Answer Me This! Podcast

The new series of Answer Me This! is mere hours away, yet there remains plenty of business still to be attended to from the previous series (yep, we’ve a bit lazy. We’ve had puzzles to complete, dammit!).

So let’s cut straight to the chase and take a look at the following email from Arianne, sent in response to Episode 51:

I’ve been amused recently by hearing about these people on your podcast who deliberately change their names to things like “Flash” and “Boom”. Unfortunately I was given at birth the middle name Storm (in addition to an already weird first name) – and bearing in mind the flak I received when I was younger and the horror that was my school years (partially thanks to the X-Men series of movies) I’m amazed that people actually choose to give themselves such names. But I suppose that when you get to adulthood names like this do seem to be more interesting to other people now they are older than they were when you were young. I don’t think people should be allowed to give themselves such “cool” sounding names once grown up without having gone through a childhood of misery first! You need to EARN it dammit!

So that’s you told, John Raspberry Clark and Eileen Flamingo Norris! Although, Arianne, you should feel a bit lucky; for if a middle name is not interesting, what’s the point of them at all? I would have much preferred mine to be something to do with weather systems, rather than just being given the moniker of whichever great-aunt had the least rubbish name. It was a pretty thin field. One of them is actually called ‘Toby’.

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