Hi there.

Hope you've had a good day.

Do you like to play tennis?

I tried it several times but I ended up running all around the court and not making much contact with the racket!

I was never good at it, but I liked playing Top Spin on Playstation.

I've not heard of that but I guess it's a tennis game?

Now that you mention it, I wasn't too bad at tennis on the Wii!

I guess we owe our love of polo shirts since they were invented for tennis by Lacoste.

Yeah its a tennis game.

I never tried Wii Tennis though.

I do like my polo shirts, I'm actually wearing one now.

It's funny that a tennis player was who they were invented for and they were later on adopted by polo players.

We wear them too.

I guess they would have needed to change those polos numerous times for the longest match ever!

Can't imagine playing 11 hours over 3 days time!

That's a lot of tennis.

Just watching for 30 mins makes me tired with all the running and grunting, but jeeze 11 hours.

That's got to be exhausting!

Some interesting tennis trivia occurred in the late 1960's.

An African American won the 1st US Open title and it hasn't been won by a black man since.

I'm surprised by that.

I am too.

I guess you don't see too many black men in tennis.

I know the Williams sisters have represented the African-American women well though.

That's true.

The guys need to step up!

A funny thing that happened in the late 1960's was that they used a helicopter to dry the grass before they could play the US open in 1969!

That's one way to do it, I guess.

I heard that US Open quarter-finalist Gael Monfils beat the "Roger Federer of Paddle Tennis" after learning how to play just days earlier.

Wow, how could that happen?

So do you still play video tennis games?

Did you ever play on the original Nintendo?

It's crazy that it only had 54 color display.

Entertainment has come a long way!

I haven't played it in a long time.

I used to love playing my Nintendo.

It's crazy how far we've come in such a long time.

I actually bought one of the last NES systems in 2003 when I was stationed in Japan.

I wish I would have held on to it.

Oh wow!

That would be something since they stopped selling them in Japan that year.

Did you ever watch Bill Nye The Science Guy for entertainment?

My kids loved that show.

I loved watching that show.

I heard that he got his big break by winning a Steve Martin lookalike contest.

I'm going to have to look that up later.

That's funny because I don't really see the resemblance!

Maybe earlier in their career?

People do change, like Ronald Reagan who was turned down for a role because he didn't look presidential enough.

I bet that casting person felt pretty foolish once he became President!

I looked it up and there was some resemblance when they were both younger, so I can kind of see it.

I wonder if losing that role made Reagan want to become president even more?

Maybe but I'm sure there isn't any actual cross-over between the pretend and the real.

Jim Carrey is an actor that also changed over time.

He won't act in dramas now because he believes in only projecting positivity.

Interesting choice.

I never really liked Jim Carrey in drams.

His comedies were always good to me.

I definitely saw more of his comedies.

I guess that's better motivation than Michael Caine who became an actor just to meet the prettiest girls in his high school drama club.

Hopefully he's matured since then!

Maybe he has too.

Speaking of high school Joe Hamm taught drama at his old high school and one of his students was Ellie Kemper.

I wonder if kids in the class ever thought they would have Erin from the Office and Don Draper from Mad Men in their class?

No probably not!

That's would not be something they could imagine.

And what about the people that knew Hugh Laurie as a kid.

Can you imagine knowing that he would eventually make $700,000!

$700,000 per episode is crazy!

Yes for sure!

I guess that's entertainment in our modern world!

I agree it is.

Well I have to get going.

I hope you have a great rest of your day!


Do you follow basketball?

Hello - I follow college basketball but not the NBA.

What about you?

I enjoy both; I really like watching basketball live and in person.

Did you know the supreme court building has a basketball court on the top floor?

I had hear that, I love the name they gave to the 'high court'.

LOL yes that's a good name.

I saw the New Zealand basketball team name is called the Tall Blacks.

Don't they have a Rugby team named All Blacks?

Not sure on that one.
I don't really know much about Rugby.

Many coaches are among the top paid employees in their respective states

That's pretty amazing.

There's only one coach with a losing record in Kansas's history.

Didn't he invent basketball too?

I'm not too sure on that one.

Did you know that Nintendo can be displayed in 54 colors?

No I did not.

I usually watch streaming gameplay of Nintendo players on YouTube.

I saw that Nintendo was discontinued in Japan in 2003.

Really, I guess that makes sense if the Playstation is made there and much more popular.

Yep definitely.

I saw that Ceasar bred chickens not for food, but for entertainment.

What kind of entertainment can a chicken provide?

LOL no idea.
Maybe cock fighting?

That is terrible.

I could see it happening though back in those days.

Yep I could see that happening as well.

Did you know YouTube is the second largest search engine on the internet?

I use YouTube all the time.


Do you know who won the Djokovic and Nadal match at Wimbledon in 2018?

I recently read that it was a very close and exciting match, but I don't know who won.

I heard the Djokovic won.

The other match was the longest semifinal in Wimbledon history.

I also heard that Djokovic and Nadal both were accomplished players having 29 grand slams and five wimbledon championships between them.

Yes, both are quite accomplished.

I like tennis, but don't know much about it.

What is the name of that thing they hit the ball with?

Do you mean the racket?

I agree that I am not too familiar with tennis, but I heard that the match between Djokovic and Nadal took place on a grass court, which is a whole new level of difficulty for most players.

Yes, that is it.

I heard that Grass courts accentuate big serves.

Furthermore, grass courts makes breaking serves that much more difficult.

Is a tennis ball solid?
I know the outside is felt.

If I remember correctly, the tennis ball is a hollow rubber ball covered with felt.

Did you know that before 1978, a tennis player could use any object as a racket?

For instance you could use a book, stick, or even a ladle if you had the skill.

That is crazy!

Then again, any sport which resorts to using a helicopter to dry the surface must be!

Well every sport have their fair share of bizarre facts.

Did you also know that grunting before hitting the tennis ball is considered by some to be cheating and that the longest rally was 643 consecutive shots.

Nope, but I do know that the longest match ever topped eleven hours!

Eleven hours!?

That is almost half a day.

I'm amazed they had the stamina to play for so long.

That is respectable in its own right.

Well, that time was spread over 3 days.

At Wimbledon in particular they have a curfew so have to split long matches up.

Oh okay.

That is still impressive, but I was imagining all in one day.

That would be amazing.

So what other types of entertainment do you enjoy?

I enjoy entertainment like blizzard games or dramas.

Cool.

Drama goes back to the ancient greeks and Aristotle's Poetics.

Drama is interesting because you can divide them either into comedy and tragedy.

Sometimes drama gets a negative reputation for being depressing, but it is the very same negativity that enable depth in a story.

I agree.

Well, nice chatting, and remember to be like Michael Caine:    Go for the prettiest girls who are all in drama!

Same.

Have a wonderful day and know that entertainment that gives pleasure and delight is wonderful.


Did you ever play Nintendo?

I did a long time ago.
Did you?

I did, interesting fact is that the original system could display only about 54 colors.

That's not a lot.

I did see Contra the other day and it looked so old!

Contra had colors or was it a White and Black sistem?

It had colors.

2D though.

Only left/right and up/down.

It was one of those old school boxes with like 20 games on it.

I see, I  havent played that one, the nintendo system had  a long run, it was discontinued on 2003 but by then there were other video game consoles availbale

Did you ever play Hoops on there?

No, never had the chance to play it I was more of a Mario fan, do you like Basketball?

I do.

Kareen's dunks were once banned from college basketball.

I cannot imagine that now.

I agree, that is like one of the best moves in basketball, I sure love to see it, you know the coach is usually the highest paid member of the team

James Naismith, the inventor of basketball was a terrible coach.

He is the losingest coach in Kansas history.

Thats kind of ironic right, how can the inventor be a terrible coach lol, you can literaly change  the rules!

HA!

I never thought of it that way.

That's funny!

Like the Supreme Court having a basketball court on the roof.

That court must be amazing, I wonder if they use it a lot though!

They do!

The notorious RBG has serious crossover skills.

Trips up kennedy every time.

I can imagine, do you use YouTube a lot?

I use it to learn how to do house stuff.

Do you use it a lot?

I do, I use it almost everyday, its amazing how YouTube has grown, its become a monster.

Do you have youtube red?
What do you use it for?

I dont but I think its a streaming service, you get access to original series and other great content


Neither do you like the Yankees?
I used to watch them all the time

I do not like them.
I am a cubs fan.
Baseball starts this week.
Do you like baseball?

I watch baseball sometimes.

I like the Yankees because they win.

But I do live in Detroit so I also watch the Tigers even though they're not good haha

I thought you all were going to with the world series a few years back.

You had such a great team.

Yep it's always a struggle haha.

Did yujiro back in 1973 to Yankee Swap their families?

What was that about

I have no clue but that is weird!

I wonder where the locst yankee player is!

I know.

They need to make a movie about that!

Do you know who Bill O'Reilly is?

Apparently he made up a fake press pass to get in to see the Yankees back in the day

I do know who he is.

I had no idea he was a baseball fan.

Don Mattingly was suspended for long hair?

That's funny!

Do you know Bobby Richardson?

He's the only person to win a World Series even though he lost the Series somehow

Wow!

That's crazy.

A married couple made the MLB schedule for 24 years!

That is crazy!

Also crazy the man found millions of dollars of baseball cards in his attic.

What a lucky guy!

Kickball is called soccer-baseball in canada.

That's cute.

Haha the name is cute but also dumb lol.

Have you ever seen a baseball manager takes to the field and play?

Apparently that's possible

Not in modern baseball.

Can you imagine Sparky Anderson or Jim Leyland take a few hacks up there?

Dope I don't think they would do very well LOL.

Did you know that baseball is huge in Japan?

I hear the crowds get really wild

Yeah.

It is a party.

They also have a different baseball culture.

Have you ever heard a game on the radio?

I have.

The announcer gets really into it haha.

What I have not heard is a Jupiter radio storm on the radio.

I should check that out

I wonder if they have to play 40% jupiter music like Canada has to?

Haha that's a good question!

I would rather listen to Jupiter radio than classical Latin though.

They have a station that plays that in Finland

Is latin language popular in Finland?
Can they understand that?

I have no idea!

Of all the places in the world to have a Latin radio station I have no idea why it would be Finland LOL.

