197 Book Smart Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
What role did McDonald’s play in winning three gold medals in 2008?

Marcia Smith 0:07
What did the original Apple Computer logo look like answers

Bob Smith 0:11
to those 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 and take a side road to Saturday with fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. Well, Marcia, what role do you think McDonald’s played in the 2008 Olympic Games? It helped win three gold medals. How

Marcia Smith 0:53
well is it because it gave money to three people who couldn’t afford to go there? No, it’s

Bob Smith 1:00
actually more direct than that. Okay, then what? Well, according to pretend akka.com During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the famed Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, found his body was reacting poorly to the local Chinese food. So instead of eating the local fair, he opted instead to eat an estimated 100 Mcdonald’s chicken nuggets a day during my God during his 10 days. A winner and during those games, he won three gold medals. Wow. So McDonald’s played a role. It certainly did. I can’t say cause and effect, but

Marcia Smith 1:36
came up with that idea. Here’s 100 chicken nuggets, eat everyday bold.

Bob Smith 1:41
That does seem like a lot, doesn’t it? Well, he’s a big guy. He’s been clocked as the fastest human being. So that’s the role they have. Okay.

Marcia Smith 1:49
Fueled by McNuggets. That’s, that’s a great banner sign from McDonald’s, actually, a

Bob Smith 1:55
Belgian scientist use lasers to measure his performance in the different stages of a 100 meter race in 2011. And they found that 67 meters into the race, he reached a top speed of 27.33 miles per hour. Faster than anyone else.

Marcia Smith 2:12
I’d love to follow up on that and see if he’s still eating them. Yeah, I don’t know. Okay. All right. Bom. Apple computers has always been known for its design. Yes, yes. Okay. So there was an original logo before its iconic, partially bitten apple that we all know and love today. Yes, yes. Okay, so what was it?

Bob Smith 2:33
I think it had something to do with Newton didn’t know very good just tree or something. It was about Newton’s apple, the apple that fell off.

Marcia Smith 2:40
It was Sir Isaac Newton himself sitting under an apple tree. This, of course, was a reference to the legend of Newton formulating his law of universal gravitation after getting bonked on the head, supposedly by a falling apple, which ranks right up in history’s big aha moments, right. Anyway, so that was pretty short lived. And so in part because co founder Steve Jobs felt the design couldn’t be effectively rendered in a smaller version.

Bob Smith 3:12
Right. You know how that works? Yeah, you have to have it. So you can use it in many different ways. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 3:16
so many different versions. So he hired a graphic designer, Rob jenoff, who came up with the logo now recognized worldwide. Well,

Bob Smith 3:23
that’s interesting. Yeah, that first one didn’t look graphically modern. Let’s put it that way.

Marcia Smith 3:29
Yeah, it wasn’t like the one they have now. Everybody knows it everywhere. Amazing. You

Bob Smith 3:34
know, we were talking about Usain Bolt. I was reading a little bit more about him. You said you’d like to go back to him. His body is an anomaly. He’s not like most sprinters. He’s taller and lankier than most sprinters. Oh, yeah. He probably shouldn’t have even competed in that race. They said, because from a biomechanical perspective, the fastest sprinters are usually short. Their muscles are loaded with fast twitch fibers for rapid acceleration fast twitch fibers so they call them okay. The Elite sprinter is a compact athlete, not a tall lean when but that’s what he is.

Marcia Smith 4:06
That just tells you don’t go with all the assumed knowledge. That’s right. Yeah, just break out of the mall. If you think you can do it. Try it. Exactly. Okay. quickie. Who owns the Mall of America in Minneapolis who

Bob Smith 4:19
owns the Mall of America? Yeah. Well, the people don’t keep America the American people. Is it a known entity?

Marcia Smith 4:26
Yes. I’m not going to ask for the specific name but the people who own it are. Okay. Canadians.

Bob Smith 4:37
Yeah. Oh, isn’t that fun

Marcia Smith 4:38
America. It was developed by the triple five group, a Canadian retail and entertainment conglomerate. So Canadian zone the Mall of America. Actually,

Bob Smith 4:48
do you know that the biggest mall in North America is in Canada. I wonder if it’s the same company the

Marcia Smith 4:52
same company? It is the same code. Yes. In the decades since its opening the Mall of America has grown increasing the 5.6 million square feet and stuffed with 520 stores and 60 residents and 660 people living there and 60 restaurants or restaurants.

