High school students in Alabama share some favorite slang terms. If someone tells you to touch grass, they’re telling you to get a reality check — but the last thing you’d actually want to touch is dog water! Also, the history of the word hangover...
Amanda in Melbourne, Australia, provides a much better way to read the rebus about racehorses that we shared in a previous episode. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Racing Rebus Redux” A few weeks ago, I said that a listener had...
Fans of vexillology, the study of flags, know that the town of Manacor on the island of Mallorca has a municipal flag that features a visual pun on its name. It’s a drawing of a hand holding a heart, inspired by the Catalan words mà, meaning “hand,”...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski’s puzzle has a visual element. For example, what’s the answer if the clues are “part of a football game” and the letters T I, followed by two blank spaces? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “A Puzzling Puzzle...
The names of professional sports teams often have surprising histories — like the baseball team name inspired by, of all things, trolley-car accidents. Plus, some questions to debate at your next barbecue: Is a hot dog a sandwich if it’s in a bun...
Our conversation about rebuses and grammagrams prompted several listeners to note that people in scientific fields sometimes use the letters NRG as a stand-in for the word energy. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “NRG Grammagram” We...