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[00:00:00] We've had Yippie Kayak, Other Buckets
[00:00:02] Yippie Kaye, Maggot Pharma
[00:00:07] Right
[00:00:07] And this is my favourite one of all time
[00:00:09] Yippie Kaye, Mr Falcon
[00:00:14] The Letter X, The Letter Y, The Letter Z
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[00:00:29] Mainly because XYZ just looked really hard
[00:00:32] Yeah to be honest when I was looking through X I was like
[00:00:34] Unless we want to go through different types of xenophobia
[00:00:37] Tricky, so let's just cram them all in
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[00:00:53] I call Jew Paul Gannon KISS-able
[00:00:56] Which obviously because
[00:00:58] XYZ
[00:00:58] No we're KISS-able because of the K
[00:01:00] What?
[00:01:01] But the Letter X
[00:01:03] What?
[00:01:03] Often used as a kiss
[00:01:06] True
[00:01:07] In messages
[00:01:08] True
[00:01:09] When? When did that first start being a thing?
[00:01:11] I'm gonna say it was ages ago because I remember you get letters from the wall
[00:01:15] Was like oh darling Sergeant Major Thompson
[00:01:17] I miss you
[00:01:18] Ages ago
[00:01:19] The War
[00:01:20] XOXO
[00:01:21] Oxo
[00:01:21] That's Beyonce
[00:01:22] The X was first used to represent a kiss in the mid 1700s
[00:01:26] That's about right
[00:01:27] The first man recorded to do it was a man named Gilbert White
[00:01:30] He was best known for his work The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne
[00:01:34] Spent a lot of time in Hampshire that was published in 1789
[00:01:37] But 25 years earlier
[00:01:39] So this like was 1765
[00:01:42] 64
[00:01:43] He'd written a letter and it finished with the following
[00:01:46] I am with many a kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss
[00:01:49] But he'd signed it with X's
[00:01:51] And many a Paternoster
[00:01:53] Our father
[00:01:54] And Ave Maria
[00:01:55] Hail Mary
[00:01:56] And he signed it Gilbert
[00:01:57] Now in those days X was used to mean a blessing
[00:02:02] So what he probably meant was I am with many a blessing
[00:02:05] But somehow people just took that for kisses
[00:02:08] Because he was trying to be affectionate towards his mother and father
[00:02:11] I can see that though
[00:02:12] And then it kind of caught on
[00:02:14] Or you know it may was a guessing game like you're playing Hangman
[00:02:16] And those acts as were just you know representing the words he didn't put in
[00:02:19] Yes he also invented Hangman
[00:02:21] Before we could read alright
[00:02:23] An X was used in place of a signature
[00:02:25] Often sealed with a kiss literally to signify that it was official
[00:02:30] The sheriff from Nottingham would come round to buy a house off you for tuppence
[00:02:33] And you were illiterate so you would just go X
[00:02:36] And then he'd go right kiss it
[00:02:38] That was actually the way that they
[00:02:40] Kiss it? You call me a kiss it
[00:02:42] That's actually the way that they sealed the deal back in the old days
[00:02:46] So it's not uncommon really when you take the religious meaning
[00:02:50] And the physical kiss that it would become a thing
[00:02:52] X that's why you put it on your text messages
[00:02:54] Yeah I do I put loads on
[00:02:55] Around about 17 times
[00:02:56] To men without thinking because I get into the habit of texting my girlfriend a kiss at the end of the text
[00:03:00] So when I reply to a friend I'll just be like
[00:03:02] Yeah see you later kiss and oh no
[00:03:04] When you don't get a kiss from your girlfriend in a text message
[00:03:07] Do A. Get upset B. Retaliate with no X or C. Don't give a fly monkey
[00:03:12] I do not give any of the monkeys currently in the air
[00:03:15] Hey so that was my X give me your Y
[00:03:17] The Yogi Bogi Box
[00:03:18] Yeah you call me a Yogi Bogi Box
[00:03:20] It's a very specific word I don't think it's used that often but I did love it when I fell across it
[00:03:24] It means a bag of tricks and in this instance a bag of tricks used by someone like a spiritualist
[00:03:29] The term was coined by James Joyce when he wrote Ulysses in 1922
[00:03:33] But the idea is that like a spiritualist hoaxer would have a box full of his little gadgets and doodads and tricks
[00:03:39] Anything from little wires to hide movable objects, luminescent powder
[00:03:43] So you could shake it onto items like trumpets and balls so even the dark
[00:03:46] You would see reflection off at night where you could see it rise and fall
[00:03:49] So loads of little things like that
[00:03:51] The Nox sisters were big into spiritualism
[00:03:53] You could say they were the forerunners of that whole movement
[00:03:55] And they did all kinds of tricks as well
[00:03:57] They did the whole rapping on a table thing
[00:03:59] They could recreate that sound by just clicking the
[00:04:01] Come in
[00:04:02] Yeah they could do that by clicking their ankle bones
[00:04:04] And giving it a snap it was a little wrap
[00:04:06] A Yogi Bogi Box
[00:04:07] A bag of tricks and tips for a spiritualist to get away with moida
[00:04:11] I love Yogi Bogi Box
[00:04:13] Right and I call this the Zorgasmik podcast
[00:04:16] What do you think Zorgasmik is?
