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2 boys, 1 Spoon

November 6, 2009

In Episode 114, Olly revealed he can no longer eat even small quantities of cinnamon without suffering a gag reflex, because he and his friend Mr Will Brown recently undertook the ‘Cinnamon Challenge’ – a YouTube meme in which self-hating stupidity-junkies attempt to swallow a whole heaped teaspoon of pure ground cinnamon. For Fun.

Now, following popular demand, we are pleased to reveal the evidence, lovingly caught on camera by Answer Me This! jingle-voice Tom Price. Enjoy:

Let Olly’s fate be a lesson to you all: cinnamon is not to be taken neat.

(But, for those who fancy a bit more Friday Fun, more of our favourite examples of this particular phenomenon can be found here, here and here. Hee Hee!)

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Tags:Cinnamon Challenge, Fail, folly, food, Funny Video, shame
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Jews and booze

November 5, 2009

** Click here for Episode 115 **

We at Answer Me This! were rather underimpressed by this year’s display of Halloween garments. Given a one-night-only opportunity to walk around in public wearing absolutely anything, 90% of Londoners chose to dress up as slags! And most of the other 10% just sprinkled a bit of fake blood onto a shirt and called that a costume. NO NO NO! Fancy dress requires effort and/or ingenuity. And now, please lend yours to Christine from San Diego:

I have been invited to a friend’s 23rd birthday and the theme is “Jews and Booze”. I am completely confused and stumped by this theme. The birthday boy is Jewish, but also a fun-loving party animal, so I guess the theme is appropriate, but what do you wear to seem Jewish-themed and yet pretty? Yarmulkes? Star of David-printed hotpants? Do you have any sensible suggestions? I am severely lacking in knowledge of what to wear to a fancy dress party and of Jewish culture and I need help! I have nightmares that I will show up as a female Nazi in the mode of Prince Harry and ruin the party.

Readers, please put your Jews and Booze suggestions in a comment below! We recommend suiting up as King Herod with a cocktail umbrella sticking out of your collar.

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Tags:booze, fancy dress, jews, sartoria
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Happy birthday to us!

July 15, 2009

** Click here for EPISODE 99 **

On the eve of our 100th episode, we’ve received a marvellous missive from Simon:

I’m breaking tradition, I’m emailing not with a question, BUT WITH A PRESENT…of sorts.

I found myself doodling as I usually do whilst listening to episode 98, and it sort of developed into the drawing that’s attached! It’s to celebrate your 100th episode, and a thanks for being so damned awesome over the last two years.

Thanks very much, Simon! (Especially for making us look so much better than we do in real life.) And if any of the rest of you fancy making cards for us to prop on our virtual mantelpieces, send them along too! Nobody likes tears on their birthday…

Incidentally, as a birthday treat, we were asked to compile our Celebrity Playlist for iTunes. If you can pause in choking with laughter at the mere notion of us having managed to muscle in on something with ‘celebrity’ in the name, then click HERE check out our joint megamix.

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All new!

July 8, 2009

We’re thrilled to be returning tomorrow with our new series, but just before that arrives, we’ve got some other new stuff to tell you about. Namely:

• New badges! The wonderful bods at 50pbadges.com have produced a gorgeous new quartet of badges in two sizes. CLICK HERE to buy your own pieces of flair.

• New albums! During our holidays we put together the Answer Me This! Selection Boxes, four compilations of some of the finest bits of the podcast themed around our favourite subjects: food, love, dilemmas and history. They’re available exclusively from the iTunes store for £3.49 each – or $4.99 for listeners in the US or $8.99 in Australia. Or for some similarly puny amount wherever you are in the world!

• Martin the Sound Man‘s got a new episode of his Sound of the Ladies podcast, featuring his latest song ‘We Went to the Bottom of the Ocean’!

• Fellow podcaster and sibling of the show Andy Zaltzman has just started his new BBC 5Live series ‘Yes, It’s the Ashes’. Unfortunately it is about cricket; but if that oils your bat, then you can listen to Episode 1 on BBC iPlayer until Saturday morning.

See you tomorrow for Episode 99!

