Episode 888

Panasonic Vibration Headphones
While in Japan, Leo bought a smart pair of Panasonic headphones for Henry, but was disappointed to find when he came back that they were available at Amazon.  This reminds Dick of a crazy pair of Panasonic headphones in the Gadget Warehouse which sat behind your neck and would vibrate to the beat of the music. Could they be the Panasonic Shaker Extreme RP-HS900?

Panasonic Shaker Extreme Headphones
Knuckles Calendar
Long-time listener Anish, whose name rhymes with "quiche", as "Leo" rhymes with "mayo", has not written for a while but assures Dick that he's still a fan.  In Episode 876 Dick and Leo talked about nursery rhymes which help children remember how many days there are in each month.  Unlike some of us, Anish is still young enough to remember the things his parents taught him, one of which is the knuckles calendar.  The bumps represent the long months, and the valleys represent the short ones, as Leo ably demonstrates.

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Update on August 7, 2009 by Inside DGW

A Pictorial Illustration of the Knuckles Calendar
You just never know what ticks with the listeners, who would pick up the most insignificant, tangential and off-the-cuff remarks from Dick and Leo.  Listener Anish picked up the snippet of conversation between Dick and Leo about remembering the number of days in each month in Episode 876.  Now another listener, Verena Fuchs (who wrote in Episode 839 about the Ig Nobel Prizes), has found the discussion so compelling that she went off and found a pictorial illustration of the Knuckles Calendar (via Verena's email to Dick).

The Knuckles Calendar