Bob Smith 5:10
Oh okay.

Marcia Smith 5:11
Today it’s also home to 13 screen movie theater indoor theme park on mini golf course and the largest aquarium in the state of Minnesota.

Bob Smith 5:20
I just remember when we were there I was just overwhelmed by it. Oh, yeah, I wanted to leave it

Marcia Smith 5:24
I did too. I don’t think I bought one thing I just said this is too much. The kids liked it. It was a you know, there was some kind of play area there. Well, yeah, like a little roller coaster or a train or something. Alright, Marcia,

Bob Smith 5:36
a medical question for you. What medical instruments proto type was a rolled up paper to Bahah the VISTA cated medical equipment a rolled up paper too. But

Marcia Smith 5:52
was it the what do you call that tubing that goes into your your body? No, I can get

Bob Smith 5:59
some kind of plumbing you’re describing I know what you’re talking about.

Marcia Smith 6:02
Okay, rolled up to I don’t know about

Bob Smith 6:05
this was actually designed on the spot by a doctor using a rolled up paper too. But the stethoscope

Marcia Smith 6:13
Oh really? Oh, I bet they used it like a little horn. Yes. It was

Bob Smith 6:16
invented in 1816. And French physician Rene la neck didn’t want to put his ear on a female patients breasts. Not because it would be too intimate but because she was obese. Ah. And he felt he wouldn’t be able to hear her heartbeat well, so he pressed a rolled up paper tube against her chest. And that amplified the sounds of her heartbeat. And that was the first stethoscope that could jerry rig was and of course they use stethoscopes for other things to determine Do you have too much water in your lungs or, you know they have pneumonia and so forth?

Marcia Smith 6:50
To hear if there’s water in there. Yeah. And that

Bob Smith 6:52
came from an idea called percussion because they would tap on the people’s chests and so forth. Okay, that was something that a doctor another doctor came up with. His name was Leopold Aaron Berger, a doctor whose father ran a Viennese hotel, and they had wine casks downstairs, and he remembered that the employees we just thump on those wine cast to see how full they were. Oh, yeah. So we thought, you know, why don’t we do that to patients determine how full they are. I’ll be darned Yeah, that led to percussive hammers that doctor would use to test your reflexes and tap on your chest and then eventually that led to the stiff the scope. Stethoscope. Okay. What’s the name mean? Stethoscope stethoscope.

Marcia Smith 7:31
Milken this month? I didn’t know Steph,

Bob Smith 7:36
Skoll stethoscopes? What does that mean? Ah,

Marcia Smith 7:39
I don’t know. Blood sound what

Bob Smith 7:43
holds all that?

Marcia Smith 7:44
What holds it all?

Bob Smith 7:46
What holds the hearts in the blood cavity? A chest. That those means chest scope means to look or examine. Okay, so that’s where the term comes from.

Marcia Smith 7:57
Moving on. Okay. All right. I’m gonna give a shout out. All right, to Greg Williams in St. Petersburg, Florida. He’s actually a former newsroom buddy of mine at the Telegraph Herald who sent us a book called Good Old Days my ass. Written by another former news room buddy of mine, David for itself. It’s chock full of funny history and facts and terrifying truths about yesteryear. Unquote.

Bob Smith 8:24
I both work with these folks. They’re both good, folks. Here’s a couple

Marcia Smith 8:27
of them. Bob a couple of days thoughts. But what exactly was a bathing machine? Invented by a Quaker in 1753? A bathing machine? Yes. Yes. Not a bathtub now of bathing machines printed by a Quaker? Uh huh. Yes.

Bob Smith 8:45
I understand what we’re saying here. The Quakers are very conservative. Religious people. Yes. So you could get into this bath without taking your clothes off. What was this wet bathing machine

Marcia Smith 8:57
your hand or something? This is under the section patents that should still be pending. The bathing machine consisted of a horse drawn half carriage containing a modesty tunnel, which allowed fully clothed swimmers to wade into the water in total privacy and going out to the ocean or lake and you want it privacy? You would go no modesty title in a half carriage pulled by horses that would be submerged in the water. Yes, yes. Wow. That’s going to great lengths to be modest. That

Bob Smith 9:33
is going to great lengths. The bathing machine. I actually got a patent for that.