[00:04:17] Is it an orgasm after watching one too many sci-fi films?
[00:04:21] In a way actually yes
[00:04:22] Zorgasmik you might have a Zorgasm
[00:04:24] After you've watched your favourite character on The Walking Dead
[00:04:27] Narrowly Cheat Death
[00:04:29] Oh I had a Zorgasm when Rick Grimes nearly got his hand bitten off
[00:04:33] Someone's going to have a Zorgasm at the start of the next season
[00:04:36] Because Old Negan's in there with his baseball bat
[00:04:38] What a little rubbish that cliffhanger was
[00:04:40] I was so like that's such a cheat
[00:04:42] But some people are saying they're going to switch it
[00:04:45] And they might get off the barrel instead
[00:04:47] What do you think? They have to
[00:04:49] Because everyone knows if you know a comic book who dies
[00:04:52] No spoilers
[00:04:53] So either you're holding back on just revealing what everyone else knows
[00:04:58] Or going in a different direction in which case that's fine
[00:05:01] But it'll end up being some character we don't care too much about
[00:05:04] Yeah
[00:05:05] What's it to do with the mullet? Abraham's mate
[00:05:07] Yeah it will be him
[00:05:08] He's got nowhere to go now, it's flattening
[00:05:10] It'll pull back and Negan beat the cameraman to death
[00:05:13] Literal, literal cameraman at least lying there on the floor going
[00:05:16] Was I not meant to connect? Sorry I thought this was, oh it wasn't padded
[00:05:19] You didn't move
[00:05:21] This is The Dictionary, weekly word based podcast
[00:05:24] We're doing X, Y and Z this week
[00:05:26] Rattling through all three of them, squeeze them all in
[00:05:28] Time for this week's word workout
[00:05:30] It is an anagram of an X word
[00:05:33] It begins with the word X
[00:05:35] Now no longer exists
[00:05:36] It begins with an X, yes this is a deceased word
[00:05:40] An X word, it meaning a lover of hotels
[00:05:44] The anagram is, oh no, I excel on goody
[00:05:48] Oh no, I excel, E-X-C-E-L on goody, G-O-O-D-Y
[00:05:54] I got to the end of the podcast to try and work it out
[00:05:57] Rattling brains use the internet, see whatever you can do
[00:05:59] So it's not an anagram then, let's just guess the X word
[00:06:01] Just guess it
[00:06:02] Alright that's fine, I'm on top of it
[00:06:03] Hey good luck
[00:06:04] Before we do this week's game on The Dictionary
[00:06:06] Just a quick note on the letter X, the Greek alphabet
[00:06:08] Uses it as the kind of, it looks like a Y
[00:06:11] Symmetrical Y but either like a Trident
[00:06:14] Or one of those Jewish candelabras
[00:06:16] But in the Greek alphabet X usually represents the letter K
[00:06:19] Although even though we've taken quite a lot of Greek words
[00:06:22] Into our language, we use the X mostly as a Z
[00:06:27] For example, Xerox
[00:06:28] Oh yeah
[00:06:29] Yeah Xerox
[00:06:30] Or the name like Xander
[00:06:31] Yeah, or Xenaway Princess
[00:06:32] Yeah
[00:06:33] Xylophone
[00:06:35] Or the Xenomorph
[00:06:36] Of course the Xenomorph
[00:06:37] It's interesting and I don't think we picked that up from anywhere in particular
[00:06:40] The Etrusians took X and they use X to stand for the KS
[00:06:45] So I suppose it's X, X, X
[00:06:48] I sound like I'm beatboxing now
[00:06:49] Yeah you do
[00:06:50] Can you do some fast rewind
[00:06:51] Blah blah blah
[00:06:52] It's fascinating where everyone else has picked up
[00:06:54] But of course we're doing X, Y and Z
[00:06:55] X is actually used as a Z at the same time
[00:06:57] Anyway enough nerdy stuff
[00:06:59] Menorah
[00:07:00] Let's do a game
[00:07:01] That's the Jewish candle thing you're thinking of
[00:07:02] Thanks Google
[00:07:03] Thank you Mr. Google
[00:07:04] Your game this week
[00:07:05] Here we go
[00:07:06] It's called the end of the alphabet Inventions
[00:07:10] I'm going to describe five inventions
[00:07:12] Okay good
[00:07:13] That either start with an X, a Y or a Z
[00:07:15] Okay
[00:07:16] You just got to tell me from the clues which one you think it is
[00:07:19] Here we go, number one
[00:07:20] 10, 22, 38, Astoria
[00:07:25] 10, 22, 38
[00:07:27] It's a date by the way
[00:07:28] Yeah
[00:07:29] Astoria
[00:07:30] What is that?
