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  Vocabularies: allopath, supererogation, nepenthic, blunge
  
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  Odd Man Out: monthly namesakes, moustaches, blues, things in Ireland
  
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  Literary Addition: 6+5+3=14, 5+12+20,000=20,017, 24+3+50,000,000=50,000,027, 15+9+15=39
  
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  What Comes Before (in Shakespeare)
  
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  Double definitions: carp, smack, kindle, consonant
  
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  “Oh for the touch of a vanished hand” (FM) / “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink” (DN)
  

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ABC, 17/16-Apr-2003

KIPO-FM, 06-May-2004

KALW-FM, 14-May-2004

27:11, 25494, S

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RT #381

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  Vocabularies: charleyhorse, somniloquy, beeswing, Godwottery
  
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  Bertie’s Aunt Agatha, Queen Victoria, La Belle Dame sans merci, Saki on Mrs. Packletides
  
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  Derivations: It’s not on, bogey in golf, deuce in tennis, spinnaker
  
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  Dramatic Dialogues: Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Gregory in “The Silver Blaze”, Major Pollock and Sybil Railton-Bell in “Separate Tables”
  
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  “As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool” (FM) / “Don’t try to bite off more than you can chew” (DN)
  

JJN

ABC, 24/23-Apr-2003

KIPO-FM, 13-May-2004

KALW-FM, 21-May-2004

27:09, 25463, S

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RT #382

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  Vocabularies: cinerarium, bingle, antigropulos, infundibula
  
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  Unlikely connections: Major Wingfield/Wimbledon, Enoch Arden/William Crichton, a newt/an orange, Oliver Cromwell/Tom Sawyer
  
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  Differences: rare/scarce, perturb/disturb, to loose/to loosen, to bring/to fetch
  
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  One line at a time: Jonson’s “To Celia” (Drink to me only with thine eyes, …)
  
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  “I am monarch of all I survey” (FM) / “The stars and stripes forever” (DN)
  

JJN

KIPO-FM, 20-May-2004

KALW-FM, 28-May-2004

KWAX-FM, 05-May-2007

27:05, 25392, S

RT #383

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  Vocabularies: Pseudoscope, serinette, vilipend, pasquinade
  
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  But who were they: the Cambridge people, the Ancient Mariner’s shipmates, daffodils, lips
  
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  Something in common: fevers, wedding anniversaries, Dutch words, knots
  
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  Derivations: Iron Curtain, caricature, meringue, hooch
  
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  “Why so pale and wan, fond lover” (DN) / “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” (FM)
  

JJN

ABC-CE, 08/09-May-2003

KIPO-FM, 27-May-2004

KALW-FM, 04-Jun-2004

27:02, 25358, S

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  Verbal vagaries: month silver spirit chimney, United States of America attaineth its cause Freedom (anagram), are we not drawn onward to new era (palindrome), uncomplimentary (all vowels backwards)
  
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  Origins: In cahoots with, swashbuckling, at one fell swoop, barmy
  
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  What Happened Next: Dickens, O. Henry, Shakespeare, Jane Eyre
  
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  Suffix: -oon, -wise, -ship, -age
  
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  “It’s a long way to Tipperary” (FM) / “You can’t have your cake and eat it too” (DN)
  

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KIPO-FM, 03-Jun-2004

KALW-FM, 11-Jun-2004

KWAX-FM, 19-May-2007

27:03, 25374, S

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RT #385

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  Vocabularies: Arachidic, plakophobia, penelopised, matutolipia
  
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  Things in common: dogs in Dickens, unfinished books, objects named after people, programming languages
  
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  Hyphenated adjectives: dragon-green, green-robed, ever-rolling, well-conducted
  
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  Unfavourable reviews: Gettysburg Address, Paradise Lost, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ulysses
  
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  “Leave no stone unturned” (FM) / “My sweet little Alice blue gown” (DN)
  

JJN

BBC R7, 02-Jul-2004

KIPO-FM, 10-Jun-2004

KALW-18-Jun-2004

27:10, 25475, S

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RT #386

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  Personal announcements, 20^th century people: Sir Robert Pelpman, Dorothy Parker, Tallulah Bankhead, Beverly Nichols
  
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  “ough”: thorough, chough, furlough, cough
  
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  Dyspeptic diagnoses by Carlisle: Disraeli, Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge
  
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  Who art thou? Tennyson, Milton, Wordsworth, Shakespeare / Romeo
  
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  Aliases: The Godfather, Georges Sand, Tarzan, Charlie’s Aunt
  
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  “Somewhere over the rainbow” (FM) / “People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” (DN)
  

JJN

KIPO-FM, 17-Jun-2004?

