# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785 "2024-07-25T15:06:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/141 "2024-08-10T14:39:25Z")
Perhaps even more insubstantial than my last post in this thread… last night a game of cricket between the Manchester Originals and the London Spirit as televised live. Batting #1 for Manchester - Phil Salt Batting #1 for London - Michael Pepper. Not the first time they’ve met > **[Salt and Pepper add flavour to Lancashire’s T20 win over Essex](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jul/08/salt-and-pepper-add-flavour-to-lancashires-t20-win-over-essex)** > > Lancashire’s Phil Salt and Michael Pepper of Essex caused a social media stir in helping dismiss each other as the Red Rose county qualified for Finals day of the T20 Blast j ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/142 "2024-08-10T15:26:23Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Batting #1 for Manchester - Phil Salt > Batting #1 for London - Michael Pepper. There was a famous piece of commentary on a cricket match with David Willey in the England team and Michael Holding in the West Indies team: _And the bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey_ ---
**Author:** ![Dahu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahu/32/3416_2.png) [@Dahu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahu)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/143 "2024-08-10T21:33:15Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > There was a famous piece of commentary on a cricket match with David Willey in the England team and Michael Holding in the West Indies team: _And the bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey_ _Peter_ Willey. But, sadly, it’s an urban myth. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/144 "2024-08-10T22:48:18Z")
> [@Dahu](#): > > it’s an urban myth. “Urban myth” is a popular term, but the more correct term is “urban legend,” as the people who study such things make a distinction between “myth” and “legend.” The story is a legend; the facts within the story are just untrue. No actual myths involved! For people who don’t care about the distinction, just say “myth”—no need for “urban.” This pedantry brought to you by your friendly neighborhood folklorist. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/145 "2024-08-11T02:46:50Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > There were 2 of those metal inserts and they were next to impossible to change them out. Seriously? 😲 So the old record player you used wasn’t a changer like our family’s first one. Later we did get a changer [(something like this one)](https://youtu.be/DIxrK4xpXaE?si=qt-26q-mJlcw3AGo&t=63) that used an adapter. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/146 "2024-08-11T21:09:34Z")
My cousin has a GP named Dr. Pepper, and a dentist named Dr. Payne. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/147 "2024-08-11T21:19:44Z")
> [@Dahu](#): > > But, sadly, it’s an urban myth. I just had me a Mandela moment. I could have sworn I heard that commentary live. j ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/148 "2024-08-11T21:30:40Z")
> [@Mark\_Finn](#): > > My cousin has a GP named Dr. Pepper, and a dentist named Dr. Payne. The oral surgeon who removed my wisdom teeth was Dr Hertz. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/149 "2024-08-11T21:44:22Z")
> [@Mark\_Finn](#): > > My cousin has a GP named Dr. Pepper, and a dentist named Dr. Payne. > [@hajario](#): > > The oral surgeon who removed my wisdom teeth was Dr Hertz. My wife had a gynecologist named Dr. Hyman. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/150 "2024-08-11T22:08:12Z")
I looked on the table at all the business cards of the realtors who had shown the house – the one that stood out was Rainey Tarpey. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/151 "2024-08-11T22:30:00Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > My wife had a gynecologist named Dr. Hyman. That wouldn’t happen to be the Dr. Hyman in this video, would it? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JQl0blvYr6E/maxresdefault.jpg "Jimmy Kimmel Talks to Perfectly Named People") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQl0blvYr6E) ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/152 "2024-08-11T23:19:24Z")
It was 30 years ago in Missouri, so probably not. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/153 "2024-08-11T23:53:59Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > n in this video That video is hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/154 "2024-08-11T23:58:25Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > > [@Mark\_Finn](#): > > > > My cousin has a GP named Dr. Pepper, and a dentist named Dr. Payne. > > > [@hajario](#): > > > > The oral surgeon who removed my wisdom teeth was Dr Hertz. > > My wife had a gynecologist named Dr. Hyman. I regularly appear in front of Judge Justice. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/155 "2024-08-12T00:04:09Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > And Malta, but that’s relatively huge. Malta is large. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta is tiny. The latter, nowadays, consists entirely of their embassy… in Vatican City. > [@Mark\_Finn](#): > > My cousin has a GP named Dr. Pepper, and a dentist named Dr. Payne. I remember when I was young, seeing a pediatrician named Dr. Paladin. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/156 "2024-08-12T03:46:45Z")
TIL that Little Smokies can acquire a white chalklike substance on the surface while they are being cooked. It’s perfectly harmless, and in fact helps with preservation of the product. It’s a nontoxic (thank heavens!) mold. Before Googling this, I was afraid I was going to have to pitch a package of them. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/157 "2024-08-12T07:13:11Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > I regularly appear in front of Judge Justice. A previous Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales was Lord Judge. So in the course of his career he’d also been Judge Judge and Mr Justice Judge. I believe there once was a real firm of roofing contractors called Fidler & Leake. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/158 "2024-08-12T13:35:45Z")
If you ever watch movie credits, one of the jobs often listed is a sound effects credit “foley artist.” It is named after a sound effects pioneer Jack Foley (1891-1967). ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/159 "2024-08-12T14:46:03Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > So the old record player you used wasn’t a changer like our family’s first one. No, it was my mom’s when she was a teenager (50s). It was probably considered “portable”. It did have a handle on it! It was box shaped with a lid that clasped closed. Maybe at one time it had the attachment that would fit over the spindle for 45s - is that what you mean by “changer”?. But it wasn’t around by the time we were playing with it. We had a modern stereo in the house that had a changer. But it was mostly used for albums. I remember at the time, needles were expensive (or so we were told!) and my parents didn’t want us playing old scratched up 45s on it. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/160 "2024-08-12T15:44:08Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > is that what you mean by “changer”? A changer would have a 5" tall spindle with a little sort of finger 4" up: when the tone arm reached the center groove, it would return to its resting spot, the spindle finger would be tripped, causing the next record to drop, and the tone arm would move onto the lead groove.        Typically, a changer could hold as many as 5 or 6 records on the spindle, and play through all of them in order, but audiophiles would not use them because of the distortion caused by the stylus angle being skewed by record stack height. I only remember LP-changer spindles, but may have seen pictures of 45 changers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=9)