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Three odd notes from Japanese TV
Mar. 25th, 2007 09:25 pmjust little things that caught my eye.
First, they were trying to guess the highest workers in the world. This is physically highest, not pay. The three they listed were:
#3: someone who works on the bridge at Royal Gorge
#2: the window washers on the Russian Needle tower
and the top of the world right now is:
#1: window washers on the Taiwan Tower. 101 floors, 508 meters (call it 1500 feet and spare change). They apparently are in the Guinness Book of World Records.
I did wonder if the workers at the new Skywalk over the Grand Canyon would end up challenging this. I believe I saw something about the skywalk being 1000 meters or better up, which might do the trick.
Second, a challenge from Mr. Maric, our local magician. He often performs several tricks and challenges the panel to do something. In this case, he passed out wine bottles with a cork inside. Then he had a tray of odds and ends brought out and challenged them to pull the cork out of the bottle in one piece without breaking the cork or the bottle.I missed some of the nine items, but the ones that I remember are a bottle of water, a long pair of tweezers, a long chopstick, a handkerchief, a needle and plenty of thread, and a hammer. Could you solve the problem in ten minutes? Mr. Maric offered the panel $1,000 if they did it. I'll put the answer down at the bottom - you can think about it. In this case, the panel actually did win the challenge, and he passed over the money without any question.
Third was an oddity. One of the families that performs Kabuki plays was shown on TV practicing and then doing a performance. In this particular case, a seven-year-old boy was practicing a scene with his father. The scene focuses on a father who is sending his young child away. While they were practicing, the seven-year-old broke down in tears although he continued to recite the lines. As soon as his father said the practice was over, he ran to his mother. It turned out he was upset because he thought his father really meant it! And even in later practices, he apparently was quite upset about the scene. I was trying to remember whether seven-year-olds usually can separate fiction from reality or not. Just a wonderment.
How do you get a cork out of a bottle with one of these implements? Very simple, really. Take the handkerchief and tie a knot in one corner. Push that knot into the bottle and twist the handkerchief until the cork falls into the little pocket you made with the knot. Make sure it is parallel to the bottle, and pull out, probably with a bit of twisting as it comes.
First, they were trying to guess the highest workers in the world. This is physically highest, not pay. The three they listed were:
#3: someone who works on the bridge at Royal Gorge
#2: the window washers on the Russian Needle tower
and the top of the world right now is:
#1: window washers on the Taiwan Tower. 101 floors, 508 meters (call it 1500 feet and spare change). They apparently are in the Guinness Book of World Records.
I did wonder if the workers at the new Skywalk over the Grand Canyon would end up challenging this. I believe I saw something about the skywalk being 1000 meters or better up, which might do the trick.
Second, a challenge from Mr. Maric, our local magician. He often performs several tricks and challenges the panel to do something. In this case, he passed out wine bottles with a cork inside. Then he had a tray of odds and ends brought out and challenged them to pull the cork out of the bottle in one piece without breaking the cork or the bottle.I missed some of the nine items, but the ones that I remember are a bottle of water, a long pair of tweezers, a long chopstick, a handkerchief, a needle and plenty of thread, and a hammer. Could you solve the problem in ten minutes? Mr. Maric offered the panel $1,000 if they did it. I'll put the answer down at the bottom - you can think about it. In this case, the panel actually did win the challenge, and he passed over the money without any question.
Third was an oddity. One of the families that performs Kabuki plays was shown on TV practicing and then doing a performance. In this particular case, a seven-year-old boy was practicing a scene with his father. The scene focuses on a father who is sending his young child away. While they were practicing, the seven-year-old broke down in tears although he continued to recite the lines. As soon as his father said the practice was over, he ran to his mother. It turned out he was upset because he thought his father really meant it! And even in later practices, he apparently was quite upset about the scene. I was trying to remember whether seven-year-olds usually can separate fiction from reality or not. Just a wonderment.
How do you get a cork out of a bottle with one of these implements? Very simple, really. Take the handkerchief and tie a knot in one corner. Push that knot into the bottle and twist the handkerchief until the cork falls into the little pocket you made with the knot. Make sure it is parallel to the bottle, and pull out, probably with a bit of twisting as it comes.
