158 Knucklehead Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
What video game brand is more than 100 years old? Really?

Marcia Smith 0:04
What animal kills more humans than any other humans?

Bob Smith 0:09
Well, we’ll find the answer to that and other 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 on life. We do this for the Cedarburg Public Library’s internet radio station every week and we love learning new facts. So I’ve got one Marsh to you. What video game brand is more than 100 years old? Well,

Marcia Smith 0:56
it wasn’t a video game 100 years ago, obviously. Go. It was the same name because he was saying I’ll say Nintendo

Bob Smith 1:04
That is exactly right. So why you probably remember how they got started. What were they making? It had to do with games and gaming? No, I don’t playing cards. Oh, mainly playing cards. It remains one of the major video game companies today. But it was founded in Japan in 1889 as a playing card manufacturer so 1889 You could say it’s been in gaming for 103 years.

Marcia Smith 1:26
You could say that but you didn’t say that. You said what video? What

Bob Smith 1:29
video game brands? Yeah, I was correct. Yes, you were also remember one of the first video game brands we had in this country. The Magnavox Odyssey. I remember that my family had one of those. They had pong and other games. It was called the Magnavox Odyssey. Well, that’s how Nintendo got in the video game business. Over the years, they made toys, and they were hired by Magnavox to produce light toys opto electronic guns, they were like pointing device shaped like a revolver, you name it at the screen. Oh, so that was the thing that got them into the video business. That was a 1972 a two years after that Magnavox licensed Nintendo, you could sell our system on your country. And from there, they went into arcade games and started making their own products. But I always wondered how Nintendo got involved in video games. Yeah, they were a distributor of the Magnavox Odyssey, right?

Marcia Smith 2:20
Fascinating. Yes, it is. Okay, Bob, what animal kills the most humans every year?

Bob Smith 2:28
I think it’s human beings. Isn’t it? other human beings?

Marcia Smith 2:31
Not in my answer? What regular animal not human animal kills the most humans every year.

Bob Smith 2:38
What non human animal kills the most humans every year? Yes. Well, I would say let’s see, it’s got to be something. I think of things like bears and things like that. But it’s got to be something like an insect. Maybe a mosquito.

Marcia Smith 2:53
Maybe you’re right. Am I

Bob Smith 2:55
Yeah, all right.

Marcia Smith 2:56
Mosquitoes hold the record. By far. It’s responsible for between 725,000 and 1 million deaths a year holy cow. Isn’t that something? Yeah. million deaths a year mosquito mosquito bites? Yeah, that makes you want to stay in the screen porch forever. Well, in a lot

Bob Smith 3:15
of this is in countries where there’s still malaria, things like that they’re spread by mosquitoes direct cause not necessarily your garden variety mosquito in your house. So you’d be something that’s got a disease or something. And look

Marcia Smith 3:26
I got I got bit right over here without breaking the law. Is

Bob Smith 3:30
this radio Marsh? Nobody knows.

Unknown Speaker 3:33
But you can see me do let me take a look

Bob Smith 3:35
at that. Oh, that looks bad. You can’t you should see a doctor. Speaking of animals, how many answer there for every human being this is a fact.

Marcia Smith 3:46
I did read some ant trivia today, which I chose not to use.

Bob Smith 3:51
Oh, well, it’s it’s big stuff. Now. Do you mean he chose not? Okay.

Marcia Smith 3:54
I’ll say every human being on earth has this many 675,000 ants.

Bob Smith 4:00
675,000 Ants for every human

Marcia Smith 4:03
being on earth? Well, you’re

Bob Smith 4:05
a little off. Okay. 2.5 million. No. Yeah, really? How did they figure this out? They did an ant census because naturalist worry about insect populations. They do try to keep track of them through surveys. So University of Hong Kong, Dr. Patrick Schultheiss. And his colleagues did a global survey. I know where you go out and count the ants today to they fill out little forms I can and that’s helpful here. I mean, that hill over there. No, it’s not like that. Published in 2022. By the National Academy of Sciences, they found that they’re ants working ants on every continent except one. Which one? North America. They’re all on strike here. No, no. Working ants on every continent except which one? Antarctica? That’s right. Antarctica, ironically named Yeah. All right, no ants in Antarctica. That’s a good fact. Keep in mind, but worldwide, the ant population is projected to be 20 quadrillion. That’s the Number 20 with 15 zeros behind it. And that means there are at least 2.5 million ants for every human being. It’s good

Marcia Smith 5:07
to know. All right. That’s the kind of trivia that keeps people coming back every week.

