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  Vocabularies: peripatetic, holocaust, rodomontade, panegyric
  
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  Pairings: hungry generations, livelier iris, duchess faced horse, scrannel pipes
  
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  Malicious misogynisms: Samuel Butler, Byron, Chesterfield, H.L. Mencken
  
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  Double definitions: tabernacle, exaltation, schooner, thrush
  
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  “Any old iron” (FM) Annie Hall, doyenne / “What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts” (DN) What you lose on the swing you gaze on the randy bits
  

JL

PM, TS

ABC, 2003-01-16/15

KIPO-FM, 04-Jan-2007

KALW-FM, 12-Jan-2007

27:12, 25512, S

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RT #355

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  Vocabularies: imbroglio, simulacrum, parbuckle, nexus
  
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  Second lines: pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, the valiant never taste of death but once, thaw and resolve itself into a dew, and tell sad stories of the death of kings
  
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  Differences: jejune/jejunum, jurisdiction/jurisprudence, talent/genius, piquancy/pungency
  
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  Literary children: John and Betty (Gulliver); Wendy, John and Michael (); Jane, Elizabeth, Catherine, Lydia (Bennett); James, Frank, …,Louisa, Martha (Crowly)
  
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  “Hail to the blithe spirit, bird thou never wirt” (DN) / “More in sorrow than in anger” (FM)
  

JL

PM, TS

KIPO-FM, 11-Jan-2007

KALW-FM, 19-Jan-2007

KWAX-FM, 20-Jan-2007

27:14, 25534, S

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RT #356

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  Vocabularies: ambivalence, vestigial, paranoid, ciceroni
  
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  Words in Common: plant diseases, Alice in Wonderland’s arithemetic operators, book titles taken from Shakespeare, slang for money
  
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  Potted poetry: star/clear/moaning/sea, prison / iron / innocent/hermitage, froth/stone/trouble/courage, strife /sober/vale/tenor
  
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  “A rag and a bone and a hank of hair” (FM) / “We who are about to die salute thee” (DN)
  

JL

PM, TS

KIPO-FM, 18-Jan-2007

KALW-FM, 26-Jan-2007

KWAX-FM, 27-Jan-2007

27:15, 25554, S

RT #357

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  Vocabularies: synoptic, paradigm, synectechy, ethnic
  
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  Odd Man Out: containers of liquids, coffees, drowning victims, boxing classes
  
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  Unusual definitions: Mistinguette, George Bernard Shaw, Ambrose Bierce, William Haslet
  
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  Adjectival antonyms: chap-fallen, maleficent, catchpenny, lubberly
  
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  “East is east, and west is west and never the twain shall meet” (DN) Yeast is yeast, and nest is nest, and never the mane shall tweet / “The miner’s dream of home” (FM)
  

JL

PM, TS

KIPO-FM, 25-Jan-2007

KALW-FM, 02-Feb-2007

KWAX-FM, 03-Feb-2007

27:05, 25407, S

RT #358

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  Vocabularies: cabalistic, quincunx, banderbast, ferryage
  
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  Quotes: foolish consistency, anger makes dull men witty, host and guests, the man who is talking about being a gentleman never is one
  
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  Origins and Derivations: lumber room, sycophant, in a scrape, idiot
  

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  “All my possessions for a moment of time” (FM) / “Never underestimate the power of a woman” (DN)
  

JL

PM, TS

KALW-FM, 09-Feb-2007

27:12, 25511, S

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RT #359

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  Vocabularies: animadvert, nepenthe, growlery, dendrochronology
  
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  Elementary Explanations: aftershave lotion, jealousy, a joke, a hiccup
  
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  Latin cliches: deus ex machina, intego vitae, ehu fugaces, qui bono
  
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  “People who need people are the luckiest people in the world” (DN) / “The Girl I Left Behind Me” (FM)
  

JL

PM, TS

KALW-FM, 16-Feb-2007

27:02, 25352, S

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RT #360

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  Vocabularies: gallimaufry, an ouch, quango, syzygy
  