Marcia Smith 9:38
Yeah. My Oh, here’s another one a days. Let me give you a quick one here. In 1858 the first transatlantic communications cable was completed. How long did that first transatlantic telegram take to transmit the first

Bob Smith 9:53
transatlantic telegram? Yeah, went around the world.

Marcia Smith 9:56
Well, it went across the ocean from here to there. Under the Atlantic, oh, all around the world emerged cables. Yeah. Okay. 1050 So

Bob Smith 10:06
did it take something like a day? Did it take a half a day to take a half an hour? How long did it take? 17

Marcia Smith 10:12
hours. Holy cow. And to add frosting to that cupcake. This triumph of technology lasted only one month because the excess voltage fried the wires under the ocean. Oh my. So it took eight years to get it back to working order. Do you have the year for the team? 58? Yes,

Bob Smith 10:30
that’s I thought it was right before the Civil War. Yeah. So during the Civil War, there were no transatlantic cables. So we’re right before and after. So during that whole Civil War, none of the news went over to Europe or anything. I hadn’t thought of that. Yeah. So they probably just put letters on ships to transmit news. Yeah, so forth. Yeah. Wow. That’s interesting. Well, speaking of water, Marcia, what made your improvement to the White House is credited to Thomas Jefferson.

Marcia Smith 10:55
Well, books. Oh, that’s the Library of Congress.

Bob Smith 10:57
I said, speaking of water, Marcia. That’s the clue. Not wet books. No. A bathtub. Well, indoor plumbing. Yeah, the start of indoor plumbing. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 11:06
so I was right. Well, sort of toilets. bathtubs. He

Bob Smith 11:11
installed a cistern in the White House in the attic. Thomas Jefferson, okay, that distributed water through wooden pipes so it would gather water from the roof and then pipe through wooden pipes, the water descended to the floors and serviced to water closets. So they had toilets. During Thomas Jefferson’s time. Good old time, so he was responsible for the first indoor toilets with running water in the White House. Good to know. And then Andrew Jackson installed iron pipes in 1833. And then the White House had central plumbing in 1853, including hot and cold water. So again, took some time.

Marcia Smith 11:48
Okay. I always get for clump. Bob when I hear a Lang sign a New Year’s Eve. Oh, yeah. Terry, but what the heck does it mean Oh, Lang zine? For

Bob Smith 11:58
all last time or something like that? Cost close.

Marcia Smith 12:02
It Scottish and literally means old long since all long since? Yeah. Or in modern language simply long ago? Well, that’s good. I love that Scottish hold long since it’s an interesting way

Bob Smith 12:17
to put it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That’s always been our cane for most people. What is this all blank. Some of the other lyrics are kind of strange in there, too. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 12:24
But that always makes me cry. And I never knew why. But that’s it. Like, Should old

Bob Smith 12:28
acquaintance be forgotten? never brought to mind. Yeah. What does that mean? That means we’ve forgotten some friends. Yes, I think well, we should get a translation of that. Figure it out. Okay. Speaking of translations, I’ve got a question for you on the naming of months. We do this every once in a while. We know we’re entering the fall. So I want to give you the question. What do the names September and October stand for? Where did they come from? The names of the months

Marcia Smith 12:54
is October Octavia. Octavius, it’s Octo

Bob Smith 12:57
Octo meaning eight. Yes. The eighth month of the early Roman calendar.

Marcia Smith 13:01
September being seven, Sep seven.

Bob Smith 13:05
That’s right. You got him. I am so good. Yeah, September, of course, is not seventh. Now. It’s the ninth month. But originally, it was the seventh month of the year in the early Roman calendar September stems from the word septum, which was seven. So that naming trend would continue for the remaining months. October then would have been eight Oct. Like Octo right just exactly what you said. Even after the Roman calendar evolved to a incorporate 12 months there were efforts to rename October and September but no, never got renamed. Does

Marcia Smith 13:36
this mean we’re coming up on November and December and the weeks? Wait, I don’t sleep at night. All

Bob Smith 13:42
right. Well, you have some of these that are you know, a little hokey too. Okay.