Bob Smith 5:11
Better move on to something else. Okay,

Marcia Smith 5:14
if a tree falls in the forest, Bob, and there’s no one around to hear it. Does it make a sound?

Bob Smith 5:20
Of course it makes us sound? Well, it’s just vibrations, actually. But there’s somebody there or something there to hear it. Even the smallest ant? Angel, the answer is no, it’s just vibrations, you know? And if there’s no hearing instrument to decode what those vibrations mean, it’s quiet. It’s silent. That

Marcia Smith 5:39
is correct. You have to define sound to answer that age old question.

Bob Smith 5:44
Alright. How do you define sound?

Marcia Smith 5:46
Well, if you define it as vibrating air, which I believe you just did, I believe I did, the falling tree makes the sound. But if you defined it as a conscious experience, the Lonesome falling tree does not make a sound. Even if there’s nobody there. And there’s a tape recorder there with a microphone. The sound vibrations go off in the tape recorder. So it makes the sound but it has to have a receptacle. So the answer is Oh, are you rolling your eyes?

Bob Smith 6:17
I’m sorry. I saw you doing that to me a while ago with my question. So yes, I am. I’m returning the favor. So again,

Marcia Smith 6:24
so if there’s no one around to hear the tree, when it falls, there is no sensory apparatus for the vibrating air to interact with, then no conscious noise will be heard.

Bob Smith 6:33
In other words, the answer is no. It could be simple to say that, wouldn’t it? But no, we had to go off and talk a paragraph about it. Alright, moving on. Moving on to a much more complex question. What TV stars face was used for the killers mask in the film Halloween? Oh,

Marcia Smith 6:52
really? Oh, that is a person. Is it a person? I

Bob Smith 6:56
know. It’s a famous TV star.

Marcia Smith 6:58
It is. Yep. Was it like? Like, was that guy I’m thinking it? Was he in cowboy movies?

Bob Smith 7:05
No, he wasn’t in cowboy movies. He’s in space movies, space movies and space TV shows.

Marcia Smith 7:11
Oh, it wasn’t that Kirk? Yes. It

Bob Smith 7:14
was Captain Kirk. Really? Yeah. See, we’re talking about the mask that was worn by Michael Myers in John Carpenter’s 1978 film Halloween that was done on a small budget. And it was a mask of Star Trek Captain James T. Kirk based on William Shatner space. The production crew bought it at a novelty store and spray painted it white. Yes. Oh, that’s funny. And today those masks cost upwards of 50 to $250 on the web. Wow. Not even a good likeness of him. It’s kind of a cheap looking weird, man. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 7:46
I know. Everything. I never thought of that being him. I didn’t either, but they will look for Yeah, all right,

Bob Smith 7:52
that source that comes from Britannica. Britannica Inc.

Marcia Smith 7:55
Why can we call a bad dream a nightmare? Oh, that’s

Bob Smith 7:58
a good question. A nightmare is that a horse that runs through the night and scares people

Marcia Smith 8:04
are sensing like very intuitive of you, Bob. Well, and totally wrong. Oh, okay. The word mayor is an old English term for demon. And it comes from the same root as murder. Oh, really? So ergo, the demon or mare that visits at night was called a nightmare. So how about the demon

Bob Smith 8:26
so it means demon. It doesn’t mean horse right?

Marcia Smith 8:31
Everything It does, doesn’t it? All right. There’s your word data source today. Okay,

Bob Smith 8:36
so this changed everything. The death of Queen Elizabeth the Second, I found an interesting article on what changes in England when a king or queen dies what happens to all the images and insignia on stamps mailbox currency and so forth? Yeah, so the Queen’s image has been on stamps in mailboxes for

Marcia Smith 8:55
a long time. Yeah. 80 years Yeah. So stamps

Bob Smith 8:59
those stamps will still be valid but a king or queen may not be on future stamps because the Royal Mail is moving to barcodes for stamps. So they may not be getting they’re getting rid of the fails don’t know for sure. But they’re moving in that

Marcia Smith 9:10
direction care for that I want to face or a puppy or something. Now the

Bob Smith 9:14
interesting thing is since the 1680s now this goes for coins too since the 1680s. New kings or queens have usually faced the opposite direction of their predecessors. So since Queen Elizabeth faced right on coins, King Charles will probably be facing left. And since he faced left on stamps, he’ll probably be facing right it’s just kind of a weird thing. There are mailboxes there are British mailboxes have the insignia of a crown over the characters ie the Roman numeral two and are What does that stand for? Crown over the characters ie the Roman numeral two and are

Marcia Smith 9:53
your peon Republic No,

Bob Smith 9:54
Elizabeth Oh, the second are Regina meaning the head of They didn’t know that and those will remain intact. They have 115,000 of those in England though they’ll stay there until they probably you know, get rid of mailboxes. Yeah. How many British Bank of England currency notes do you think are in circulation? These have Queen Elizabeth?

