234 Transparent Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
Not all plastic wraps or plastic one seethrough wrap is made of wood. Really? Yes.

Marcia Smith 0:07
Okay, and what’s considered the number one TV show of all time answers to

Bob Smith 0:13
those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob

Marcia Smith 0:17
and Marsha Smith

Bob Smith 0:34
Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down. Steer clear of crazy and take a side road to sanity with some fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. We do this every week for the Cedarburg, Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin, USA. It airs on Mondays Wednesdays and Saturdays and then it goes out over at podcast platforms

Marcia Smith 0:56
all over the world.

Bob Smith 0:58
Thank you. Thank you. You know Marsha not all transparent plastic wraps are actually plastic one seethrough wrap is made of wood. How

Marcia Smith 1:08
does that work?

Bob Smith 1:09
Which one Marcia? Which one? It’s a famous name a famous brand. The famous brand name was cellophane that was the original name. Most of us think cellophane is a product of the plastic revolution. The name certainly sounds that way doesn’t it? Cellophane but the truth is cellophane that clear flexible material used for everything from sandwich wraps to the windows and envelopes and cake boxes is not plastic. What’s it made from? Wood, wood and other plants?

Marcia Smith 1:39
No kidding.

Bob Smith 1:40
The clue comes in the name cellophane gets its name from cellulose

Marcia Smith 1:45
like cheesy and wood and and other plants. It comes from my body Oh no.

Bob Smith 1:51
Different Sell. Sell, sell. Sell you lows occurs in wood, cotton, hemp and other plants cielo Fein is made from cellulose, and it was invented in 1908 by a Swiss chemist Jacque Brandenburg. He also invented some of the first machines to mass produce it. It was first made in Paris. And then it was later sold to DuPont and when introduced in the 20th century, it revolutionized food packaging and food distribution. But in the 1980s and 90s a competitor have arrived on the scene. What is that plastic wrap we call plastic wrap. They’re side by side on the shelves. It looks like cellophane feels like cellophane but it’s cheaper to make so

Marcia Smith 2:33
which is better than one with the would you think so? No, no,

Bob Smith 2:38
it’s a kind of a tale of mixed blessings. So here’s the mixed blessing. Plastic wrap is cheaper to make but it’s made from oil a fossil fuel. Plastic wrap is not biodegradable. On the other hand, it can be recycled. If cellophane is sourced from natural ingredients, but it can’t be recycled. On the other hand, cellophane is biodegradable. You can compost it, you can put it in garbage in landfills. Got that

Marcia Smith 3:04
I’m just gonna go and buy the cheapest one that’s what most

Bob Smith 3:07
people do. Neither is eco friendly but when all is said and done one fact remains true. And it’s still remarkable when you think about it that the original clear food wrap cellophane

Marcia Smith 3:18
made out of wood made out of wood all right Bob the weekly entertainment newspaper a variety recently selected the top 100 TV shows of all time based on different criteria you know unique this viewers impact on society. How many of the top 10 Can you name Bob? Nine are regular series and one is a mini series now these are American television all American television Okay. Selected by Variety newspaper. I’m gonna just give you yes or no on the top. Okay,

Bob Smith 3:50
let me start with friends. Now. Sex in the City that

Marcia Smith 3:55
is number six.

Bob Smith 3:57
Let’s see. Frasier no Dick Van Dyke Show

Marcia Smith 4:01
Nope.

Bob Smith 4:02
All right, I’m lost. Okay,

Marcia Smith 4:04
I’ll go backwards starting with 10 Roots was number 10 Nine Mary Tyler Moore shell eight Seinfeld seven the wire six six and the city five Breaking Bad for The Simpsons. Three sopranos to Mad Men and number one I Love Lucy oh my

Bob Smith 4:24
god you go all the way back to the very first TV series that was huge phenomenon. Yeah. Wow. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 4:32
that’s quite a list.

Bob Smith 4:33
Well that’s a testimony to Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz being on that list 70 years after the show first started their

Marcia Smith 4:41
innovation and funny and how America was captivated by it and how they shot it

Bob Smith 4:46
three camera system okay

Marcia Smith 4:47
system since I Love Lucy the wire big mashup. Yeah, so

Bob Smith 4:51
you got new ones old ones. They’re wired recently. That was a recent crime series. Yeah, we should watch that. Yeah. Okay. That’s an interesting list and And what’s the criteria for those

Marcia Smith 5:01
innovation? Impact viewership? A whole bunch of criteria?