Marcia Smith 13:46
All right, more than one word origin. Why do we say we have a yen for something when we crave it? Yen

Bob Smith 13:54
I have a yen for something and it’s not anything to do with Asian money or anything like that isn’t well, I don’t know. What does it stand for? What does it mean? Yen you’ll

Marcia Smith 14:04
like this. Yes, it is a type of Japanese currency. But Yen is from the Chinese phrase. Yen yen. yen means opium and Yan means craving. Oh really? Yeah. So craving opium. In the mid 19th century, the phrase entered English slang as yen yen, which eventually was just shortened to yen in the 20th century, meaning to crave some Oh my goodness. So it went from ying yang to yen yen to yen so I have

Bob Smith 14:34
a craving for something. I have a yen for something. Yeah. And originally went along with what was a

Marcia Smith 14:38
craving opium. Oh,

Bob Smith 14:42
wow, that’s different. Yeah. Okay,

Marcia Smith 14:44
speaking of snakes, which you weren’t, but I was how long is the longest snake ever to be discovered?

Bob Smith 14:50
The longest snake ever to be discovered? Uh huh. Ooh, is it a Python or something like that? It

Marcia Smith 14:56
is. It’s a reticulated python.

Bob Smith 14:59
Let me say It’s so 25 feet long. Ooh, that’s

Marcia Smith 15:02
long. This is 32 feet and nine and a half. Oh,

Bob Smith 15:06
God, just scary enough that’s creepy as convenient two feet. Think

Marcia Smith 15:10
about how long that is. That’s like twice the length of this room.

Bob Smith 15:14
It’s amazing.

Marcia Smith 15:15
You find these lovely native creatures in South and Southeast Asia. You know how they smell Bob how snake smell.

Bob Smith 15:22
You mean how they sense smell or how they stink know how they can be. They have an aroma. Is that what you’re saying? Good.

Marcia Smith 15:29
Good distinction. But yeah, I meant to say how do they actually smell through their eyes? Wow. close their tongue. Oh, really? Yeah, those little tongues that that’s what they smell. When would you know they’re all of us out there. Yeah, darting tongues. Yeah. snakes have limited hearing and eyesight compared to humans, but they make up for it with an incredible sense of smell down through their

Bob Smith 15:52
tongues. Yeah. Well, I think it’s time for a break now. Okay, you’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. We’ll be back in just a moment. We’re back. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. We do this each week for the Cedarburg Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin. And it’s internet radio station, Cpl. Radio after that. We put it on podcast platforms and it’s heard around the world. All right, Marsha, what country has the highest high speed rail network? The largest high speed rail network? Well, it’s

Marcia Smith 16:23
in Europe somewhere, isn’t it? It’s

Bob Smith 16:25
in Europe somewhere. And that is raw.

Marcia Smith 16:28
I knew that. I was just testing. I was

Bob Smith 16:30
gonna give you choices here. Oh, please. Okay. Is it in Japan, Taiwan, China or France? Well,

Marcia Smith 16:37
France is part of Europe. So it’s not that

Bob Smith 16:39
that’s right. It’s not in France much. All right. Japan, Taiwan or China? Taiwan. No, Marcia, China. Yes, Marsh. No other country even touches China when it comes to the size of their high speed rail system. Okay, when we were growing up, I remember Japan had high speed trains. Yeah, that was like something we always read about in my Weekly Reader. Well, China has more than 18,000 miles of track serving high speed routes. And the speed averages up to 155 miles per hour average that kind of scares me that surpasses all world competitors combined. And it’s not stopping the country is planning to lay more tracks too. Well, with all

Marcia Smith 17:22
those people you got to get around from one place to another.

Bob Smith 17:24
Absolutely. All right. I have another question on transportation. related. What country has the most miles of railway track China? Russia, United States Canada or India? The most miles of railway track not high speed rails? Yeah. But the most miles of railway track us? It does. Why would you say that? I wouldn’t have thought that. I don’t know why I thought it well you’re right. The United States leads all other countries in total miles of railway track just probably because the size of the country is so big.

