#21 - The Letter B

[00:00:00] It's like a Sillit bang. It's exactly like Sillit bang. Yeah, this is exactly like Sillit bang

[00:00:04] The guy sitting there on his it this thing fixes things quicker than you'll ever know Wow

[00:00:11] Bang and the crease is gone

[00:00:14] The letter B

[00:00:26] Thanks so much for choosing this episode of The Thicktionary

[00:00:28] It's the funny side of the dictionary we do one letter each week and we are on the letter B

[00:00:34] I called you Paul Gannon b-boying b-boy any ideas

[00:00:39] It's not to do with the character from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

[00:00:43] You mean b-bop? Oh, b-bop. B-bop on Rocksteady. Yeah, I'm not that no b-boy

[00:00:47] B-boy is b-boying in fact is the correct term for break dancing. Oh

[00:00:52] The mainstream media in the 80s called it break dancing because they were afraid of what it really was yeah, which is youngsters from America and Puerto Rico

[00:01:01] expressing themselves people who do

[00:01:03] B-boying our b-boys and b-girls

[00:01:06] There are four kinds top rock down rock power moves and freezes give me one right now. I can pop and lock

[00:01:12] What that's pop and locking epileptic worm? What is that?

[00:01:15] I'll take it. Let me say the names of the crews at this year's b-boy championships world finals, okay?

[00:01:22] 23 style

[00:01:23] Accidental gentlemen they came from the UK nice all-style gang

[00:01:27] Breaker delix it's pretty difficult to come up with a name for break dancing crew in it

[00:01:33] Slovakia entered a crew called the filthy force

[00:01:37] And represented the UK. I don't know where they finished, but I hope they did very well

[00:01:41] Fish and chimps. See I don't know if that's good or maybe racist. I'm not quite sure even worse

[00:01:47] What the UK right? We're terrible at these names. We entered the sex executioners. Oh God that is awful

[00:01:53] They are bad rush you entered a team called the predators. I got be careful get those checked before you let them in

[00:01:59] Yeah, you do so if you're into it if you fancy throwing down a mat we're game

[00:02:02] We're going for a little b-boying do doon doon

[00:02:05] Doon doon doon doon

[00:02:07] Doon doon doon doon doon

[00:02:09] Doon doon doon doon doon doon doon

[00:02:11] You're spitting everywhere now. I'm not what did you call me?

[00:02:14] I called you bibbling like the robot from Buck Rogers in the 25th century

[00:02:18] No, that's what he said and it wasn't what he was he was nick called twiki or tweaky twiki twinkie twinkie

[00:02:25] No, twiki twinkie

[00:02:28] Little robot little robot voice by Mel blank

[00:02:31] Who would do the bitty bitty?

[00:02:32] Anyone could have voiced it wasn't it wasn't his best work was it?

[00:02:35] It wasn't his best work. Mel can you just say bitty bitty bitty and that's it

[00:02:38] He also said what's up bud and then go home something like that

[00:02:42] We'll use that on a hot key for hours and a computer round his neck

[00:02:46] Yeah, bibbling bibbling is a verb it means to eat and or drink noisily

[00:02:52] So, you know, you're kind of like for instance on a bus in London

[00:02:56] There's a woman sitting next me opens a big bag of hard-boiled mince and starts to eat them as if they were tic-tacs

[00:03:03] Everything's a crunch and a slur and eventually I can't hear the music anymore because all I can hear is that

[00:03:10] As I get older though, I hold back

[00:03:12] I find more pleasure in foods in terms of I like to have a nice cup room go. Oh

[00:03:17] Yeah, that's fine though

[00:03:19] That's what I mean

[00:03:19] So bibbling is not in public bibbling seems to be a nuisance

[00:03:23] It's a nuisance but it in the comfort of your own home if you want to be able, you know

[00:03:27] If you want to suck that malt teasers chocolate off

[00:03:30] You want to do those shove a bunch of more teasers in my mouth and then try and start conversation with the person next to me

[00:03:35] I don't know

[00:03:37] Without them realizing that I've got a mouthful of malt teasers they think I'm having a stroke

[00:03:42] That's a good game to play at the Bibble test and this is the brouhaha podcast

[00:03:47] Brouhaha a noisy or overexcited reaction or response to something minor

[00:03:52] first coined in French 16th century dramas where deviled characters would

[00:03:57] Point themselves out to the audience by walking on stage and going brouhaha

[00:04:01] Closely resembles the Hebrew for blessed is he who comes which is why they kind of twisted it to make it devilish

