re: #3 ckkatz

My brother just sent me an article on Victorian puns. (Seriously). So I thought I would share. (puns, punishment, whichever…)

Here are a ‘few’:

What is the difference between a beehive and a diseased potato?
None at all; as one is a beeholder, the other a speck’d tatur.

What is the best way of making a coat last?
Make the trousers and waistcoat first.

Why is a man who never lays a wager as bad as a regular gambler?
Because he’s no better.

Why should a candle-maker never be pitied?
Because all his works are wicked, and all his wicked works, when brought to light, are only made light of.

From:

30 delightful puns from the Victorian Era
salon.com

Back in the mid-60’s UC Davis got a grant to research whether music made plants “happy”, an unidentified concept, but Au Courant at the time that music resulted positive in growth results in plants (and possibly Humans). Since the agro program, one of the best in the US, was starting to produce some of the best wine growers and vintners in America, they decided to research wine groves, widely spaced, to determine if music affected grape yield.

They combed Napa, Sonoma, and the Russian River Valley for highly praised, productive vineyards. They gained permission from the vineyard owners to set up music broadcast systems to see if different styles of music affected crop yields.

The results were unmistakable. The older the music was (from a baseline around 1600 AD) until the early 20th Century (Ragtime was the last popular music that achieved the highest yields), it began to wane after 1910. Trad Jazz showed a decrease in crop yields. By the time Bepop was played, crop yields dropped to the point where they were before music was played to the plants.

Playing early rock and roll resulted in even worse crops. But the worst losses in the vineyards were noted from the mid-60’s folk-rock time frame, which was the Phil Ochs Era.