Marcia Smith 10:15
Wow. Give me a ballpark Bob. Okay.

Bob Smith 10:18
How many billions? Really? Yeah. to 4.7 billion Bank of England currency notes. Wow. That’s worth about 94 billion US dollars. All right, one more question. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 10:31
All right.

Bob Smith 10:31
How many British coins are in circulation? Because the Queen’s image how many British coins do you think there are out there? I

Marcia Smith 10:38
have no idea. I’ll say 4.7 million billion. Well, you’re off a little bit are 15 billion.

Bob Smith 10:45
Well, you’re off a little bit

Marcia Smith 10:46
20,000,000,020 9,000,000,099 British coins

Bob Smith 10:51
in circulation with the Queen’s face on.

Marcia Smith 10:53
It’s gonna take a while for those to wear out.

Bob Smith 10:56
Think of all the ones we still find with Caesars name on them. They didn’t have billions of coins back then they may have had 1000s or hundreds of 1000s but billions. So how long is it going to take to get rid of all those that’ll be interesting. And then the royal coat of arms that’s also something that will be changing. If you are a company and you sell to the royal family you can have permission to advertise that fact. Oh, that’s curious. Yeah, like that you put a little royal coat of arms in advertised by displaying you know that. So there are companies from Burberry the clothing factory to Heinz ketchup have used Queen Elizabeth coat of arms. No kidding. And at the time of her death, they were given two years to continue with that insignia. After that Heinz must update all ketchup bottles that circulate in Britain. Just the packaging, not the ketchup I’ll be done. That’s from an article called The sun is setting on a British imprint from the New York Times. Speaking of Queen Elizabeth, I have a Queen Elizabeth, the first question. Okay. The backgrounds of portraits of royalty. They’re filled with symbolism. So what do the pomegranates and pears behind the first Queen Elizabeth in one of her portraits symbolizes fruitful,

Marcia Smith 12:05
get, you know, giving birth to future generations of Monarch? That’s

Bob Smith 12:10
the idea. You’re right. You’re right. According to The New York Times the earliest surviving full length portrait of Elizabeth, this is from the 1560s features in the word of the times a riot of pomegranates and pears behind her, and they were meant to advertise her youth and feed country. Yeah, the ability to bear children. What a terrible word for the country. Yes, go forth and multiply. But of course, she reigned for 44 years and despite many suitors never married and had no children. Do you know that there were concerns about who would succeed her from the very moment she took over as queen? The Parliament petitioned her to marry and produce an heir almost immediately. Really? Yeah. But early in her reign, she proclaimed she would not marry because she was quote, already bound unto a husband, which is the Kingdom

Marcia Smith 12:56
of England. Yeah, she was married to the country.

Bob Smith 12:59
So in the words of the Royal Museum, Elizabeth’s sacrificed her personal happiness for the good of the state. That’s Elizabeth the First she fooled

Marcia Smith 13:06
around a lot, though, didn’t she? I don’t

Bob Smith 13:08
know. Marsha. Wasn’t there. Any other rumors you want to suggest?

Marcia Smith 13:12
Spread here? All right, Bob. Bob Dylan? Yes. Did you know he just wrote a book? Yes. Another book. He’s

Bob Smith 13:18
written several. Yeah. This

Marcia Smith 13:19
one’s called the philosophy of a modern song. And,

Bob Smith 13:24
and he looks at other songs, not necessarily his Yeah,

Marcia Smith 13:27
mostly, I think other songs. Okay. What does he have to say about little Richard’s 1955? Hit duty fruity? Oh, really, other than

Bob Smith 13:36
the fact that he liked it because he was a teenager back then. I don’t know. What does he call it?

Marcia Smith 13:41
He calls it one of the most influential songs of all time. He says it’s arguably created rock and roll as we know it today. This is a quote from Mr. Dylan. He took speaking in tongues right out of the canvas tent and put it on to the mainstream radio.