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Loooooook again!

June 28, 2009

** Click here for EPISODE 98 **

Great news for all you Martin the Sound Fans – you can now cut out and keep your very own Martin! Sally Grosart, who created these marvellous paper effigies of me and Olly, has also done one of Martin, right down to his home-made Sound of the Ladies t-shirt. It’s an impressive likeness:

Martin the Paper Sound Man

If you want to make your own papery Martin, click on the picture below for the full-size pattern; and do take a look at Sally’s Flickr stream for her other cardboard chaps.

Make your own Martin - less sweary than the original

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The Sound of the Ladies Lounge III – The Lounge Strikes Back

June 23, 2009

** Click here for EPISODE 98 **

Listeners, we’re sorry to be neglecting you this month. But Martin the Sound Man isn’t – he’s just released a new episode of his musical-gigs-filmed-in-the-house, The Sound of the Ladies Lounge! And it’s a corker, featuring Martin’s new song ‘We went to the bottom of the ocean’, as well as AMT!P jingle alumnus Gavin Osborn singing his ravishing current single ‘Hello, my name is Charlie’. See:

Told you.

* For more of Martin’s music, and for previous episodes of The Sound of the Ladies Lounge, visit www.thesoundoftheladies.com.
* For more of Gavin’s music, visit www.myspace.com/gavinosborn.

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Tags:DIY entertainment, Gavin Osborn, Martin Austwick, music
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The happiest day of the year

May 16, 2009

** Click here for EPISODE 95 **

it'll be even cheesier than this

We sure know how to have fun, listeners! For tonight is the most euphonious night of the year – Eurovision Song Contest – and because the best way to enjoy a night of spandex, caterwauling and elaborate dancing is with your face down in a laptop, we’re going to be liveblogging it. Right here. Well, Olly isn’t, because he ~~smells~~ has got proper stuff to do; but I am, along with Martin the Sound Man, Matthew Crosby and some other fine Friends of Answer Me This!.

So get your barbed comments ready, and from 8pm CLICK HERE to join the liveblogging extravaganza!

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Tags:cheesefest, Eurovision, shattered dreams
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Thank God Josie’s Here

May 12, 2009

** Click here for EPISODE 94 **

Here’s some fun! Friend of Answer Me This! and Episode 84 alumnus Josie Long recently appeared on Australian improv show Thank God You’re Here; watch her think on her feet in impressive fashion:

Excellent stuff, eh? And she looks very lovely, right? Not sure the same can be said about listener Dave, whose cheeky wife Felicity sent in these somewhat NSFW snaps:

Click on the thumbnails to enlarge at your peril; and click HERE to buy your own AMT!P bag with which to protect your modesty.

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Tags:australia, bag misuse, candid photography, comedy, improvisation, josie long, thank god you're here
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That’s showbiz

April 29, 2009

** Click here for Episode 92 **

I just found this on YouTube and thought it was simultaneously the funniest, and saddest, thing I have seen in recent weeks. Thought I should share.

Whatever they gave that studio audience, I want some… and if anyone knows any of them personally, perhaps ask them to write us a review on iTunes.

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Wave goodbye to productivity

April 14, 2009

** Click here for EPISODE 90 **

In the hopes that one day we will be canonised for our services to procrastination and life-frittering, we have added ALL-NEW jigsaws to our Timewasting page. And not only that – we’ve also customised some classic arcade games and slapped them on there too! Don’t blame us when your boss demotes you for playing Martin-faced Pacman for eight hours…

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Olympic hopefuls

April 14, 2009

** Click here for EPISODE 90 **

Over on the Answer Me This! Facebook Fanclub forums, the enterprising Joe from Newnham has declared he has started up a new Facebook group to persuade the BBC to employ the AMT!P team to present the 2012 Olympics.

As you know, we know dick-all about sport. We care almost that much too. But come on, sports-fans and non-fans – you know this would be so wrong, and yet so right… Imagine what a glorious time we might have dissecting the day’s synchronised diving events and the 100-yard dash! So dammit, CLICK HERE to join the group! Sign the petition! Let’s make this happen!

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