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[00:00:00] What's that thing that they did between Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow?
[00:00:03] Oh, a mutual conscious uncoupling.
[00:00:06] There we go.
[00:00:07] We should have done that in the sea.
[00:00:08] Yeah.
[00:00:11] The Leta D.
[00:00:23] Every week, we look at the funny side of the dictionary.
[00:00:25] We just rattle through some of the big words, small words, words you've never heard of,
[00:00:28] words that are new to the world and break down what they mean.
[00:00:31] This week it is the Leta D.
[00:00:34] Paul Gannon, I called you double denim.
[00:00:36] Yeah.
[00:00:36] Needs little explanation.
[00:00:38] The look of a cowboy.
[00:00:39] Someone who wears jeans and a denim shirt.
[00:00:42] That's interesting.
[00:00:43] It's basically what you're calling me is a member of status quo.
[00:00:45] Yeah.
[00:00:46] All right, I'm happy with that.
[00:00:47] John Wayne's love child.
[00:00:48] Whatever you want.
[00:00:49] Clever.
[00:00:52] But where do jeans come from?
[00:00:54] Are you wearing a pair right now?
[00:00:55] You know what?
[00:00:55] That's interesting because that's one of my meet words.
[00:00:57] Great.
[00:00:57] Yeah.
[00:00:58] Show me.
[00:00:58] Let me see what you got.
[00:00:59] I do not approve of those jeans.
[00:01:02] What is wrong with these jeans?
[00:01:03] Double lunge maneuver.
[00:01:05] That double lunge maneuver is what the ladies get after a few drinks.
[00:01:07] You've got it sober.
[00:01:08] The only jeans you should be wearing as a modern man are dark denim.
[00:01:12] Right.
[00:01:12] Unless you are famous enough to get packed in which case you can wear double, triple, quadruple, denim, whatever you like.
[00:01:18] You can even have your kidneys covered and draped in denim.
[00:01:21] You should only be wearing dark denim.
[00:01:23] Throw away seriously those faded patched jeans.
[00:01:27] You know that kind of...
[00:01:28] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:01:29] They have like a white halo on the thighs.
[00:01:31] Yeah.
[00:01:31] They're horrible.
[00:01:32] This is not 2003.
[00:01:34] You're not in S Club 7.
[00:01:36] No. I used to get that patch in the groinal area and then it would wear away.
[00:01:39] Well, I'm going to explain why you still get those.
[00:01:41] Oh, I know why, mate.
[00:01:42] Yeah.
[00:01:44] Throw away any jeans with deliberate rips.
[00:01:46] If your jeans are too long as if they go past your lower ankle, take them to a tailor or any kind of dry cleaners.
[00:01:54] For about eight pounds, they'll make them fit.
[00:01:56] Right.
[00:01:56] Because that kind of straggly crap that you have hanging off the back of your jeans got to get rid of it.
[00:02:01] And any jeans with big bag pockets, all you need is a fella, dark denim.
[00:02:05] That will work perfectly.
[00:02:06] But where do jeans come from?
[00:02:08] I'll tell you.
[00:02:09] In the 1870s, laborers used to wear denim workwear.
[00:02:12] Yeah.
[00:02:12] But the trouble with doing physical labor is that it puts a lot of stress on your clothes
[00:02:17] and the denim was...
[00:02:20] And the jeans were tearing apart at the seams.
[00:02:23] So a wife of a laborer went to a tailor and said,
[00:02:27] This is your life, blood mate. Fix it.
[00:02:29] Yeah.
[00:02:29] And so he went to his fabric supplier and asked him for a bit more fabric
[00:02:34] so he could add rivets to the joints.
[00:02:36] Yeah.
[00:02:36] So if you look at your jeans, you'll see these weird rivets,
[00:02:40] in the condom pocket, which actually was...
[00:02:42] Is that what it's called? The condom pocket?
[00:02:43] Because frankly, it's never had one in.
[00:02:45] It's where you put your pocket watch so that it wouldn't get scratched with your nails and things like that.
[00:02:50] I felt like you'd have on a little chain on your belt that would go into your pocket.
[00:02:52] And actually the whole thing became so popular that this tailor and his fabric supplier,
[00:02:58] Levi Strauss...
[00:02:59] Who?
[00:03:00] ...turned it into jeans.
[00:03:02] And there you go.
[00:03:04] How often do you wash your jeans?
[00:03:06] I have many pairs of similar styles, so even though it looks like I never wash my jeans at all,
[00:03:10] I do actually want to wash them once a week.
[00:03:12] You should never wash your jeans.
[00:03:14] You're just saying that, surely.
[00:03:15] You should never wash them.
[00:03:17] Why? Because if you...
[00:03:18] Have you smelt my jeans after a couple of days of me being in them?
[00:03:20] You're supposed to put your jeans in the freezer.
[00:03:23] No!
[00:03:24] It kills off the bacteria and stuff.
[00:03:26] I'm going to try this out.
[00:03:27] I'm going to test this.
