Unasked Questions

[BrassedOn]

Some questions get asked many times on Tubenet, but some are never asked:

I have my first Oktoberfest gig coming up. The band gets free beer. Any unintended outcomes I should know about?

Should euphonium players line up to buy a French C and shed all those orchestral tenor tuba parts, or will the trombone players who are busy practicing their $200 altos still get those tenor tuba gigs?

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad." _____________ is despite tomato being your favorite fruit, when someone asks you "What's your favorite fruit?", without hesitation you say "apple".

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven. What about a poor person with a lot of mouthpieces?

[Ken Herrick]

Too cerebral for the TNFJ.

[iiipopes]

All I have to say is that if a person doesn't know the answer to the Oktoberfest question, then the person will have to find out from experience.

[windshieldbug]

Some questions get asked many times on Tubenet, but some are never asked:
"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."
Conducting is despite tomato being your favorite fruit, when someone asks you "What's your favorite fruit?", you tell a long, self-agrandizing story and then say "apple".

[iiipopes]

Some questions get asked many times on Tubenet, but some are never asked:
"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."
Conducting is despite tomato being your favorite fruit, when someone asks you "What's your favorite fruit?", you tell a long, self-agrandizing story and then say "apple".

Isn't that the truth!!!

[roweenie]

just one word: "plastics"

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[MaryAnn]

Ah, Grasshopper, Ken is right. You will become bored here quickly. I'm a moderately poor person with way too many mouthpieces, but I'm not concerned about Heaven's entry way.

[iiipopes]

Even as a young sprout in elementary school who was precocious in reading my uncle's organic chemistry text book, I understood the irony of the Brig. Gen. Jack Ripper's condemnation of the "Communists" drinking vodka while Gen. Jack drank only distilled water or rainwater and pure grain alcohol. The final irony, of course, is that by normal distillation, before "molecular sieves" were invented, the only way to make pure ethanol anhydrous was by adding chemicals, much like adding fluorine to water as commented on in the movie.

[Donn]

grain alcohol n
(Chemistry) ethanol containing about 10 per cent of water, made by the fermentation of grain

The joke, if there is one, could be that he may think the Russians make vodka from potatoes.

[iiipopes]

All you really need to know is that a quart of grain alcohol with poison added is $5, but a quart of grain alcohol with no poison added is $38.

...so, arithmetic experts, what is the cost of adding the poison?

The elimination of drink profits, the elimination of $4.40/gal Tennessee tax, and $13.50/gal Federal tax.

[Three Valves]

That reminds me of when leaded gas cost less than unleaded gas. All they had to do was not put something in and charge more for it.

[iiipopes]

That reminds me of when leaded gas cost less than unleaded gas. All they had to do was not put something in and charge more for it.

Well, in this particular case, no. The purpose of tetraethyl lead was to increase the octane rating of lesser quality gasoline. Take the average 87 pump octane gasoline. Lead added about 5 to 10 points to the pump octane rating, so if the lead were not in the gasoline, it would only be about 80 to 85 octane at best. So, to get the same octane rating out of unleaded gasoline, refiners had to put more effort into their refining, raising costs of production. Add to that the government mandate, and the lesser availability initially, and all of that points to a higher price for unleaded gasoline initially.

[timayer]

I have my first Oktoberfest gig coming up. The band gets free beer. Any unintended outcomes I should know about?

I did an Oktoberfest gig for several years. Two nights a year. The first year I did it, it was "the band gets free beer" on the first night. The next night it was "Everyone in the band gets two beers." The next year it was "Everyone in the band gets one beer."

They then hired a very generous bartender who enforced the one beer policy but would fill whatever it was that you brought as long as it generally resembled a beer vessel. They undoubtedly donated more beer to the band with their "single" beer policy than they did with their "two" beer policy.

[iiipopes]

That reminds me of when leaded gas cost less than unleaded gas. All they had to do was not put something in and charge more for it.

Well, in this particular case, no. The purpose of tetraethyl lead was to increase the octane rating of lesser quality gasoline. Take the average 87 pump octane gasoline. Lead added about 5 to 10 points to the pump octane rating, so if the lead were not in the gasoline, it would only be about 80 to 85 octane at best. So, to get the same octane rating out of unleaded gasoline, refiners had to put more effort into their refining, raising costs of production. Add to that the government mandate, and the lesser availability initially, and all of that points to a higher price for unleaded gasoline initially.

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Octane and mpg are not the same thing, and this contradicts no one's statements.
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It has nothing to do with MPG. It has to do with compression ratios and knocking.

[Three Valves]

“I hear you knocking....”

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Wow, talk about a bad hair AND pants day!!

[iiipopes]

“I hear you knocking....”
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Wow, talk about a bad hair AND pants day!!

But leaded gasoline can't come in.

[Three Valves]

I never ask “why??”

[iiipopes]

Those plastic tubas are nearly lead-free...Yes...??