This episode of the Useless Information Retrocast includes the following:

Question of the Day: Where and when was Ranch dressing first created?

Retrosponsor: Fitch’s Saponified Cocoanut Oil Shampoo

Tidbits:

The Perpetual Student (1908)

Woman Repeatedly Fails Driver’s Test (1969)

Leonardo de Toenail (1980)

Footnotes to History:

Grasshoppers Destroy Man’s Clothing (1920)

Hollywood Eccentric Hatches Ostrich by Sitting on an Egg (1946)

‘Find It In The Yellow Pages,” And He Does—Two $50 Bills (1957)

Car Gets Kanged by a Marsupial (1968)

The Phantom Cake Icer (1981)