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  Vocabularies: defenestration, cuckoo spit, crass, chiaroscouro
  
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  Odd Man Out: teetotalers, places in Australia, women, blood types
  
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  Paradoxical Pronouncements: Dr. Spooner, WS Gilbert, Logan Thistle-Smith, Sidney Smith
  
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  “Get thee behind me, Satan” (FM) / “The triumph of mind over matter” (DN)
  

JL

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KWAX-FM, 19-Jul-2003

KIPO 15-Jun-2006

KALW 23-Jun-2006

27:16, 25569, S

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RT #328

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  Vocabularies: Bijou, holocaust, homarine, majuscule
  
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  Something in Common: marsupials, Proust’s work, 18^th century wigs, words to give attractive shapes to the lips
  
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  Elementary radio technology: tweeter/woofer, flutter / wow, male XLR plug/female XLR plug, bassy/boomy
  
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  “Where the blue of the night meets the gold of the day” (DN) / “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” (FM)
  

JL

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KWAX-FM, 02-Aug-2003

KIPO 29-Jun-2006

KALW 07-Jul-2006

27:16, 25569, S

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RT #329

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  Vocabularies: Gallivant, Mellifluous, Cosmetic, Bombilious
  
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  Quotations: Lord Chesterfield, Ecclesiastes 7:6, Johnson, Hazard
  
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  Origins: By And Large, Salmonella Poisoning, Tycoon, Pig Iron
  
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  “There Are Fairies At The Bottom Of Our Garden” (FM) There Are Furries At The Bottom Of Our Car, / “Once I Had A Secret Love” (DN) Once I Ate A Sauerkraut Loaf
  

JL

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MH, 02-08-01

KIPO 06-Jul-2006

KALW 14-Jul-2006

KWAX 15-Jul-2006

27:17, 25579, S

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RT #330

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  Vocabularies: Plethora, gravamen, cynosure, maelstrom
  
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  True confessions: Dale Carnegie, Hitler, von Ribbentrop, Mary Lloyd
  
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  Origins and Derivations: stevedore, buy a pig in a poke, shambles, denim
  
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  “Screw your courage to the sticking place” (DN) / “There’s no business like show business” (FM)
  

JL

PM, TS

KIPO 13-Jul-2006

KALW 21-Jul-2006

KWAX 22-Jul-2006

27:18, 25605, S

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RT #331

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  Vocabularies: mumbo jumbo, phillumenist, nictitate, lanolin
  
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  Complete the stanza: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day, far from the madding’s crowd, she walks in beauty in the night, glories of our blood and state
  
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  Origins and derivations: buffoon, to strip to the buff, debauchery, flabbergasted
  
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  “You may fool all of the people some of the time, …” (FM) / “Falstaff shall die of a sweat” (DN)
  

JL

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KWAX-FM, 23-Aug-2003

KIPO 20-Jul-2006

KALW 28-Jul-2006

27:17, 25579, S

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RT #332

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  Vocabularies: brouhaha, gist, spatter dash, chasuble
  
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  Mistakes: Jane Austen died before Pepys’ diaries were published, no penguin at the North Pole, meteoric rise?, Nelson’s hands
  
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  Mona Lisa: which direction is she turned, predominant colour of her dress, arrangement of her hands, what’s the background
  
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  “The historian is a prophet looking backwards” (DN) / “Now is the winter of our discontent” (FM)
  

JL

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KWAX-FM, 30-Aug-2003

KIPO 27-Jul-2006

KALW 28-Jul-2006

27:11, 25500, S

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RT #333

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  Vocabularies: katydid, imbroglio, shawm, crinkum-crankum
  
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  Drinks: Washington Irving, Richard Bentley, H.L. Mencken, Oscar Wilde
  
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  Origins and Derivations: a seersucker suit, paraffin, haven’t a clue, gooseberry fool
  
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  “Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings” (FM) / “More in sorrow than in anger” (DN)
  

JL

PM, TS

MH, 02-08-29

KWAX-FM, 06-Sep-2003

KIPO 03-Aug-2006

KALW 11-Aug-2006

KWAX 12-Aug-2006

27:15, 25557, S

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RT #334

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  Vocabularies: formification, hebetude, hebdomadary, doch-an-doris
  
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  Thoughts about life: O. Henry, Henry Wadworth Longfellow, Samuel Butler, Tom Brown’s Schooldays
  
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  Origins and Derivations: hoity toity, by hook or by crook, a mangle worzle, precocious
  
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  Household hints: stopping a rooster crowing, taking the shine out of trousers, preventing milk turning from thundering, clearing bad water
  
