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What makes or breaks a date?

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Today’s Mystery Monday question revolved around the quirks or personality traits that make or break a dating relationship.

Our question? 31% of singles shared in a recent survey said they wouldn’t date someone who didn’t do THIS. The answer? Eat meat. 31% of daters want a meat-eater! Congratulations to Breeonna from Mount Vernon who wins the $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley!

Here are some other true break-up or “no second date” reasons people shared on online forums:

They smelled like pancakes/Chewed with their mouth open/Bad tooth to gum ratio

Their nose whistled when they breathed/Had the same name as my dad or brothers

Thought people putting windshield wipers up on their cars was a gang ritual – gangs marking their territory

They had an annoying voice/His handwriting was nicer than mine

They didn’t use turn signals when driving/She had Winnie the Pooh bed sheets and towels

Not a gentleman or not a lady/They had no ambition/They were sloppy; messy

Too much video game playing/They were on the rebound from another relationship

They couldn’t swim, so they wouldn’t go into the deep end of the pool with me!

Today’s Word of the Day is fealty (FEE-ul-tee), a noun that means fidelity or faithfulness to a lord; it originated in Old France with the lord and vassal class system.

Thanks for listening!
-Joe

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Mystery Monday – All-Star edition!

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I’m back after a few days of R&R last week…but I do ask for prayers for Lilly’s family as she lost her uncle last week and is at his funeral services today.

Today our Mystery Monday focused on tomorrow night’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game with a two-part trivia question.

Today’s question: Who are the youngest position player and the youngest pitcher to ever start an All-Star Game?

Answers? Al Kaline, 1955 (20 years and 6 months) and Dwight Gooden, 1986 (21 years, seven months).  Congratulations to Ruthie from Mount Vernon who identified them and wins the $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley. Here are Kaline’s and Gooden’s baseball cards from those years:

Al Kaline card 1955Dwight Gooden card 1986

Today’s Word of Day is cannikin (CAN-ih-kin); a noun that means a small drinking cup or can. It can also mean a small wooden bucket.

Thanks for listening!
-Joe

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Mystery Monday!

Good afternoon!
I hope you had a great weekend!

We’re back with another week of music and fun here on the Afternoon Drive!
Today was mystery Monday, and man, this one went quick!
I did the shake test and we learned that this was an item that you’d find in most offices, and we have it here at WNZR.
Lydia from Mt. Vernon called in and correctly guessed that it was a can of air freshener!
She knew it before I did! Well, congratulations to Lydia!

Our Mystery Monday Question today was in what year did the Gibson Guitar Company release its first guitar for sale, and how much did it cost?

The year was 1935, and the cost was $150.
The guitar was the legendary ES-150.

These ES-150’s costed so much less back in the 1940’s, but now, they run for around $2,000. They are a little different now, because they aren’t really made anymore with the Charlie Christian pickups they were originally manufactured with. They are now made with dog ear P90’s.
Charlie Christian’s have a lot of power and warmth, but the tone is also very clear.
You could say the Charlie Christian looks a little like a nowadays hotrail. A hotrail is a really powerful, passive pickup that works better for hard rock and metal.
Now, Gibson makes ES-150’s with dog ear P90’s. P90’s can get you twangy country sounds, or harder humbucker type tones. It just depends on which pickup you’re using and what amp you’re playing through.

Here’s our word of the day…

Pompadour [pom-puh-dawr, -dohr, -doo r] 

noun
1. an arrangement of a man’s hair in which it is brushed up high from the forehead.
2. an arrangement of a woman’s hair in which it is raised over the forehead in a roll, sometimes over a pad.
3. a pink or crimson color.
 In Textiles…

any fabric, as cotton or silk, having a design of small pink, blue, and sometimes gold flowers or bouquets on a white background. Or a fabric of the color pompadour, used for garments.

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly the guitar nerd

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Mystery Question Monday

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Today’s Mystery Monday question came from a Harvard University study that showed that the average age for stopping THIS is 33.  So what is it that we stop?  We stop having a birthday party!

Congratulations to Donna of Mount Vernon who won the $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley.

Our Word of the Day is perspicuous (per-SPICK-you-us), an adjective that describes something plain to our understanding due to its clarity and precision of understanding. If your speaking or ideas are called perspicuous, it’s a compliment – it means people can understand you.

Thanks for listening!
-Joe

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A Cheesy Mystery Monday

Good afternoon!
Joe is on vacation this week, but I’m here holding down the fort!
Today on the show I talked a lot about dairy, because June is dairy month!
Check out the history of dairy month and some fun dairy facts below!