[00:03:28] Put them in your freezer next year.
[00:03:30] So if this is cock-a-mamey balls?
[00:03:33] It's true!
[00:03:34] Put your jeans in the freezer.
[00:03:35] What about stains?
[00:03:36] Well, they all add to the flavor.
[00:03:38] But it gets rid of the smell because it kills you, frees off the bacteria.
[00:03:41] Like mammoths.
[00:03:42] But my pants do still look like camouflage.
[00:03:45] Pants you got to wash.
[00:03:46] Right.
[00:03:47] Hit me with what you call me.
[00:03:48] I called you...
[00:03:49] ...dentaliquant.
[00:03:50] I love it.
[00:03:51] Someone who goes to the dentist regularly.
[00:03:53] No!
[00:03:54] It's sometimes how you talk back to me once I've been snarky.
[00:03:56] Someone who is a delinquent and never goes to the dentist at all.
[00:03:59] No!
[00:04:00] It's someone who speaks with clenched teeth.
[00:04:03] You know, like this one.
[00:04:04] You're just like, yeah mate.
[00:04:05] Yeah, all the time.
[00:04:06] That's fine.
[00:04:06] It's an extension of the whole idea of being through gritted teeth.
[00:04:09] The idea of saying yes to something, but saying it in such a way that you're obviously
[00:04:14] showing your displeasure with that agreement.
[00:04:16] Clearly you disagree, but you're just going along with it.
[00:04:18] Or you know, it's part of that whole exercise of ventriloquists and how they can talk
[00:04:23] without moving their mouth.
[00:04:24] Got a leg here.
[00:04:25] Got a leg here.
[00:04:26] I cannot close my teeth properly.
[00:04:27] Try aligning them.
[00:04:28] Let me see what your mouth looks like.
[00:04:29] Yeah, you look...
[00:04:30] I don't like opening my mouth.
[00:04:31] I hate my teeth.
[00:04:32] I can't.
[00:04:33] I've got a wonky tooth.
[00:04:34] Try now if you're listening.
[00:04:35] It's really hard to align your teeth.
[00:04:36] It also feels weird that your should hang below and up to the front.
[00:04:40] I look like I'm about to punch someone.
[00:04:42] Yeah, you do look like a bad extra on EastEnders.
[00:04:45] And this is these soon-to-be Dude Vosts podcast.
[00:04:48] Dude Vosts?
[00:04:49] Yeah, when two blokes go their separate ways.
[00:04:51] Oh!
[00:04:52] Dude Vosts is a port-person-toe or a bisociation of two associated words.
[00:04:59] More commonly now because these things happen more regularly, they're known as Frankenwords.
[00:05:03] Okay.
[00:05:04] Though its origin is debatable of Dude Vosts, a sports columnist in the Myrtle Beach Sun
[00:05:08] News may have coined it or at least popularized it back in 2009.
[00:05:13] Before Dude Vosts you might celebrate Dude and Tine's Day.
[00:05:16] God almighty!
[00:05:17] Where two blokes hang out together but in a non-romantic sense.
[00:05:22] You may also go and buy some Bruce Keys before you have a bro down together on a Friday night.
[00:05:27] Or have a bromance between two mates.
[00:05:29] These are the kind of words that exist now.
[00:05:31] What's that thing that they did between Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow?
[00:05:35] Oh, a mutual conscious uncoupling.
[00:05:38] There we go.
[00:05:39] We should have done that in the sea.
[00:05:40] But the male version of that, the all-male version of conscious uncoupling would be
[00:05:44] Dude Vosts.
[00:05:45] Here we go!
[00:05:47] Time for this week's Cheek, Cheek, Cheek letters.
[00:05:50] Yeah.
[00:05:53] Helping you get better at Scrabble and Words with Friends.
[00:05:55] Why not?
[00:05:56] This will get you 19 points in Scrabble, 22 in Words with Friends.
[00:06:00] But what does it mean?
[00:06:01] Spellcasting, Die Bucks.
[00:06:04] D-Y-B-B-U-K-S.
[00:06:08] Die Bucks.
[00:06:09] Imagine that word from bottom where they're doing a crossword.
[00:06:11] And then it goes, what goes, fizzes, bucks.
[00:06:13] It's one of those words.
[00:06:14] I know, Die Bucks.
[00:06:15] It's a real seven letter D word.
[00:06:17] You'll find out what it means shortly.
[00:06:18] For the first time to dedicate this week's dictionary to Joseph Albin, whose life really
[00:06:24] focused on one D word in particular, Death.
[00:06:27] Oh!
[00:06:28] Joseph Albin, file patent number D6140 on September the 17th, 1842 for The Coffin.
[00:06:36] Really?
[00:06:37] Yeah.
[00:06:38] What year was that, 18?
[00:06:39] 1872.
[00:06:40] The thing is about paintings very briefly is that they're an interesting quandary
[00:06:43] because a great example of this is if you're a magician.
[00:06:45] If you're a magician and you've got a magic trick.
