Gardner
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The world's largest chair is a really epic battle between lots of different places. It started in 1905, and Gardner, Massachusetts, erected a 12-foot tall chair. Then a place called Thomasville, North Carolina, made one that was 13 feet 6 inches. Eventually, there was an 18-foot chair in Thomasville.
from 160: No Such Thing As A Sausage Jacuzzi, 2017-04-13 at 00:35:00 · read transcript
Other times Gardner came up
Obviously quite complicated mathematics, but you always think that mathematicians are just working with all sorts of numbers and symbols and stuff, not shapes like that. That's why yeah. Have you guys ever heard of Marjorie Rice? No, Marjorie Rice. There's a guy called Martin Gardner who you might have heard of. He did like a lot of columns. He was like a popular mathematician. He wrote once in one of his columns that only certain types of pentagons can perfectly tile on a flat surface.
348: No Such Thing As Infinite Toilet Paper, 2020-11-20 · listen
There's a guy called Martin Gardner, who you might have heard of, and he did like a lot of columns. He was like a popular mathematician. He wrote once in one of his columns that only certain types of pentagons can perfectly tile on a flat surface. They were all known. There's only a few different types of pentagons that can tessellate, and we know what they all are.
No Such Thing As Infinite Toilet Paper, 2020-11-20 · listen
I think I should play him. In the original stories, he and the other elders all had the infinity gems, which is what Thanos collects as part of the main Avengers storyline in order to wipe out all of... Oh, so he's one of the original holders of one of these... Yeah. For some reason, when it came to the movie adaption, the Gardner didn't quite get... Prequel. That's what I'm thinking. All right.
No Such Thing As Captain Crossword, 2026-01-15 · listen
That's the one where you ring in, but it's normally ringing in saying what you think about Brexit. It's like Gardner's Question Time. Yeah. Not about gardening. About... Yeah. Yourological problems. Please don't call up either Gardner's question time or any questions with your weird, bodily problems. Jonathan Dimbleby will not appreciate it. Hello, is that embarrassing bodies? No, this is Gardner's question time. Oh, can I tell you about my problem anyway? I'll go into the garden. Hang on.
No Such Thing as a Blatant Plug for the Book of the Year 2019, 2019-10-24 · listen
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- Louisiana · United States
Coordinates: 42.5750, -71.9986