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The 405 airs over KMMR Radio Station. At 5 Minutes past 4 PM each M-F week day of the year. Here on the website we strive to have it posted within a few hours afterwards.
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D.J. Rasmussen
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Want to again welcome you to the 04:05 coffee break, guys. You better put your skates on or stay at home. It is icy out there. Get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottle of water. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Sorry about yesterday. I had the wrong microphone turned on. Spring wheat $5.61 a bushel. 550lb steer calf $4.15 a pound. Butcher hog in Iowa, 65¢ a pound, and a 100lb lamb that's fat, in Billings weighting a 100lbs, will fetch you $2.19 a pound. But, guys, there's more much more.
OK Solberg:Okay. Okay. Today, some oddities of the English language. Have you ever noticed them? We get so used to them, we don't even see the literal wrongness. You get on a plane but in a taxi. You fasten your seat belt on a plane but buckle it in a taxi. What?
OK Solberg:So the motion is identical. A plane can be delayed while a taxi is just late as though machine deserve more forgiveness than people. A plane departs, but a taxi leaves. You take a shower, but you have a bath. A lot.
OK Solberg:Though in both cases, you're just getting wet on purpose, you take a photo but shoot a film. You catch a cold but have the flu. You break the law but violate a rule. You take a test but give an exam. You can make a mistake, but certainly don't commit a crime.
OK Solberg:You throw a party but host a dinner. You can break a record or you can set a record, though in both cases, the old one's gone. You open an account but close a deal. The center fielder runs over under the ball for out number two over and under in the same sentence. Hey.
OK Solberg:The light switch is on off. If you notice, it's pointing down. We dust furniture by removing dust, but dust the cake by adding to it. You clip a coupon by removing it and clip a file by attaching it. You bolt something down to secure it, but you bolt to escape impending disaster.
OK Solberg:You hold up a bank by robbing it and hold up traffic by stopping it. You back up data to save it, and you back up traffic to ruin everyone's afternoon. You gotta trim a hedge to shorten it, so you subtract something, but you trim a hat to decorate it by adding something. You cut costs by reducing them or cut a deal by adding terms. You pass on dessert by refusing it, but pass on wisdom by sharing it.
OK Solberg:You know, have you ever heard someone say, well, I'm not bad, which can mean I'm good. And in dodgeball, the only one left is still there. The instructions were randomly specific. The cake was awfully good. The meeting was briefly extended.
OK Solberg:His answer was a definite yes. I'm gonna close with this one. Now who decided this? Caution. This substance is inflammable, which often means the same as flammable.
OK Solberg:And how can my sweater how come my sweater can unravel, which means the same as to ravel? I don't get it. What does that have to do with all the birds in Kentucky? This program was brought to you by I'm More Confused Now Than You Are.
OK Solberg:I'll close with a bible verse short and sweet and to the point where god is not the author of confusion but of peace as in all the churches of the saints. 1st Corinthians 14:33
OK Solberg:So until next time, don't get confused. As you go out there, remember now. Don't be bitter.