Today we mourn. We mourn questioneer Calum’s half-eyebrow, taken from him too soon. Our deepest sympathies, Calum.
Also in Answer Me This! Episode 347, we consider:
getting lucky at potlucks
mugshots
Letchworth Garden City
bread crusts
Ebenezer Howard
Concretopia
the Spirella Building
the Cheap Cottages Exhibition Ideal Home Show
glittery puddings
dead dogs
draining cats
and
vampire bats.
Plus, can we get your input on:
i. Michael Parkinson’s height? Is he 5’10” or over 7′ tall?
ii. Alumni of Olly’s school who are more famous than Olly (and thus also more famous than George Lamb and Sonia Friedman)?
iii. Chocolate fondants looking like parted legs, all sexy-like?
In today’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App – available for iPadPhones, Android and Windows devices – there’s a warning about which films to go to see at the cinema if you want to sit next to Olly frigging himself raw. Or which ones to avoid if you don’t.
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We’ll be back with AMT348 on 2 March 2017, and with a Retro AMT on 16 February.
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Answer Me This! Podcast 
March 31, 2017 at 7:01 pm |
Listening to last months podcast on my commute this morning and 2 items led me yo my question. First you were talking about animals named after literary heroes, followed by a new ident sung by Elvis. Well in 1977 I was on Honeymoon in the North Devon town of Westward Ho! when Elvis died. After listening to none stop Elvis on Radio Luxembourg, they cancelled all advertising that night as a mark of respect, we got up to dozens of aging teds reading the mornings papers and crying at the news. The rest of the week they took over the entertainment lounge singing tributes to the king. This was years before karaoke became popular. Now my question. Are there any other toens that have a punctuation mark as part of their name or is Westward Ho! unique?
March 31, 2017 at 7:36 pm |
Robin, the town where my father was born, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, USA, has an apostrophe.
There’s also this: http://www.howderfamily.com/blog/exclamatory-towns/
March 14, 2017 at 5:38 pm |
Dunedin is pronounced /dʌˈniːdᵻn/ done-ee-din, with the emphasis on the second syllable. It’s an an Anglicised version of the Gaelic for Edinburgh, Dùn Èideann /ˈt̪uːn ˈeːtʲən̪ˠ/.
February 2, 2017 at 10:47 pm |
Just finished listening to AMT 347, great as always.
As for the married couple getting married, how about this: They have a humanist ceremony as described, and if asked about the Registry formalities, say “We did it before”. Just not HOW LONG before. It ain’t lyin’!
Your jingles have given me earworms again, which leads to a question you may choose to use on the show: Why do we get earworms? How do they work, and is there a way to get rid of them besides replacing them with another, often worse, earworm?
BYE!