[00:07:31] What's the invention beginning with an X?
[00:07:33] Xylitol, the sugar based replacement
[00:07:37] Have you got any?
[00:07:38] Yeah actually I do
[00:07:39] 10, 22, 38 Astoria
[00:07:41] First words ever copied on a zero graphic machine
[00:07:44] Oh a Xerox machine
[00:07:45] Yeah
[00:07:46] Invented by Chester Carlson
[00:07:48] Right here we go
[00:07:49] Number two this is beginning with a Y
[00:07:50] Two discs and a string
[00:07:52] Two discs, a yo-yo
[00:07:53] Is correct
[00:07:54] Yay
[00:07:55] I got the easy one right
[00:07:56] Invented by Donald Duncan
[00:07:58] Chester Carlson
[00:07:59] Two C's, Donald Duncan
[00:08:00] Two D's
[00:08:01] What's going on?
[00:08:02] Alright here we go
[00:08:03] Dice based game
[00:08:04] Invented by a rich couple on a boat
[00:08:07] Yacht C
[00:08:08] Is also correct
[00:08:09] Hitler played a version of that
[00:08:10] He called it Yacht C when he out left
[00:08:12] I don't know, I'm sorry
[00:08:13] Do you know it was originally called
[00:08:15] Yacht C
[00:08:16] As in a yacht
[00:08:17] Because that's where they invented it
[00:08:18] Really
[00:08:19] They were this rich couple
[00:08:20] They had a lot of free time
[00:08:21] And they take this dice out on the boat
[00:08:23] And they came up with a game
[00:08:24] It was called Yacht C
[00:08:25] And then they went to these inventors
[00:08:26] And they said can you make some models
[00:08:27] Because our friends that come on the boat
[00:08:29] Really like it
[00:08:30] We want to give it to them as gifts
[00:08:31] So then they made it up as Yacht C
[00:08:33] And they went
[00:08:34] That's really hard to spell
[00:08:35] So Yacht C instead
[00:08:37] Wow
[00:08:38] Number four
[00:08:39] This begins with letter Z
[00:08:40] A teeth based fastener
[00:08:41] A teeth fastener
[00:08:43] Yeah, teeth based fastener
[00:08:44] Mostly vertical
[00:08:46] You use it to fasten your teeth into your mouth
[00:08:48] No
[00:08:49] I don't get the concept so reveal
[00:08:51] Teeth based fastener
[00:08:53] Mostly vertical
[00:08:55] You might have one on you right now
[00:08:56] Zip
[00:08:57] A zip
[00:08:58] Oh not real teeth
[00:08:59] I thought like you were talking about like denture cream
[00:09:00] That you put in your mouth
[00:09:01] Yeah it was invented by Gideon Sunback
[00:09:03] What a great name
[00:09:04] Of course that is a beautiful name
[00:09:05] And finally
[00:09:06] This blew my mind
[00:09:07] A tractor on water
[00:09:09] What does it begin with?
