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What do you mean, porridge gives you a rash?

February 23, 2007

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It’s time for another audience question!

Jamie Madge’s question in episode 7, “Why do you get a runny nose when eating spicy food?”, was certainly thought-provoking. It caused shrinking violet Olly to reveal on air that, while his nose remains continent during spicy meals, he is a member of the My Poo Turns Blue When I Eat Beetroot club; this seems to be quite a mainstream condition, but later he shyly muttered that he also gets very sneezy when he eats pear-drops. Martin the Sound Man has also outed himself as someone who sneezes when he eats strong mints. And Helen gets faint when she ingests monosodium glutamate.

So we thought it would be jolly interesting to ask you:

Have you got a weird physical reaction to eating or drinking a product?

Not the common or garden ones like getting the runs from a vindaloo or becoming hyperactive after too many Chupa Chups; or anything scary and serious like “I need an adrenaline shot to the heart when I eat nuts” or “My brain goes bendy when I eat naughty mushrooms”: we want to hear from you if, say, gravy gives you a squint or Scotch eggs make your hands turn magenta.

So please reveal your digestive anomalies by leaving us a comment on this site, or if that seems a bit steep then drop us an email at answermethispodcast@googlemail.com.

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another milestone for Answer Me This!

January 30, 2007

Back in the olden days (ie episode 2), we asked you listeners whether you’d listened to Answer Me This! in a plane, or failing that what was the weirdest place in which you’d listened to the podcast. Answers to the latter, quite fairly, ranged from ‘in the nude’ to ‘Nottingham’.

However, after the following email trotted into our inbox this morning, I am delighted to announce that Answer Me This! has achieved its first mile-high listener:

Dear Helen and Olly,

Weren’t you wondering recently whether anyone had signed answermethispodcast into the mile high club? Well I did! But not in a dirty way. Last Sunday, episode 2, London Heathrow to Chicago O’Hare, somewhere near Iceland!

Congratulations!

Alex D

And congratulations back at you, Alex D. The challenge is on, listeners – beat that! I look forward to hearing from Gerald A. Spacetourist: ‘I listened to episode 6004 whilst orbiting the Moon. To be honest, having spent £1million on the trip, I should have waited until I got home.’

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ANSWER THIS, LISTENERS!

January 10, 2007

We hope you are having plenty of fun listening to Answer Me This!, and for this week’s audience question we are keen to find out what is the oddest place in which you’ve listened to it.

We realise that, given the fledgling nature of Answer Me This!, this is quite a test. However we know you to be an ingenious bunch, and look forward to you revealing the true extent of your deviant podcast-listening habits.

Please leave your answers in the Comments section, and remember: you stand to win THE RESPECT OF YOUR PEERS.

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ANSWER THIS, LISTENERS!

January 1, 2007

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LOOK! It’s a bruise on Helen’s arm that looks like a cock and balls!
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Our question to listeners this week is – how do you think Helen came to have such an amusingly-shaped bruise?

Answers as always to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com

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