Also, do like my cheesy banner? HA! 🙂

Studying the history of Dairy takes us back far into the past, as dairy products have been with us since we first learned to domesticate an animal. You could even take it back a bit further and realize that the first food eaten by our most ancient ancestors was milk drawn from their mother’s breast. From there on out milk has been there to help us grow strong, healthy, and enjoy some amazing and delicious treats. 1937 saw the establishment of Dairy Month, a campaign to help encourage people to strengthen bones and build a foundation of good health by drinking rich, creamy, healthful milk. Throughout the nation dairy farmers start preparing to share the wonderful things that are included in the long and broad range of Dairy products.
Read more about the history of dairy month here!

Here’s some fun dairy facts!

  • A cow will produce an average of 6.3 gallons of milk each day.
    That’s more than 2,300 gallons each year!
  • U.S. dairy farms produce roughly 21 billion gallons of milk annually.
  • Fresh milk will stay fresher longer if you add a pinch of salt to each quart.
  • To get the amount of calcium in an 8-ounce glass of milk, you’d have to eat one-fourth cup of broccoli, seven oranges or six slices of wheat bread.
  • A cow is more valuable for its milk, cheese, butter and yogurt than for its beef.
  • More than 1,000 new dairy products are introduced each year.
  • A cow produces an average of 6.3 gallons of milk daily and 350,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime.
  • Cows eat about 100 pounds of food every day and drink 50 gallons of water.
  • Cows have an acute sense of smell, and can smell something up to six miles away.

WHAT IF I”M LACTOSE INTOLERANT?! I NEED CALCIUM, RIGHT!?
Yes, of course you do. An 8-oz glass of milk contains around 300mg of calcium. You need around 600-700mg of calcium a day, but if you can’t get it from calcium rich dairy, you can get it from sources like spinach, kale, okra, collards, soybeans, white beans, and some fish, like sardines, salmon, perch, and rainbow trout.

For the Mystery Monday Mystery Question we delved into the average consumption of milk for the average American! Check out the question!
QUESTION: How many gallons of milk each year does the average American consume?ANSWER: The average American consumes almost 25 gallons of milk a year.

Congrats to our winner, Ruth from Utica, who guessed correctly and received a $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley!

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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A Super Mystery Monday

It’s like regular Mystery Monday but with a cape 🙂

Our first Mystery Monday question was…
“What is the name of Superman’s dog?”
The answer was Krypto! Congratulations to Thomas from Mt. Vernon for answering correctly and winning the $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley!

The next question really put your brain to the test…
Who were the 5 actors that played Superman in the movies after Kirk Alan?

Our word of the day was ‘Fortress’
Noun || [fawr-tris]
It’s a large fortified place; a fort or group of forts, often including a town; citadel, or any place of exceptional security; stronghold.

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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CANDY MONTH Mystery Monday

I love candy, but who doesn’t?
Today on the show, Rachel and I talked all about candy!
Check out these fun facts!

  • The man who invented cotton candy, William James Morrison, was a dentist.
  • Fairy Floss was the original name of cotton candy.
  • Snickers, one of the most popular candy bars today, was named after the Mars family horse
  • A lollipop, which was invented by George Smith in 1908, was named after Lolly Pop, a racing horse.
  • Easter is one of the big candy holidays and each year candy companies make more than 90 million Easter bunnies and 16 billion jelly beans just for the one day holiday.
  • Almost everyone eats the ears off of their chocolate Easter bunnies before they eat anything else.
  • Across the country, red jelly beans are most commonly chosen as the favorite amongst children.
  • Almost every child in America will go trick or treating this year (93%).
  • If you laid out all the candy corn produced in a year from end to end, you could circle the Earth more than 4 times.
  • More than 75% of the candy given out during trick or treating is bite-size chocolate bars.

Our Mystery Monday Mystery Question was as follows…
In early 1995, Mars ran a promotion in which consumers could vote what color M&M replaced the tan M&M. What color ended up replacing the tan M&M.

The answer was BLUE! Congrats to Amy of Mt. Vernon who answered correctly!

Our word of the day today was, aptly, confectionery!
noun || con·fec·tion·ery || \kən-ˈfek-shə-ˌner-ē\
This is the confectioner’s art or business, sweet foods (such as candy or pastry, or  a confectioner’s shop!

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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Mystery Box Monday!

Good afternoon! It’s a cloudy one here in Mt. Vernon today, but we had some great music today, as well as the mystery box! Check out what happened on the show today below!