[00:09:10] A Z
[00:09:11] Oh
[00:09:12] This is the name of the machines that they use
[00:09:14] In ice hockey rinks isn't it
[00:09:16] Oh what's the name of it
[00:09:17] That's really annoying
[00:09:19] A zorb
[00:09:20] Zorb
[00:09:21] A zorb
[00:09:22] Even though
[00:09:23] Zamboni
[00:09:24] I'm so proud of myself for knowing that
[00:09:27] Oh my god
[00:09:28] Oh am I going to bed this has been a full date
[00:09:30] Maybe the hardest clue ever
[00:09:32] In the history of the fictionary
[00:09:34] Because I didn't know it had a name
[00:09:35] I just knew it was the ice brush of thing
[00:09:37] Yeah well I'm very proud of myself
[00:09:40] Back in the 30s Frank Zamboni took a tractor
[00:09:43] And he converted it to scrape and smooth marred ice
[00:09:46] On a purpose built ice rink
[00:09:48] Thus inventing the Zamboni
[00:09:50] And this sounds like one of those ye olde inventions in it
[00:09:53] The Zamboni ice resurfacing machine
[00:09:56] It sounds to me like a new musical instrument
[00:09:58] Oh it pops on the Zamboni tonight
[00:10:00] They still use it in all the NHL games
[00:10:02] Yeah they still do
[00:10:03] It's the one, the blue and white truck basically
[00:10:05] Wow poor Gannon you scored one, two, three
[00:10:08] That'll do
[00:10:09] And a bit points yeah
[00:10:10] That's fine I'm going to take that Zamboni as the big win
[00:10:13] Got a Zambona
[00:10:14] I really do
[00:10:17] Here we go
[00:10:18] Hey let's do our big four words
[00:10:20] As we do special episode X, Y and Z
[00:10:23] The word I have for you next is
[00:10:26] Yippee
[00:10:27] Nice
[00:10:28] An informal interjection from the USA
[00:10:30] It's an American word
[00:10:31] An exclamation of joy, pleasure, anticipation
[00:10:34] Originated at the start of the 20th century
[00:10:37] Verbally in 1910
[00:10:39] And then it was written in 1920
[00:10:41] It's thought yippee to have derived from
[00:10:44] Hip which was used as an exclamation
[00:10:46] To introduce a big cheer like
[00:10:48] Hip hip hooray
[00:10:49] But it actually goes back a lot further than that
[00:10:51] So that might have been like the modern way that it developed
[00:10:54] But yippee or in fact yippee
[00:10:57] Was a 15th century word
[00:10:58] It was used to describe the sudden noise a bird makes
[00:11:01] I guess that makes sense
[00:11:02] What about the famous phrase
[00:11:05] Featuring yippee
[00:11:07] Well it's obviously the die hard one
[00:11:09] Which came from the lone ranger yippee kaya Kimo Savi
[00:11:12] It's funny you say it came from the lone ranger
[00:11:14] Does it not?
[00:11:15] In fact it comes from an old
[00:11:17] Bing Crosby song called I'm an Old Cow Hand
[00:11:20] Yippee a-yo kai
[00:11:25] Mother
[00:11:27] Melon farmer
[00:11:30] And so it goes on
[00:11:31] Bing Crosby goes through I'm an Old Cow Hand
[00:11:33] Die Hard is world famous for its TV edits
[00:11:37] Oh beautiful TV edits
[00:11:38] So we can't say
[00:11:40] We know it's yippee kaya MF
[00:11:42] We can't say it
[00:11:43] Well the fornicator
[00:11:44] We've had yippee kaya other buckets
[00:11:50] Lovely
[00:11:51] Yippee kaya maggot farmer
[00:11:53] Right
[00:11:54] And this is my favourite one of all time
[00:11:55] I've laughed non-stop since I played this earlier
[00:11:58] Here we go
[00:11:59] Yippee kaya Mr Falcon
[00:12:03] That's from Die Hard too right?
[00:12:04] Yeah
[00:12:05] Is there a character called Mr Falcon in that film?
[00:12:07] No
[00:12:08] I don't believe there is
[00:12:09] And I thought even a good dub either
[00:12:11] I don't know how angry they were when they brought out Die Hard 4's at PG
[00:12:14] Listen to this dub section from Die Hard 2
[00:12:16] Here we go
[00:12:17] What sets off the metal detectors first?
