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Music Mondays

March 30, 2009

Listeners, you are probably well aware that we at Answer Me This! hate to waste energy, to the extent that we don’t even get off the sofa most days. However we might be persuaded to haul ourselves into an upright position by the Mega Dance Power of this jaunty song some of you have forwarded us:

‘Polar Bears, Who Cares?’ – Dan Power

Once you have finished shaking your hairy arses, you can bogle on over to www.energywastingday.com to find out how to stalk Dan Power or buy one of the frankly awesome t-shirts. Then you can go off and Do Your Bit in time for Energy Wasting Day on April 1st by setting fire to some tyres or something.

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WAKE UP!

March 16, 2009

** Click here for EPISODE 86 **

We’ve had an email from Partha that is one part flattering to two parts disturbing. He says:

I’ve been trying to use an alarm on my Mac to wake me up in the morning but invariably end up blocking out the sound or hitting snooze.

I thought that maybe changing from beeping to the sound of screaming might be more effective but it just made the whole experience unnecessarily harrowing.

Then I heard Episode 49 and all my problems are solved! I’ve attached the sound I’m now waking up to – it’s a combination of an alarm clock and Olly explaining why I shouldn’t hit snooze.

Enchanting way to wake up, no? In Dystopia, maybe… But if that’s your bag, then by all means click HERE to download it and use it to jolt yourself awake in the morning too.

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Sunday fun

March 8, 2009

** Click here for Episode 85 **

We hope you are all having a marvellous Sunday afternoon. If not, here are some things which might perk you up:

1. An Answer Me This! quiz by Gareth from Glasgow. Click HERE to take it, and see if you can best our scores: Olly and I each got 19 out of 20, but dafty old Martin the Sound Man only got 15.

2. The first episode of Martin the Sound Man’s new musical videocast The Sound of the Ladies Lounge. It’ll certainly cheer him up if you watch it!

3. Helen and Olly’s Photoshop Challenge. Entries have been coming in thick and fast, and it’s only a slight exaggeration to say that nothing has ever made us happier. View and comment on the pictures at photobucket.com/answermethis.

Cheers dears!

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Anagram fun!

February 17, 2009

** We’re back on 5th March; in the meantime click here to listen to previous episodes **

We’ve been enjoying our podcastless leisure-time this month, and it appears Aaron from Monkton, Vermont has too:

Had some free time and experimented with some anagrams. These are the best I found, and a few are rather appropriate.

Oliver Mann
Minor navel
Normal vein

Martin the Sound Man
A Modernist Manhunt
Humanist Adornment
Madam Nutrient Nosh
Madman Unites North
Humor a Instant Mend

Martin Austwick
A Karmic Untwist

Helen Zaltzman
The Zs proved problematic

Let the record show that the last one is not an actual anagram of my name. However if you can think of one, or any other choice ones for Olly and Martin, comment below!

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All together now: Awwwwwwww!

February 14, 2009

Brace yourself, readers, for the most romantic post ever to grace this website! Granted, it’s a thin field.

Tabby from Stoke-on-Trent wrote to us to ask if we could help out with a little Answer Me This!-themed Valentine’s gesture for her podcast-fond boyfriend Scott, and naturally we were only too pleased to oblige. So Scott, this goes out to you!

Tabby
loves
Scott

Happy Valentine’s Day, Scott; and we’re delighted to be helping to keep Love’s Young Dream alive, in a Web 2.0 fashion.

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Animate Me This!

January 14, 2009

** Click here for EPISODE 81 **

Like proud parents sticking their toddlers’ daubings on the fridge door, we are altogether delighted when you send us your artistic endeavours inspired by Answer Me This!. We very much enjoyed this, that and the other, and now Luke from Cambridge has similarly perked up our days, having just made a snippet of the podcast into a cartoon! Visit his website lukesurl.com for the full-size version.

