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Posted August 29, 2010
Your ‘elephant’ paper, answers were pretty vague so you asked anyone with more info to write in… so here’s what I know. Elephant size paper is classed under Old English Paper Sizes. Mostly used as drawing (often cold pressed) or book paper and measures 28 X 23ins. There is also Double Elephant measuring 39 X 26 ins. The most famous usage of the Double Elephant size was by John James Audubon who produced Birds of America with more than 700 species of North American birds drawn from life and hand colored in aquatint. He drew life size which is why he needed the very large paper! Note the bigger long necked birds, flamingos, geese and swans etc, were shown with their necks folding back and down, so that they would fit onto the paper!
Judith Loft of Tumwater, WA
Posted August 21, 2010
When “filk” came up on the bluffing round today, I got excited as I’ve been a filker for over 30 years. But I take exception to the definition provided. Had it been described merely as “science fiction music,” or used only the last part of the definition as music performed at science fiction events, it would have been a little general, but accurate. However, the primary description given as music in science fiction movies (which led the panelists erroneously toward sound effects) is completely off the mark.
Filk came from folk music tunes for which musicians wrote new lyrics based on science fiction/fantasy themes. It has since evolved to include original songs on those same themes as well as parodies on any theme of interest to the science fiction community (such as cats and computers) and Celtic tunes (particularly seafaring and drinking songs). But the only filk I know of in a film is Leslie Fish’s “Banned from Argo,” which appeared in “Trekkies 2”.
Brooke Smith of Houston, TX
Posted July 11, 2010
Last week you gave a word that was defined as the empty parking space in front of your parking space that you can pull forward through as opposed to backing up. We want to help you establish it in the American lexicon but it may be an uphill battle since we can’t remember what it is. Maybe we need to get out more…
Juju Cooper of Santa Cruz, CA
The Gang says: We look forward to your efforts on behalf of ‘sprew’ and hope you can galvanize a nation. And while you’re at it, put in a plug for ‘bolly’ (a now obsolete word which means covered with bubbles).
Posted April 23, 2010
At the conclusion of tonight’s show, you said the winning team (if I heard you correctly) had an all-time record score of 116. How is that possible? Each of rounds one, three, and five carry a maximum of thirty points or ninety points total. Since the winning team got the correct definition in round 2 and bluffed the other team in round 4 for ten points each, the maximum score they could have received was 110.
Did you award bonus points for cleverness that I missed during the show?
Bob Harris of Bath, NH
Dear Bob, Scorekeepers for “Says You!” are chosen for their youth, vitality and complete lack of guile. Mathematical skills… while desirable… are not required.
Posted April 12, 2010
Hey guys. Today’s quiz about what doesn’t belong included a list of Easter, Treasure, Fire, and Egg. Your answer was Egg. Not quite right. Egg Island is in the Bahamas. There is also an Egg Island off Alaska in the Aleutian Island chain.
Marilyn Smith of Salt Lake City, UT
Posted March 15, 2010
Your recent broadcast on March 13, 2010 resurrected the old canard that ruminants have four stomachs. In fact, they have FORE stomachs - three dilatations of the esophagus known as the rumen, reticulum, and omasum which are located proximally to the one true stomach also known as the abomasum.
There must be a category which could be based on such common misinterpretations as FOUR for FORE etc…
... and yes, I’m a veterinarian!
Michel Jolivet of Lake Forest Park, WA
Posted March 07, 2010
In today’s show you were commenting about the number 47. The audience and participants all decided that concert harps do not have 47 strings. They have have obviously never met my Lyon and Healy Full sized concert grand (orchestral) harp, which, as I just confirmed, does in fact have 47 strings, all of which require tuning. There are multiple sizes of harp, ranging from 12 strings to 47 strings, but the official “concert” harp used in orchestras is a 47 string harp.
Sarah McGinnis of Woonsocket, RI
Posted January 26, 2010
On the definition of “noop"… Every computer programmer who hears your show will be screaming at their stereos (or computers) that a “noop” is a useless piece of code that pretty much does nothing (derivative of Linux “no-op” for “no operation").
Over time, the word has expanded to include co-workers who are beyond clueless. The idea is that a clueless person can be taught, but a noop is useless and beyond help.
With a bit of searching I did find references for the “point of the elbow” definition. Sir Water Scott used it 200 years ago in “Heart of the Mid-Lothian.”
Brian Wagner of Ashland City, TN
Posted November 04, 2009
In the show that aired on Halloween, in the segment where panelists fill in the next line in the lyrics, you gave the clue:
“Raven hair and ruby lips, sparks fly from her finger tips”
The panelist’s answer was: “Wooo hooo witchy woman...”
This is incorrect. The song goes:
“Raven hair and ruby lips
sparks fly from her finger tips
Echoed voices in the night
she’s a restless spirit on an endless flight
wooo hooo witchy woman, see how
high she flies
woo hoo witchy woman she got
the moon in her eye”
Jon Levitt of Houston, TX
Posted September 12, 2009
The definition of kilderkin was used today, and I believe that
the contributed question had an errant answer. I have checked
several sources, and the term relates to beer containers in older
Imperial measures of volume. The correct unit appears to be 18
gallons or a half barrel rather than a half gallon. Other
conversions are:
1 kilderkin = 2 firkins = 4 pins
2 kilderkins = 1 barrel
3 kilderkins = 1 hogshead
2 hogsheads = 1 butt
2 butts = 1 tun
John Gibson of Springville, AL
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