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  Literary money: $1.87, 3000 ducats, 36,000 francs, 1000 guilders
  
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  Recorded poetry: Shelley “Adonais”, Wordsworth “Tintern Abbey”
  
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  “Between the devil and the deep blue sea” (FM) / “Splendor in the grass” (DN)
  

JL

PM, TS

KIPO-FM, 15-Feb-2007

KWAX-FM, 23-Feb-2007

KWAX-FM, 24-Feb-2007

27:05, 25405, S

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RT #361

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  Vocabularies: ecdysiast, drupe, embranglement, nuncheon
  
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  Bat an eyelid, coccyx, nineteen to the dozen, in cahoots with
  
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  Double definitions: gammon, gout, thwart, cannon
  
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  “He who hesitates is lost” (DN) / “Dirty British Coaster with a Salt Caked Smokestack” (FM) (included in collected stories)
  

JL

PM, TS

KIPO-FM, 24-Feb-2007

KALW-FM, 02-Mar-2007

KWAX-FM, 03-Mar-2007

27:10, 25481, S

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RT #362

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  Vocabularies: furbelow, behemoth, schadenfreude, gnomic
  
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  Definitions: Swift, Noel Coward, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nietsche
  
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  Differences: rotund/oratund, sympathy/empathy, pathos / bathos, prolixity/verbosity
  
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  New similes for old: as cool as a cucumber, as poor as a church mouse, as slippery as an eel, as nervous as a kitten
  
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  “Too many cooks spoil the broth” (FM)/ “There’s many a slip twixt cup and lip” (DN)
  

JL

PM, TS

KIPO-FM, 01-Mar-2007

KALW-FM, 09-Mar-2007

KWAX-FM, 10-Mar-2007

27:05, 25397, S

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RT #363

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  Vocabularies: perjink(ity), farouche, pardonium, grommet
  
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  Things in Common: skateboarding, literary clergymen, too wonderful, eponyms
  
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  Poetry readings: Coleridge “Frost at Midnight”, Keats “Ode to Autmn”
  
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  Words with “P”: pneumatic, phantom, psalm, ptarmigan
  
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  “See what the boys in the back room will have” (DN) / “If music be the food of love, play on” (FM)
  

JL

PM, TS

KALW-FM, 16-Mar-2007

27:06, 25415, S

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RT #364

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  Vocabularies: tatterdemalion, chicanery, pantograph, cacophony
  
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  Poetical triplets: Green eye of the yellow idol, Rupert Brooke, Romeo and Juliet, Idylls of the King
  
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  Origins and derivations: fascinating, backlog, tot up, deadline
  
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  Adjectival antonyms: hoity-toity, pernicious, nonchalant, brobdignagian
  
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  “There are fairies at the bottom of our garden” (FM) / “Distance lends enchantment” (DN)
  

JL

PM, TS

KALW-FM, 23-Marr-2007

27:05, 25405, S

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RT #365

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  Vocabularies: gerrymander, insouciant, macaronic, interstice
  
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  Femmes Fatales: Zulaika Dobson, Helen of Troy, Irene Adler, Lady Macbeth
  
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  Poetical penultimates
  
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  Double definitions: humbug, quiver, maroon, litter
  
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  “At Christmas I no more desire a rose” (DN) / “Busy as a bee” (FM)
  

JL

PM, TS

KIPO-FM, 08-Apr-2004

KALW-16-Apr-2004

KWAX-FM, 18-Apr-2004

27:05, 25399, S

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the last show with Jack Longland

RT #366

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  Vocabularies: incunabula, couvade, absquatulate, jobation
  
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  Poems: unofficial rose, double sway, little life, runcible spoon
  
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  Lonely Hearts
  
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  “A pun is the lowest form of wit” (FM) / “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper” (DN)
  

JL

PM, TS

KALW-FM, 30-Mar-2007

27:03, 25360, S

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