Marcia Smith 17:57
And my first thought was we are connected to every city everywhere by rail. So it’s not like oh, we just have a couple here and there. That’s true. So that’s why I

Bob Smith 18:06
said so we have over 93,000 miles of rail lines in the United States. Russia is second with 53,000 India 42,000 and China also 42,000 How many

Marcia Smith 18:19
do we have 93 Okay, twice China and all that wow, you combine

Bob Smith 18:24
ours in Canada’s North America has 120,000 They have 30,000 and Canada so it’s like over 120,000 miles of rail lines across North America. And then when it comes to volume of goods transported the US also leads but not when it comes to people passengers. On that measure India transports more people by trains followed by China and Cameroon, Russia and France but you’re right I guess it makes sense that you know, we were one of the first big ones to connect everything so that’s why we have so much yeah, I just thought the railroads had gone down term. So

Marcia Smith 18:57
we started on it and kept going when we connected the East in the West. Okay, Bob, what is the largest girl led entrepreneurial program in the world?

Bob Smith 19:07
The largest girl led Yeah, the girl led entrepreneurial program in the world think about it. Is it in the United States?

Marcia Smith 19:16
It is is it the

Bob Smith 19:17
Girl Scouts now? About it tell

Marcia Smith 19:21
me about take? Well, the answer comes right off the back of the package of delicious Girl Scout Thin Mints pretzels I bought yesterday. And it said the Girl Scout Cookie Program is the largest girl led entrepreneurial program in the world. Wow. People ask me where we get our questions. Now. They know I get them off a cookie bet you do

Bob Smith 19:42
cut them off a cookie jars cookie bag anywhere

Marcia Smith 19:44
I can find Hey, I

Bob Smith 19:46
got an interesting question. This is Entertainment. Okay. And this is kind of an arcane one. But it’s interesting. What link is there between the singer Cher and the movie star Marilyn Monroe and there is a link share and And Marilyn Monroe

Marcia Smith 20:01
Well, I don’t know they both had some kind of body difference. No,

Bob Smith 20:05
no it had to do with shares mother.

Marcia Smith 20:07
I was gonna say was it some kind of relationship thing of family connection? It

Bob Smith 20:13
was professional. I’ll tell you okay share whose real name was Cherylin Lapierre before she married Sonny Bono. Had a very ambitious mother. Her mother was an aspiring actress who could have made the big time she was supposed to be in a Hollywood movie. Today considered a classic The Asphalt Jungle. Oh, unfortunately, at the last minute her role was given to another young girl Marilyn Monroe there’s so that was the connection between Cher and Marilyn Monroe. Her mother shares mother almost starred in that movie as well. Jungle

Marcia Smith 20:45
it’s the degrees of separation like Kevin Bacon here. Right? Right. Interesting. Okay, Bob, you’ll like this. See if you can guess the poetic origin of these three classic movie titles. Okay. All right. Inherit the Wind. Inherit

Bob Smith 20:59
the Wind was not in the Bible somewhere.

Marcia Smith 21:02
Dang dang Inherit the Wind. That’s right. Proverbs 1139 says he that trouble with his own house shall inherit the wind

Bob Smith 21:10
while inheriting the wind is not a good thing. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 21:14
I’m not sure what it means when you’d heard

Bob Smith 21:16
when you can’t hold it. Yeah, it’s something you can’t hold on to. Yeah, that’s

Marcia Smith 21:20
a nice line. Yeah, you knew that. How about this one? Okay, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Bob Smith 21:25
Where did that come from? So that came from a poem or a novel or something,

Marcia Smith 21:31
or something.

Bob Smith 21:31
I don’t know. It’s

Marcia Smith 21:32
a nursery rhyme. Really. Wire Briar limber lock, three gigs in a flock. One Flew East One Flew West, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I’ll be darned that said nursery rhymes. I didn’t know that me either. Okay, last one. Ready? Yeah, that classic From Here to Eternity, from

Bob Smith 21:52
here to eternity. That was a novel that became a movie. And my mom had that novel when I was a kid. It was in our basement and on a bookshelf, but I don’t know the answer.

Marcia Smith 22:02
It’s a line from Yale’s drinking chorus in the Wiffen. Poof saw. No kidding. And the line says, doomed From Here to Eternity. Wow. Drinking soft that’s really being doomed. I suspect maybe the guy who wrote the book knew the weapon poof song and went to Yale

Bob Smith 22:20
probably did Marcia the concept of horsepower. That was a marketing tool. Believe it or not, it didn’t exist before a certain point in time. What kind of marketing tool was it used to sell a new kind of machine? What machine the car? No, was

Marcia Smith 22:37
it for the car? The

Bob Smith 22:40
tractor, not a tractor. Not a locomotive. No horsepower was invented as a way to sell steam engines. Okay. Yes, yes, I read that this goes all the way back to the 1700s engineer James Watt needed a way to explain how strong his machines were how much work they could do, compared to one horse. He didn’t invent the steam engine. But by 1776, he’d improved existing steam engine designs. Now he needed a way to sell the engines in a market where machines like grain mills were still driven by horses, a Scottish Brewer, one of watts first customers challenged him to produce a machine stronger than his horse. Okay, he did. And he proved it with numbers. He calculated how much a horse could lift using a rope and pulley, how much weight it could lift off the ground by a foot in one second. The answer 550 pounds. So that became the standard for horsepower.

