In last week’s episode, from Colchester, VT, we played a round called “Great Name for a Rock Band.” It turns out our a folk duo from Chicago was on the same wavelength.

Somebody mentioned on your show that they thought Wattle and Daub was a good name for a folk band. We thought so, too! Been calling ourselves that for a couple of years now.

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Linda from Randolph reminds us of the macabre mythos associated with “eldritch”

I was rather surprised a couple of weeks ago to hear the word “eldritch” used in one of the bluffing rounds. It is a familiar word to me, immediately bringing to mind H.P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu mythos which was quite popular (quite a while ago, I guess) and frequently described as “eldritch”. Ah, macabre tales of unearthly doings along the misty Miskatonic River! I always thought that anyone who had immersed themselves in Poe and his ilk would surely come across Lovecraft and his eldritch stories eventually.

Elizabeth from Janesville, WI writes,

When I was in high school, our family enjoyed gathering around the radio on Saturday evenings to listen to Says You!. Yes, our family was nerdy enough that all 5 of us teenagers willingly listened to a word show on the weekends, even to the extent of allowing words to skip into our lexicon. Particularly the word “sproo”, used to refer to the act of pulling through the parking spot in front of you to avoid backing out. We’ve spread the use to friends and family, as well.
Our family has since spread across the country but several of us do still turn in via either radio or the app. So I was hoping, for nostalgia’s sake, to hear the game that has the word we still use. 

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Susan from Rehoboth, MA, while listening to a classic episode from the University of Wisconsin (SY-714R) had more to say about “stringer.”

I was listening to the most recent show and the word stringer came on for a definition. My mom worked as a stringer for local newspapers in NH for a while when I was growing up. The definition you gave was correct but you are missing one important part. The stringers were paid by the inch and they did tape their stories that appeared in the paper together to submit them for payment. When the newspaper was calculating how much to pay them – they didn’t use a ruler – they had a string with the inches marked – so they could continue from story to story without having to stop to add or mark down the number of inches for an article. It was much speedier than trying to use a ruler and that is where the “string” came from.

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Ron, from the Greater Boston area sent us a note about a Classic Says You! show, originally performed and recorded in Woodstock, Vermont (SY-802 R1). Richard concocted a round titled, “Forms of Fall.”  And Ron writes:

I love it when there’s a word in the “definitions and derivations” round, which feeds into one of my niche knowledge areas. One such, a while back, was “prunt”.

This weekend’s word was “fallaway”. I wish I’d been at the taping to demonstrate! The definition you gave, however, fell short in one critical aspect. Fallaway position in ballroom is distinguished from Promenade position in that, in Fallaway, the couples are moving backwards. Both Fallaway and Promenade have both members of the couple facing the same way (in the body), though the lady’s head may or may not be facing the same as the man’s.

Probably more than you wanted to know 😉

Keep up the good work, and I look forward to attending another taping in the Boston area when you’re “home for the holidays”!

– Ron

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