016 - Spick & Spa - On the Nose - Nightmare

Episode 16 continutes the exciting search for word and phrase origins.
Spick & Span;  On the Nose and Nightmare are explore today for your listening pleasure.
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015 - Stereo & Stereotype

Episode 15 is now available and with MUSIC!  yep, I've added music for  your enjoyment.  Eveyone else seems to use it so ...
The words "Stereo" and "Stereotype", their real meaning and their origins are covered in this syntillating episode.  (I bet you think stereo means double, right?  well it doesn't.)   Listen and find out the truth.

And I dip into the mail bag today to answer the question: Why do we call it a 'Dashboard' and not a 'thingie where my radio is'?

This episode brought to  you by the virtues Patience and Moderation.
and by the sins Avarace and Lust.




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014 - WELL HEELED --- KICKING THE HABIT --- COLD TURKEY 

Hi good people!  Episode 14 of WHY DO WE SAY THAT? explores the phrases:
Well Heeled --- Kicking the Habit ----- and --- Cold Turkey.

An interesting choice you say? yes indeed and there is absolutely no rhyme or reason to the grouping, just that I happened to pick those today.

Our sponsors are again the Numbers:  0 and 1  who bring you the internet and all that digitial stuff.  Remember to recycle them when you clean your computer so we don't run out.

013 - Floatsam & Jetsam - Laconic - Pedigree

Episode 13 (this one) is especially lucky because we explore why we say "Floatsam & Jetsam"  (incindentally, why never just 'floatsam'?); Laconic the art of speaking with few words, and Pedigree, the tracing of your family's background.   For good or evil. 

 

This episode would have been sponsored by Procastranators International Society  but they never got around to it.   Sad in a way.  I could have used the money. 

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012 - Goody Two Shoes - Handwriting on the Wall - Meander

Episode 12 of Why Do We Say That is stuffed with interesting word and phrase origins, starting with "Goody Two Shoes" and ending with the word Meander.  

Listen to find out where they came from. 

This episode sponsored by Coffee and Bacon - two things that keep me going. !!!!

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011 - Can't Hold A Candle to You & To Goldbrick

This episode explains the curious origin of our phrase "He can't hold a candle to you" which we use to show that someone is very inferior.  Also how we come to use the phrase and verb, "to goldbrick" to goof off while appearing to be working.  It is American in origin and comes from early con artists.

This sparkling episode sponsored by the Hokey Pokey: Because that's what it's REALLY all about. 

 

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010 - Scuttlebut - The Straight Poop - 3 Sheets to the Wind - Fudge

This episode takes us to the high seas and many colorful phrases that originated there.  In fact all of these have a salty tang to them, even fudge!

Our sponsor for this episode is the Society for Cheese Grits.  have a bowl today.  Hmmmm! yummy.  

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