[00:12:20] The lead in your head or the junk in your brains
[00:12:25] Oh that is awful I love it
[00:12:27] Cos that was the thing that got people about Die Hard 4
[00:12:29] Is that they couldn't have the F word in
[00:12:31] Yeah
[00:12:32] So they won an only time you get to say yippee kaya
[00:12:34] In Die Hard 4's right at the M
[00:12:35] Before he plugs the bad guy
[00:12:36] And uses a gunshot sound to mask
[00:12:38] Yeah
[00:12:39] The F word
[00:12:40] The Fank
[00:12:41] Falcon
[00:12:42] Yeah and of course the most egregious use of yippee
[00:12:44] Was the Phantom Menace
[00:12:46] Because George Lucas can't write for humans
[00:12:48] Let alone creatures
[00:12:50] And so a little Anakin Skywalker
[00:12:52] When he's told he's about to you know
[00:12:54] Escape Tatooine
[00:12:55] He's like yippee
[00:12:56] And it feels weird
[00:12:58] Even in a galaxy far far away
[00:13:00] Yippee
[00:13:02] See what I mean
[00:13:04] It just feels wrong
[00:13:05] Yippee
[00:13:07] He sounds like Mario
[00:13:09] Imagine writing that in a script
[00:13:11] Yippee
[00:13:12] Right how am I supposed to deliver this
[00:13:14] Can't I just say Mr Falcon
[00:13:17] Right is it my turn now
[00:13:19] Right so my word begins with X
[00:13:21] And it is Xyphopagus
[00:13:23] What do you think Xyphopagus might be
[00:13:26] X-I-P H-O-P-A-G-U-S
[00:13:29] Is this something to do with breathing
[00:13:31] No
[00:13:32] It's an out
[00:13:33] It means a pair of Siamese twins
[00:13:35] Joined at the lowest sternum
[00:13:37] Joined the Xypho-ed process
[00:13:39] Which means a particular part of the body
[00:13:41] Joins them to that particular part of the body
[00:13:43] They've got two vaginas
[00:13:44] It depends on the sex
[00:13:45] It really does
[00:13:46] Yeah
[00:13:47] 50%
[00:13:48] There could be a brother and sister no
[00:13:50] They could be
[00:13:51] And sometimes it's more uncommon for them to be
[00:13:53] Two different sexes
[00:13:54] They tend to be both sex
[00:13:56] But if you then accidentally fell asleep
[00:13:58] And had sex with your sister
[00:13:59] No
[00:14:00] That sentence never happens
[00:14:02] It's never happened
[00:14:03] In fact the only couple I can think of
[00:14:05] Are male and female
[00:14:06] Brother and sister joined
[00:14:07] Joined at the head
[00:14:08] And they share brain matter
[00:14:10] Yeah maybe
[00:14:11] Explains their musical output
[00:14:13] According to the University of Maryland
[00:14:15] Medical Centre 1 in every
[00:14:17] 200,000 live twin births worldwide
[00:14:19] Are conjoined
[00:14:20] Although 40-60% are still born
[00:14:22] And 35% of those who survive
[00:14:24] Only live for a day
[00:14:26] The most famous
[00:14:27] I guess Xymese twins
[00:14:28] Would have been the bunker brothers
[00:14:29] They were born on May 11th
[00:14:31] 1811 in Siam
[00:14:32] Which became Thailand
[00:14:34] And where the term Xymese twins
[00:14:36] Started basically with these two guys
[00:14:38] They were born joined at the hip
[00:14:40] Their lives were joined together
[00:14:41] But their lives were each independently complete
[00:14:43] Which means if one got drunk
[00:14:44] The other one wouldn't
[00:14:45] Although that doesn't happen a lot
[00:14:46] In similar cases
[00:14:47] That doesn't seem very fair does it
[00:14:48] The operation would have been possible
[00:14:49] But very difficult back then
[00:14:51] But they made their money
[00:14:52] Basically what do you expect in that time
[00:14:54] They went on the free show
[00:14:55] They went to the free show circuses
[00:14:57] They were taken by a Scottish
[00:14:59] Rich chap who had his own
[00:15:01] Circus of Freaks
[00:15:02] And they came along and made a lot of money
[00:15:04] And they eventually retired in North Carolina
[00:15:06] They married sisters
[00:15:08] Chang, one of the brothers
[00:15:09] Had a wife and 10 kids
[00:15:10] Eng had a wife and 12 kids
[00:15:13] The practicality of putting all that together
[00:15:16] I think when you spend that
[00:15:18] Long with one person
[00:15:20] You may as well
[00:15:21] Yeah why not
[00:15:22] You're still thinking
[00:15:23] I'm living on borrowed time
[00:15:24] Might as well crack on
[00:15:25] So in 1870 Chang suffered a stroke
[00:15:27] His health declined over the next four years
[00:15:29] And he began to drink heavily
[00:15:30] Although it did not affect Eng
[00:15:32] Again because they did not have
[00:15:33] The same circulatory system
[00:15:34] Despite his brother's ailing condition
[00:15:36] Eng remained in good health
[00:15:38] Shortly before his death Chang
[00:15:39] Was injured after falling from a carriage
[00:15:41] He developed a severe case of bronchitis
[00:15:43] And on the January 11th 1874
[00:15:46] Chang died while the brother was sleeping
[00:15:48] Eng awoke to find his brother dead
[00:15:50] And cried right then I'm going
[00:15:52] And died three hours later
[00:15:54] No
[00:15:55] Yeah and that's the sad story
[00:15:57] Of the Bunker brothers
[00:15:59] There you go
[00:16:00] I feel about that now
[00:16:01] It's an emotional story
[00:16:02] Well imagine being chained to somebody
[00:16:04] And my final word for you Paul Gannon
[00:16:06] Is Zappa
[00:16:08] Oh that's in Frank
[00:16:09] Yeah no
[00:16:10] But maybe Zappa had a Zappa
[00:16:12] He might well that's signed behind that
[00:16:14] One of two Z words we call
[00:16:16] Our remote control
[00:16:18] Yes
[00:16:19] You know what the other one is?