Bob Smith 5:06
All right. All right, Marsha. I have a question on hair. Ah,

Marcia Smith 5:09
we both got ours yet good sign. People

Bob Smith 5:12
whose hair is this color need more anesthesia?

Marcia Smith 5:16
One color. Oh, I read that one wide color read. That’s

Bob Smith 5:21
right. redheads require about 20% More anesthesia than people with other hair colors. Scientists are unsure why both general and local is less effective for redheads but it is it may be linked to the MC one our gene mutation exactly what causes the hair to be red in the first place? Hmm. Interesting fact. Well, yes. Well, I don’t have to worry about that. We don’t apply anesthesia. We’re not anesthesiologists. Not easy to say. Yes.

Marcia Smith 5:49
Not easy to be. My mother was a natural bright redhead and she couldn’t be out in the sunlight and five seconds without burnings, and yet, and yet they need more Stasia Yeah. For operations. Yeah. Okay. All right. You’ve heard of the Situation Room, right, Bob? Yes,

Bob Smith 6:05
yes. That’s the room in the White House where a lot of decisions are made. It’s the

Marcia Smith 6:09
communications nerve center of the US actually located in the basement of the White House basement. Well, my question for you is when was it built? And what world event happened two weeks before that precipitated its creation? Well, the Cuban Missile Crisis? No, but you got the right country. The right country.

Bob Smith 6:31
Oh, okay. The Bay of Pigs fit. That’s it. Wow. So that was the invasion of Cuba by a small group. And they weren’t supported. There’s all kinds of problems. Now there

Marcia Smith 6:42
were all sorts that when Kennedy was president, and he that was a big failure right into his presidency, he took the hit for it. But behind the scenes, it boiled down to failure to communicate, you know, between the major agencies, but it was Eisenhower who recommended to Kennedy all presidents the to place like a situation room, and that he suggested it be built in the White House and replaces a bowling alley or the swimming pool in the basement. Kennedy chose the bowling alley. He liked to swim, right. And he created basically four unremarkable rooms and one big one, for information channels to flow between agencies such as the CIA, the state, the Defense Department’s and the Chiefs of Staff, the different aides in the White House, and it’s been fully operational ever since serving all the presidents. So it’s fascinating. I you know, I’m reading the book, the Situation Room by George Stephanopoulos, and he covers every president and how it was used. And it’s pretty cool. The Inside Story of all the crises, it’s handled. And

Bob Smith 7:48
so that must be where all the latest communications technology is always installed.

Marcia Smith 7:52
Technology is always being updated in the sit room, there were prototype drawings in the early days in the 60s of what this room should look like kind of a high tech space. And it was nothing like that for quite a while. But today, it looks pretty much like it does in the movies, and it’s full of high technology screens and computers and phones and everything, very advanced, very secure, very high powered, and people are there 24/7 Every day, and presidents like LBJ apparently used it to the max he was down there 2345 In the morning, always monitoring the war in Vietnam and, and finding out the latest dispatches from around the world. The interesting. Yeah, it is.

Bob Smith 8:34
So Kennedy replaced the bowling alley with the Situation Room. What was the swimming pool replaced by?

Marcia Smith 8:40
Oh my Oh, no. Apparently you do. You wouldn’t have asked me. Yeah,

Bob Smith 8:44
but is it the pressroom that sits on top of where the pool

Marcia Smith 8:48
used to be? Exactly? I’ll be darned. What do you got?

Bob Smith 8:51
Okay, this is an interesting question. I saw this on britannica.com. Why did Chinese villagers eat dinosaur fossils? So

Marcia Smith 8:59
ya know, when you’re hungry? Ha. Go for it. Right? Well,

Bob Smith 9:03
that might be true. But according to britannica.com in 2006, it was discovered that for decades, villagers in China’s Hunan province had unearthed dinosaur fossils they mistook for dragon bones. They were thinking these are dragon bones. Yeah, they believe them to have healing property so they boiled them and soup and consumed them to treat dizziness and leg cramps. They did this for decades. And it worked. I don’t know if it worked. I would assume it had some value.

Marcia Smith 9:31
Some placebo effect I’ll bet right oblique right.

Bob Smith 9:35
Finally somebody discovered Hey, fossils. We should put these in a museum. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 9:39
All right, Bob, how many miles between us and outer space?

Bob Smith 9:44
I think we did this once before when we talked about how long would it take your car? Yeah, to get there. This is? That was amazing.

