MLT Club Member David Herrick
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I didn’t really care for the song, but it was hard not to watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q
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And Madeline Kahn as Lisa:
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Is it just me, or would Mona and Lisa have made excellent guest stars on the Muppet Show? I can easily picture them good-naturedly trying to maintain control of the situation before finally giving in to the chaos all around them.
As a visual aid, here’s Elke Sommer playing the role of Mona:
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That’s right, Jacki. I didn’t think of the BTTF soundtrack. I think the theme song was called “Back in Time”.
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I’m pleased to tell you that the agreement covered all of the Sesame Street characters, although I’m not sure about the non-Street Muppets. I remember seeing a guy in a Cookie Monster suit at the MLT theme park.
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Last night I dreamed that MLT had signed a licensing agreement with Sesame Street, and I was thumbing through a children’s book in which Mona and Elmo were walking through the desert in spacesuits, pretending that they were exploring the surface of Mars.
What has this club done to my brain?
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I’m a central Kentucky native, so those “Run for the Roses” videos really take me home. Thanks, John!
I once visited Churchill Downs for a tour. The tour guide said that an autopsy on Secretariat revealed that he had a freakishly large heart, which was able to pump blood and oxygen through his body much more efficiently than normal. That was probably the key to his racing dominance.
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Jung, that would be a great idea to audit a course like that at a university! Most likely the title would be something like “modern physics”. I was a physics major, and that was my favorite course in the department. It was actually less demanding mathematically than the introductory sequence in classical physics that preceded it.
I recall learning at some point that the time slowdown effect has been measured just between the ground floor and the top floor of the physics building at some university. The time difference between the clocks is of course minuscule, but it’s measurable and precisely what relativity predicts.
If I remember correctly, time slows to a complete stop at the event horizon of a black hole, where the gravitational escape speed equals the speed of light. For black holes that form from collapsed stars, this amounts to just a few kilometers from the center.
When you mentioned the “Beethoven movie”, at first I thought you were talking about the one with Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, and a St. Bernard!
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Here’s another song about a racehorse. According to Wikipedia it goes back a couple of centuries, and was the melodic basis of John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas” song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXdQB-mR4tg
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I had a really cool science teacher in high school who designed his own course dealing with science topics that typically weren’t included in the curriculum: geology, astronomy, non-Newtonian physics, etc. Of all the things we covered, the one that blew my mind the most was the fact that gravity slows down time.
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I was a fast-food junkie in college, and every day I ate lunch at the campus McDonald’s. I usually sat in front of a window that looked out across a small parking lot to a record store. Propped up in the window that faced me was an album with a photo of four guys staring at me, with the phrase “WHO ARE YOU” written above them. I didn’t know who they were at the time, so I always directed the question right back at them. To this day I can’t eat a Big Mac without getting annoyed at the Who.
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Good call with “Surfin’ Bird”, John! Of course, the younger generation knows it from this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSlB4eznXoA