[00:16:20] The other name is
[00:16:22] Can you pass me the thing
[00:16:23] My dad would say
[00:16:24] No but some people call it
[00:16:25] Clicker
[00:16:26] No it also beginning with Zed
[00:16:27] Oh Zappa
[00:16:28] Some people call it a zipper
[00:16:30] No
[00:16:31] Because you zip through the channels
[00:16:32] No I've never heard that
[00:16:33] Zip
[00:16:34] Or you're watching Babe Station
[00:16:35] I don't know I don't yeah
[00:16:36] The unzipper
[00:16:37] Yeah
[00:16:38] You know you got Paul
[00:16:39] 78% of people say they call it a remote control
[00:16:41] But 9% call it a zapper
[00:16:43] 8% call it a hoofa or a hoofadoofa
[00:16:45] That's right
[00:16:46] 5% I suggest these are the ones
[00:16:49] That leave ITV on after Lorraine
[00:16:51] Is finished and watch Jeremy Carr
[00:16:52] Call it buttons
[00:16:53] 4% say it's called
[00:16:57] The changer
[00:16:58] 2% call it flicker or a clicker
[00:17:00] For it's sound
[00:17:01] 1% call it the fat controller
[00:17:04] There may also be
[00:17:06] Sequel of Refos the other half
[00:17:08] Maybe
[00:17:09] Yeah pass me the fat controller
[00:17:10] Although the Sky TV controllers
[00:17:12] Are quite huge
[00:17:13] You can do damage with one of those
[00:17:14] Other names
[00:17:15] The doobry, the dangle, the thingy
[00:17:16] The thingy, the wajima call it
[00:17:17] The thingy majiggy
[00:17:18] The hop of the stick
[00:17:19] The doof or the doof angle
[00:17:20] The flapper
[00:17:21] The controller, the watsit
[00:17:22] The dingle, the clacker
[00:17:23] The wand, the yeti
[00:17:24] The changer, the thingy majiggy
[00:17:25] The blaster
[00:17:26] The dongle the blip of the black box
[00:17:27] The melly, the plonker
[00:17:28] The ditch, the buttons
[00:17:29] The moat, the trolls
[00:17:30] The hoofa doofa the doofa
[00:17:31] The flicky the doo hickey
[00:17:32] The onroff of the humdinger
[00:17:33] The gizmo, the tuner
[00:17:34] The converter, the binky
[00:17:35] Weird
[00:17:36] The inferna, the ujima flip
[00:17:37] Or the trevor
[00:17:38] Wow
[00:17:39] And there are also names
[00:17:40] I have called my penis
[00:17:41] Over time as well
[00:17:42] There you go love
[00:17:43] Pass me the plonker
[00:17:44] You have no idea
[00:17:45] So there you go
[00:17:46] One of the lesser used
[00:17:47] But still in the top 50
[00:17:48] Names for our moat controls
[00:17:49] The zapper
[00:17:50] Right now
[00:17:51] We're going to go
[00:17:52] To the top 50
[00:17:53] Names for our moat controls
[00:17:54] The zapper
[00:17:55] Right come on then
[00:17:56] I believe you've got one more
[00:17:57] Zeb word let's do it
[00:17:58] I have the word
[00:17:59] Zoanthropy
[00:18:00] Zooanthropy
[00:18:01] Zoor zoanthropy
[00:18:02] Okay
[00:18:03] It originates from the word zoo
[00:18:04] And it means
[00:18:06] As coined in the mid 19th century
[00:18:08] A form of madness
[00:18:09] Involving the delusion
[00:18:10] Of being an animal
[00:18:11] While correspondingly altered behavior
[00:18:13] So you believe
[00:18:14] An active behave
[00:18:15] Like a animal
[00:18:16] Like howling at the moon
[00:18:17] Eating food from a bowl
[00:18:18] Swimming upside down
[00:18:19] Or pretending you're an animal
[00:18:20] Yeah there's a phrase for it
[00:18:22] Actually in that particular case