Marcia Smith 9:51
Um, that we’re not that far away. Natalie. No.

Bob Smith 9:53
I think you said it would take me an hour at 60 miles an hour to get to outer space which means that spaces 60 miles above the surface 62

Marcia Smith 10:01
miles or 60 Tiny pan.

Bob Smith 10:05
outerspace starts 62 miles out. Yes, the

Marcia Smith 10:08
average commercial airline Bob flies between 31,040 2000 feet high which is 5.9 to 7.2 miles straight up. So when you’re in an airplane you’re still more than 50 miles away from outer space if that makes you feel better it certainly doesn’t make me feel you still dig your nails into my arm. I said, Sir, I can’t fly without that arm. Your arm. Alright

Bob Smith 10:32
Marshall, I’ve got a an old expression, I want you to tell me where it comes from caught red handed. What does that come from? Now that means to catch somebody in the act of doing something wrong because

Marcia Smith 10:43
because

Bob Smith 10:47
I have no idea. All right, this goes back to an old English law that stipulated anybody who butchered another person’s animal would be punished, and the condition was that he would be found guilty if the accusers caught him while he still had the blood of the slain animal on his hands red Handy was caught red handed and that’s a butcher a crime. Yeah, that’s funny, isn’t it?

Marcia Smith 11:07
Funny is not the word. It’s a funny one Marsh or Okay,

Bob Smith 11:11
how about kick the bucket? Where does that come from? Also related to animals

Marcia Smith 11:16
is Oh, I was gonna say is it with hanging? They were put on a bucket and hanging from a tree and when they kicked that it’s

Bob Smith 11:24
close to that is close to that during the 16th century, butchers would slaughter animals by hanging them on a wooden beam. The beam was called the bucket at the time. And when the animals were killed, many of them would have such a sudden convulsion they would kick violently into the bucket. Oh kick the bucket meant to die and caught red handed. Both come to us from old butchers. Alright, and one more. All right. Okay, let the cat out of the bag. Where did that come from? That means to accidentally reveal a secret. let the cat out of the bag. Ah, I don’t know. Well, around 1700 sellers would trick buyers by putting pigs considered valuable in bags together with cats, which were not valuable. And if a cat got out of that bag, the fraud would be unveiled. I thought I bought a bunch of good meat here but they let the cat out of the bag. Oh god. Oh, that’s funny. Cat was like stuffing, you know, but oh my goodness. Already.

Marcia Smith 12:23
There is a 2001 novel Bob by British author Jonathan Cole co II called the writers club. It’s a book about three teen friends growing up in the 1970s. But what is this book famous for?

Bob Smith 12:37
The rotters? Club? Yeah, is that spelled R O TT? Er. Correct. The writers club seems like it’d be about dogs or some

Marcia Smith 12:44
It does, doesn’t it? I don’t know. It contains the longest sentence published in the English language and comes in at check this 13,955 words.

Bob Smith 12:55
Oh my goodness.

Marcia Smith 12:56
Can you imagine? No.

Bob Smith 12:58
No,

Marcia Smith 12:59
you know how I like short clips.

Bob Smith 13:02
That’s punctuation. Well,

Marcia Smith 13:03
that blows James Joyce.

Bob Smith 13:05
I was gonna say James Joyce is the one I think of when everybody

Marcia Smith 13:08
does that goes back to Ulysses. His longest sentence was 4391 words. And this is three times. Three times. Okay. Well, that’s

Bob Smith 13:19
an interesting thing. What kind of an editor worked on that’s my

Marcia Smith 13:22
question. Yes. I was gonna go read it, but I didn’t have the time. Oh,

Bob Smith 13:27
I got some. Okay. What was the first thing to appear on coins? The oldest coins they can find? Cows? No.

Marcia Smith 13:34
Horses. No. naked women? No, not

Bob Smith 13:38
naked women. Mark. I don’t know. Turtles. Oh, really? Yeah, it’s kind of weird. But the first coins imprinted with a turtle in relief appeared around 700 BCE in the Agena. Island in modern day Greece. And what was the earliest written evidence of the use of money we were talking about about what’s the earliest written evidence of the use of money? Was it

Marcia Smith 13:57
in hieroglyphics it was in mezzo Mesopotamia. That’s right. When I can’t say very well, okay.

