More answers from your questions. We said you could Ask IMAO Anything, and you have. You haven’t asked everything, but you’re off to a good start.

Most of the questions you left last time were answered by others, including:

• DamnCat
• walruskkkch
• Happy Fun Ball
• tankdemon
• c64wood
• CLIFFY
• Oppo
• Bob B

Bacon to you all!

Now for the questions that weren’t answered.

Francis: Why are last ditch efforts referred to as a “Hail Mary?” A sports example would be the long pass in the end zone with time running out. The Hail Mary prayer has no sports metaphors or any others that I can ascertain.

It’s really simple. “Hail Mary” in Latin is “Ave Maria.” The Schubert composition “Ellens Gesang III” opens with the words “Ave Maria” and the tune was later used as the basis of the song we know today by that name. “Ave Maria” is the concluding music in Disney’s 1940 film “Fantasia.” In the second half of that film, the first musical selection following intermission opens with an excerpt of Beethoven’s “Pastoral Symphony.” The “Pastoral Symphony” is an alternate name for Beethoven’s “Symphony Number 6.” In football, a touchdown is worth six points. So, a late attempt at a touchdown is naturally called a “Hail Mary.” It’s so obvious now that you think about it.

tankdemon: If you could add one more item to either the Bill of Rights or the Ten Commandments, which would you choose to edit, and and what would that right/commandment be?

Someone else answered something similar once, and I can’t improve on that answer:

The Lord our God is one Lord:

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Regarding the Constitution, I can think of an amendment I’d like to see, namely that no member of Congress shall vote on any bill for which that member was not present for a full and complete reading of the same. That would cut down on 2,000 page bills.

But, an additional right as laid out by the first ten Amendments? I think they got it right.

Bob B: If a car is traveling north at 65 miles per hour, and a second car is traveling south at 55 miles per hour, how long will it take for Congress to get off their butts and impeach already?

In that scenario, they won’t. The Democrats in Congress are looking for a bus. You know, to throw the country under.

Oppo: In the Perry Mason episode “The Case of the Resolute Reformer,” which first aired on Jan. 14, 1961, private detective Paul Drake is seen talking to Mason on a car phone.

What were car phones using for satellite service in 1961? Was it available on demand, around the clock?

Sorry, but that’s not one of the episodes in which Paul is shown using a car phone. He did use one in other episodes, however. In this episode, he is heard talking on the phone to Mason just after leaving the lush’s house, and that very well could be via car phone, but Paul isn’t actually shown using a car phone in that episode.

Having said that, have you noticed how good the opening graphics of that episode are? The three dimensional pieces with shadows, and how well it blends into where Raymond Burr’s actual hand picks up the folder from the judge’s bench? That show was well ahead of its time technically. That’s why when Paul did use a car phone, he was using satellites from the future, and not via radio like people in real life used at the time.

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