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  Proverbially speaking: if my aunt wore a top hat she’d be my uncle, if my shirt knew my design I’d burn it, everything hath an end and a pudding hath two, God is better pleased with adverbs than with nouns
  

JL

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DmP 2000-07-29

KWAX-FM, 13-Sep-2003

KIPO 10-Aug-2006

KALW 18-Aug-2006

KWAX 20-Aug-2006

27:15, 25552, S

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RT #335

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  Vocabularies: glitch, picaresque, funicular, scintilla
  
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  Alleged National Characteristics: French/Spanish, Irish, English, Russian
  
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  Origins and Derivations: plimsols, halibut, all according to cocker, dandelion
  
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  “The game is not worth the candle” (FM) / “I think, therefore I am” (DN)
  

JL

PM, TS

DmP, 2000-08-05

KWAX-FM, 20-Sep-2003

KIPO 17-Aug-2006

KALW 25-Aug-2006

KWAX 27-Aug-2006

27:18, 25600,.S

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RT #336

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  Vocabularies: detritus, simony, carapace, cud
  
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  Craftsmen’s necessaries: charcoal maker, blacksmith, wheelwright, thatcher
  
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  Verses: Masefield’s “Sea Fever”, Arthur Hugh Clough, Tennyson “The Princess”, Longfellow “A Psalm of Life”
  
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  “Is there honey still for tea?” (DN) / “Truth is stranger than fiction” (FM)
  

JL

PM, TS

KIPO 24-Aug-2006

KALW 01-Sep-2006

KWAX 02-Sep-2006

27:17, 25579, S

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RT #337

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  Vocabularies: flummery, perfidy, friable, bucolic
  
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  Differences: frankincense and myrrh, nymph and dryad, hocus pocus and hokey pokey, horrid and horrible
  
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  Opposites: distaff and spear, obverse and reverse, cameo and intaglio, cantoris and deacanae
  
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  “The Passing of the Third Floor Back” (FM) The Pausing of the Third Flower Back / “Beggars Can’t Be Choosers” (DN) Burghers Count Beach Users
  

JL

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DmP, 00-08-19

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KWAX-FM, 04-Oct-2003

27:08, 19090, S

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RT #338

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  Vocabularies: blatherskite, pullulation, punambulist, Pediculous
  
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  Nursery Rhymes: Jack And Jill, Mary Had A Little Lamb, Goosy Goosy Gander, Ding Dong Bell Pussy’s In The Well
  
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  Origins: An Old Bag, A Free Lance, A Jot Or Tittle, Right as a Trivet
  
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  “The Mass Of Men Lead Lives Of Quiet Desperation” (DN) The Mass Of Men Need Wives Of Quiet Respiration / “How Doth The Little Busy Bee Improve Each Shining Hour” (FM) How Doth The Little PCP Improve Each Shining ‘R
  

JL

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DmP, 00-08-27

KIPO-FM, 02-Oct-2003

KWAX-FM, 11-Oct-2003

27:12, 25509, S

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RT #339

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  Vocabularies: loblolly, lipogram, caucus, pratfall
  
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  Origins and derivations: white elephant, to take someone down a peg or two, cooee, cockney
  
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  Basic ingredients: foo yong hai, roquefort cheese, blinis, bombay duck
  
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  “A penny plain and tuppence coloured” (FM) / “Tis better to have loved and lost” (DN)
  

JL

PM, TS

WBUR-FM, 2002-Nov-03

KIPO-FM, 16-Oct-2003

KWAX-FM, 25-Oct-2003

KALW-FM, 11-Oct-2003

KWAX-FM, 23-Sep-2006

27:13, 25560, S

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RT #340

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  Vocabularies: pantisocracy, macrobiotic, calibogus, phthisis
  
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  Anachronisms: safety match, The Reverend, numbered houses, Miss Charlotte Brontë
  
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  Origins: the upper crust, Pakistan, mummy, plain as a pikestaff
  
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  Methodology: carving a shoulder of lamb, applying a half nelson, locating the Pole Star, tying a bowline
  
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  Attenuated Aphorisms: the cook was a good cook, three may keep a secret, the English country gentleman in full pursuit of a fox, while I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church
  

JL

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DmP, 00-09-03, 27:01

KALW-FM, 17-Oct-2003

KWAX-FM, 18-Oct-2003

KIPO-FM, 14-Sep-2003

KALW-FM, 22-Sep-2006

KWAX-FM, 30-Sep-2006

27:14, 25540, S

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