Bob Smith 13:58
Well, that’s true. You know,

Marcia Smith 14:00
I don’t get the speaking in tongues party fruity. Oh,

Bob Smith 14:03
Rudy, it doesn’t make any sense. Yeah, speaking in tongues. I

Marcia Smith 14:06
never heard tongues be so perky. And Elvis said the same thing. What

Bob Smith 14:12
is interesting about this is, I think a lot of us think of Bob Dylan as this very stoic, serious guy, when actually you read parts of that book. And it’s like, no, this guy liked to have fun. And he thought these were very interesting songs. He does the who, some of the WHO songs and other songs people you wouldn’t think Bob Dylan would have any interest in fascinating I thought. All right. Here’s another celebrity. Who you wouldn’t imagine did this one extreme sport. Did Agatha Christie helped popularize

Marcia Smith 14:42
extreme sport?

Bob Smith 14:43
I don’t think of it as an extreme sport, bungee

Marcia Smith 14:46
jumping. No.

Bob Smith 14:49
No. Now a lot of people do it today but it was very unusual back then.

Marcia Smith 14:54
Water skiing,

Bob Smith 14:55
not water skiing, snow skiing, surfing surf.

Marcia Smith 14:59
Think, hard to

Bob Smith 15:01
think of the mystery writer as an athlete, but she was best known for her murder mysteries. Agatha Christie was also an avid surfer.

Marcia Smith 15:09
You know, I know that because I read this book about, about her. Yeah, she used to love to go surfing

Bob Smith 15:18
and we’re not talking about body surfing where you lay down on the board. She is believed to be the first British woman to serve standing up. Isn’t that fascinating? I just never think of her that way.

Marcia Smith 15:28
Yes, yes. She’d like to do that while her husband was out cheating hon. Well, that’s

Bob Smith 15:32
true. But I mean, you know, Murder on the Orient Express and I’m gonna go surfing you know, they just don’t seem to go together.

Marcia Smith 15:38
That’s it’s interesting. All right.

Bob Smith 15:40
Let’s take a break. Now 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 Marsha Smith. Okay,

Marcia Smith 15:50
Bob, what mammal accounts for 95%. Of regrowth in cleared tropical forest.

Bob Smith 15:57
What mammal? accounts for 95% of regrowth. Really so a mammal helps regrowth of plants tropical

Marcia Smith 16:06
forests in cleared you know when they get cleared. And there’s one mammal that does more than any other damage

Bob Smith 16:14
to the forest or no to

Marcia Smith 16:16
repopulate. Really? Yeah,

Bob Smith 16:18
I don’t know what the bat will explain. Lucy.

Marcia Smith 16:23
Bad drops seeds can account for up to 95% of the regrowth in cleared forests. Oh, no kidding. Yep. It’s especially in tropical areas. They combat deforestation by dropping seeds overbearing areas. They’re fascinating

Bob Smith 16:38
nor the seeds in their feces. You said bat droppings, right? No, I

Marcia Smith 16:43
said backdropped seeds bet dropped since Wow, that’s accounted for 21% of all the mammals in the world. 21% Yeah. And they’ve been around for over 50 million years Bob, which explained why why they’re so fine tuned as part of our ecosystem. Anyway, nectar eating bats, our Master pollinators of more than 500 plant species. Yeah, I would not think of I wouldn’t have the bats in caves. Yeah, you know, all that includes cocoa for chocolate, agave for tequila. So you don’t want these animals to disappear.

Bob Smith 17:19
So all those things are reason that they exist. It’s because of bats, thanks

Marcia Smith 17:23
to their ability to fly and transport pollen further than bees. Wow. I had no idea. Yeah, there are nature’s bug zappers, and they keep the mosquito moth and beetle populations in check. They’re really quite amazing. They are

Bob Smith 17:37
amazing with that sonar like or radar like, you know, yeah, able to see things through the sound.

Marcia Smith 17:43
And scientists estimate that they save us farmers a billion dollars a year in pesticides and crop damage, because they keep insects away.

Bob Smith 17:53
All right, Marcia, you know, the UNESCO designation. That’s the United Nations designation for historic sites, things that should be saved. Why is Quebec Canada, a UNESCO Historic Site? What’s there that they think of as being worthy?

Marcia Smith 18:09
Is that that humongous hotel?

Bob Smith 18:11
It’s partly that? Yes. It’s the Chateau Frontenac. That’s

Marcia Smith 18:15
it front and back. I want to go there

Bob Smith 18:17
historic hotel that towers over that city. And then tourists can also visit the 200 year old citadel to Quebec, the largest British built fortress in North America, and a 400 year old monastery. They’ve preserved their ramparts and other defensive works like gates and bastions like almost no other city in North America. So that’s why Quebec is considered a UNESCO historic site

Marcia Smith 18:39
also because my great grandfather landed there from Paris. That’s right. He did.