Through the shake test, we learned that part of this object is plastic, and that the plastic is not a container. From the smell test, we learned that it’s not an item you’d find in your kitchen, but it’s an item that you’d find in your office.
The touch test absolutely gave it away, and Joe realized that it was a stapler.
The funny thing was, Joe was looking for the stapler earlier, and couldn’t find it, and I had to keep a straight face because I knew it was in the box.
Congrats to Missy from Mount Vernon who called and correctly guessed!

Our word of the day was: ultracrepidarian.
This is an adjective that means noting or pertaining to a person who criticizes,judges, or gives advice outside the area of his or her expertise.

Check out the history of this word, because it’s really neat!
Ultracrepidarian is nonexistent in Latin and very rare in English. The word was coined by the English essayist William Hazlitt (1778-1830) from the Latin phrase ultra crepidam “beyond the sandal” (there are several Latin versions) taken from the Natural History(book 35) of the Roman polymath Pliny the Elder(a.d. 23-79). Pliny was retelling a retort that Apelles(4th century b.c.), a famous ancient Greek painter,made to a cobbler. The cobbler the day before had criticized Apelles for inaccurately painting a sandal,and Apelles corrected his error. The next day thecobbler tried to criticize Apelles’ painting of the leg the sandal was on, at which the exasperated Apelles  remarked that “a shoemaker should not judge above his sandal.” Ultracrepidarian entered English in the 19th century.

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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Mystery Monday – Chocolate Chips!

Good afternoon! Today is Chocolate Chip Day, so I took the show today to give you some fun facts and some history on the chocolate chip! DaysoftheYear.com says that the best way to eat chocolate chips is by the handful, straight out of the bag, and I’m pretty inclined to agree with that statement.

Since today was Mystery Monday, we had a chocolate chip related Mystery Question!
My question was: “Who is credited with the invention of the chocolate chip?”

Congrats to Olivia of Mt. Vernon, who correctly answered our question!
The correct answer was Ruth Graves Wakefield!

Check out some of the fun facts and history that I talked about on the show today below!

It all started at a little place you may recognize the name of, the Toll House Inn. Located in Whitman, Massachusetts, it just happens to be the home of that most favorite of cookies, the chocolate chip cookie. Ruth Graves Wakefield had originally planned on making a chocolate cookie, and decided to do so by throwing in chunks of a chocolate bar into it. In a happy accident, it turned out that the chocolate did not melt and mix with the rest of the cookie, but maintained its shape, filling the cookie with delicious little chocolate bits.

But it didn’t immediately go from chocolate bar to chocolate chip, there was a little innovation that happened in between first. Based off of the success of the cookies she made, Nestle agreed to add Ms. Wakefield’s recipe to their wrapper. What did they pay her for this honor? A lifetime supply of chocolate! Sounds like an awesome deal to us too! Nestle (and at least one other company) went on to include a chopping tool to help prepare the bars for use in cookies. That is, right up until 1941 when they started selling them as ‘chocolate chips’ or ‘chocolate morsels’.

DID YOU KNOW?

  • The chips melt best at temperatures between 104 and 113 °F (40 and 45 °C). The melting process starts at around 90 °F when the cocoa butter in the chips starts to heat. The cooking temperature must never exceed 115 °F (for milk and white) or 120 °F (for dark) or the chocolate will burn.
  • Today, chocolate chips are very popular as a baking ingredient in the United States and the chocolate chip cookie is regarded as a quintessential American dessert.
  • Chocolate chips are also available in Europe, Australia, and other parts of the world. Nestlé and The Hershey Company are among the top producers of chocolate chips.
  • In 1987 Chester Soling sponsored a contest to find the best recipe for chocolate chip cookies and got over 2.600 responses for various recipes.

    Our word of the day today was peregrinate.
    verb || PAIR-uh-gruh-nayt
    This means to travel especially on foot, or to walk or travel over.

    We begin our narrative of the linguistic travels of peregrinate with the Latin word peregrinatus, the past participle of peregrinari, which means “to travel in foreign lands.” The verb is derived from the Latin word for “foreigner,” peregrinus, which was earlier used as an adjective meaning “foreign.”That term also gave us the words pilgrim and peregrine, the latter of which once meant “alien” but is now used as an adjective meaning “tending to wander” and as a noun naming a kind of falcon. (The peregrine falcon is so named because it was traditionally captured during its first flight—or pilgrimage—from the nest).

    Thanks for listening!
    -Lilly

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