And that started back in 1989 and is still going


Hi, how are you?

hey there, good, how are you?

I am well.
Do you like baseball?

I do watch it from time to time.Do you have a favorite team?

I do, the Chicago Cubs.
Do you have a favorite team?

I like the Yankees.

Did you know bobby richardson won a world series mvp despite losing the series?

I did not.
That's crazy.
what team did he play for?

the yankees.

and their logo predates the team actually

How does that work?

They had the logo and then the team was built?

yeah the logo was designed by tiffany as part of a medal of honor for john mcdowell

That's like swapping families.
It just doesn't make sense...

I know pretty interesting.
do you know ben affleck?

I do.

Not a huge fan but he has some decent movies.

He actually is a boston red sox fans and put the movie gone gril at halt because refused to wear a yankees hat

That's so funny!

Is he the lost yankees player and is just a really good actor?

maybe.do you know yankees do not have names in the back of the uniforms?

I did know that.

Because the name on front is more important that the name on back, right?

yeah and they do not want the attention to be on the player but on the team

At least they have a code and stick to it.

Suspending donny baseball because of a haircut.

yeah.
do you listen to the radio much?

A little.
Nice chatting with you!


Did you ever play the NES?
It only had 54 colors!
Video games have come so far!

I had Atari when I was really young.
And yeah, games look like films now

The NES was around in 2003.

I didn't know it had such a long lifespan.

I didn't either, but I do recall hearing about it into the 21st century

Do you watch TV?

I was surprised that Hugh Laurie gets paid so much!

I'm not.

Hit shows are shown around the world and make the producers and networks a huge amount of money.

They better pay the talent.

Would you want to be an actor?

Only if I was successful, and that's rare.

What about you?

Maybe if it gave me the chance to meet people.

That's why Michael Caine joined drama in high school.

Well, in high school I think a lot of guys do that.

I'm not sure that I understand Jim Carrey's thinking about not doing dramas.

Dramas can have a positive message too.

True.

But I think Carrey means that at some point the conflict is negative?

It's a weird point.

Conflict is ubiquitous.

Everyone experiences it.

I think people want good stories, and conflict drives stories forward.

You can't have dram or actually comedy without it.

Jim Carrey has a new comedy show, but it's not like there's no conflict in it.

Hm.
Sounds flat.
Are you a tennis fan?

Not really, but I'm familiar with many of the athletes.

This fact was surprising though The longest match in tennis history went on for 11 hours and was spread over 3 days.

I wonder who was playing.
They must have lost about 15 pounds.

I hope it wasn't a hot few days too.

I wonder if they wore polo shirts for the match.

Ha.

Only if it was a long time ago, I would guess.

I thought it was a bit extreme to use a helicopter to dry the grass at the US Open in 1969.

Yeah, but they didn't tell us how wet it was.

I live near where they hold the US Open and it can be swampy around there.

I thought they would have portable dryers or something.

I guess helicopters are fastest.

It sounds like it was just too wet for the normal drying methods.

That's likely.
Well, I had fun chatting.

Yes, me too, Have a good night.

Bye


Hello, The internet sure has changed things and how many people behave.I remember when I was a teen we were out doing things and socializing in person.

Now so many teens rather stay in and use social media.

And it's doubled in the past few years.

45% is a lot of the population constantly online through their phones

Wow, that is a lot.

While I feel the internet and cell phones are great tools, I do feel that they are completely overused by so many people both young and old.

Children and teens killing themselves over something that happened on social media is a problem that needs to be addressed.

95% of teenagers have access to a smartphone, so it's definitely a problem.

I was in college before I had one.

It's horrible that it's causing an increase in violence among teens.

It's harming their relationships

It is a sad turn of events.

When I graduated high school we did not have cell phones, a few years later those really big ones were out.

"The Brick" LOL It is  affecting all people across all economic values.

At least some of them recognize that social media is a fake imagine of someone's life.

A 15 year old girl even acknowledged that

That is great.

It does surprise me how many teens and children become so  "addicted" to the internet.

There is so much out there for them to be doing and learning about.

Life is too short.

Wow I was just reading that a library has saved a copy of the internet.

That is really hard to believe.

That must have a lot of data, especially since there are more automated software programs on the internet than there are humans

I agree with you there.

Did you ever hear that in 1936 some russians made a computer that ran on water?

I am not sure I understand how that would have worked.

That's incredible!

I also think it's incredible that a woman named Ada Lovelace was the first to write a computer algorithm

That is amazing as well.

Did you know that smoking near apple computers voids the warranty because it is considered a biohazard?

That makes sense though.

In 1968, Bell distributed a cardboard computer to high school students to teach them how it works, but computers have changed drastically since then

Oh yes so much has changed since then.

Once the technology was there things just exploded.

Now what is new today will be outdated in not too long.

I hope they didn't dismantle what the lego brick enclosure that housed the first Google computer though

Hopefully not.

Myspace turned down an offer to buy Facebook in 2005 for $75 million.

That's definitely their loss, though I wonder how much MySpace would have influenced divorce like Facebook has.

In 2011, a third of divorce filings contained the word Facebook

That is truly amazing.

I never knew that.

Facebook sure became very big after first being offered at a university.

It took it a few years after being open to 13 year olds in 2006, but by 2012, it was worth $104 billion

That is a success for Mark Zuckerberg.

I read that the like button on facebook is illegal in Germany!

Maybe they're trying to deter their adults from using it as a news source like 30% of Americans do

Maybe so.
It has been nice chatting with you.

You too!


Hi, how are you this morning?

I am good, yourself?

I hope they find the missing Chinese tourist.

She is too young to have been on her own and I am sorry that she got kidnapped

I'm good, thanks for asking.

I hope they find her too.

So much bad stuff in the news all the time, it seems like.

I guess good news doesn't sell.

Someone should be watching over young girls at all times.

It is very unsafe for them.

I agree, little boys too.

They are some sickos out there, always on the prowl.

On a different note, do you own a car?

I do not have a car.

I use public transportation and do not have to shovel snow anymore.

Lol, I hear you on that.

Cars have come a long way since Karl Benz invented it in 1886, though.

I would probably buy another one if it was not so expensive now.

When I was younger cars, insurance and gas were cheaper.

That is true.

You probably know why trunks are called trunks, then?

I think I have seen that type of trunk at a car show.

I like a trunk that you can open from inside the car.

And heated seats.

Heated seats are nice.

Trunks got their name because old cars used to have wooden trunks on their backs.

Better than no trunk at all, I guess.

Did you know that the Dodo was actually a pigeon relative?

I have seen pictures of Dodos.

They are strange looking.

No, I didn't know that.
I just knew they were extinct.

have seen real pictures of the last Dodos.

Too bad they went extinct.

Many species are going extinct because of human activity.

That's so true.

I was shocked to learn that most birds have bones that are so hollow the entire skeleton weighs less than the feathers.

That is so they can fly using less energy.

Hummingbirds steal spider webs to use n their nests.

I hope they leave the spider behind!

Hopefully, they do.

I read somewhere that there are wild birds in Australia that can mimic various sounds, like car alarms and chainsaws.

You know, I saw that on a nature show.

I think they are a member of the Raven family.

They sounded exactly like what they were imitating.

One was making a sound like a camera clicking.

Unbelievable.

That is unbelievable!

I saw on a nature show that some birds fly from Alaska to Northern mexico without sleeping when they migrate.

That must be exhausting!

I know hummingbirds go from New England to Mexico.

Poor little things.

That must be exhausting!

Well, it's been nice chatting with you this morning.

I hope you have a very good day, friend.


So how much does Amazon dominate you life, I seem to interact with it every day?

I for sure go online .

I just can not believe one person founded the company.

I'm sure when he opened it as a book store he had no idea it was going to become the all encompassing thing it has become.

I'm just trying to figure out where the heck I was in 1994, I know I knew zero about Amazon.

I actually worked in a book store in 1998 after it had been around for a while, even then I could the writing on the wall for us as a business.

Yeah, I bet.

Did you know that the first amazon.com customer spent $27.95 and got a building named after him?

Lucky that person, I hope it was a decent building and not just some block in a industrial complex.

I'm guessing it wasn't delivered on a Sunday, that first order.

Yeah, probably not.Does Amazon deliver on Sundays?

They do now, I got a shock a little while back when I got my first Sunday shipment, I hear they have a contract with the USPS.

That is really amazing!
You are talking me into ordering stuff!

Don't do it, once they get you you're stuck for life.

It's like the old days of the company store, you'd earn money and then just give it straight back to you employer by spending in the company store.

Haha.

That's a good one!

Do you know how many miles Amazon warehouse workers walk in a day per shift?

When you ask a question like that you know that it can't be a small number.

Sounds like it might be a good way to lose a few extra pounds.

You are not wrong!

On the average shift a warehouse worker walks 7 to 15 miles!

Another billionaire that can't have dreamed his little enterprise would dominate the world is Mr Zuckerberg, it started a simple dating app at school.

Yes!

Can you believe how long FB has been around?

I have an account but rarely access it.

Not really for any reason other than that I have not got into the habit.

I'm sure they'll get me one day.

Facebook can be fun.

Are you familiar with the FB/Burger King promotion?

I have recently discovered it.

Kind of contrary, I wonder how Facebook feel about it?

I'd imagine Facebook will be unfriending Burger King in the corporate version of social media.

Yep, you are 100% correct!

Burger King was offering a free Whopper to anyone who would unfriend 10 people.

I wonder why that German state banned the like button?

Can't see how you can enforce it either, you can't stop a like button at the border.

Most of my FB activity is using the "like" button, so I'd be pretty bored without it.

It was good chatting today!

And you, have a good day.
Goodbye.

Goodbye.


Don't you think Amber Alerts perform a very valuable service in the country?

I think they do, but they can vastly be improved.

Having said that I believe it has saved a few lives.

I think it recently saved a 12 year old girl visiting from China if I am not mistaken.

I heard about that case.

It's amazing that they were able to find and rescue the girl.

Yeah, its amazing how tourists are prime targets no matter where in the world you go.

She was part of a tour group and got snatched by a woman.

It's probably because they figure tourists, especially ones here on limited visas, will have a harder time staying in the country or navigating the legal processes.