[00:04:06] So when I someone in bed with a lady I go brouhaha

[00:04:10] Yeah, good luck with that. My up

[00:04:12] We would obviously call a brouhaha a storm in a teacup

[00:04:16] Which I think comes from the fact that it's a brew in the first place

[00:04:19] That's good. I never thought about that until right now

[00:04:21] So we call it storm in a teacup the Americans call it a tempest in a teapot course

[00:04:25] They do the words wrong

[00:04:27] It's got to be different in both Nepal and Hindi

[00:04:29] They call it making a mountain out of rye and in Persian. It is when a raven became 40 Ravens

[00:04:35] Okay, so the idea that we make a mountain out of a molehill. Yeah exists universally

[00:04:41] It is not limited to the pedantry of Great Britain. That's nice to know it exists all over

[00:04:48] I like that this is a dictionary a weekly word-based podcast looking at the funny side of the dictionary

[00:04:53] We're doing the letter B

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[00:05:08] time for another round of cheat cheat cheat

[00:05:12] letters

[00:05:15] Can't do your still impression every week

[00:05:23] Well, I've got his northern comedian

[00:05:26] Time for a cheat letter for words of friends and scrabble this is the highest in both

[00:05:32] Okay ends in the letter B. Okay, so it gets you 22 and scrabble

[00:05:38] 26 and words of friends is the highest be ending word. Yeah coxcomb

[00:05:43] Coxcom coxcomb spellcasting cox

[00:05:48] Comb coxcomb, but what does it mean? No, I don't know you'll find out before the end of this episode

[00:05:53] And because you were so terrible at it last week Paul Gannon in the game the A team

[00:05:57] Right, I thought I would do another test of your sporting knowledge. Oh, God. This is the B team

[00:06:04] With the A team theme tune

[00:06:06] Five sports teams his nicknames all be given the letter B. You've got to get better than nothing

[00:06:13] I might have started deducting points last week. You said the LA Lakers twice, right?

[00:06:18] Oh, I could have said egg right eventually I might have gotten one question

[00:06:21] Let me help you out Canadian football the nickname for this team is the banjo pickers, right?

[00:06:27] So what are they called the is it the yeah, Bastiel day

[00:06:35] The banjo pickers is a nickname for the Saskatchewan rough riders. Of course here we go number two

[00:06:41] This is a football team in one of the top divisions of this country, right? Not the top the Bantams not like Pato

[00:06:51] Compliments girl on your kids

[00:06:54] Bantams the

[00:06:56] From the north Burnley. No Bradford City Bradford City

[00:07:01] This one I'm familiar. I hear this nickname all the time. Yeah big D big D, right

[00:07:07] My head yeah big D which sports team there the NFL team to go by the big D the not the Denver Broncos

[00:07:14] the

[00:07:16] Not the dynasty

[00:07:18] Indians

[00:07:20] Not the dynasty Indians the other one the Cleveland Indians. I don't know

[00:07:26] Who cares

[00:07:28] Number four, this is a baseball team the boys in blue. All right the boys in blue

[00:07:32] They are the cannon and ball united a great guess half a point for being hilarious

[00:07:38] Yeah, but they're the Kansas City Royals shame and finally this is a derogatory term used by opposition fans

[00:07:45] Oh the bummers, right

[00:07:48] Is it Arsenal?

[00:07:50] Great guess the Winnipeg blue bombers. Oh shame poor guy then you scored zero slash five

[00:07:57] But half a point for punditry. Hooray

[00:08:00] Time for this week's big four words on the dictionary letter B

[00:08:04] And I'm gonna start with I don't know if this isn't a bit too serious. So let's just try and have fun with it

[00:08:10] All right, I can start with Brexit

[00:08:12] It sounds like what you have after your bowels were evacuated after breakfast. Yeah, awesome. Weetabix branded to all brown went straight through me

[00:08:20] I had a Brexit

[00:08:23] But in fact it is the 23rd June the date in which the United Kingdom will decide whether to stay in or out

[00:08:29] Of the European Union it's where we'll find just how idiotically racist this country thinks it is

[00:08:34] It's a really difficult one to unpack right we joined the EEC

[00:08:38] The European Economic Community in 1973. Yeah, but we waited 15 years before everyone else to do it before we went

[00:08:44] Oh, yeah, we'll give it a go. But have you seen that sketch online?

