[AKN #128] Would You Say Something?
LIVE: How We Used To “Spot” War Planes Before Radar, LAUGH: Oddly Specific Yet Devastatingly Accurate Insult, LOVE: Stay Hydrated Folks
Sup homies?
The other day my wife and I took a 15-min Uber across town and 6 minutes and 32 seconds into it we made the horrifying discovery that the driver was playing “What Lovers Do” by Maroon 5 on repeat.
It took 6 minutes and 32 seconds because the first two times through that smash single, you are not really paying attention. All popular songs generally sound the same after all. But that third play…that’s when you can’t lie to yourself anymore.
So with 8 minutes and 28 seconds remaining in our ride, we were left thinking “do we say anything?”
On one hand, we were only 3 plays of a known song away from our destination and we were enjoying the silent dynamic between us and the driver.
On the other hand, we were bordering on insanity as SZA came back over the car speaker for the guest vocals.
We chose to do nothing.
But fortunately, it worked out for us as the driver actually figured out the problem after 2 more plays of the song.
So for the final 2 minutes of the trip we enjoyed a brand new song…which was of course “Memories” by Maroon 5.
Not my favorite ride, but at least I got an idea for a screen play out of the whole thing.
I can see it now:
Two passengers get trapped in an Uber driven by Adam Levine
“Marooned 5 Stars” coming this fall to a theater near you.
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LIVE: How We Used To “Spot” War Planes Before Radar
Before the invention of radar during World War II, incoming enemy warplanes were detected by listening with the aid of "sound locators" that looked more like musical instruments than tools of war.
These radar forerunners, which earned the nicknames "war tubas" or "sound trumpets," were first used during World War I by France and Britain to spot German Zeppelin airships. The purely mechanical devices were, essentially, large horns connected to a stethoscope.
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And Happy Valentine’s Day to all the homies!
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