When Do Fish Sleep and Other Imponderables audiobook

I am not even sure where I got the soft cover book from. Pulled it out of a cardboard box in the garage and chipped away at it at about 10 pages a read over the course of several months. Pretty amusing overall. Took me a good second to realize just how old and potentially antiquated some of the imponderables are. Had to do a double take at the publication date when I started reading about rotary phones. I had known it was older from the start. However, it really hit home at that point. Still, I liked it as is. It was a lot of fun and nothing was so old that it was hard to follow.

I was today years old when I found out bowling shoes are deliberately ugly so people don’t steal them. I MEAN I GUESS IT MAKES SENSE IN HINDSIGHT, but I for real never even thought about that for a second before. I guess I just thought it was a kooky bowling alley thing to make the shoes look like that. Bonkers.Also I love that the word calculate comes from the latin calcules, which meant ‘pebbles,’ which were what they used to add, subtract, multiply, etc. Never knew that! I love words.

I was surprised when I read this book. This was because a lot of the things in the book, were things that I actually wondered. This book is worth it for sure.

Some of these imponderables are very dated now, but there is enough still relevant to make this an entertaining and somewhat educational read.

Nueva entrega de la recopilación de respuestas curiosas pero inútiles a preguntas que no nos habíamos hecho pero NECESITAMOS tener respondidas. ¿Por qué En muchos hoteles te doblan el último piquito del pael higiénico?¿Por qué, si el agua es más pesada que el aire, hay nubes?¿Cuándo se convierte una ternera en una vaca?¿Por qué tienen pelillos las pelotas de tenis, y por qué tienen hoyuelos las de golf?¿Por qué MIckey Mouse tiene cuatro dedos?¿Cómo se les quita el hueso a las aceitunas ?¿Por qué las uñas de las manos crecen más rápido que las de los pies?¿Qué son exactamente las ojeras y por qué salen ?Y así unas doscientas. Algunas están ya dasfasadas (¿por qué los tatuajes suelen ser azules?) y otras se solucionan con una búsqueda rápida en Internet (este libro es del 89), pero hay muchas que siguen siendo entretenidísimas de leer. Me encantó.

What ages would I recommend it too? Twelve and up. Length? Each story is a few pages.Characters? No.Setting? Real World before 1989.Written approximately? 1989.Does the story leave questions in the readers mind? Ready to read more.Any issues the author (or a more recent publisher) should cover? Some answers have been updated in recent years.Short storyline: A question is asked, and answers are given for it. Some are really good, and some are funny.Notes for the reader: This book is a bit outdated. Aerosol cans, VHS tapes, phones, airline tickets, carbon paper. One of the answered questions led me to ask another. How does a a one armed, or no armed, military member salute?

Excellent book, excellent author. David Feldman asks the unusual questions all of us wonder about. He goes to the professionals and gets to the bottom of all of our imaginations.

impress everyone you meet with your random knowledge.

...Random Facts...oh yeah, it was great.

Saving this book to read to my grandchildren

Fun to read!

I shared this book with my kids and we all really enjoyed learning a lot of useless trivia. My youngest said that he is now ready to go on the TV show "Cash Cab". lol ... as if.