Bob Smith 18:44
Michael or Michel Michel Drouin, droo-on, which will draw the wrong. I’m sorry, it sounds like somebody’s got a sinus problem when you do.

Marcia Smith 18:54
Flu season’s bad. Okay. It’s flu season again. Where do we get the term flu?

Bob Smith 18:59
Influenza?

Marcia Smith 19:00
Yeah, where does that come from? comes from a Latin word. Okay. Influenza, which means influence.

Bob Smith 19:08
No kidding.

Marcia Smith 19:09
It was used to describe epidemics in the 1700s because it was believed disease was ordained or influenced by the heaven and the star.

Bob Smith 19:19
I had no idea that’s where that key is that nuts. So it was like, this is ordained by God or ordained by the heavens

Marcia Smith 19:26
heavens in the stars. If you had an epidemic or something nasty going around, it was the stars and heavens were angry at us.

Bob Smith 19:34
That’s good to know. You didn’t have much influence. They had a lot more influence than that. That was very curious. Wow. Okay, we were talking about hauntings and we talked about Halloween a moment ago there with that mask of William Shatner. What British Queen has said to haunt the Tower of London.

Marcia Smith 19:50
What British Queen is it? Is it Mary? No,

Bob Smith 19:53
it’s not Queen Mary. It’s one of Henry the eighth’s wide now and Berlin and Berlin. And yes, after failing to give the king of sun and being accused of treason she was executed under tower green in 1536. And legend says that her ghost is one of many that still haunts the grounds of the tower.

Marcia Smith 20:13
I would haunt it to especially that pass. But what natural material balm is five times stronger than steel and can stop bullets

Bob Smith 20:24
a natural material? Is it oak wood?

Marcia Smith 20:28
No. This is made actually by an animal in nature. It’s not silk. Yes, silk spider silk.

Bob Smith 20:35
Really? Yeah.

Marcia Smith 20:36
According to nature.com spider silk is the toughest fiber found in nature and can be stretched or pulled. And it can absorb more energy than steel or nylon without rupturing. They can make bulletproof vests out of it and everything. Wow. It’s

Bob Smith 20:53
things like Kevlar then only Kevlar is woven. synthetically, but this is this is the real thing. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 20:59
Spider silk. She knew it had such power nature that common. Okay, okay, Bob, how long was the shortest war in history?

Bob Smith 21:09
Oh, I think I know the answer to that this was a British war against an African colony and it lasted like 20 minutes or something like that. Oh, very good.

Marcia Smith 21:18
38 minutes 38. And it was between England and Zanzibar. In 1896. It was over Sultan succession. They each wanted someone else to succeed. The past salted

Bob Smith 21:32
and obviously very mismatched. The British were very much more power. 38 minutes

Marcia Smith 21:36
later Britain one.

Bob Smith 21:39
Okay, that’s funny, but it’s not funny because people actually.

Marcia Smith 21:42
Yeah, what was the longest war in human history?

Bob Smith 21:46
The longest war? The 10 Years War? No. Okay. So there were wars that went on and on and on the Crusades went on for 100 or more years because they were multiple crusades.

Marcia Smith 21:59
But I don’t know the answer to that. Well, it was 781 years. The Recon Kista recon Kista. Yeah, what is that? It’s almost eight centuries long. It was a war fought by the Christian kingdoms of Spain and Portugal to reclaim the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslim wars. Oh, millions of deaths later, and almost 800 years the Christians won.

Bob Smith 22:22
800 years they fought and that’s that little slice of Peninsula.

Marcia Smith 22:27
I’m sure it’s just what Christ would have wanted.

Bob Smith 22:31
Wow, that’s amazing. Yeah, okay.

Marcia Smith 22:33
I couldn’t believe that number 100 years so we got 38 minutes for the shortest and 781 years for the long

Bob Smith 22:41
Oh, dear Lord, that sounds horrible. Iberia. Yeah. Can you imagine that generations after generation of families it was just a constant war.

Marcia Smith 22:50
Millions of people died. Got one more to make you laugh. How long is the longest puff corn? Or as we Americans know it the Cheeto

Bob Smith 23:00
longest puff corn that’s what they’re called in other places in

Marcia Smith 23:04
England. It is a puff cold. That’s where the the longest one ever made. It’s and I got this right out of Guinness Book of World Record. Okay.