It's horrible that they target innocent people like that.

Yeah, there is always some evil person out there.

That reminds me of that Maryland shooting at a liquor store.

The victim was only 25 years old.

That story was an awful one.

I heard the victim and the shooter knew each other, but I can't say any personal dispute would justify the shooting.

Oh so that was the story behind it.

That is odd.

I guess the police must of killed the gunman while he ran if they didn't figure out a motive.

They have detectives looking into the motive, so they'll probably find out something from friends or family.

What a sad thing to be questioned about.

Yeah, its crazy here in the states.
Shootings seem to be every where.
Even concerts.

It's not just shootings, though.

There are other problems like hit-and-runs.

A 21 year old recently died in one of those.

Yeah, hit and runs freak me out.

You could be having car trouble and be hit by someone just not paying attention.

One guy hit a parked car on the side of the road and kept going, but he was caught later.

I'm glad they caught him.

People like that who don't take responsibility and leave others to die for something they did are dangerous.

Yeah, they shouldn't allow him to drive after that either.

I think he was driving a Nissan pathfinder.

I wonder if that was how they were able to identify and catch him.

Cars are frequently notable in cases like that.

The Amber Alert case we talked about before noted a white Infiniti was one of their leads.

More than likely.

I'm sure most cars have something in it or on it to identify it from similar models.

I mean if they have little arrows next to your fuel symbol to tell you where yours gas cap is then anything is possible.

Including mounting flame-throwers on your car, if you're in South Africa.

That is crazy!

I'd be afraid the car would blow up or set everything on fire.

That makes me wonder what Google's self driving car's "aggressive mode" does.

Hopefully nothing with flamethrowers!

I imagine it makes the car more willing to change lanes and go around other cars to get to a destination faster, rather than just taking the safest route and staying behind slower drivers.

That actually makes sense.

I don't think hey should call it aggressive mode however.

I agree.

It puts me in mind of a road-raging AI car.

Or maybe an angry, evil Transformer!


I use Amazon a lot.
Do you do the same?

I order from Amazon frequently probably 3 to 4 times a week.

Did you know the guy that found it  was Jeff Bezos?

I am aware of him.

He's quickly becoming one of the richest people on the planet.

Were you aware that the company was founded in 1994.

Hard to believe it's so new when it's as huge as it is.

Yeah, I heard that they started it with just selling books!

I can't believe that that's how Amazon started!

I remember when I first started shopping with them online they touted themselves as a bookstore.

So weird now.

Bezos is so rich that he built a clock into a mountain that should run for 10,000 years.

That's interesting I did not know that.

I did hear though that the first Amazon customer got a building named after him.

Did you know that the US Postal Service has a contract with Amazon that lets them deliver packages on Sunday?

I did not.

I wonder why I always have to wait until Monday then.

Maybe it's just in big cities.

I've been getting packages on Sunday once in awhile it just depends.

Do you have an echo?

I do not.

They make me a little nervous.

I do appreciate that Amazon has it's own line of products including the echo and kindle.

I have an echo.

It's interesting because I can always ask it different questions like What's the world record for speed reading?

I don't know but I know it's held by a woman named Anne Jones.

Do you know?

Yeah, it's 4700 words per minute can you imagine?

I'll bet she could read the crap out of Facebook.

Wow!
That's insane.
I would get so many books read.
Do you have a Facebook account?

Believe it or not I don't.

I had one for a couple years but, I hated all the advertising.

I have one but the toxic environment has begun to get to me and I am on it less and less.

Did you know that MySpace turned down an offer to buy Facebook for $75 million in 2005?

That was a huge mistake.

No, I bet they regret that.
Do you know why it's mostly blue?

No I don't.
I do like the color scheme.

It's because Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red green color blindness.

Maybe you should try out that Burger King promotion where are you unfriend 10 people and you get a free whopper!

What a strange promotion.

I don't understand what Burger King had to gain from that.

People do weird things with Facebook.

Iceland used it for public suggestions to rewrite their constitution.

That seems like a bad idea.

It could you imagine all the fake accounts, robo, and, trolls.

If we did that here in the US.

I bet we would be like Germany and have to make the like button illegal.

That's odd also.

If it was a dislike button maybe I could understand it but why outlaw a like button?


Hi there, do you shop online?

I sure do, my favorite store is Amazon, and you?

me too.
Do you shop their AmazonBasics line?

I do, I find it to be pretty good.

I agree.Did you know Jeff built a clock on a mountain?

Yeah and I guess it is supposed to run for 10 000 years.

wow

Yeah.

Did you know they deliver on Sundays as well now?

Yeah all thanks to that contract they signed with USPS

Yeah so convenient.

Their workers seem to walk lots, up to 15 miles a day

Yeah it explains why they are one of the top companies now, lots of work there

Yeah and they also ow IMDB since 1998

Yeah they seem to have expanded to include lots of stuff nowadays

Yeah I know.
Do you use Facebook much?

Sometimes.
Did you ever use MySpace?

I sued to, they made a bad decision not buying Facebook for just $75 million

Exactly.

Do you know the like button is illegal in parts of Germany?

I wonder why though.
DO you know why it is blue?

Yes because Mark is colorblind but can see blue

Yeah.

Did you hear Iceland is using Facebook to rewrite the constitution?

Wow I wonder how that is working for them, seems too transparent

Yeah I know.

Did you hear about that Burger KIng promotion of unfriending people on Facebook?


hey there, do you every do any shopping on amazon?

Hello, I use Amazon all the time.

Its a lot cheaper to shop on there.

That is if you dont mind waiting a few days for your item.

That is true.

But if it need be they will deliver on sundays as well.

Yeah thats helpful.

I do most of my Christmas shopping on Amazon.

Everything is so much cheaper.

I got my kids these 7 foot bean bags with memory foam in them for less than 200 bucks.

Great deal.

They even own IMDB.

Oh yeah.

Its funny how they started out as an online book store and became the worlds largest internet retailer, based on revenue and market capitalization.

Yeah and they are so busy now all the time that their warehouse workers walk 7 to 15 km a day

Thats not really surprising, I worked at a car parts factory delivering parts to the line and I pulled pallets at least 15 miles every day.

I heard that Amazons first customer only spent around 30 bucks and they named a building after him.

That would be cool.

yeah not too bad.

the ceo of amazon built a clock in a mountain that runs for 10000 years.

Yeah that would be a facebook post if I ever saw one.

Lol.

Talk about making money.

Facebook is right up there with Amazon in that regard.

yeah.
were you ever on myspace?

I had one in the early days, can hardly even remember it though, to be honest.

did hear that Myspace could have bought facebook in the early days for 75 million dollars and turned it down.

Bad business decision.

That is indeed bad business.

Others like iceland are using facebook to reach to people to rewrite the constitution

I think thats just crazy.

I mean its a good idea but it may be giving one company too much power of persuasion over people.

I know they are making the posts, but you cant tell me if facebook wanted to they couldnt put the right ads in there to persuade people the way they want them to go with it.

Not that Facebook would do something like that.

Just a thought.

that is true, not sure how they are going about it.

do you like to read?

I dont have anything against reading.

I just dont read much.

Unless you count bedtime for my son.

I try to read a book with him every night before bed.

that is really nice.

there is a woman who holds the record for speed reading.

Thats cool.

I think her record is like 4700 words per minute.

I wonder how they test it to be sure she actually read all she said she did for the record.

Maybe they ask her after, what she has read?

Nonetheless that is really fast.

I would say she takes a comprehension test on what she read to make sure she read that much.

Yeah that is fast though.

For sure.
It was nice chatting with you.


Hi, do you have a means of transportation like a car?

Yes, I do  I love my car!
and you?

I am more of an SUV type myself.

Though they say part of the definition of a car is one that can sit 1 to 8 people.

So that seems like it can hold enough for me to have a car.

Yes, that sounds right.

Isn't it interesting that Mcdonalds added the drive thru because soldiers were not allowed to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues.

I didn't know that!

Another fun little fact is it is actually legal in South-Africa to have a flame thrower right on their car to prevent carjacking.

That's pretty scary.

I think so, my goodness thats

Yes that is pretty scary!

On a lighter note though, birds are also known as Aves.

Never heard of that term though.

No, I haven't either.

I love to watch birds!

There so colorful and make different sounds.

I like the humming birds, how smart are  to use spiderwebs to repair their nests.

That makes me feel better about spiderwebs than!

Hummingbirds are one of the smallest ones out there!

The bee hummingbird is only 2 inches long!

I know, they are so cute with their fast fluttering wings.

I didn't realize birds bones are so hollow that they weigh less than the feathers.

But it makes sense.

That must help them to fly even easier!

I thought I noticed a hummingbird while I was driving to a concert this past weekend.

Aww,, really.

We have a feeder, interesting to watch!

Its a long trip for birds to fly from Alaska to northern Mexico without sleep when migrating!

I can't imagine not getting any sleep.

I wouldn't be able to do that without a nap at least.

Its just so far for a bird.

Nature is a wonder!

Like the extinct dodo bird.

Now when I think of it, I can see the why its a sub-family of the pigeon.

I can see that resemblance also.

When I got to outdoor concerts, which can be like an amphitheater, you can see plenty of birds.

The outside ones, if you buy popcorn they will try and get it.

I love to go to outdoor concerts.

Some of the ones I have been to have fireworks also.

Lots of fun!

Yes they are fun!

In Croatia, they still use an ancient roman amphitheater for concert venues!

That would be impressive to go to.

I would love that!

Some of the performers have to play a lot of gigs each year, it can be non-stop for them.

Yes that has to be fun, but tiring!

The Ramones played 2,263 concerts non stop for over 20 years!

Tha's is a lot.

Some performers have toured for over 30 years and still doing it.

Recording in the roman amphitheater in Pompeii would be interesting!

Good chat!

Thank you, have a great day!

Thanks! !


Good morning!
How are you today?

Good, just surfing the internet and reading some inter-linked hypertext documents

Sounds interesting!
What does that entail?

Just checking email and a little file sharing

Oh gotcha!

The internet is a crazy thing that allows us to do all of that huh?

I can't believe there is even 3g cell service on top of Mt Everest.

Yea, it's a bit shocking Mt.

Everest has 3g and I can't even get service in my basement

Preach!
Haha Do you have a facebook account?

