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The 405 airs over KMMR Radio Station. At 5 Minutes past 4 PM. Normally each M-F week day of the year. Here on the website we'll get it posted for you within a few hours, normally.
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D.J. Rasmussen
P.S. Oct 8th, 2025 Update. Finally back and published the Oct 3, 6th & 7th episodes, today on the 8th. We've had a recording equipment failure, hopefully fixed by tomorrow or very soon. Until then, I'm picking up the KMMR master recording copy and publishing that the day after The 405 airs or as soon as possible. Thanks for stopping by and listening.
I wanna again welcome you into The 405 Coffee Break. Get your cup of coffee. Beautiful day. Glass iced tea or bottle of water. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat $5.16 a bushel. 550lb steer calf, $4.40 a pound, I hope to shout. That is a lot of money. Butcher hog in Iowa, 59ยข a pound. And a lamb that's fat weighing 100 pounds in Billings will fetch you $2.02 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more. Okay.
OK Solberg:I've been thinking back to my high school days. I do that quite often, you know. And when we were in study hall with Mrs. Flansoss, well, we could get up out of our desk and go to Mrs. Cron's library. When in the library, my favorite reading material was the Great Falls Tribune.
OK Solberg:I cannot tell a lie. The first place I went was to the comic strips. I know, but that's the truth. I like Blondie and Beetle Bailey. Of course, I had to read Peanuts. There was the Wizard of Ed, and don't forget BC. Oh, wait. Also, Hagar the horrible. Then when I got done with the comic strips, then I got a kick out of reading Dear Abby. I know it might sound odd, but I found them mildly amusing. One that sticks in my mind is this one right here.
OK Solberg:Dear Abby, our son married a girl when he was in the service. They were married in February, and she had an eight and a half pound baby girl in August. She said the baby was premature. Can a eight and a half pound baby be this premature? Signed, wanting to know. Dear wanting, the baby was on time. The wedding was late, forget it. Okay. Thanks a lot, Abby. I found reading Dear Abby was fun. Some were very dumb. But you keep looking and you find a zinger like that one.
OK Solberg:Then I'd turn to L. M. Boyd's trivia column and read each and every one. I loved them, guys. They went something like this. If you're more than three feet away from a housefly, it can't see you. Next one. There are 300 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool. Loan shark, pool shark.
OK Solberg:Here's another one. Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7,000 from a London company in 1620 and devoted the next twenty three years to repaying it at 43% interest.
OK Solberg:If you were married and have been married continuously to the same partner for more than nine point four years, congratulations, your marriage has lasted longer than The US average. End of quote. Remember, it was printed in a newspaper in 1986, that one.
OK Solberg:Having a baby isn't so bad. If you're a female emperor penguin, she lays the egg, roll rolls it over to the father, then takes off for warmer weather to eat while he stands stiff, balancing the egg for two months without nothing to eat. Wow. That is a long wait, and your stomach is getting empty.
OK Solberg:A spork is a plastic picnic spoon tipped with pointy prongs. I'm not even gonna say that again. Said it once. It's not even a word, is it really? If you were born earlier than 1952, you got here before the word automation ever appeared in the dictionary. End of quote.
OK Solberg:L.M. Boyd printed his tidbits before the Internet, of course, but my fact check says the word automation was first used in 1912. Well, maybe it didn't get into the dictionary. Anyone out there born before 1912? In the Greek city of Sparta, at the peak of its power in 400BC, the slaves outnumbered the citizens by about 20 to one.
OK Solberg:And then in his final column, L. M. Boyd noted, nose length of the female flight attendant averages two point one eight inches. The Federal Aviation Administration has determined that, but I don't know why. If study hall hadn't ended yet, I would then peruse the news, but it was always in that order.
OK Solberg:Funny how we get stuck in a habit. Oh, well, I hear the bell ringing, I better get us a bible verse and get to Mr. Jensen's literature class. I better get that paper written. 1st Corinthians 13:1 if I speak with the tongue of men and of angels, but do not have love, I become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. Well, I hope I'm filled with love, but I hear a noisy gong or bell or something.
OK Solberg:Gotta get to class. See you. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.