Bob Smith 23:12
Longest puff Corp,

Marcia Smith 23:15
which is a Cheeto.

Bob Smith 23:16
So what they made it as long as a table or something like me be well give me give me. Okay, I’ll see. It’s 20 feet long. Yeah, that’d

Marcia Smith 23:24
be crazy. Bob. Okay, this was 34 feet and 11 inches.

Bob Smith 23:29
Oh my god.

Marcia Smith 23:30
In August 2020. United Kingdom snack food company called Walker’s produce a 30 foot 11 inch Cheeto. It took an eight person team two hours and 29 minutes to make the supersize snack, which had to be hand baked because it couldn’t fit into any ovens.

Bob Smith 23:47
Oh my goodness.

Marcia Smith 23:48
It’s now mounted for display on the factory wall. Jeez,

Bob Smith 23:52
that’s just hard to believe. Put it on the factory wall. Nobody ate it. No. Do you think somebody on break goes nibble up there. If

Marcia Smith 24:01
you make them all day, I would think it wouldn’t be that tantalizing.

Bob Smith 24:05
We talked about this once the word et cetera what this et cetera means you remember that?

Marcia Smith 24:12
Yes, but I don’t remember the answer at cetera means

Bob Smith 24:15
and other things. Okay, around the rest. But that’s why grammarians think you actually should never refer to people you say oh, you know, Nancy, Bill, etc. That’s not true. You should never use it. What should you use? If you’re speaking of people at all at all that means and others so I was right again. Yes, you’re right again. All right. And one more okay. Sick Si Si. You know, you read something and you see sick and usually that’s before something that this doesn’t make any sense. Or this is written for a wrong right. What does it actually mean? Oh, what does the Latin phrase si si standard?

Marcia Smith 24:51
I don’t know the phrase but it means way it was actually said. Said.

Bob Smith 24:58
Written the Latin phrase Sick erat Scriptum means thus it was written it’s actually used when you’re citing text and the cited work has mistakes in it like grammar or spelling errors, but people you know use it as a kind of a snarky thing when they write you’ll

Marcia Smith 25:14
see it in the newspapers, New York Times or journal or anything if people miss speak Yeah, they will put sick

Bob Smith 25:22
Yeah, but it actually it meant as written thus it was written or the way it was. I believe

Marcia Smith 25:26
you. I was write a lot today. Yes, you were. Yes.

Bob Smith 25:30
Yes. Very impressive today. Yes. Very impressive. popping

Marcia Smith 25:34
off the real exciting. Absolutely. It

Bob Smith 25:36
popped off a lot in the right way. Well,

Marcia Smith 25:40
you knew the shortest for you knew that. That was pretty impressive. Not the longest, but the shortest. Yeah. Okay. All right time for my quotes, but I’m going to give you the quote and you’ll tell me who said it. Will the people in the cheaper seats, clap your hands? All the rest of you if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.

Bob Smith 25:58
John Lennon said that when the Beatles performed at the Royal Albert Hall. What was that 1963 or

Marcia Smith 26:04
something like that was I have no idea. I just have the quote. It’s so funny though.

Bob Smith 26:08
It’s just so Beatles. They were just so they didn’t worry about what they said to people.

Marcia Smith 26:12
Yeah, he was pretty clever. Okay, this is Melville Landon. He said, a bore is a man who spend so much time talking about himself that you can’t talk about yourself.

Bob Smith 26:23
That is a bore. That is they don’t give me enough time to talk about me.

Marcia Smith 26:28
Let’s see, I have two interesting stories. Can I just do one more quote? Okay. It’s by Roseanne. Okay. Ah, I figure when my husband comes home from work. If the kids are still alive, then I’ve done my job.

Bob Smith 26:43
And it says a lot more about her household than we really probably should know. Right? And

Marcia Smith 26:48
I got so many good ones here. Once you got irony is when you buy a suit with two pairs of pants and then burn a hole in the coat.

Bob Smith 26:59
Okay, all right. That’s it for today. We hope you join us when we return with more fun facts and trivia next time here on the off ramp.

Marcia Smith 27:09
Done. That’s

Bob Smith 27:12
our own theme. Oh, it’s this?

Marcia Smith 27:17
Oh, yeah, I remember. See,

Bob Smith 27:19
you’ve heard this one before.

Marcia Smith 27:22
It’s bouncy. I like it. Yes.

Bob Smith 27:30
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