Yea, I made one shortly after Facebook launched in 2004

Can you believe Myspace turned down an offer to buy it for 75 million dollars a year later?

I mean I can't blame Myspace, facebook wasn't that popular in 2005 yet

Look at it now!
It's worth 104 billion dollars!

Yea and countries like Iceland are using facebook to rewrite their constitution

It is taking over our lives!

But I guess that is a way to let the public make suggestions and alterations.

Maybe that's why Schleswig-Holstein has made the like button illegal to curb it's influence

More than likely!

What kind of computer do you have?

I want a water-run computer like the Russians built in 1936!

Just an apple, good thing I don't smoke and can't turn it into a bio hazard

Oh me too!

Crazy how far ram has come.

the space shuttle's computer runs on only 1 mb of ram.

Yea, one day Transhumanists plan to upload their minds to computers

It will be like that Johnny Depp movie all over again!

I'll stick to the internet for information instead of using other's minds.

Maybe Depp can make a movie building a 16-bit computer using minecraft building blocks

That would be interesting.

I'm sure he would!

Well it was nice chatting with you, have a great day!


Smartphones and teens, this sure is a problem.

It is a problem, but I'd have to argue, not only restricted to problems for teens, adults as well!

However, I think social media usage is a problem

I  agree, did you know that 89% of a group of teens surveyed sayd they were online constantly, I think social media really plays a trick on us.

The results are even more interesting when you dive deeper into the survey results, because social media usage has relatively no positive or negative effect on someone.

I dont know about that, a teen said that people are killing each other because of social media and the attention, I must say I agree.

Wow, killing, that is pretty extreme!

I can see how social media usage can have a negative impact on people.

People might be jealous of the curated postings and trigger people to become vicious or envious.

Or just looking for the attention like the school shooters, well at least thats my opinion, and it looks like girls are connected more than guys.

What do you mean by "girls are connected more than guys?"

ok so in a 2014-2015 survey, about 50% of girls said they were online constantly while a 39% of the boys were online constantly as well

oh I see.

thanks for clarifying.

This constant online usage really affects people's perception of "fitting in" and loneliness I think.

However, in another light, teens used these platforms to communicate with another during the Parkland shootings

I get that, I think that it can help teens feel less lonely, and gives them a way to express their opinions as well.

Yes, but I think it also makes teens feel more lonely when they see events from peers of hanging out at certain places or doing certain things.

It's amazing to see the large decline in social media platform usage, from Facebook dominance to Instagram now

Its amazing how the internet has evolved, that is for sure, there is a 3g service on top of Mt Everest.

Wow!

I wonder if cellphones can even operate normally in those climates, whether there'll be battery issues.

I think my ears would freeze before I could have a conversation up there.

Did you know there is a copy of the internet stored?

Haha, thats true!

Oh really?

I did not know that, do you know whether the copy has ever been needed for whatever reason?

Or the purpose of why it is being stored as a copy?

I think it hasnt, its there as a safety meassure, can you imagine the caos if the internet went down?

That would be very problematic!

I'm surprised that there are 7% of people who read the full terms and conditions when presented with signing up for service, I thought it'd be less than that.

I didnt read mine lol, contracts tend to be too long and then we get screwed by that fine print.

I'm guilty of the same thing.

I think that was the case for the Facebook data scandal last year.

I didnt gear about that scandal, I did know there is town in Germany were the like button is illegal


What hobbies do you enjoy?

I enjoy bird watching, you?

I enjoy a wide range of hobbies such as listening to concerts, but I am curious to learn more about bird watching.

Could you tell me more?

yeah, it is really cool, we try to find them in the area whether by spotting them or listening to their sound and then classify the sound

I mean you must be very passionate about birds to do so.

Are you intrigued by their color, form, ability of flight, or other aspects?

for sure.

their bones weigh less than their feathers

Do you often travel to see the birds or do you go to the same places?

around the same places really.

would love to see those birds that travel from canada to mexico without stopping

Do you ever collect anything from birds?

no I do not.
do you know hummingbirds?

Yes they are adorable.

I helped nurse one back after it hit a window during highschool

oh that is nice of you.

they are also little stealers of spiders webs

What do they steal?

the spiderwebs and then they go and fix their nests

Oh that is interesting.

Very resourceful, yet kinda mean too.

Then again nature is pretty messed up yet wonderful.

I mean birds fly, which had been a dream for most of human history

yeah.

and they are so smart  in australia.

some species can mimic camera and car sound alarms

Do they do that to trick humans?
Lol

I am not sure but good for them to have learned how to do that

So when bird watchers hear sounds of cars beeping and doors being unlocked, it is basically birds?

hahah yes.
do you like going to concerts?

Sometimes if the concert is nearby and I really like the artist.

How about you?

Same here.
nice chat


Hello, do you like amazon?

Hello there, I do, I use it quite a bit.

How about you?

i love amazon!

Use their shopping site all the time and most of their other services as well.

Did you know that they have a contract with the USPS to deliver on Sundays?

Yes,  that is fantastic!

I guess they also hold a patent on 1-click buying, thats interesting.

Thats interesting you can patent that,  I need a button to patent lol

Yeah right lol, did you know that Best Buy and Target both price match Amazon?

Thats smart on their part.

I still order from amazon though,  going shopping nowadays is a hassle.

Yeah it is nice to be able to sit in your home and compare prices and get the products in no more than two days for most things.

I know right!

And find exactly what you are looking for!

No need to ask about aisles and locations.

No hassle, on a different subject do you use Facebook?

yes i use facebook.
how about u

Yeah I do, it is very useful for running my soccer teams, posting game times, scores, etc.

Nice.

its way more than it started out to be,  it used to be so college kids can communicate with each other,  now it is so much more.

Yeah I started mine back in college when it first came out and its so much bigger now.

In germany the like button is illegal.

I think I have read about that, so funny a government would do that.

Did you hear about the BK promotion?

yeah,  would you do it?

Yeah I probably would, theres a few I don't talk to anyways lol.

Same here lol.
Its been good chatting, gotta run.


hey there, do you ever buy on amazon?

I use Amazon all of the time.

It's hard to believe that it started off as an online book company at this point.

I know they have really grown a lot.

the first customer even got a building named after him

That person is lucky.

Did you know that as of 2005 they have surpassed Wal-Mart as the most valuable retailer?

I am not surprised.

their workers walk 7 to 15 miles a day thats is how busy they are

That's very busy.

I wish they would pay them accordingly.

Jeff Besos is so rich that he built a clock into a mountain that should run for 10,000 years.

I winder why he did that though.

He is also cousing with a very famous country singer.

No idea.
I did not know that.
Who is that?

I cannot remember the name but he is very famous.did you know amazon also owns IMDB?

I was just made aware of that recently.

I use IMDB constantly and didn't know.

It's not reflected on the website anywhere.

yeah apparently they have owned it since 1998

Wow!

I would never have guessed that.

Do you happen to have a Facebook account?

I do how about you?

I do but I ma on less and less because it has become so toxic.

They had 2.2 billion users as of January 2018!

yeah, what a loss for myspace too though.

they passed the opportunity to buy it for very cheap back in the day

Yes I heard that could have bought it for &75 million in 2005.

That was a terrible business decision.

very much so since myspace has really sunk now and facebook is makingbillions

Agreed.

Do you know why the color scheme of Facebook is primarily blue?

apparently Mark is green-red colorblind

That is correct.

I do like the color scheme.

Had you heard that Iceland took public suggestions on Facebook when rewriting their constitution?

That seems like a bad idea.

I do not know maybe that is th ebest way for the people to gt in touch with them?

not sure

I'm sure but I tend not to trust the opinions of a lot of people on Facebook.


Do you think weather forecast are usually accurate?

because if you do, the DC area is in need of umbrellas.

Yes it is more and more accurate.

In my opinion.

Indeed, it looks like it will rain for the next days in Washington.

It looks like it theres a lot of clouds and then the forecast says theres going to be a lot of rain on Sunday, will just have to wait and see if its accurate.

It seems that you can have the weather on an Alexa device, did you ever tried it ?

I have, I actually have a Fire Tablet and Alexa is an upstanding gal, she delivers and is usually correct

I was asking more about how it was easy to use an Alexa device to get the weather, I don't think your tablet has enough computing power to do a weather prediction.

Oh I see,well maybe it got the forecasts from other sources, Amazon sure is a big company now a days, what are your thoughts on Jeff Bezos?

I think he deserve the success that Amazon has.

For a big company it still has a relatively good reputation.

I agree, I think he is really smart the company has grown a lot and in a great part its because of him, it started as a bookstore but now it will sell just about anything

Yeah, I don't think I will ever use all Amazon's services even IMDB belongs to amazon.

I see, I didnt know IMDB also belonged to Amazon, the first costumer on Amazon spent $27  and got a building named after him, what a bargain!

It must have been a book.

At that time, books were expensive.

What kind of things do you buy form Amazon ?

I buy groceries, tech stuff, I dont really like buying clothes there but I buy a lot of things in Amazon, it has great prices and a wide selection of brands

I don't buy groceries, Amazon has not implemented this service where I live, nor the Sunday delivery of packages.

I see, well what do you buy in Amazon?
you do use the service right?

Mainly to buy things like tools for the maintenance of my bike, board games and books (and e-books).

Do you read books ?

I do like reading, do you have any recommendations?

I read classics since they are often free in e-book forms.

David Copperfield is a great classic that has influenced a lot of authors.

And you,what do you read ?

I just read Starship Troopers is an old book but I thought it was interesting, I like to read science fiction books.

Did you read Ender's Game ?

It seems in the same vein as Starship Troopers.

I havent, but now that I finished with Starship Troopers I might watch it, I thought the movie was alright hopefully the book is better.

Science-fiction books are also popular in the military, Starship troopers and Ender's Game are on the suggested list of the marines.

Yeah I heard they were on the list of recommendations, CS Lewis is also one of my favorite authors.

I did not read Alice in Wonderland , is it still good.

Lewis and Tolkien met often, it is strange to think that that knew each other.

Yeah they actually had competitions on who would read laugh first reading terrible poems.


Hi, how are you?

Hey!
I'm well!

Do you have any kids?

