4:08
So it would have been number one a number of years ago. Yeah, of course.

Marcia Smith 4:12
It’s all in the year you do it. So what’s the answer? The Sopranos, The Simpsons. The Wire Breaking Bad. fleabag Seinfeld Mad Men cheers, Atlanta and The Mary Tyler Moore Show came in at 10

Bob Smith 4:26
C. There you go. And it all depends on right now. What it is right now. What people think is like the who’s the best presidents? Who have I experienced? Yeah, yeah. Never go

Marcia Smith 4:35
back. But you know what I didn’t see. One of our favorites. Old time shows Fraser. One of the best series for writing and acting around. Okay, Marcia, two more presidential question. Okey doke. I

Bob Smith 4:46
love those so much. When a woman once told Calvin Coolidge. I made a bet with my editor that I could get more than two words out of you. What did President Coolidge say? No way. No, he said you lose only two words. All right, one more. Okay. What US president was an orphan who traveled west to work in the gold mines in California and in Australia.

Marcia Smith 5:11
That wasn’t Teddy was it know who it was a

Bob Smith 5:15
president from the 20th century? Yeah, he was an orphan who traveled west to work in gold mines in California and Australia. Here’s the hint he became a mining engineer.

Marcia Smith 5:25
Oh, I should know this. I do not know. But Herbert Hoover. Oh,

Bob Smith 5:30
yeah. See now there’s a president most people don’t know much about but he was born in West Branch, Iowa. He later went under work in the reward mind in Nevada City, California for $2 a day, seven days a week and then he moved with the gold rush to Western Australia in 1897. And in Australia, he gave the company advice on a mind that made the company more than $65 million. He also was a mining consultant in China. He made $4 million for himself before he became president as a mining consultant mining engineer.

Marcia Smith 6:00
That’s a lot of money back in the day. It

Bob Smith 6:02
was a lot of money.

Marcia Smith 6:03
Is he considered okay in history? A poor president? Yeah.

Bob Smith 6:05
Substandard president, I guess you know that he probably didn’t handle the economy that well during the Great Depression. It was a very difficult time

Marcia Smith 6:12
FDR really shined on that. Okay, Bob, who wrote this, there was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good. She was very good indeed. But when she was bad, she was horrid.

Bob Smith 6:26
horrid. That’s right. horrid, right? I was forehead. Yes. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 6:31
I don’t know who wrote that. Yeah, I

Marcia Smith 6:32
didn’t either. And that’s why I put this in the shot. I find it hard to believe but it was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. No

Bob Smith 6:39
kidding. I didn’t know that either. I always thought of that as kind of a bit of doggerel and everything. It was good poetry. You

Marcia Smith 6:44
know, it’s a famed American poet Longfellow, who’s known for works like Paul Revere his ride, which we all had to learn. He wrote that goofy little verse about his own daughter. No kidding. Yeah, his son Ernest wrote in a book called random memories that it was while walking up and down with his second daughter, then a baby in his arms that my father composed and saying to her that well known lines lines ob dunearn. Yeah, he’s so he.

Bob Smith 7:11
She was like, he was fussy one night or

Marcia Smith 7:13
something. And he was in the floor with her. That I wouldn’t have guessed that debate in yours.

Bob Smith 7:18
Speaking of babies, I have a question for you about a famous expression, throw the baby out with the bathwater. What does that really mean?

Marcia Smith 7:26
Well, keep the good stuff and get rid of the bad, right?

Bob Smith 7:30
Don’t get rid of something valuable while you’re eliminating the unnecessary. So where does that come from? I don’t know. It’s believed it comes from the early 1500s When families bathed only once a year. And they also use the same water for every person in the family. I think that’s a little exaggeration, but they did use the same water over and over again. And the adult males had the first turn followed by the females the children would be last and by that time,

Marcia Smith 7:58
the one would have really dirty filthy oh my god from everyone

Bob Smith 8:01
who had bathed and because babies were the last in the tub, which is now very dirty. There was the risk of accidentally throwing the bathwater out with a baby still in it.

Marcia Smith 8:10
Oh my god at least that’s the that’s the word I have here. Yeah, why would you put a newborn baby and dirty bathwater real dirty bath very different times Marsh Yes. Okay, now here think put your thinking cap. Okay, let

Bob Smith 8:23
me let me find that out. Okay, let me got it got it. Well, it’s a stupid looking at

Marcia Smith 8:27
becomes you name the most adapted to the screen authors.