[00:18:24] It's called
[00:18:25] Clinical lycanthropy
[00:18:26] Or lycanthropy
[00:18:27] I can never get that word right
[00:18:28] We do like cancer
[00:18:29] We might have done
[00:18:30] But basically yeah
[00:18:31] Being a werewolf
[00:18:32] The act of thinking
[00:18:33] That you'll change
[00:18:34] And you'll do the things
[00:18:35] Those kind of animals do
[00:18:36] It's weirdly not that common
[00:18:38] There's only been one or two
[00:18:39] Major cases written on someone
[00:18:40] Who behaves like an animal
[00:18:41] One was a king in the bible
[00:18:42] Who I can never know
[00:18:43] The name of
[00:18:44] But it's something like
[00:18:45] A king in the bible
[00:18:46] Who I can never know
[00:18:47] The name of
[00:18:48] But it's something like
[00:18:49] Nebuchadnezzar king
[00:18:50] Yeah Nebuchadnezzar
[00:18:51] Maybe that's how you pronounce it
[00:18:52] But either way
[00:18:53] He went mad
[00:18:54] Thought he was an ox
[00:18:55] And would graze the grass
[00:18:56] People obviously lost faith
[00:18:57] In his power to rule
[00:18:58] In a study
[00:18:59] You'll like this actually
[00:19:00] In a 2008 study
[00:19:02] 46% of people surveyed
[00:19:04] Who identified themselves
[00:19:05] As being in fairy fandom
[00:19:07] So you know what that is
[00:19:08] Is that what it's called?
[00:19:09] Yeah
[00:19:10] So if you're into fairies
[00:19:11] Or you are a fairy
[00:19:12] You dress up in
[00:19:13] Big kind of mascot suits
[00:19:14] Don't you like
[00:19:15] You know chipmunks
[00:19:16] And dogs and cats
[00:19:17] Oh yeah
[00:19:18] And you get involved in
[00:19:19] Sexy orgies
[00:19:20] Oh interesting
[00:19:21] CSI did an episode about it
[00:19:22] Troubling
[00:19:23] 46% of those in this 2008 study
[00:19:25] Usually defined as a person
[00:19:26] With a strong connection
[00:19:27] With some sort of animal
[00:19:28] Answered yes to the question
[00:19:30] Do you consider yourself
[00:19:31] To be less than 100% human?
[00:19:33] And 41 answered yes to the question
[00:19:35] If you could become
[00:19:36] 0% human would you?
[00:19:38] You know what
[00:19:39] If you gave me a
[00:19:40] If I could do it for a day
[00:19:41] I think I probably would
[00:19:42] If I could be an animal for a day
[00:19:44] I think
[00:19:45] What animal would you be?
[00:19:46] Well life would be quite lonely as a whale
[00:19:48] A whale is an interesting pull
[00:19:50] Yeah living on plankton
[00:19:51] Full of sperm
[00:19:52] You ejaculate about 13 gallons
[00:19:54] I wonder they moan all the time
[00:19:56] Oh god
[00:19:58] My balls
[00:20:00] I quite like the idea of a fox
[00:20:02] But actually not
[00:20:03] But what does a fox say?
[00:20:05] Well it does the facts
[00:20:06] Ding ding ding ding ding
[00:20:07] Yeah I wouldn't want to get
[00:20:08] My dinner from a bin
[00:20:09] No
[00:20:10] What would be a good animal
[00:20:11] To actually be
[00:20:12] I would like to be specifically
[00:20:13] My pet cat
[00:20:14] Because he has such a great life
[00:20:16] That I would rather
[00:20:17] Swap with his than carry on feeding him
[00:20:19] You should see the poses he gets into
[00:20:21] It's almost abstract and beautiful
[00:20:23] Is it a yoga cat?
[00:20:24] Is that what you've got?