I have two but one is too young to be online and the other just watches YouTube kids....

I have one child who is old enough to be on youtube kids but that's really it and even that stuff can be questionable.

Is yours old enough to be on social media?

Not really.
He's 7.
What about yours?

Thankfully only three.

I've read that teens are on so much lately.

I can only imagine trying to keep up that image of who you're trying to be to your peers.

I am not looking forward to the day my son asks to get on it.

I do not have the time to monitor that and his actual life.

It is definitely a distraction that I did not grow up with.

In today's day and age, the bullying goes deeper, more personal and follows kids home on the weekends in a way it never did before.

I read a AITA on reddit just yesterday about how a girl was shamed for being underweight and turned around and shamed the original girl by posting a poll on social media asking if people found her attractive just to shove it in the girls face.

Oy vey, it's a vicious cycle.

That's terrible.

I am not looking forward to the drama that will come with social media and online usage.

I have a 5 year old daughter too.

She's going to be crushed if someone does that to her.

All we can do is teach them right from wrong, I suppose.

Yeah.

They can learn on top of Mt Everest because it has 3g cell service!

Wow!

Maybe the can even borrow the space shuttle's general computer that runs on 1mb of ram.

That's not a lot!

Only 7% of people read the terms when buying something online.

That's not a lot either!

Oddly enough, I am part of the 7%!

However, I did not know that number would be so low.

Must be why MySpace turned down an offer to buy facebook for $75 million in early 2005!

Haha

They would have either made a killing or run it into the ground.

I am not sure which one.

Probably the latter considering where they are now.

HA!

Probably...

They might not have made it blue like Zuckerberg did because he is color blind.

That's true.

I wonder what kind of world we would live in if we had a red or yellow facebook interface.

Maybe we could really upload our minds to computers and memory sticks.

Burger King had a promotion that if you unfriended 10 people, you got a free whopper!

I only have like 100 friends so I would have lost 10% of my friends.

I would have gladly done it though...

I'd give up ten contacts for a whopper!

Nice chatting with you!


Did you know MySpace turned down an offer to buy Facebook for $75M?

Bet they regret that one.

No doubt since Facebook was valued at $104 billion in Feb. 2012.

THat's so crazy to imagine.

So much money.

Zuckerburg used blue as the main color on the site because he suffers from colorblindness.

I never knew that!

I can't believe it's been around 15 years already since he founded the company in 2004.

Wow.

I still remember opening my account.

Seems like yesterday.

Iceland is rewriting their constitution through Facebook so the public can make changes and suggestions.

That's pretty neat.

Facebook's "like" button is illegal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

I wonder why?

Hmmmm, no idea.

That seems really weird.

Burger King once had a promotion where you could get a free Whopper by unfriending 10 people.

Nice.

I would have racked up quite a few free whoppers.

...with cheese please!

lol

Haha.

So do you like Whoppers more than Big Macs?

McDonalds added the drive thru in 1975 to accommodate soldiers who were not allowed to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues.

I do like whoppers better.

lol  I had no idea it was that late.

I'm surprised I don't remember them not having them.

The trunk of  cars became to be known that because in the old days people used to carry wooden trunks on the back of their cars.

Interesting.

In South Africa you can equip your car with a flamethrower to prevent carjackers.

Wonder if oil slicks are ok?

LOL  Did you hear how Jann Mardenborough became a pro race car driver?

No, how?
Won a contest or something?

They beat 90,000 people in the Gran Turismo video game!

That's awesome.

I've always thought video games could get me somewhere!

Did you know Cadillacs are names after the French explorer who founded Detroit?

Pretty cool.

I didn't know that.
How cool!
Do you play monopoly?

I was just playing with my daughter last week.

I heard Nick Cage convinced Johnny Depp to pursue acting while playing Monopoly.

Nice!

The longest game of monopoly lasted 70 days!

Whoa!

I think I've played a few games that were close to that.

Haha.

lol  Me too!

Every sweepstakes must legally have a free method of entry and that's why you can get free McDonalds monopoly pieces by mail!

Monopoly is actually outlawed in North Korea and Cuba for being so clearly capitalist.

I can believe it.
It's been fun chatting with you!

you too!


Did  you have a MySpace account?

Who didn't have a myspace lol, did you

I did, Facebook seems to be following the footsteps of MySpace, they had a huge $150 billion loss the other day

I believe it, I am not using Facebook as much.

Facebook could have been bought by myspace in 2005 but turned it down

Yeah they could  buy the site for $75 million so yeah, sounds like the missed a great opportunity

for sure, but who knows, that could go under too.

i unadded some friends a year ago to get a free whopper from burger king

I heard that was a great promotion, many of my friends took advantage of it and unfriended me, that made me really sad

Ha me too, but a free whopper!

I guess a free whopper can make people go crazy lol, do you know why the page has so many blue?

for sure, i wish i could delete 100 of them for 10 free whoppers!

Yeah, that seems like a fair deal, so do you also like cars?

I love cars, especially cadillacs, you?

I love cars as well, Cadillacs are named after a French explorer right?

Yep I think his name was antoine de la mothe cadillac, he founded detroit

Yeah the same one, do you also like the Ford Company?

they were the first ones to mass produce cars

I like ford trucks to much.
Did they invent the trunk also?

I dont think so, the wordtrunk was used because of wooden trunks back in the day so I think its more of a cultural thing

didn't know that!
Ever been through mcdonalds drive thru?

I have yeah, I think thats one of the greatest inventions, why do you ask?

Apparently they were created because soldiers couldn't get out of their cars when dressed in uniform

Oh so thats the reason behind the invention of the drive thrus, interesting.


Ah, Facebook and Twitter are losing cash and users?

I find social media to be less and less social and more of a giant echo chamber with a mob mentality as of late.

What do you think?

I think social media is a great invention,  but of course people take advantage of it and use it for other intentions.

I think its funny that Myspace turned down an offer to buy facebook in 2005

That is amusing.

Kinda like Blockbuster ignoring Netflix.

I also remember when I first got Facebook and users had to have a .edu email address :D :D :D  Ah, such simpler times....

I'm more of a Redditor myself.

When was the last time you played Monopoly?

Wow,  I cant even remember,   its got to be like 10 years since I played Monopoly!

Great game though!

That's about as long as I'm thinking' I played last.

I've never played any of the spin off versions but I did buy an anniversary set in 1997, I think it was?

It's floating around in the garage or a closet somewhere.

I should dig it out to torture the teenagers and give them an old school lesson on the injustices of capitalism!

I would play the Mc Donalds monopoly game they have lol Did you know  longest game of monopoly lasted 70 days!!!!!

That is an investment.

Seventy days?

Had to be pre-Facebook and Twitter to accomplish that!

The McDonald's version frustrated me.

I always needed Boardwalk, along with most of other players.

McDonald's is and always will be my guilty pleasure.

I like the safeway version too!

At least that one you can win kitchen stuff lol did you know the game was banned in russia and china and is still outlawed in north korea and cuba

I wonder, what IS legal in North Korea and Cuba that we don't know about?!

Anything?

I had a friend who vacationed in Cuba last year with her family and she said it was really nice.

Meanwhile, I've visited South Africa and I feel kinda cheated I never saw a car equipped with a flame thrower.

They do that to prevent car jackings there.

lol I have no idea,  but North Korea is weird.

lol is this something that was on your bucket list?

to see a car flame thrower?

I bet that would be really popular in like canada where it snows!

lol

HA!

I despise snow.

Back when my husband was in The Marines, we actually spent a year in ZA, which was nothing like I thought it would be because my knowledge was limited to late night infomercials about starving children....

Anyway, yeah, now I want to see some YouTube videos of this because I never saw any of the sort there!

Fun fact - Marines still aren't allowed anywhere off base in their cammies.

That is interesting,  why not?

That's something I would have to ask the hubs.

I just know they could not do anything "out in town" in their cammies that was personal.

McD's adding a drive thru for soldiers in 1975 is believable...

But The Army wears their uniforms all over the place.

Yes, my husband is in the Army,  and a lot of my family is in the military,  I was just wondering because I never heard of that rule.

So, Hubs is in the garage - I called and asked him :) He says Marines consider cammies to be "work clothes" and it is unprofessional to be in such when not "working on official business."

They loosened it up to allow a quick stop at the bank but it's still frowned upon and not a common thing.

I see that is interesting.
Is that only for the Marines?

Yeah.

I'm not a Marine - He is a retired Marine.

Marines are a unique breed ya know.

Those days of starching cammies and shining boots seem like ancient history now.

I literally called him rather than walking to the garage and didn't wanna Google and cheat ya out of legit info or - Heaven forbid - Misspeak.

Marines are just....Different!

Oh well.

Speaking of drive thru's and cars, I never knew Detroit and a French explorer had anything in common.

I always associated French explorers with Louisiana!

That is interesting.
lol Thanks for checking on the info!

lol you're welcome!

I'm now wondering when I got so lazy that I'd call a family member under the same roof lol SMH.

Hey - If Iceland can rewrite their constitution using public input via Facebook - What in the world would The United State's constitution look like if we did something like that?

What is friendship worth to you?

Would you unfriend 10 people on Facebook to get a free whopper?

lol

Yes, I would...Starting with my crazy relatives!

I swear sometimes I think they view Facebook posts as a legitimate obligation.

:D

hahaha,  that is true i could do without a lot of complaining from people on facebook.

Its been great chatting with you,  have a great day!


hey theer did you ever play the game monopoly?

Yes, I love that game though it'll take a long time before anyone ever becomes bankrupt.

Do you?

ya I played it as a kid, don't think we were ever able to finish a game though, you?

Yeah, it takes too long, the longest game of monopoly lasted 70 days!

Did those people not have other commitments or they were trying to break a world record or something?

lol thats way too much time, I liked playing the mcdonalds monopoly too did you?

I don't think I've every played that probably because it seemed impossible to win anything to me, did you ever win anything as a result?

I think I got free fries one time lol, apparently you can get free pieces by mail though

Oh wow, do you know when the next McDonald's monopoly offer is?

I'd give it a try.

Do you agree that the game Monopoly can be used as a teaching tool about the injustices of capitalism?

I guess it could be, it's funny that it was banned in russia, china and north korea because of capitalism lol

Yeah, how are kids going to learn!