Bob Smith 14:03
Laws mentioning the use of money in payment for restitution can be found in the code of Erna mu. It was written in Sumerian by the king of her who ruled from 2112 to 2095, B, C, E and law 22. It’s written if a man knocks out a tooth of another man, he shall pay two shekels of silver. Oh, yeah. So that’s what a tooth was worth back in the day. And that’s the first written evidence of the use of money is to pay for a knocked out tooth and was

Marcia Smith 14:31
the shekel isn’t that interesting? Yeah. I wonder how much a shackle was like $1 a penny a dime, a significant

Bob Smith 14:37
amount, apparently to try to restore that person’s features. Who would have thought that the first written use of money it was about getting your tooth knocked out? Yeah. And getting it restored. And that had to be you know, tough back in those days. What kind of dentistry did they have back in 2112?

Marcia Smith 14:55
I don’t want to know they were doing brain surgery

Bob Smith 14:58
back then, too. Oh, Okay, okay, well, thank God we live in modern times, okay? Or what we think of as modern times.

Marcia Smith 15:05
Okay, Bob, why is it when someone is out of touch? They’re said to be out in left field?

Bob Smith 15:11
Well, that’s a good question. Why not right field? left field a bad place to be right? Exactly. Does it have to do with the fact that people think of lefties as being unusual or different, you know people left handed. That’s good. No, that’s not the answer. No. Okay. Why are they in left field Marsha, okay,

Marcia Smith 15:29
it’s baseball, Bob. Okay. In baseball, left field is no more remote than other positions. But at Yankee Stadium, when right fielder Babe Ruth was a player, that choice outfield seats were where the Bambino was. So

Bob Smith 15:43
if you were in left field, your way away from where you wanted to be fans in the

Marcia Smith 15:47
right. That’s right fans in the right field derided fans who were far from the action, and those fans were called the losers. Far from the action out in left field.

Bob Smith 15:57
I have no idea where it started losers.

Marcia Smith 16:01
There is left field Honey, we’re watching the bambino.

Bob Smith 16:05
All right, well, let’s take a break. So we’re not going to be in left field with our sponsors. We’ll be back in just a moment. You’re listening to Bob and Marsha Smith and the off ramp. Okay, we’re back. We are back in right field. Here on the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. We do this every week for the Cedarburg Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin, and it’s internet radio station. It airs on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, I believe now. And then we go on podcast platforms where we’re

Marcia Smith 16:34
over the world where we’re heard. Okay, I get excited, I guess. Yeah, I got a question. All right. Why do most spiral staircases ascend in the clockwise direction? Oh, this

Bob Smith 16:47
goes way back to the ancient castles.

Marcia Smith 16:49
Yes. Did you know that but yeah, I have the answer. Okay.

Bob Smith 16:53
All the ancient castles were done that way. They wanted to make sure that they had the right hands available with their swords in case they were invaded, so that the invaders would come up and have to deal with their left hands, but the people defending the castle would have the right hands free. Well, maybe you can explain it better.

Marcia Smith 17:12
It goes back to the knights and the castles. Like you said, Did you know this all knights had to be right handed because naturally all southpaws were considered under the devil’s influence, of course, and you were disqualified from being a knight if in shining armor if you were a south pole. Geez. So defending the castle meant the attackers were neutralized because they’re climbing up the stairs. And their their right arm is hindered by the wall. Yeah, they can’t get their sword flinging around. So they had a total disadvantage. Yes, you weren’t here.

Bob Smith 17:46
I was right. Yes. It was right. We’ll

Marcia Smith 17:49
get you a little gummy berry afterward. Thank

Bob Smith 17:51
you so much. All right, Marcia, here’s a history question for you. How long did the Crusades last

Marcia Smith 17:56
way too long? I don’t know. Hundreds and hundreds of years. 200

Bob Smith 18:00
years? Yeah, two centuries from now. 1096 to 1300. Across the majority of the so called High Middle Ages, the Crusades were in essence, military expeditions. What was the point of the Crusades? Well,

Marcia Smith 18:12
religion, I don’t know to knock out somebody else’s religion

Bob Smith 18:17
to wrestle the holy lands back from the Muslims. Okay. Yeah. Taken over

Marcia Smith 18:23
sad. Okay. George Washington, Bob, he doesn’t make us sad. He declined the opportunity for a third term as president because he didn’t want to be thought of as a king and had faith in the future of democracy. Yes. You know, he started the to term idea. But what did he recommend for our young country in his farewell address in 1796? What

Bob Smith 18:44
did he recommend? Yeah, he recommended that we not get involved in other countries problems.

