Transcript 5/23/18 Rachel Reagan (audience contestant)

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Transcript 5/23/18 Rachel Reagan (audience contestant)

#1 Post by BBTranscriptTeam » Thu May 24, 2018 4:56 pm

Rachel Reagan

$1,000
Before modern technology took the need for brute force out of the chore, a wooden bat called a beetle was part of what process?
A: Washing the dishes B: Doing the laundry
C: Paying the taxes D: Cleaning the bathtub

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B: Doing the laundry
Chris pays Rachel $1,000.

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Re: Transcript 5/23/18 Rachel Reagan (audience contestant)

#2 Post by Estonut » Thu May 24, 2018 6:24 pm

A different relationship between bats and beetles continues today...

Baseball Bats Threatened by Invasive Beetle

An invasive Asian beetle has killed 50M to hundreds of millions (depending on which story you read) of ash trees. Ash was historically used for baseball bats, but it has been recently replaced by maple as the wood of choice.
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx

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