[00:08:48] I can't know who's made this now

[00:08:49] But it's Patrick Stewart and it's like we want to leave Europe

[00:08:52] But actually it's a retake of the Guardian actually did it

[00:08:55] Okay, did a retake of it with the sketch from Holy Grail, you know the life of Brian

[00:09:00] So you know what do the Romans ever do for us? Yeah, well, what about this? It's that sketches

[00:09:04] I was your pep had done for us

[00:09:05] Well, they said that we're not allowed to torture people anymore without having custody and we're allowed certain safeguards

[00:09:10] What did you really do for us? Let's think yeah pornography. Yes

[00:09:15] cannabis right red wine sex great cheese. Yeah, Disneyland the Monaco Grand Prix

[00:09:22] Yeah package holidays. Yes sexy Swedish Scandinavian women the sitcom duty-free

[00:09:30] Lo Lo yes

[00:09:32] Any movie based on a sitcom in the UK where the plot involves going to somewhere abroad

[00:09:39] White wine, which I think of all the other like Italy. What is this legos? Oh my god pasta pizza Swiss chocolates

[00:09:46] Yeah watches that work on time

[00:09:49] Latin which helped fundamentally create the language we're talking about right now very well protected bank accounts. Yeah, what did we give Europe?

[00:09:56] Benny Hill

[00:09:57] So it's a difficult one really is that?

[00:09:59] Yeah, it's hard because actually we we can't we cannot if we were honest and held a mirror up to ourselves

[00:10:04] We've done nothing but also ask Europe to hold a mirror up to us. They would not be as

[00:10:10] thankful

[00:10:11] Yeah, as we think

[00:10:12] We are so do you think it's less about whether we should stay in Europe

[00:10:15] It's more about whether Europe should be asked to stay with us. It's all about cooperation. The union is the key thing

[00:10:21] Yeah, we're not even the united kingdom anymore. No, Scotland are independent

[00:10:26] Wales wants to be independent. We're going to give back northern island in 10 years

[00:10:30] Oh, we a taxi driver and Belfast told me that oh, I call

[00:10:34] So actually we we can go yeah, we're going to look after ourselves. Thanks

[00:10:37] But nobody else wants to be with us. No

[00:10:39] Well, I basically understand from it all is politicians don't care about us

[00:10:45] They care about horrible boring things like business and trade and banking revenue and all this goes on

[00:10:50] What they don't care ultimately is about you and me working every day to try and keep a roof over right

[00:10:56] Physically you and I know but more broadly what is good for the average person?

[00:11:01] possibly

[00:11:01] No

[00:11:02] Depends on who they think the average person should be depends on the politician exactly as a politician

[00:11:06] The bottom line is we should all join Canada

[00:11:11] I actually would love to live in Canada true dough. Who's the president?

[00:11:14] Fascinating guy because he's the only politician that histories whoever goes to the gym

[00:11:19] Not only that but his dad was also prime minister of Canada before him. Yeah, very well respected well loved

[00:11:25] You know, ladies are all the same jackville nerves dad. Yeah, they all do the same

[00:11:28] But this new guy fascinating guy. He's he's basically like trendy young

[00:11:33] You know he was he works at the crowd but he goes most of his friends who grew up with him

[00:11:37] Still call him his name in public and he goes you can't do that

[00:11:40] So here's the rule if you can see my tattoos you can call him by my first name

[00:11:43] If you can't you've got to call me prime minister dangerously liberal

[00:11:46] I think that's a phrase you're looking for you've got to be careful of these new wave politicians, you know

[00:11:51] Anyway, that is a very brief basic rubbish discussion on the brexit

[00:11:56] The uk will decide once and for all on june the 23rd

[00:11:59] The word I've got today just a little one to get started is bangstree

[00:12:03] Interesting off you guys. Bangstree. It's a lovely word. Its definition as we understand it now is masterful violence

[00:12:10] The idea of something violent and yet beautiful

[00:12:12] But its derivation is scottish where they simply use it as the word violent

[00:12:17] So the idea is oh, they're a bit of an argel but argel and it all led to some exquisite bangstree

[00:12:24] So that's what it is. It's like this lovely little word

[00:12:27] It was first put in on print in 1912 in john steven farmers a dictionary of slang and colloquial english

[00:12:35] It's got the terms you can call someone a bangster. So like a bully or a braggart

[00:12:40] So, you know like that guy over there. He took my dinner money. He's a bangster

[00:12:44] Or a banker these days very similar definitions that feels like you put two words together. I did yeah

[00:12:50] I can think about it working now. So that's probably be the work of rick mail and a deadmondson

[00:12:56] Because they when they did bottom in the young ones. I thought what they did was, you know masterful violence

[00:13:00] I thought there's a lot of beauty there

[00:13:01] Yeah, and okay, that's just stem some slapstick which also stems from the three stooge's comedians like that

[00:13:06] So there is an art. I think to violence you look like kill bill or tarantino films

[00:13:10] Tom and Jerry. Tom and Jerry is great bangstree right well then let's go back a little bit further

[00:13:14] The word itself bang bang arguably bang is the most onomatopoeic word we have in the english language

[00:13:20] Yeah, but it's not an english word. What so bang comes from the 1540s

[00:13:25] It means to strike hard with a loud blow obviously

[00:13:30] It's from the old Norse banger to pound with a hammer and of course they describe it as being a word of echoic origin

[00:13:38] When did it first become slang to mean have sexual intercourse with?