Speaking of China, Facebook is banned there and in another region, the "like" button is actually illegal

well that is silly, I think that is in the german state schleswig-holstein right?

Yeah, I have no idea how to pronounce that.

What do you think they use in place of that "like" button or any theories why it's illegal, it seems to promote positivity though

no I have no idea, I do know why facebook is blue though

I think it was because Mark Zuckerburg is color blind?

yup exactly, did you do the facebook burger king thing back in the day?

No, I did not know about it back then and probably wouldn't have participated, it seems a bit harsh, did you?

haha I would hav edone it with people I don't like on fb lol, id get that free whopper

Haha, I love whoppers and if it's free, I especially love!

McDonald's was the one to start the drive-thru trend because they wanted to accommodate soldiers who weren't allowed to get out of their cars while wearing their uniforms.

I use it a lot to this day!

Great invention!

haha yes I want to use it right now!

weird it was invented in 1975 you'd think itd have happened earlier

I'm not sure but imagine if they patented it or trademarked it, that would be a great income!

yes!

Speaking of which I'm goign to go to a drive through now, see ya :)

Have a good day, enjoy your lunch!


Do you still use the radio?

I do, I love listening to the radio, what about you?

I personally find the technology behind radios to allow for the transference of sound to be intriguing.

However, I myself have never really used the radio

You have never used a radio?

how can that be!!

and it is intriguing I wonder who discovered those waves and decided to use them.

I am interested in the uses of radios in both history and in space as soldier made radios with just a razorblade and pencil.

However, I found no need to use the radio since I had computers and phones

Yeah  I guess radios are becoming obsolete, there was a ventriloquist show on the radio back in 1930, sounds kind of silly to me though

Well I don't completely think radios are obsolete.

There is even a free website to listen to thousands of classic radio drama.

With the surge in audiobook and listening to literary works, maybe previous radio dramas may surge as well

There is a radio station that picks up solar activity I wonder what station is that, it would be cool but eventually become boring.

I think it would be as boring as a Finnish radio broadcasting entirely in classical latin

Yeah I wouldnt understand a word of it, you know that the sun is so massive it makes up 99% of the mass of our entire solar system

Then I wonder how much mass the biggest star discovered in our galaxy would be.

After all it is 1 billion times bigger than our sun

Wow, that big!

it must cover a big percentage as well, I would love to see the sunset on Mars though

Does Mars have an atmosphere?

Without one, the sunset should look white

The sunset is supposed to be blue, it must be a really nice landscape to watch.

Wow!
A blue sunset?
It seems beautiful just imagining it.

It does seem beautiful, you know the equator actually rotates at a faster rate than the poles, I thought it was the other way around.

is it because of the centripetal force, the distance for rotation at the poles is less than at the equator, leading to a faster rotation rate at the equator?

Wow that sure is an interesting explanation thanks, our sun sure is interesting.

I agree and what makes it even more important is how it alone basically supports life with a nearly infinite amount of energy

I think about the perfection of the sun, its almost a perfect sphere that provides us with the energy every living things needs to survive

I couldn't agree more.

In any case, thank you for this enjoyable chat about the sun.


Do you like comedy?

Yea, I love Seinfeld.

Nice to see Julia Louis-Dreyfus win the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

I love Seinfield as well.

Did you ever watch 3rd Rock From The Sun?

I've seen a few episodes, I'm surprise 3rd Rock beat out Seinfeld at the 1997 golden globes

I thought that was a bit unfair not only did the show beat Seinfield but also Friends and Frasier

3rd Rock must of been really funny in 1997 to beat all those great shows

I know right, never paid much attention to the show, must start now, did you watch the movie Green Lantern by the way?

I've seen a little of it before turning it off, casting Jack Black in Green Lantern wouldn't have made it better lol

I think casting Jack Black would have been a big mistake, and its a shame the movie didnt work Green Lantern is a great hero, I guess DC hasnt had much luck with its heroes

I guess not.

I heard Kung Fu Hustle is a funny movie, at least Bill Murray thinks it's a great comedy

I think its a great comedy film yeah, you should really watch it if you want to laugh for a bit

I just might, sounds better than watching the UK version of that 70s show which was cancelled after 10 episodes

After 10 episodes really?
that must have been a terrible makeover

It sounds terrible, apparently the show was a verbatim remake of That 70s Show

I see, thats too bad, the show was good FES was really funny too bad the remake didnt work out

South Park is pretty funny too, The Simpsons crew sent them flowers after they made fun of family guy

Sounds like they have a good friendship with the crew of the show, thats a nice thing to do, what about Thomas the Tank Engine?

ever watch that one

I recall watching a few Thomas the Tank engine episodes that George Carlin voiced

The show has great narrators, thats something we can agree on, Alec Baldwin, Ringo Starr

The Simpsons had a lot of great episodes, there is only one where Bart is not featured at all

Only one?

makes you wonder the reasons behind that


how's it going?

Do you watch much tv, it's fascinating how they are able to transmit moving images

Hi!

It is fascinating but I dont think people pay much attention as to how it works.

Do you like sitcoms?

Yea, I'm a huge south park fan.

When they did the family guy episode the simpsons sent the creators flowers

How funny!

I like watching old reruns of Seinfeld.

Apparently Julie Louis Dreyfus won the Mark Twain Prize for Humor.

Yea I love Seinfeld and she is very funny and well deserving of the Mark Twain Prize

I didnt realize she was 57 years old.
Do you like Mark Twain?

Not familiar with much of his work besides what is common knowledge

Most people know him as a writer but he did a lot of stuff.

He was one of the first people to patent suspenders.

I didn't know that, he must of made a lot of money from that.

I did know he invented the word gullible

I didn't!

I suppose we needed a word for it though lol!

He was a cat lover as well.

Well we can thank him for the word "swag", or curse him

LMAO!

He made that word up too?

I had no idea!

Apparently he once said that the cherimoya was the most delicious fruit known to man.

I have never heard of it but maybe he made up that word too!

I'm interested in trying some cherimoya now, hope it isn't too expensive

I wonder what it tasted like.

Have you ever watched the show Shark Tank?

Yes I've seen a few episodes and some clips online

Apparently most of the deals they make are never even enacted.

Seems like a waste to me.

Yea that's really misleading

Did you know that the only Shakespeare play not made into a tv movie is the two noble kinsmen?

I never even heard of it!

No I had no idea.

Do you know there are over 750 episodes of pokemon

Thats crazy!
No, I had no idea.

They average 50 episodes a year for 16 years straight, I didn't even know it has been on that long


Hello there good friend.

I love when the sun is shining outside.

The sun is actually white but is perceived as yellow because of atmospheric scattering.

Hey there, good to meet you.

That's interesting.

I'm pretty interested in the Cosmos and the sun in itself is amazing.

Without it we wouldn't have life on Earth.

Yeah exactly, I think it is all very fascinating.

I would hate to get struck by lightning bolt because it is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.

It's kind of crazy to think that the sun is only 1 billionth the size of the biggest star in our galaxy.

And just the amount of other stars in the universe.

Yeah it really puts things into perspective.

The sun accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the solar system.

Yeah, but I think they are still trying to figure out what dark matter and dark energy are, so that could change.

So much we don't know.

That's a really good point.

If we could ever harness the energy of the sun we would be set.

I don't understand why solar energy isn't a bigger thing.

It's what powered life on Earth for thousands of years prior to electricity.

I completely agree with you.

It is very sustainable and I think it is the future.

In 2011 Neptune completed its first full orbit around the sun since 1846.

If they setup a colony on Mars, would you go?

The Sun doesn't keep it quite as warm as Earth.

I would go to visit but I definitely wouldn't want to live there.

It sounds cold.

If we had a colony on Mars what they have their own elections?

I think we would most definitely make them report back to us for a while, but's inevitable that they will become Martians and want control of themselves.

Ha ha that would be very interesting.

I wonder how elections would work on Mars?

Psephology is the study of results and other statistics related to elections.

I wonder what the big issues what be on Mars.

I bet they would have better turnout than the US.

Yeah I bet they would too.

Hard to believe the voter turnout for US presidential elections is so low.

I know right?

The people who don't vote but still complain drive me crazy.

( I mean no offense if you fall into that category lol)

No problem they annoyed me too.

Interestingly though since 1900, the taller candidate has won the US presidential election 75% of the time.

Hmm.

Trump definitely taller than Hillary.

Was Obama taller than Romney and McCain?

That's a good question I'm not sure I will have to look that up.

There's only one state to have a none of these candidates voting option for presidential elections and that state is Nevada.

I wonder how many people select that option.

I bet a lot did in 2016

Yeah there's a good chance a lot of people selected that.

In ancient Athens, officials were appointed by lottery because they believe elections will lead to an oligarchy.

That would not fare so well in our current climate.

Well it looks like we are unfortunately headed towards an oligarchy so maybe it would have been for the best here.

Nice chatting with you.

Have a great rest of the day.


Hello

Hi, how are you?
Do you listen to the radio?

Mostly you tube on my phone.

I used to listen to the radio a lot more.

I listened when I was a kid.
Not now.
I use a computer.

Yeah.
Im using my computer right now.

There is a website where you can listen to thousands of episodes of classic radio dramas for free.

I wonder who visits that site.

Probably an older generation.

I think it might be kind of cool to listen to a couple of them.

There are probably some good stories in there.

Would you listen to the news in Latin though?

Nope.

I couldnt understand it.

Maybe I would if I was trying to learn latin.

Since 1989 a Finnish radio station has broadcast 'Nuntii latini' - a weekly news program conducted entirely in classical Latin

Did you know they made radios while fighting in WW2

I would expect the troops used radios in WW II.

They needed to communicate.

They made their own radios using a razorblade and a pencil as the diobe

That is quite clever.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
I couldn't do it myself.
I wonder what they could pick up.

Probably am radio or a bunch of german stuff

I wonder if they could hear the storms on Jupiter.

not sure.

did you know that a lightning bolt is 5x hotter than the sun

The surface of the sun is probably much cooler than the interior.

I wonder if we could harness that lightning energy.

Yeah that or harness the suns rays effeciently.

The sun produces enough energy in one second to meet the needs of the entire planet for 500 000 years.