Bob Smith 8:33
The most adapted to the screen authors. I think Stephen King is one he’s got like 10 films or 10. TV show? Yes,

Marcia Smith 8:39
he is. But I’ll give you an example. Like number eight is Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen had 217 Things adapted for either, you know, the internet, the TV movies, he’s got 217 credits. So well give me some of the top guys. Okay. No women on this particular limit

Unknown Speaker 9:03
on this one. Okay, go back.

Unknown Speaker 9:04
Go back. Go back. Sorry.

Bob Smith 9:06
I’m trying to go back way back. Shakespeare. That’s

Marcia Smith 9:10
it. All right. 831 screen adaptation. No kidding. Yeah, no, that’s not counting plays its screen. And so that’s for films TV. Yeah, anything that’s on the screen. Okay. And when I guess one

Bob Smith 9:25
more, is it also go way back, like Mark Twain? Is that one of them? No, no. Okay. Somebody’s farther back than that. I don’t know.

Marcia Smith 9:33
Okay. Billy Shakespeare Anton Chekhov. Number two with 320 adaptations. Charles Dickens, Bob. Oh, of course. 300 Alexandria do Moss 243 Edgar Allan Poe 240 Robert Louis Stevenson to under 25. And number seven, I went up to seven because I knew you’d like this. Arthur Conan Doyle. Oh, okay. You have to I like Holmes. Yeah, he How many adaptations is he had?

Bob Smith 10:02
Well, right there, I was guilty of what I was accusing other people of. I was only talking about recent thing. Yeah. And those are all authors that go back. 100 200 300 400 years. Very good. Thank you. Made me feel like a jerk. Okay. All right, Marcia, where did ice tea first become popular? And it was a World’s Fair. And it was more than 100 years ago. Where was it? And when was it iced tea? Like

Marcia Smith 10:27
I keep track of all the world’s fairs. Okay, I’ll say the Paris Expo in 1850.

Bob Smith 10:36
I think that was in London, but okay. The St. Louis World’s Fair. You

Marcia Smith 10:43
said not in the United States. I did not say that. Oh, that’s what I thought, you know,

Bob Smith 10:47
I was gonna give you choices. But you never asked to hear the choices. Chicago, London, New Orleans, St. Louis or Cairo?

Unknown Speaker 10:54
I’ll say St. Louis. Wrong. No, no, it was

Bob Smith 10:57
it was St. Louis. And it was the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, where it was popularized by a merchant named Richard bludgeoned, and he has hot tea wasn’t selling in the summer heat, so he simply threw in some ice, and the new drink gained popularity, particularly in the south where heaps of sugar were added to make the sweet tea. So today 85% of tea consumed in the United States is iced.

Marcia Smith 11:21
Really? Yeah. I hate that iced or hot tea, iced tea at all. Well, I do the spice tea, the natural tea, herb tea. herb tea.

Bob Smith 11:31
Vinegar grew up in your neighborhood used to

Marcia Smith 11:33
go out for them or Gee, yeah, okay, ready? Yeah. What story has been adapted into the most movies?

Bob Smith 11:38
So we didn’t cover this already in our previous Oh,

Marcia Smith 11:41
no, this is like this. Number six is Hamlet by Shakespeare. It’s 31 adaptations. Okay, and two different moves. And we were going by authors who were the authors, this is what story what story had the most is the story. Should I give you a number five? Sure. Frankenstein. Okay by Mary Shelley. 37 plus times. I

Bob Smith 12:04
can’t imagine what was number one. So I’m gonna let you tell me okay

Marcia Smith 12:08
to Iraqi Allah. Dracula grandkid and Bram Stoker. 62 different versions of Dracula have made it then Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 50. Plus Wow, at Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens. 49 plus, so he and Hugo, were right up there. And then number four is Sherlock Holmes, of course. And that’s 44.

Bob Smith 12:31
That is amazing. I didn’t know that. Yeah. I didn’t know that. Okay. All right. We talked about icebergs. Where is iceberg galley? And don’t say it’s down the street from your house? Is it in Antarctica, Newfoundland and Labrador, New York harbor or the Black Sea? I’ll say New York? No, it is off of New York. It’s a treacherous stretch of the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Okay. So that is the same area where the Titanic went down one of the most famous victims, it sank about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, and that is iceberg ally. So forever and a day that is where ships have had to be concerned.

Marcia Smith 13:11
Okay, but why is something or someone of superior quality? Like Wah? Called? Pardon me?

