Thank you to listener T.O. for tickling our fancies with these grammatical A&Q’s: In my opinion, all six of the song lyrics quoted in “Grammar Goes to the Grammies” are perfectly grammatical. You just have to realize that the singer is responding to a question we never hear. (Picture a man in a turban, holding […]
Listener Jeffrey gave us this delightful tidbit on musical palindromes: Since I am a musician and music teacher, “Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle” was easy for me. But did you know that the sentence works backwards as well? “Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles’ Father.” First way is for the order of key signatures using #’s […]
Listener B.J. from Jamestown, RI gave us this graphic history: One of your panelists mentioned (on 10/15/16) that the MLB logo was based on the silhouette of Al Kaline — not! It was widely thought that the model was Twins’ slugger Harmon Killebrew (who never sought to dispel the idea.) It turns out, according to […]
From dedicated listener Ed from Cotuit, MA: In last season’s show, SY-2023, one guessing round word was “lek” which ended up being a mating area for sage grouse. I just discovered that your definition was a bit too specific because a show on hummingbirds which aired on PBS TV last night showed hermit hummingbirds displaying […]
Our thanks go out to Leroy for continuing the discourse and the paper trail. On the show that aired on Wisconsin Public Radio’s WHAD-FM today, Sunday, September 25, you had a question involving the game, “Dungeons and Dragons.” Almost as an aside, you mentioned that Gary Gygax was an insurance underwriter. I don’t believe that […]
Listener Erica from the Boston would like to hear… I have a suggestion for a spotlight round. It was from episode #1218 and it was a round involving movies within movies. Tony was desperately grasping for the name of the movie (“that guy was in it” and “there were trees”) and Richard let the whole […]
We moved to Wales UK and purchased the app to keep in touch with the show which we love. But no new shows have been posted since we bought it. What’s up? We are getting frantic. Cheers, Robin Glover. Sent from a benevolent iPad Robin, So glad to hear from you – and hope […]
Listener Michael Zarky dished up some thoughts on our round of nonce words from Palo Alto (SY-2028): Of course as a child I wouldn’t have noticed that a word in The Owl and the Pussycat had no real meaning. But, looking it up now, I discover that it really has none. All the other meanings […]
Listener Bill has a question for us: I usually love your show, but I was ecstatic over the “Previous Line of a Song” episode that I heard on your April 14, 2016 show. My sister teaches choral music in a high school and I think that she would really enjoy that episode. How can I […]
Special thanks to listener Caroline for expanding our knowledge: We have always suspected in the mountain west that national media doesn’t even know about any other part of the nation than the east coast. As soon as you announced “lek” as a word to define listeners in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho knew it. Those of us […]
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