I wonder how much of that we could capture, and where would store it.

i think solar needs a lot of work then.

Solar has a lot of promise.
Anyway, I enjoyed chatting!

Me to.
TTYL.


It makes a lot of sense that Julia Louis-Dreyfus would win the Mark Twain award, don't you think?

Absolutely I am a huge fan of hers.

Yeah, I really loved her on Seinfeld, but I actually haven't got into Veep.

She also did some work on SNL.

I didn't see her often on SNL, but I could see her being pretty great on there as well.

Her role as Elaine will forever be remembered by TV fans everywhere.

I was surprised that she had so many Emmy awards actually, and six of them for Veep alone.

Yeah I believe it is a few more than she got on Seinfeld.

The others on the show, except I guess Seinfeld himself, didn't do a lot of big stuff afterwards.

Even more proof that Julia deserved the award for her continued work in comedy.

Makes me wonder how she kept that drive going for so long.

I think maybe her continued success and the demand for her as a likeable character

I guess seeing how much people love you through these awards helps.

I believe Julia has more awards than any female comedian in history.

Would be interesting to see how she compares to comedians in general.

I imagine she's up there towards the top.

She is tops in my book, I absolutely love her.

I don't think I've seen her do stand-up comedy before, do you know if she does?

No I have not, only watched her on Seinfeld.

Yeah, same here.

I'll have to look into her a bit more, maybe watch Veep too.

Did you catch the award show?

I don't watch awards shows for the most part, so I missed it.

IT was very good and very funny


hi how are you?
do you like radio?

I love the radio!

What do you like to listen to on it?

I used to listen to country, then rock, but now I like most all types.

i used to listen to the radio a lot.
now i dont.
i use the internet.
i like rock and pop mostly.

I like to watch music videos, too.

As a kid I was fascinated with ballroom dancing on TV.

Do you like Dancing with the Stars?

dont really like to dance.

dont really understand it.

DWTS looks interesting but i dont understand it.

I heard DWTS is having a country singer, a comedian, and a blind skiier named Danelle Umstead.

That is something I don't understand!

i bet the screening is pretty careful.

i dont know how well a blind person can dance but its probably pretty good

A blind person dancing?

Perhaps.

A blind person skiiing?

How?

lol Did you hear some of the comedy roasts about DWTS show?

Someone called the host Dustin Offman instead of Hoffman.

I also don't get that joke.

Do you?

because he is off the beat a lot?

i dunno.

didnt see him dance.

i guess that dustin is not a great dancer?

OK that makes sense then!

lol Off beat!

Well, the person that's the host is named Tom Bergeron.

I think they're both short white guys is how they got grouped together.

Nikki Glaser is who said it.

I've never seen her comedy before.

ok, i dont know those people.

comedy is often difficult to follow without knowing the whole story.

Yes, you're right.

My Grandma loves DWTS.

I think she likes country radio more, though.

From 8 to 8 she's got it on at all times.

at that age, you gotta do the things you love.

i dont listen to country but i can see the appeal.

friendly warm music.

positive stuff.

She grew up on a farm, so I can see it!

I heard Mary Lou Retton is also going to be on DWTS.

Do you remember her?

Famous gymnast and first woman athlete on a box of cereal.

I think she's also done comedy skits in SNL.

she was a great gymnast.

yes, she would be a good person for that show.

im surprised that the fender stratocaster was intended for country music.

its used in rock.

the telecaster is used in country.

Speaking of country music, did you know that singer George Strait and Jeff Bezos of Amazon are cousins?

That family is so rich!!

i am surprised by the connection.

i didnt know that Henry ford helped  the popularization of country music

That's a cool fact!

On DWTS do they only have classic and pop music?

I wonder if the country singers that go on the show ever dance to their own songs or even the country genre?

true.

i guess DWTS has its own kind of music for ball room stuff.

maybe CDWTS then?

country dancing?

line dancing?

a different show maybe.

anyway, great chat!

I was about to say I wish they had dancing with the horses, but I guess equestrian sports are close!

I did see dancing with dogs on a talent show.

I go honor my Granny and listen to a country song now for old times sake!

have a great day!
enjoy the music!

Thanks, you too!

After that I'll have to change the mood with a comedy show, though!


Do you use the radio?

Hello - I use the radio everyday.
What about you?

I don't really use the radio for daily use, but I am interested how it is being used for deep space exploration

That would be pretty cool.

Did you know a Hanson song became the most requested track on an alternative rock radio station?

I didn't.

Do you enjoy listening to music on radio?

I love listening to music on the radio.

my commute is about 45 mins each way to work so I use it to pass the time.

Any type of music in particular?

Rock and Country mainly.
What's your music preference?

I like country since it is the amalgamation of the american working class.

Did you know Bill Murray voiced the human torch in the 1970 four radio show?

Do I didn't.

Did you know both hitler and ford were opposed to the spread of jazz?

Oh wow I didn't know that.
Hitler was a bad bad man.

It goes to say much about the traditional mindset of the time.

In any case, ford finance the spread of country music so that is a plus

It has been 37 years since a comedy won the academy awards for best picture.

Do you enjoy comedy?

I do enjoy comedy.
What about you

Honestly, who doesn't it is meant to be humorous and induce laughter.

I think kung fu hustle was amazing

That was a good movie.

Did you know the fender stratocaster was intended for country music?

I did, but I think rock is doing a good job using it to its fullest potential

I agree.

Country music was originally inspired from Celtic music which is interesting.

That is really cool.

Indeed, thank you for such an interesting chat about music.


Hi, are you comedy fan?

I do!

I used to love watching 3rd Rock from the Sun.

I couldn't believe it won a Golden Globe in 1997 and beat Frasier, Seinfeld, AND Friends.

Cool.

I found out recently that the origins of the term comedy has its roots in Ancient Greece.

In the Athenian democracy the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire that was performed by the comic poets at the theaters.

Sounds like the original Saturday Night Live!

It's a fun way to talk about current events and be able to critique ideas without condemning them.

Exactly.

Back in Greek comedy they used a dramatic performance that pits two groups against each other in an amusing conflict.

That describes most SNL skits to a T.

Yeah, especially when they would use satire to portray people or institutions as absurd or corrupt.

Something we can still relate with!

Absolutely.

Also, most of those opposing sides were the "Society of Youth" verses the "Society of the Old".

That characterizes the comedy struggle between powerless young people against social conventions we now call "The Man".

Totally.

I like that you can still listen to comedy on the radio.

I agree.

Also, comedy is even incorporated in our technology.

The creator of the python programming langue named partly named it to honor the British comedy group "Monty Python".

I do like Monty Python, but not as much as Bill Murray loved his Kung Fu Hustle.

Yeah, I heard that Bill Murray thought that it was the supreme achievement of modern comedy.

We still use political satire to portray certain candidates don't we?

Yeah, Saturday Night Live is a good example or The Onion.

It's fun to critique parody's without necessarily condemning those involved.

On a side note, are you a Country Music fan?

Not really, but I love guitars.

Did you know the Fender Stratocaster was meant to play country music?

Wow, yes imagine that, all of those rock guitar legends out their playing with their Stratocasters would probably disagree but yes, I've head that too.

Here's a fun fact, did you know that U2 one of the biggest rock bands ever played country music and were introduced at the Dalton Brothers from Galveston, Texas.

That must have been a hoot to see them disguised in wigs and costumes.

How funny!

Aren't they Irish?

Or was it Scottish?

Can you believe there are only two African American people in the country music hall of fame?

Yes, I believe that.

Not many African American people like country music.

Another strange fact I found out is that country music legend George Strait is a cousin to the wealthiest man in world, Jeff Bezos!

I mean, I think that's quite a generalization to say not many African American people like country music.

There are a lot of African Americans in the south, and there are a lot of types of country music.

Country gets its roots from folk and the blues, after all...

Yes, I apologize for that whopping generalization.

You're right, there are many kinds of country music like ballads, folk music, cowboy songs, as well as fiddle tunes.

Yeah, it's simply the folk music of working class Americans.

Yes, I agree.

Have a good one, it's been nice chatting with you.


Did you know U2 was once introduced as a Country Music band?

I didn't know that.

It's surprising that they actually played country music and opened for themselves.

This  happened in 1987 and they had Wigs and costumes

Did you know that country musc legend George Strait and Jeff Bezos, who is arguably the wealthiest man in the world, are cousins?

No I did not know that.

Interesting.

I just learned that the fender stratocaster guitar was designed for country music.

That's cool.

I didn't know that country music was derived from Irish, Celtic, English, and cowboy music.

That makes sense though.

It is beautiful to see how music transforms.

It also has roots in folk music and blues.

Are you interested in dance as well?

Yes, I like dance too.
Like Dancing with the stars

I never really got into Dancing with the Stars though I know it's really popular.

I was excited to know that Paralympic skier Danielle Umstead is the first blind performer.

what a beautiful and inspiring story also an Instagram model who is competing because her mom, who died of breast cancer

That's sad.

We really need to dedicate our lives to our loved ones while they are still here to see us, though.

That is right, that gives us more motivation to watch the show.

The 27th season was announced by ABC recently

Yeah, watching the show with loved ones would be a good idea

One of the cast members of this season is called Bobby bones who is a country radio personality and stand up comedian, he also has a band

He was a mentor on American Idol last season, too.

Yes and hosts the most popular morning country show

Juan Pablo Di Pace will also be on dancing with the stars.

He plays Kimmy's estranged husband on Fuller House.

I find him kind of annoying on Fuller House.

Maybe he will not annoy you as much when dancing... talking about comedy shows did you ever watch 3rd rock from the sun

I did watch it, thought it was never one of my favorites.

I loved it and It did beat Frasier, Seinfield and even friends...

I did like all those shows

Speaking of comedies, the Green Lantern Film was originally supposed to be a comedy.


Hi, how are you?
What do you think of the president?

Personally not that big a fan, sometimes I wonder if President Banana from Zimbabwe would be better.

That's a funny name.
I know people have nicknames for Trump

He isnt even one of the wealthiest presidents, surprisingly enough.

Maybe he'll be on that list someday

Likely so.

Do you think he is mad the guest house is bigger than the White House?

Perhaps the guest house presents an opportunity to him.

He could put up a TRUMP sign and rent it out.