KALW-FM, 25-Jun-2004

KWAX-FM, 02-Jun-2007

27:06, 25408, S

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ABC #347

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  Preposterous words: zonasthesia, misodoctyleclides, insecable, discalceate
  
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  Words in common: drunkeness, kept a diary, do them all backwards, yoyo throws
  
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  Three word quotations: the moving finger writes, showery flowery bowery, an empty dream, a cannon ball
  
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  Original titles: the sea cook, mag’s diversion, first impressions, tenderness
  
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  “Half a loaf is better than no bread” (FM) / “I’m dancing with tears in my eyes” (DN)
  

JJN

KIPO-FM, 24-Jun-2004

KALW-FM, 02-Jul-2004

KWAX-FM, 09-Jun-2007

26:58, 25298, S

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s31e05

ABC #348

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  Odd Man Out: sugar, Alice in Wonderland, starboard, Great Expectations
  
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  Hidden Places: baby’s nappy, crop of a Christmas goose, arms in the statue of the Virgin, corridor side of a hotel room door
  
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  Poetical Requests: tell me the old old story, If I should die think only this of me, And all I ask is a merry yarn, shall I compare thee to a summer’s day
  
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  Double definitions: intimate, invalid, refuse, continent
  
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  “All things bright and beautiful” (FM) / “Pardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga choo-choo” (DN)
  

JJN

KALW-FM, 09-Jul-2004

27:08, 25445, S

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ABC #349

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  Caustic Comments: Mark Twain, John Florio, William Gilbert, Bevan
  
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  Derivations: to go to pot, inoculation, ostracize, aftermath
  
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  Post Mortems: Dr. No, Mr. Krook, Madame Marguerite Gauthier, Mr. Bartholomew Shalter
  
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  Part words: gamuf, tchphr, hyth, kesh
  
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  “Parlez moi d’amour” (FM) / “Anchors aweigh” (DN)
  

JJN

KIPO-FM, 08-Jul-2004

KALW-FM, 16-Jul-2004

KWAX-FM, 23-Jun-2007

27:05, 25401, S

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  Incomplete Proverbs: a dog’s nose and a maid’s knee…, the mother-in-law remembereth not…, the first year let your house to an enemy…, a runaway monk never…
  
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  Composite words: gorgon zola, balder dash, butter fly, ram shackle
  
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  Origins and derivations: skeleton at the feast, all my eye and Betty Monkit, paraphenalia, win hands down
  
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  Poetical pairings: cool kindliness, twilight sings, the unforgiving minute, petty pace
  
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  Names beginning with Z: Zephilinda, Zulaika, Zeus, Zola
  
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  “Noel” (FM) / “Mary Had a little lamb” (DN)
  

JJN

KIPO-FM, 15-Jul-2004

KALW-FM, 23-Jul-2004

KWAX-FM, 30-Jun-2007

27:04, 25381, S

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R7:

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  Victorian Vulgarisms: Fly a flag of distress, a horse with devotional habits, a monkey’s allowance, use a louse trap
  
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  Two out of three: Shakespeare’s children, the more you beat them the better they be, triangles, Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy
  
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  30 seconds: parts of human body, clothing, farm animals, tools in one hand
  
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  Poetical pairings: starry skies, unfathomed caves, innumerable bees, mazy motion
  
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  “A Sadder and a wiser man” (FM) / “Nothing succeeds like success” (DN)
  

JJN

PC D/L, 04-Jul-2003

27:19, 25613, S

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  Vocabularies: dromophobia, iatrophobia, amaxophobia, belonephobia
  
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  Bits and Pieces: spinning wheel, ear, violin, lacrosse
  
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  Literary Fashions: Gunga Din, the Devil, Miss Havesham, Pied Piper
  
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  Juvenile Conundrums: Frisbee/Prince of Wales, cat/comma, hurt child/thundercloud, angry impresario/Julius Caesar’s barber
  
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  Verbal Ingenuity: procrastinate/reinforced concrete, abracadabra/women’s liberation, idiosyncratic/cooking with garlic, ICBM/Brigitte Bardot
  
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  Identifications: Sir Walter Raleigh, Dr. Johnson, Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin
  
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  Homophones: sucker/succor, meddle/metal, canvas/canvass, crick/creek
  

JJN

27:19, 25616, S

R7:

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  Impromptu Remarks: good morning gentleman both, you will always be fools, thank you madam the agony is abated, alright you have it your way you heard a seal bark
  
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  Paraphrased Poetry: Walrus and the Carpenter, Old King Cole, Gray’s Elegy, What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?
  
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  Mandatory Monosyllables: smile on the Mona Lisa, rules of croquet, attack of cramp, breakfast in bed
  
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  Double definitions: concert, pore, desert, entrance
  
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  “The Rite of Spring” (FM) / “The Agony and the Ecstasy” (DN)
  

JJN

27:16, 25568, S

R7:

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  Vocabularies: muddlefubbles, gongoozler, straddlebob, horbgorble
  
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  Origins and Derivations: Do good by stealth, fascinating, like a giant refreshed, propaganda
  
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  Misprinted poetry
  
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  Food and drink: lukewarm water, broth without any bread, pomegranate seeds, toasted cheese
  
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  Double definitions: cupid, sage, swallow, jam
  
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  “One good turn deserves another” (FM) / “Little brown jug, how I love thee” (DN)
  

JJN

27:21, 25645, S

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