Marcia Smith 18:49
Yes, that’s part of it. He also warned against the dangers of the party system. That’s right. And He also stressed the importance of a balanced budget

Bob Smith 18:58
or that you have made a balanced meal. Okay, that balanced budget. What do

Marcia Smith 19:02
you think is the last time we had a balanced budget?

Bob Smith 19:04
It’s been a long time federal balanced

Marcia Smith 19:06
budget. I

Bob Smith 19:07
think it was the 50s maybe or the

Marcia Smith 19:09
60s 1960. More than 50 years ago. Wow.

Bob Smith 19:13
1960s Oh, sorry

Marcia Smith 19:14
about that. George bad. Okay,

Bob Smith 19:16
Marcia, I have another question. A historic question about an era How long did it last? How long did the Middle Ages last? I’ll give you choices here. 300 years, 1000 years, 500 years, 2000 years, 500 years, 1000 years now, the start of the Middle Ages as the end of the Roman Empire about 476 ad right around there. And the Middle Ages span roughly from about 476 ad to 1450. We now think of that not as the Dark Ages, but the Middle Ages. There was a lot of great political upheaval, but the foundation of many modern countries in Europe came out of that. It also was dominated by a surge in Christianity, which led to the construction of cathedrals and the settling of new towns and Bill Religious and the creation of great castles that comes from the medieval times there is such a place to go. Yeah, the web. It’s interesting. Yeah. Interesting that the Middle Ages lasted 1000 years. I

Marcia Smith 20:10
thought it was synonymous with the Dark Ages. Well, that’s

Bob Smith 20:13
what it was called for years. But now that historians are starting to say, it’s not really fair, and people that lived during that time isn’t just a time of ignorance. It was a time of political upheaval, though. Yeah. Lots of people over running different parts of the world.

Marcia Smith 20:25
Okay, Bob, what is Rainbow Village?

Bob Smith 20:29
Rainbow Village? I don’t know what Rainbow Village is.

Marcia Smith 20:33
It is the nickname of a town in Taiwan. It was saved from demolition by people turning the buildings into works of art. Oh, really? Yeah, the whole town was going down and people came in and make turn the all the buildings into works of art. And so it was saved Rainbow Village in Taiwan. Okay,

Bob Smith 20:51
this is a little known. Well, I think it’s a little known. Have you ever heard of the Tea Horse road now what ancient civilization had a trade route called the Tea Horse road the Romans. Now it’s the Chinese we always think of the Silk Road. But the Tea Horse road was a network of caravan paths winding through the mountains of Yunnan, Tibet, southwest China. It was also a tea trade route. He refers to a major traffic road formed by the exchange of tea horses between Han and Tibet from the Tang Dynasty you

Marcia Smith 21:25
drink Yeah. Oh, okay.

Bob Smith 21:28
T intersection but the T horse so they basically transported T on the backs of horses that was the T horse road never heard of that before

Marcia Smith 21:37
in the question if you had said that T road if you had spelled T for me I might have had a chance

Bob Smith 21:42
okay Marcia want me to do again? It’s the T EA horse road. Now that would make a difference.

Marcia Smith 21:50
All right. Bees Bob one more bee question. It’s good to be queen you sit around and lay eggs all day. As many as 1500 eggs a day I don’t know how they do that. And the worker bees take care of your every need. They clean you and they feed you

Bob Smith 22:05
wouldn’t know. Nobody’s cleaning and feeding me if that’s the fact

Marcia Smith 22:09
without constant care she would die because she has no life skills by Apparently not. Okay, but here we go. Here’s the question. When the Queen nears the end of her life, the worker bees raise a new queen. Want to guess how the old queen is dispatched?

Bob Smith 22:24
Oh, she’s dispatched? Yeah, they get rid of her. Yes. How do they get rid of the I don’t know. Do they weave something all around her and send her off like she’s in some kind of a cocoon or something?

Marcia Smith 22:35
This is a little worse. Oh, that new queen stings the old one to death before taking over.

Bob Smith 22:42
Oh, really? I didn’t know that. Wow, tough crowd Bob. Way to retire if you’re a queen bee. Right?

Marcia Smith 22:49
They just getting a little long in the tooth and it’s time to sting it to death. Now,

Bob Smith 22:56
all right, Marsha. Where are the world’s largest tar pits? California Trinidad, Zimbabwe or Russia?

