the expression ‘a square meal’ refers to the tudor naval tradition of having 4 pegs placed in holes in the table top to make a square into which your plate fitted to stop it sliding away as the ship rocked :groucho:
if you listen to the radio in the morning ; the jingle before and after the traffic news often has the sound of a phone dialling on it.
This isn’t just to encourage people to call in traffic jams on their mobile; the tones are picked up by equipment at the radio stations transmitter link and are a code turn the RDS “traffic announcement” flag on and off, so peoples (suitably equipped) car radios can automatically tune to the station.
Take a piece of string,any string and cut it in half,Now,Provided you cut it Exactly in Half you will find the two pieces measure exactly the same length as the original piece,go on try it,It seems to work on all types of string too,weird!:you_crazy
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