Hi listeners,
There are a lot of really weird stories in the news at the moment – cannibals, dismembered bodies, Octomom doing a porno – but fortunately this week, AMT218 is a largely horror-free zone:
Today we talk of:
marriage licences
the Pitcher and Piano
expensive clothes
actors’ motivation
Fifty Shades of Grey
Mario vs. Lazarus
moist Jo Whiley
Tinky Winky, live in Luxembourg
outlet stores
death by giant snail
and
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Plus: Olly doesn’t want to get married in Vegas; Helen doesn’t want to have to watch embarrassing bodies on Embarrassing Bodies; but Martin the Sound Man DOES want you to enter his science songwriting competition, so click here to find out how to enter before you dash off to your zither-room to compose.
This week’s Bit of Crap on the App (available for iDevices or Android) involves Claudia from Melbourne asking whether you can text the police rather than calling them. With all the cuts to public services, unfortunately the police have had to lay off their full-time team of interpreters waiting to figure out what you mean by HLP pls sum1 tryn2 mrdr me non-LOL srsly >:-O
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June 8, 2012 at 4:00 pm |
I’m with Gaijintendo – turtle. They have legs for chrissakes!
So, I got married in Vegas. 🙂 We’d been going out for about 6 years, and got engaged in 1999, to be married the next year. We started making arrangements in the second half of 1999. at which point we were told “You want to get married in the millennium? get lost – you should have booked years ago!” We then realized that we enjoy going to Vegas very much, and decided to simply get hitched there, since scheduling was not a problem. We chose the hotel chapel at Tresure Island (back in the day before it was “TI” and had “sirens” outside”), brought 10 family members, and got hitched. We ate dinner in their fancypants restaurant, and gave everyone an eyepatch, a drink, and a good time. About 3 weeks later, we had a reception back at home for friends and family.
That was 12 long years ago, and was the second or third best decision I’ve ever made.
By the way, as part of the service, the hotel provided a limo to take us to the courthouse for the license. It was hilarious.
June 8, 2012 at 10:40 am |
Here is the teletubbies sunshine kid now!
http://www.walltowatch.com/view/1853
June 11, 2012 at 3:30 pm |
That isn’t the Teletubbies baby
The photo in your link is this Jessica Smith: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2004140/ who is American and born in 1987, so would have been too old and in the wrong country
This is the Teletubbies Jessica Smith, who’s done nowt else since by the looks of it
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0808709/
June 7, 2012 at 1:55 pm |
hahaha… “outlit”. I love how Helen speaks!
June 13, 2012 at 8:11 am |
I feel sure Helen was refering to gay and lesbian fiction.
June 7, 2012 at 11:07 am |
Snail? Turtle surely? Everything follows, except you do get giant turtles. They are not that scary really.