[00:13:42] Uh, almost the second after it was invented as a word probably

[00:13:46] When the uh, Norse gods the vikings would hit their women with a hammer. Yeah, in fact 1937

[00:13:52] Yeah, and the thing is if you get have sex with a you know Norse god, you are going to feel thawed in the morning

[00:13:58] Very clever

[00:14:02] You are still minutes today, I'm so sorry

[00:14:04] Which means next year

[00:14:06] 2017 is the 80th anniversary

[00:14:09] Of the word bang being used to mean have sexual intercourse that's excellent

[00:14:14] And if you were to have banged somebody back in 1937, they would be like nearly a hundred now

[00:14:20] Double celebration. Wow two letters from the queen

[00:14:24] The big bang when was that first coined? I don't know. Was it Stephen Hawkins or something? No 1949 an english

[00:14:31] An english astronomer called fred hoyle during a bbc radio interview although the theory of things existing and stretching and disappearing

[00:14:38] Apart from each other, but also everything having started from a finite point goes back way before that. Okay

[00:14:44] But the term itself wasn't a thing like the god particle

[00:14:46] Yeah, and also popular in comic books

[00:14:49] Where they got this whole great comic book language to describe sounds and actions

[00:14:54] Well, like Batman the tv show, isn't it? Yeah, boof. Well, the most popular are pal kirl pal

[00:14:59] thwack screech with a k

[00:15:01] clang zap with 3a's

[00:15:03] Wham with 3a's vroom with 3o's and zwoosh not a word, but we'll take it also with 3o's

[00:15:10] So the next time you bring up bang in a sentence just be careful

[00:15:13] You might be in a haircut. You might be in a batman punch

[00:15:16] You might be in the start of the universe. You might mean sexual intercourse

[00:15:19] On fact, you might mean smacking something with a hammer and that would be bang out of order

[00:15:24] Right go on then last one from you right my second word is barnum eyes

[00:15:28] Do you know what that means? Barnum eyes? What do you think barnum eyes is?

[00:15:31] I think knowing your sort of

[00:15:33] Ponchant for the macabre and fascinating. I think you're like barnum and bailey circusy type stuff

[00:15:41] You're on the right track pt barnum

[00:15:43] Yeah

[00:15:43] Was the guy who was a big showman had his traveling circus wild and wonderful shows

[00:15:48] He knew how to he was the guy who coined the phrase

[00:15:51] I believe an idiot and his money are soon parted

[00:15:54] You know, there's one born every minute. I think all those kind of things came from him

[00:15:57] Yeah, the word barnum eyes means to advertise or promote something with outlandish claims

[00:16:04] So this nappy will stop your kids getting we're on the sofa forever links aftershave

[00:16:10] Yeah, we'll make women drop their knickers in front of you even if you are a 14 year old boy

[00:16:15] Particularly if you're a 14 year old boy. No, so I found the definition for this

[00:16:21] In many places, but the one that struck me was a website called fastmarketingplan.com

[00:16:26] Good place to go and this is what they say about it, right?

[00:16:29] I'll just read it as they have it on the website

[00:16:30] So based on promoter and showman pt barnum barnum eyes means to advertise or promote something by using exaggerated claims or hyperbole

[00:16:38] Well, often these outlandish claims are easily rebuffed

[00:16:40] The core ideas behind the words which is incredible easy and amazing give customers amusement or curiosity

[00:16:46] Towards the offers and hopes towards successfully using the product and its services now a contemporary example of this

[00:16:52] Is the late pitchman billy maze you've all seen him selling oxy clean another products on the tv

[00:16:57] His sideshow barker cadence his work shirt uniform

[00:17:00] His monochromatic hair and beard have made him beloved lampoon and reviled

[00:17:05] Importantly, it was highly effective selling millions of dollars of products

[00:17:09] He's living proof that almost any fool with

[00:17:12] 1999 in his pocket and available to pay for shipping and handling is soon parted

[00:17:17] And so then it goes into breaking down the fact that you should use barnum eyes in your product

[00:17:21] Of course. So would barnum eyes in my product change its perceived value

[00:17:26] Oh, look this cup if you hold it into hands warms your hands while you drink

[00:17:30] Yeah, would that make you want to buy this cup more if you were selling it to me in winter?