[00:20:25] Yeah yogi bogey box cat
[00:20:26] Set him up on Instagram
[00:20:27] Hashtag yoga cat
[00:20:28] I can't take a picture of him in that position
[00:20:30] Just dry compose
[00:20:31] You'll be a millionaire
[00:20:32] It's the cat equivalent of taking a dick pic
[00:20:34] I don't want to do that
[00:20:35] It's kind of sad
[00:20:36] But more often than not
[00:20:38] This kind of behaviour is more common on TV
[00:20:40] If you go to TV tropes
[00:20:41] They call it shape shifting
[00:20:43] The idea of basically a character
[00:20:45] A comedy film where someone becomes
[00:20:47] Possessed by an animal
[00:20:48] Doesn't look like an animal
[00:20:49] But still does ridiculous things
[00:20:50] So there you go
[00:20:51] In a nutshell
[00:20:52] The word
[00:20:53] Soanthropy
[00:20:54] Thank you here we go
[00:20:55] Your results of the word
[00:20:56] Workout are on the way
[00:20:57] 30 seconds to unscramble
[00:20:59] Oh no I excel on goodie
[00:21:01] So it's got nothing to do
[00:21:02] With crane garden or billardy
[00:21:03] Fascination
[00:21:04] Or spreadsheets
[00:21:05] Right
[00:21:06] But it is the lover of hotels
[00:21:07] An X word
[00:21:08] 30 seconds begins now
[00:21:10] I'm not going to get this
[00:21:14] I know it begins with X
[00:21:15] And ends in
[00:21:16] Ogly
[00:21:17] It ends in ology
[00:21:18] Ology yeah
[00:21:19] I give you the beginning
[00:21:21] Xeno
[00:21:22] Xeno ology
[00:21:23] The end is ology
[00:21:25] Just fill in the middle
[00:21:26] Alright so Xeno
[00:21:28] Travellogy
[00:21:31] Ology
[00:21:32] Travellology
[00:21:33] Xeno Travellology
[00:21:34] No
[00:21:35] Is nowhere near close
[00:21:36] Holiday in ilogy
[00:21:37] Xeno
[00:21:38] Blah blah blah blah blah
[00:21:39] Ology
[00:21:40] Xiotrompology
[00:21:41] Time's up
[00:21:42] I don't know
[00:21:43] Oh no I excel on goodie
[00:21:44] Lover of hotels
[00:21:45] Xeno docheonology
[00:21:47] Xeno
[00:21:48] Xeno
[00:21:49] Do-de-o
[00:21:50] C-h-e-i
[00:21:51] O-n-o-l-o-g-y
[00:21:53] Xeno docheonology
[00:21:55] Do-do-no
[00:21:56] Lover of hotels
[00:21:57] So this type of person
[00:21:59] A Xeno docheonologist
[00:22:01] Was also known as an
[00:22:03] Enthusiastic sort of person
[00:22:05] The kind of person who'd be on
[00:22:06] Yelp these days
[00:22:07] Enthusiastic
[00:22:08] Yeah I know
[00:22:09] Xeno docheophobia
[00:22:12] Docheophobia is an irrational fear
[00:22:14] Of foreign hotels
[00:22:16] That is not limited to
[00:22:17] But does include
[00:22:18] The fear that there won't be any soap
[00:22:20] Proper toilet paper
[00:22:21] Clean towels etc
[00:22:22] And I think quite a lot of us
[00:22:24] Are Xeno docheophobic
[00:22:25] Basically British people
[00:22:26] The type of person that goes
[00:22:27] Barbara pack a bog roll
[00:22:29] Barbara
[00:22:30] You know what kind of water
[00:22:31] They've got over there
[00:22:32] Bring eight bottles yourself
[00:22:33] Don't forget the mini shampoos
[00:22:34] And if I have to stand up
[00:22:35] Taking a poo we're leaving
[00:22:36] And the thing is when you get there
[00:22:37] And they've got them
[00:22:38] And they're really good
[00:22:39] You taking back home
[00:22:40] Yeah you do
[00:22:41] We pinch loads the other week
[00:22:42] Absolutely loads
[00:22:43] Towels
[00:22:44] Yeah we've got the lot
[00:22:46] I've got four dressing gowns
[00:22:48] Wow
[00:22:49] Each child to my credit card
[00:22:50] At 50 pounds each
[00:22:51] Ridiculous
[00:22:52] So yeah
[00:22:53] A lover of hotels
[00:22:54] Xeno docheonology
[00:22:56] And that'll do it for this week's episode
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[00:23:18] Paul Gannon I think this week's
[00:23:19] Thictionary has been
[00:23:20] Xanthic
[00:23:21] You see those stars
[00:23:22] Yeah
[00:23:23] Do you see how they shine for you
[00:23:24] Yeah
[00:23:25] It's because they're yellow
[00:23:26] The X word for yellow
[00:23:27] Is to describe the colour yellow
[00:23:28] No I did not know there was one
[00:23:30] Xanthus
[00:23:31] Oh like gum
[00:23:32] Xanthus gum
[00:23:33] Yeah there you go
[00:23:34] Yeah similar
[00:23:35] And I would say this week's episode of The Thictionary
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