Marcia Smith 23:02
California. No, they’re

Bob Smith 23:04
not the biggest No, get into those wins. And Los Angeles is an interesting, yes, that’s actually rather small area there. But it’s right downtown. That’s the weird part about behind. It’s actually right near the new academy award Museum is right next door, and right next door to a natural history museum to okay, there’s only a handful of these places. They’re also known as tar lakes or asphalt lakes in the world. They’re usually found near fault lines. And they form when the tar seeps up through the ground and lighter elements like petroleum evaporates. The only thing that is there is the thick sticky by two men bi t u m en which is tar. So the biggest tar pit is called Pitch lake. And it’s found in Trinidad, so it’s on an island. Oh, yeah. La Brea. Trinidad. LaBrea is Spanish for the pitch. At about 113 acres in size. This lake is believed to hold 10 million tons of bitumen. It’s about 250 feet deep. That’s a lot of tar teeth. And like other tar pits, it’s home to well preserved fossils of animals and plant life from 1000s of years ago.

Marcia Smith 24:09
Therefore my quotes let’s do aka also known as Okay, okay, that category is University. And so I’m looking for university. Here’s your clue. If I said Jewish church, what university would it be? Jewish church

Bob Smith 24:25
University. I don’t know. I’m confused.

Marcia Smith 24:30
What do you call a Jewish church? synagogue? Yeah, there’s another name for it. Temple.

Bob Smith 24:35
Oh, Temple University. Okay. Thanks. I appreciate that’s

Marcia Smith 24:37
okay. Okay, this is a daisy shorts. Daisy

Bob Smith 24:42
shorts. Yeah, I know. Daisy shorts. Is this something to do with the Dukes of Hazzard? Yes, Duke University. Yes. Okay. All right. I got that one.

Marcia Smith 24:53
I didn’t get it. Okay. You would. Okay. Clooney city. George

Bob Smith 24:57
Town. Right. All right. Hey Okay,

Marcia Smith 25:00
Anderson’s mom Gloria Vanderbilt bright reddish brown. Auburn

Bob Smith 25:07
yeah these are all universities okay

Marcia Smith 25:08
yeah murder mystery suspect suspect murder mystery suspect yeah

Bob Smith 25:14
I think a clue I’m lost in that Butler universe University always The Butler Did It Dear god,

Marcia Smith 25:22
this is a hard one. Okay, it’s quickly burned incriminate quickly

Bob Smith 25:27
burn incriminate. Yeah. I don’t get that one. Syracuse.

Marcia Smith 25:31
Oh god. Yeah, sear and accused. Oh God. Okay, thank ya.

Bob Smith 25:40
Okay, I got one last thing to tell you. We always go into these strange laws that are all over the country different things. What things pawn shops can’t handle in Delaware? Oh in Delaware. Yeah, something you can’t sell in a pawn shop. They had to actually make a law against this pop

Marcia Smith 25:56
tarts. I don’t know what artificial limbs.

Bob Smith 26:01
pawn brokers are second hand dealers but no pawn broker says the law shall take or receive as a pledge or pawn any artificial limb or a wheelchair. You can’t even pulling up a wheelchair in that state. Interesting says the state law. It’s just not legal. I’m sorry. We will not accept your artificial limb. But you can take it somewhere else go cross the state line. Maybe you can find a place to sell that. Wow. So no wooden legs, no wheelchairs. They’re also not allowed to take manhole covers, just in case you had one of those in the backseat. No manhole covers, wooden wheelchairs. Just so you know.

Marcia Smith 26:37
Make a note of it. Okay, okay, cool. My first quote is Winston Churchill. Okay, my guy. And never was he more eloquent than when he said my most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me. Oh

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Bob Smith 26:53
my goodness. This is the man who persuaded the British people to keep a chin up during the war, Blitzer being bombed every night every night. Brilliant, influential achievement of his was to convince his wife to marry him. Remember Her Name? Clementine?

Marcia Smith 27:08
That’s it. All right. Very common.

Bob Smith 27:09
You got another one?

Marcia Smith 27:10
I do. John Steinbeck. What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? Okay,

Bob Smith 27:18
well, that’s all about perspective, right? Yeah, to be able to know the good and the bad. Well, perspective. That’s what we try to give you from real life. All the craziness you hear about and see about and read about, with fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. I’m Bob Smith,

Marcia Smith 27:33
I’m Marcia Smith.

Bob Smith 27:34
We hope you’ll join us again next time when we return with more of those here on the off ramp. The off ramp is produced in association with CPL radio online and the Cedarbrook Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin, visit us on the web at the off ramp dot show.

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