Sure path to riches.

Id even probably pay to stay there.
That would be pretty cool.

I wonder how much he would charge for the privilege.

He could probably put a co-writer in the guest house and they could work on pop albums together.

It is pretty crazy what the leaders of countries do while in office.

I wonder how many countries support things like that.

I don't know whether many countries have a choice.

I bet the "president" of Indonesia doesn't have to worry much about elections.

Pops albums are probably the least of the people's worries.

Very true.

I mean if pop albums qualifies you, lets just vote Lady Gaga in.

What fruity nickname would we give her?
Lady Grape?
Lady Grapefruit?

Well since her name came from a predictive text Glitch that changed Radio to Lady, we could reply on auto correct to give us a new name.

True.

The autocorrect has its own wisdom.

Perhaps Elton John or Iron Maiden have some suggestions.

Sir Elton has infinite wisdom, he could be elected VP.

True.

We could have a system whereby the pres chooses a VP based on godparent relationships.

That would work better than the old way they used to do it by the loser of the election.

That must have been a match made in hell.

What did they ever get done?

And if you lost, why would you want to be in the WH?

I know, you think it would have led to more people trying to take out the president so that their candidate would not be the president.

Yes, all kinds of skullduggery could ensue.

Well, that's for the chat!

You too!

Good night!

Same to you!


Do you know much about world presidents?

Hi, just a little!

For example i have learned about a president that is musician

Yes that is the president of Indonesia right?

Yes he has released 3 albums while in office,  think I am going to do a search for his music

Yeah.

Do you know how the VP used to be elected before 1805?

I think It was very different from today, tell me about it!

Yes it was different, the VP was actually the runner up

I wonder how that worked!!

Do you know who have been the wealthiest presidents?

Yes that was JFK, Washington and Jefferson so far

Yes,.. talking about famous people, do you know who Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta is?

Yes that is Lady Gaga but that is her full name.

Do you know how she got Lady Gaga?

I think is so funny!!

those annoying predictive text glitches gave her that name!

Yeah.

Did you hear of that time she worked with the LAPD to keep the community informed?

that was a smart idea because she could tweet her 11.4 million followers!

Yeah that was smart indeed.
Do you know which is her favorite band?

She loves Iron Maden!!

Nice I really like her song bad romance, what about you?

Yes most of her songs are awesome.

She is also the godmother to Elton John's son

And she was on an MTV show called boiling points before she was famous!

Yeah.

She did study art though  but dropped out to pursue music

I think is interesting she became really famous after releasing the album : The Fame !

Haha kind of ironic but it worked for her.

It was nice chatting with you


Hey there do you drive a car by the way?

Do you know the history of them also?

I do drive quite a bit but I'm a little fuzzy on the history of them.

Do you know any cool facts?

I do!

Apparently was created by Karl Benz, it was done back in 1886, that is a long time before the Model T that was created by Henry Ford was made, which was back in 1908

Oh wow that is pretty neat.

I wonder if Karl Benz was part of the family that started mercedes benz

I think he was.

I forget the other person, but I know their last name was Mercedes, and they joined together to make Mercedes-Benz.

Do you know why the trunk of the car is called the trunk?

Did the old time cars have a wooden trunk strapped to the back of them or something like that?

Guess you're right!

Very smart!

I was also shocked that the drive-thru was only created in 1975, it was done by McDonald's, that is such a weird thing you'd think it would have been created earlier than that, it seems so obvious

I think back then it was more of a focus on if you went out to eat you were going as a family and you weren't in such a rush.

It was more about the experience than just getting some food.

Yeah that makes sense.

I do like the reasoning for McDonald's creating the drive-thru though.

It was because soldiers couldn't leave their car in uniform, so they created the drive-through so that they could still eat

Oh wow that is really neat!

That is showing respect to those in the armed forces.

Yes I agree.

Do you know the history of the founding of Detroit by the way?

I live in Michigan so it was interesting for me to learn

Not really.

Was there a specific person that founded it or more of an exploring team?

I'm not sure, I think it was probably a team, but the person that was given credit for it, his name was Antoine de la mothe Cadillac.

And they got his name and used it for the car brand Cadillac, that is pretty interesting I think

I love cadillacs.

We had a cadillac convertible when I was a kid.

They were a custom made car.

I think they only made about 1500 of them.

Oh wow that's cool.

I know that my friend has one and he really likes it.

Have you ever played the game Gran Turismo by the way?

It's a racing game

I've seen other people play it but never myself.

I'm not the best with video games.

I'm not coordinated enough not to run into a bunch of walls.

Do you play?

I used to play a lot of video games.

I don't play Too Many anymore.

I did play Gran Turismo back in the day though, apparently there was a guy who beat like 90,000 people at it and then became a professional race car driver LOL that sounds cool

So his only training was the video game!?

That doesn't sound like it would be enough no matter how many times you played it.

I wonder if he was any good as a racer though or if he crashed a lot.

I agree with you.

I don't know how he got that good, especially because Gran Turismo uses a controller and it does not use a steering wheel, have you ever been to South Africa before by the way?

No but from what I hear it is quite the scary place to go if you leave the touristy spots.

Sounds like a wild west sort of country.

Yep I think so.

I've only heard bad things about it.

Apparently you can put a flamethrower on your car LOL?

That seems so dangerous, I just don't know why that would be necessary to stop carjacking


Hello there, are you into cars?

I am a fan of cars!
How about you?

Yeah I think they are cool, especially the classic ones.

Do you know what year is considered to be the birth of the car?

I don't know the year, but I'd guess it's whenever the Model T was built.

You are close, it was right before that by a German inventor in the year 1886.

Oh wow!
Who was the inventor?

It was a man name Karl Benz, and he patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen.

That sounds like it probably was the creation that led to the Mercedes-Benz.

I must have thought of the Model T first because it was the first to be mass-produced for the average consumer.

Yeah I think that is when they became widely available due to the cost basis going down so much with the invention of the assembly line.

I wonder if that affected how quickly cars became available in different parts of the world since they were first widely produced in America.

I think so.

Do you know that the same person who founded the Cadillac company also founded the city of Detroit?

I had no idea, but I bet that had an impact on Detroit and the surrounding area developing such a major automotive industry.

Who was the founder?

Yeah I am sure that is why Detroit became the motor city.

His name was Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac.

Quite a name I must say.

Well, it certainly explains where the car got its name!

I wonder why Detroit didn't end up named Antoine instead.

That would be pretty funny looking back if it was named that.

It would probably be easier to say than if it were named De La Mothe, to be honest.

Yeah I think you are right, plus it sounds so much better.

Do you remember what your first ever car you owned was?

It was a Chevy Sonic.

I actually only got my first car six years ago, so I still drive that one!

What about you?

That is pretty good though, I say keep driving it until it completely dies!

My first car was a Mitsubishi my parents gave me, my older brother murdered it before I got a chance to use it so it was in rough shape.

Note to self: never let my brothers drive my car!

What do you drive now?

I drive a Buick Rainer, which is really nice for work I do catering and never have the backseats in!

Well it was nice talking with you today, I hope you have a good day!

Catering sounds like a fun job!

It's great to have a car that goes well with your work.

You have a good day too!


Good morning!
Do you like cars?

Yea, I like Benz, I never knew that Karl Benz patented the car all the way back in 1886

Whoa.

I didn't know they were created that early.

I know Ford made the Model T in 1908, which was the first car available to the masses.

Yea, it's crazy that it took a while for other parts of the world to switch over from animal-drawn carriages

Speaking of the old days of cars...do you know how we came to call the back of a car a trunk?

No, why?

Because the old cars used to carry wooden trunks on the back of them!

That's crazy, did you know in Ohio it's illegal to warm up your car?

It is?
lol I was originally from there.
Never knew that law!

Lol, well now you do.

Did you know that audi have to create a new horn the withstand heavy use for their cars sold in India?

I didn't know that.

I wonder why?

Do you know who the car brand Cadillac was named after?

I think it was named after an explorer

Yes...the French explorer Antoine De La Mothe Cadillace, who was also the founder of Detroit.

You win a high five!

lol

Nice.

Speaking of Cadillac, there was a New York man who found a barn full of classic cars on his property

He hit the jackpot!

Yea, I'd love to find just one regular car, let alone a barn full of classic cars.

I wonder who was the original owner

I don't know.

I'm going to have to look that story up.

How about cars equipped with flame throwers?

They are legal in South Africa to prevent carjackings.

I wonder if Google self-driving cars employ flamethrowers when they go into aggressive mode

Hahahah That's funny!

How about Jann Mardenborough.

They became a professional race car driver by beating 90,000 people in Gran Turismo!

That's pretty crazy, not as crazy as an elementary school replacing their desks with reading bicycles

What a great idea to stay in shape!
I have to get running.
It was nice chatting with you!


Hi there!

Do you like cars?

I do because I would never get to go anywhere without one.

It is very useful for getting me around.

I dont know what I would do without it.

lol  Did you hear about the flame throwing cars they have in South Africa?

Yeah, carjacking must be pretty bad there.

No doubt!

Did you know when and why McDonalds added drive thrus?

I heard it was because of the soldiers.

Yes.

They added them in 1975.

Did you know that the backs of cars became known as trunks because cars used to carry wooden trunks on them back in the old days?

That makes a lot of sense.

I heard in England it is called the boot.

That's interesting!

Do you know who the car brand Cadillac was named after?

Its a french explorer.
Antoine de la mothe Cadillac

You get a super chat high five!

I was surprised to see that the first patent for a car was given out in 1886.

Yeah, me too,  I always thought it was Ford who did all that, but he was the first to mass produce.

Ford made the Model T in 1908 I believe?

Yes!
That is correct!

Do you like reading?

I do.

I dont understand the moral panic of the 18th century though.

Me neither.

Reading was one of the few forms of entertainment people had back then.

Enders Game is suggested reading for many military organizations including the Marines!

Its a good book!

Have you read it?

I am not sure int is military reading material though,

I haven't read it.

I haven't read Starship Troopers either which is on the reading lists of 3 of the 5 US military branches.

I did read Enders Game, but not Starship Troopers.

If the military recommends maybe it is good.

It must be.
I did see both movies though.
lol  I have to get going.
It's been fun chatting with you!