Meanwhile, if you enjoy a punctuation challenge, try this one that my English teacher Mr Bullard laid upon us when I was nine:

Smith where Jones had had had had had had had had had had had the examiner’s approval.

That’s eleven ‘had’s in a row! Punctuate them so that the sentence makes sense, goddammit, else Mr Bullard will throw a hardback dictionary at you from beyond the grave.

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What do you get…

December 27, 2008

…if you cross Martin the Sound Man and a £5 Santa suit?

Santa the Sound Man

Answer us this: what about this could have caused our two-year-old niece to scream for an hour? Ingrate.

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Sunday best

November 24, 2008

** Click here for Answer Me This! Episode 76 **

We implored you to send pictures of you in your most embarrassing or expensive outfits in Episode 76, and one plucky young man has stepped up with the goods:

My name is Richard from London and here is my “cool” clothes photo!

Richard from London: Fijian shirt, ladies' jimjams

Hat I think was between £10-15 from a fair.

Shirt was given to me by my Fijian father so that’s free!

Trousers I do believe were from the ladies’ pajama section in Primark for somewhere below £10*.

I could make you a lot of different outfits with my wonderful clothes!

We bet you could, Richard! But we wouldn’t want to take them from you because you look so cheerful in them.

* Presumably by ‘somewhere below £10’ for his jimjams, he means ‘some £8-9 below £10’, seeing as a tenner would buy you a three-piece wool suit from Primark and a jar of whelks with the change.

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Physicallyphysicallyphysically fit…

November 19, 2008

Sharp-eared Peter from Atherton clocked the reference in Episode 75 to 1994 popular masterpiece ‘I Like To Move It’ by Reel 2 Reel featuring the Mad Stuntmen. What’s more, he has kindly drawn our attention to a recent snazzified version of it:

While the original track was fairly forgettable, it’s probably fair to say that you’ve not lived until you’ve heard this track mashed up with The Ghostbusters theme by Ray Parker Jr.

And as Peter was decent enough to share the pleasure with us, so we share it with you – enjoy!

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Help ensure Helen gets a good Christmas present this year…

November 19, 2008

…by buying a copy of her brother’s new book!

Yes, her comedian brother Andy Zaltzman, off the radio, telly and The Bugle podcast, has written his very first ~~anthology of poetry~~ toilet book, Does Anything Eat Bankers?. Get a copy before mum snaps them all up.

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Finally!

November 15, 2008

** Click here for Episode 75 **

It has taken nearly two years and sixty-seven episodes. But at long last, marvellous Mark from Essex has stepped up to the plate and made our Best Idea Ever into a glorious reality:

AGES and AGES ago (episode 8) you said, in response to someone asking a question about why do people who smell not know that they smell, that there should be a website where you can enter someone’s E-Mail address and it sends them an E-Mail saying that they smell.

I’ve been meaning to make such a website for ages, and finally got round to it.

www.youreallysmell.com

Enjoy :p

Mark, you have actually made our dreams come true. (Unfortunately not the dream where we become the kings of Peru, but we’ll keep holding on to that.) People, use this service! But don’t abuse it, or some innocent unpongy fellow you’ve been teasing anonymously will start scrubbing themselves with wire wool, and dousing themselves with Lynx, which of course smells worse than any odour an armpit could produce on its own.

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Olly’s day job: the sordid truth

November 14, 2008

** Click here for EPISODE 75 **

To all of you who have been guessing valiantly as to what our day-jobs are, Olly is finally ready to come out of the closet and declare that, at the moment, he’s writing and producing a comedy clip show for Yahoo Video with the comedian Tom Price. Click here to watch it! If you stick around RIGHT to the end, and you’ll even glimpse a charming cameo by Mr Mann himself.

It comes out every Friday. If you enjoy it and would like to see more, or if this video player we’ve posted is being a shitter and not playing properly, you can see all ten archive episodes and related amusements at http://www.getyourislandon.co.uk.

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