Marcia Smith 23:37
How much horsepower is that? One? One horsepower, one

Bob Smith 23:40
horsepower. Now we’ve got things that are a lot more strong than that. Even in our garages, most garage door openers, they’re rated a half horsepower, but there are one and two horsepower models available. So it’s not like a huge thing today with all the machines we have in a garage door opener, right? The differences in his day, watts, steam engines were rated at five horsepower, but they could fill an entire room. Today. Engines 50 times that powerful fit under the hood of your car. Wow. But the idea of horsepower was a marketing tool. It came from business. Yeah, it’s a measure of the force applied to do work is

Marcia Smith 24:15
an equation. Okay, here’s another one from good old days, my ass. How did the Scotch get in scotch tape? Bob?

Bob Smith 24:23
I know that. I know the answer to that. Yeah. That’s because when that tape was first being sold, there were people complaining about that tape because it had a different kind of adhesion than other tape that was used for painters in body shops and things and somebody accused the company, you’re Scotch meaning you’re cheap. Scotch was the term that means cheap. So scotch tape was cheap tape. And it was derogatory at first.

Marcia Smith 24:47
Well, that’s close. The first tape put out by 3pm was a flop because it only had adhesive around the edges. And so it didn’t adhere well. And one annoyed customer told the tape inventor read Drew to take the tape back to his Scotch bosses and put more adhesive on it. Isn’t that funny? Oh, that became scotch tape. Okay, that’s where it came from. Isn’t that funny?

Bob Smith 25:13
That’s great. That’s a great story. Yeah, there’s a negative thing turned into a positive. Nobody thinks of it as negative. They decided, okay, well, let’s use a tartan pattern and call it scotch tape and the leader always had that pattern.

Marcia Smith 25:24
That’s right. Oh, I didn’t think of it that way. Scotch tape. Okay,

Bob Smith 25:29
names. Here’s an interesting name. What singers last name was really Robinson, but he dropped that name. So he wouldn’t be confused with the famous boxer. He was a black singer. Yeah, there was a black boxer who had the last name same as him. He didn’t want to be confused with him. Who was the singer? Wow. famous singer.

Marcia Smith 25:47
Smokey Robinson. No. Okay. I don’t know. No, he dropped the nail. Yes. He didn’t go just by smoking. I don’t know.

Bob Smith 25:53
The singer was Ray Charles Robinson. Oh, really? Yeah. So he dropped his last name to avoid the confusion. Ah, Ray Charles Robinson was the last name though.

Marcia Smith 26:03
Okay, I’m going to finish up with a couple of quotes that make me smile. Okay. All right. Groucho Marx. I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go on the other room and read a book.

Bob Smith 26:17
Even though he made money. That was his Yeah,

Marcia Smith 26:19
claim to fame was TV. Well, he did movies, too. And Lily Tomlin. I always wanted to be somebody. But now I realize I should have been more specific.

Bob Smith 26:31
We all should have been more specific, I think, Oh, yes. Oh, my goodness. Oh, well, we hope you enjoyed the show. And if you would like to participate or contribute just like our friend Greg Williams did by sending us the book by David for Excel, another friend of ours, you could do so by going to our website, the off ramp dot show or send

Marcia Smith 26:50
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Bob Smith 26:53
an idea to go to the off ramp dot show, scroll all the way down to contact us and you can do so by sending a message to us there. Well, that’s it for today. We hope you’ll join us next time when we return with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:09
I’m Marcia Smith. Join us next time here on the off ramp. Thank

Bob Smith 27:13
you, Marcia. You’re

Marcia Smith 27:14
welcome. I can do it too.

Bob Smith 27:16
Yeah, well of course.

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