Unknown Speaker 13:19
I’m sorry? Called a

Marcia Smith 13:21
cut above? a cut above? Yeah. Is that expression come from cut above

Bob Smith 13:25
must have had something to do with I would say maybe it’s lumber could be a cut above the tree line or something like that? Guess No. Could be something to do with tailoring clothing, things like that. You’re on a sample? above the rest? Yes, but I don’t know the answer. Well, that’s pretty

Marcia Smith 13:42
much it. The expression dates back to the 18th century and literally means the quality of the cutting or fashioning of a person’s clothing. The superior appearance or station in life of someone with a good tailor, or Milner is obvious when compared with a common man or woman and makes them a cut above the ordinary. It’s sort of relation to the expression the cut of her chip, which relates to the style or cut of a ship sale. Well,

Bob Smith 14:12
I didn’t know that. Yeah. Okay. Okay, I’ve got a question about a tasty drink. What tasty drink was the result of a kitchen chemistry experiment? And here’s a hint. It was turned into a powder to avoid shipping it in breakable glass containers. Something very popular.

Marcia Smith 14:30
Kool Aid.

Bob Smith 14:30
That’s exactly right. And where was it? I don’t know Hastings, Nebraska. Edward Perkins. He was fascinated by chemistry determined to become a self made success. He was always tinkering in his mom’s kitchen and he came up with this thing called fruit smack. A sugary drinks came in six flavors and four ounce bottles, but shipping those glass containers that were a lot of breakage and high costs. So in 1927, he developed a method to remove the liquid and repackage the leftover powder in envelopes, and that was when kool aid was born. I’ll be damned and there’s a Hastings Museum. Kool Aid no longer made in Nebraska but in the Hastings museum, you can see the history of Kool Aid. If you ever are in haystacks,

Unknown Speaker 15:15
our next trip, instead of being stop

Bob Smith 15:19
the corn Palace to get to North Dakota and we got Hastings, Nebraska. Oh my god. And then of course the biggest ball of twine. Well,

Unknown Speaker 15:25
that’s Kevin. Well in Wisconsin. Isn’t

Marcia Smith 15:28
that the Museum of mustard?

Bob Smith 15:30
That is a mustard Museum. Yeah, that’s pretty cool. Actually. Have you been there? Yeah, you and I were there.

Marcia Smith 15:35
No, we weren’t. We start with your family made? No,

Bob Smith 15:37
not with my family. I went with you.

Marcia Smith 15:40
I don’t recall it at all. Is it something I’ve wiped from the memory bank?

Unknown Speaker 15:44
I think so. Okay, time for a break.

Bob Smith 15:47
We’ll be back in just a moment. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob.

Marcia Smith 15:50
Marcia Smith.

Bob Smith 15:53
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Marcia Smith 16:11
But that’s so cool that our little library is the only one in the world the only one in the world.

Bob Smith 16:17
Okay, speaking the world where was the first revolving restaurant in the world? Marcia? I’ll give you a country’s Thank you choices. Choices Germany, Switzerland, China, France or the United States. I

Marcia Smith 16:29
forgot the question.

Bob Smith 16:31
What country had the world’s first revolving restaurant? Where was it?

Marcia Smith 16:36
I’ll say United States, United States and when was it 1958? Wrong

Bob Smith 16:44
again? Twice. Okay. Here’s the answer. The world’s first revolving restaurant opened in 1959.

Marcia Smith 16:52
Oh my god, I got it. Hey, one year difference atop

Bob Smith 16:55
the Florian term which is a telecommunications tower in Dortmund, Germany, the tip of the tower reaches 720 feet all sets so that made it Germany’s tallest freestanding structure at the time and the restaurant is still there. It’s located at a still impressive 451 feet so you have a nice bird’s eye view of the skyline. Very

Marcia Smith 17:15
nice. So it was in Germany, and it was in 5915. I got the state wrong. I mean, the country wrong.

Bob Smith 17:22
We ate at revolving restaurants before we had the one in town here. What was the hotel top of the Hyatt Hyatt hotel and I remember one time you left your purse Yeah, on the ledge there and then the restaurant revolved around and have a run around looking for your purse. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 17:36
that was sad. My purse has gone by.

Bob Smith 17:40
So stupid. No, I remember that. That’s how I remembered that we actually ate at a restaurant.

Marcia Smith 17:45
Mica running looking from my perception. That’s

Unknown Speaker 17:47
the first time that’s all I’m sure it’s the only time it ever happened.

Marcia Smith 17:51
Here’s one I really like it’s another word origin. Why is the shelf above a fireplace called a mantelpiece?

Bob Smith 17:58
Okay, mantel shelf. Now mantel is like the top of the Earth’s crust, isn’t it? Isn’t that called the mantle? Yes, it is. Does that have anything to do with absolutely no, absolutely not. That’s not helpful at all. So mantle mantle Okay. Trying to go through the Rolodex here and figure out what that might be. So I am coming

Marcia Smith 18:17
up short. Give me the answer. Well, back in the good old 1600s.