[00:17:34] Yeah, or there you go. Maybe that's my marks in the element. It's like silly bang

[00:17:38] It's exactly like silly bang. Yeah, this is exactly like silly bang

[00:17:42] The guy's sitting there on his this thing fixes things quicker than you'll ever know

[00:17:47] Wow

[00:17:47] Wow bang and the crease is gone another use for the word bang

[00:17:51] Think about it. What have you bought recently? You can say the advertising was barnumised

[00:17:55] Like have you bought links on the basis that you'll definitely get a shag? L'Oreal for men

[00:18:00] 48 hour underarm shirt protection no cardboard

[00:18:05] So it's a guy playing squash and running around

[00:18:07] I mean, I don't wear shirts unless I've got to go to a wedding

[00:18:11] What happens with t-shirts is they do get that cardboarding, don't you?

[00:18:15] Yeah, you do call it cardboarding

[00:18:16] So now they sell these deodorants and they go anti-cardboarding. Yeah, but it's a problem that it's created itself

[00:18:21] Yeah, and the trouble is unless you wear a t-shirt after you started using the deodorant as in if you've worn that t-shirt with a different deodorant first

[00:18:28] You're on the road to cardboarding. So how do you come back from cardboarding?

[00:18:31] They tell you to just use this deodorant throw out all your old clothes and start getting burned your house down

[00:18:36] All you need is this deodorant to start for living a perfect life change your entire way of living

[00:18:41] Shocking just to avoid cardboarding. I thought what I do to end this segment though is show you some of the best examples of

[00:18:45] Barnumising so I've got a youtube clip I can bring up

[00:18:48] Listen to this guy trying to sell you his furniture outlet store. Can't get credit in my store

[00:18:54] You can't get credit anywhere

[00:18:57] My name is mark

[00:18:58] You can count on it

[00:19:00] Sorry without voice would you count on anything? I would not say no to him though

[00:19:04] He sounds like he's telling me he's forcing me to buy otherwise

[00:19:07] He's gonna kneecap me and my grandma. So there you go

[00:19:09] Some of the best Barnum ship in the world. Great. Thank you. Time to results of this week's cheat cheat cheat letters

[00:19:19] It will score you 22 in scrabble 26 in words of a friend's

[00:19:22] 30 seconds to tell me what you think cox comb is start now

[00:19:27] right

[00:19:28] cox comb is this one to do with the body

[00:19:31] It is not

[00:19:34] No, no, so it's not like like the coccyx

[00:19:39] No, but great guess cox comb

[00:19:41] Is it a type of soup?

[00:19:43] It is not where do you get that from I don't know because like ox tail soup

[00:19:47] No, is it cox tail soup? Is it um, ronnie's never come around your ass for this

[00:19:52] Five seconds. Is it a flower? Is it a

[00:19:58] Twig is it some kind of thing you put in a sauce a cox comb as many things

[00:20:02] But is it like a

[00:20:04] Echinacea is it like one of those things cox comb is an edible plant

[00:20:08] Oh, there you go. It's also the cox comb diagram that was made famous by florida's nightingale

[00:20:13] It's also a mineral habit. It's also a mountain range in southern california

[00:20:18] It's also a moth. It's also a jackabee and stage play a man overly concerned with his appearance in 17th century england like fop

[00:20:25] Oh, I've got to bring that back. You'd be a cox comb. Look at this captain cox comb over there

[00:20:31] All the hat of a court jester cox comb

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[00:20:49] I would say pull ganon this week's episode has been babbled

[00:20:53] It's probably has been i consider this episode

[00:20:56] Bali who and I would say it has been partially

[00:20:59] Blue tool the nickname given to someone who rarely takes off their bluetooth earpiece

[00:21:03] Oh, right. Okay, because I thought about when you have a cold penis

[00:21:06] Certainly not no that would be where is it again? I can't see it somebody get them their magnifying glass out blue tool

[00:21:12] It's not common in the early 2000s when the mobile phone boom took off. Yeah, I remember for five minutes

[00:21:18] I was a blue tool

[00:21:20] I was for a little bit as well

[00:21:21] I remember getting out of the car hooking it over my ear and then going shopping in asda and nobody rag

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