Speaker 1 18:21
I remember them fondly. Men and women used to wear sleeveless cloaks. That’s right. We did wear those. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 18:28
You know, for protection of the weather. We hear it in Sherlock Holmes all the time. They’re wearing cloaks, especially the women and they call them mantle’s. I didn’t know that you see them in every old movie. And really, I didn’t know that. And I have cloaks too. Anyway, these cloaks were called mantle’s, which were derived from a Latin word that meant cloaks. So when you came inside back in the day, and your mantle was wet from rain or snow, you would hang it on the shelf with hooks above the fireplace to dry it off. And over time, that shelf became known as the mantel. So the

Bob Smith 19:04
mantel became the shelf because the mantle’s were hanging on that shelf, right. I did know

Marcia Smith 19:09
that I know. That’s why I’m telling you very

Bob Smith 19:11
good. Okay. All right. Now back to revolving restaurants. Are you dizzy yet? Are you dizzy yet? Okay. Okay, where is the world’s highest elevation revolving restaurant? And I’ve been there. I’ve done is it in Seattle?

Marcia Smith 19:24
No, no. Highest? Oh, if Oh, Switzerland, Switzerland.

Bob Smith 19:29
Yes. It’s called the peace Gloria meaning glorious view. And it’s on she’ll torn in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. It’s at 9744 feet. It’s a famous restaurant because they were building it at the time of James Bond film was being made. Okay, Her Majesty’s Secret Service back in 1969. So they said, Hey, we want to put this in the film. Can we help you with the restaurant costs?

Unknown Speaker 19:53
Yeah, that’s Oh, wow. Yes. So it helps them with the cost

Bob Smith 19:56
and then part of that film was was

Marcia Smith 19:59
a shot I remember that scene. Was the food any good?

Bob Smith 20:03
Oh, yeah. And it was, it’s gorgeous. It revolves. And we had a drink there. Albert Fischer, a friend of mine who I met in our company at Rockwell, who just celebrated his 85th birthday. He and I dined up there. He took me up there. took like four cable car rides to get the top. Oh, and then you look down and see people taking off on skis down that mountain. He’s like, Oh, my God, you people have a lot more guts than I do. But there’s 360 degree views of the other mountains there. The Eiger monk and Yun Frau those are major peaks in the Alps is beautiful. Okay, yeah. So that’s where the world’s highest elevation revolving restaurant is today.

Marcia Smith 20:40
All right. There’s a secret station Bob in the London Underground system beneath Buckingham Palace. Oh, really? Yeah. Why? Well,

Bob Smith 20:49
that was probably in case the king or queen wanted to go somewhere. They decided that we’ll make a special way to get there.

Marcia Smith 20:55
It’s only for an emergency. During warfare, it doesn’t say just any kind of emergency. Like

Bob Smith 21:02
going to the bathroom emergency to get to the bathroom.

Marcia Smith 21:05
Good god Bob. Now it’s so the family can escape to Heathrow Airport if they have to get out quick. Oh,

Bob Smith 21:12
no kidding. So it’s a separate route. It goes from Buckingham Palace to Heathrow. Yeah, I wonder if there’s something like that for the President. Oh,

Marcia Smith 21:20
they have to have stepped in a trivia book. I mean two stories, the whole word the queen at Heathrow. Okay. According

Bob Smith 21:31
to my trivia book, she is in the underground right now.

Marcia Smith 21:37
Saying the Queen it’s the king where he would go in emergency Lord. Okay. Okay.

Bob Smith 21:42
I have a question for you. Now, you know, certain things are banned in certain countries. And there is a popular soda that’s banned in Japan and the EU. Is it Pepsi? Is it Dr. Pepper? Is it Mountain Dew or is it coke? What’s the answer? Dr. Pepper? No, it’s Mountain Dew. Do the do do the do and why is it not allowed in those countries? In Japan or the EU? What’s the reason? Any idea? No. It’s not the caffeine. I thought that might be it? No, it’s because it has brominated vegetable oil in the recipe and that oil is a flame retardant outlawed in those countries. Are

Marcia Smith 22:23
you kidding? Oh, so people are drinking have targeted? Yes. Yes.

Bob Smith 22:27
And just so you know, it’s also found in Gatorade and Powerade. So if you’re drinking for energy here, guys, you got a flame retardant inside of you.

Marcia Smith 22:34
Good to know in case you swallow your cigarette.

Bob Smith 22:37
Oh my god. A spokesman for Gatorade says brominated vegetable oil acts as an emulsifier which spreads the flavor evenly across the drink. Still, it is kind of scary. If it is a

Marcia Smith 22:49
flame retardant doing in your kids beverage. And to be fair,

Bob Smith 22:53
that’s if 2014 Coca Cola and PepsiCo said they would remove the substance from their products. So as of 2020 Mountain Dew manufactured by PepsiCo no longer used BV Oh in the mainline beverage, but the original bvo containing formula is still sometimes sold as Mountain Dew throwback, so you could still get it. Still. It doesn’t sound like a good idea.

Marcia Smith 23:19
Can you name the first actress to appear on the cover of Life magazine?

Bob Smith 23:25
Was it Lauren Bacall? For some reason? I think of her. No. I

Speaker 1 23:29
thought of Marilyn Monroe. Okay, maybe maybe it’s Mary Pickford.

Marcia Smith 23:33
It’s Jean Harlow. Oh, no kidding. Yeah. She was the very first actress to appear. Very vampy. Okay.

Bob Smith 23:39
All right, Marcia, what is the original baby name dictionary?

Marcia Smith 23:43
Say again? What

Bob Smith 23:44
is the most what book has more baby names than any other?

Marcia Smith 23:52
thinking I’m thinking,

Bob Smith 23:53
What’s the title of the book? More baby names come from this book.

Speaker 1 23:58
Is it a baby name book? Like in a way? No. No,

Bob Smith 24:02
it serves other purposes. Oh, it’s the Bible. That’s exactly right. That makes sense. Yeah. More than half of the top 50 baby names for boys in 2019 had biblical origins. And let me give you some of these new golden Yeah, of course. Jacob. Number 13. Daniel, your brother’s name was Daniel number 15. And then things like no, of course, to Elijah, their stick of others. Jonah. I think of all these other names that are really popular right now. So more baby names come out of the Bible even today than any other single book.

Marcia Smith 24:36
Okay, what movie Bob had the most people listed in its closing credits.

Bob Smith 24:42
It wasn’t that mad mad, mad mad world wasn’t not. Well, it was one of the big star

Speaker 1 24:48
wars are one of these kinds of films Star Wars, but it was that genre. Okay, so then was it a Marvel film? Yes.

Bob Smith 24:54
Was it the Avengers? No. Thor? No, I can’t tell Do the names of all these films they all blur into one. Iron

Marcia Smith 25:02
Man three. Really? Yeah, there were 3310 cast crew and executive members listed on those credits. No, that’s a whole lot of that’s a lot. Can you tell me Bob why there won’t be an Iron Man for? No, I can’t because he died in one of the Avenger movies. They buried him course. That doesn’t mean he can’t rise again.

Bob Smith 25:24
Come back in a dream sequence. So. Okay, Marcia, this sounds like a dream to a lot of people. All right. What city has a two mile underground pipeline to transport beer?

Marcia Smith 25:39
Do I get choices? Yes.

Bob Smith 25:40
I’ll give you a choice. Okay. Munich, Germany. Yeah, home of the Oktoberfest. Cheese, Moscow, Russia. Roush, Belgium, or Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Marcia Smith 25:52
That was my first guess Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I’ll say Milwaukee. Okay. So

Bob Smith 25:56
the question again, what city has a two mile underground pipeline to transport beer? And your answer is Milwaukee. No, I think that’s just wishful thinking on your part. So can we just go there and take a sip? Oh, it’s Bruges, Belgium. Okay. There’s a beer pipeline that travels from the bottling plant of House of mine, one of Belgium’s oldest operating breweries, two miles outside of town to the city center built to avert the cost and inconvenience of transporting trucks snaking through the city’s historic district. So it carries 1000 gallons of beer an hour. Just think of that oh my god at a college

Marcia Smith 26:37
party that a unique

Bob Smith 26:38
delivery system that is since the spigot in your living room. And there’s one place where you can view it via a transparent manhole cover really when that’d be a tourist attraction.

Marcia Smith 26:49
Yeah. That’s funny. All right. I’m going to finish up with two quotes from two sports figures. Okay. The first one is rather philosophical actually comes from Muhammad Ali, a man who views the world the same at 50, as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. Hmm,

Unknown Speaker 27:08
isn’t that a good one? Yeah, no

Bob Smith 27:09
perspective. In other words, yeah, didn’t develop any other way to look at a bigger

Marcia Smith 27:13
view. I thought that was good. That’s a good one. And good old Hank air and a Milwaukee guy for a long time. It took me 17 years to get 3000 hits and baseball. I did it one afternoon on the golf course.

Unknown Speaker 27:30
That was a bad hole when he was fake is very good at self deprecation. It’s

Bob Smith 27:34
funny. All right. We hope you enjoyed our show today and hope you’ll 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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