[00:06:47] What was popular around the late 1800s was other magicians stealing it by watching sitting
[00:06:52] in different performances and different areas and seeing, oh there's the lights, there's
[00:06:54] the string, whatever.
[00:06:55] And so you had two options.
[00:06:57] You could either not tell anyone about this magic trick and therefore try and keep it
[00:07:01] simple but if someone stole it then they've stolen it and they get away with murder.
[00:07:04] If you're painting it then you have to put the plans on how the trick works.
[00:07:07] They have access to it.
[00:07:08] It belongs to you.
[00:07:09] But then the magician, that genie is out of the bottle.
[00:07:12] Yeah.
[00:07:13] Coffin is a Latinization of the old Greek, coughiness which means basket.
[00:07:16] Oh!
[00:07:17] And the old days you go back to the Greek days like 2000, well go back to zero.
[00:07:22] Yeah.
[00:07:23] And yeah they were just sticking bodies in the ground in baskets.
[00:07:25] First recorded in English was the word coffin in 1380.
[00:07:30] There is a difference between a coffin and a casket though.
[00:07:32] Do you know what it is?
[00:07:33] Is a casket more down to it's screwed together or it's more held together or?
[00:07:37] Coffin is hexagonal or octagonal.
[00:07:40] It kind of has that, looks like a 20 pence piece at the top.
[00:07:44] Because a casket is just a rectangular box.
[00:07:47] Oh yeah!
[00:07:48] Pretty straightforward, more kind of Egyptian style.
[00:07:52] Although I urge you, I've had the time of my life today in the most macabre Google session
[00:07:56] possible, look up Garnet and Coffins.
[00:08:00] Garnetans really go in for designer coffins, right?
[00:08:04] Ever since the group of carpenters had their work profiled in the Museum of Modern
[00:08:07] Art in Paris around about 1989, Garnet and Coffins have become a boom business.
[00:08:13] For Garnet and Coffins, you're thinking box for 20 pence piece on the end or just a
[00:08:17] kind of shoebox type thing.
[00:08:19] They do race cars.
[00:08:20] I've seen some of these rockets.
[00:08:22] Plains, fish, pigs, food.
[00:08:24] I've now seen mobile phone coffins.
[00:08:27] That's excellent.
[00:08:28] Shoe coffins and even Coca-Cola bottle coffins.
[00:08:32] If you could pick any coffin like that to be buried in, what would you get buried
[00:08:35] in?
[00:08:36] I would get the one that I've seen Karl Pilkington sit in, which is a Twix
[00:08:40] coffin for when you and your partner want to be buried together.
[00:08:44] I don't know where it sits on the brown guidelines with Mars, but you can have
[00:08:47] your very own Twix coffin.
[00:08:48] Get your Google on Garnet and Coffin.
[00:08:50] You'll have a top time.
[00:08:56] How this is a thictionary.
[00:08:57] It's time for the big hefty meaty slice of word play.
[00:09:02] We're on the letter D this week.
[00:09:05] Would you like to go first, Paul Gannon?
[00:09:06] Well, I may as well go back to the well we were up before with the word
[00:09:09] that I chose was denim.
[00:09:10] Funnily enough, sometimes we cross paths.
[00:09:13] But the reason why I thought denim would be an interesting one was
[00:09:16] because I only just found out recently where the word denim comes from.
[00:09:19] Literally a few days ago.
[00:09:20] Is it that blondie song?
[00:09:22] Denim, denim.
[00:09:24] No, it's fascinating, actually, this the word denim and jeans are both
[00:09:28] interesting where their words come from.
[00:09:30] So the sailors in Italy in Genoa were known as jeans.
[00:09:34] Although there's a bunch of jeans.
[00:09:35] And they would wear.
[00:09:36] You think Americans or Jews.
[00:09:37] That's the issue.
[00:09:38] It's your European invention, denim.
[00:09:40] But the word denim itself is fascinating because it comes from a phrase
[00:09:45] called Serge de Nîmes.
[00:09:47] Nîmes was a town in France that made this.
[00:09:49] It wasn't the only place that made this kind of course fabric.
[00:09:52] Basically, the fabric they were using was a durable twilled
[00:09:55] woolen or worsted fabric and it was made from a town called Nîmes in France.
[00:09:59] So the idea was it was Serge de Nîmes, which was eventually contracted to
[00:10:03] then that sounds like a waiter that served me once, doesn't it?
[00:10:06] Serge de Nîmes.
[00:10:07] Serge de Nîmes, yeah.
[00:10:08] Italian porn star.
[00:10:09] How can I help you today?
[00:10:11] I believe I ordered a pizza.
[00:10:13] Oh, don't search your denim on me.
[00:10:15] Oh, love your face, neck and chest.
[00:10:18] Right. So.
[00:10:19] Wow.
[00:10:19] So there.
[00:10:20] So here's the fascinating thing now.
[00:10:22] Jeans have been popular for at least a good hundred years now
[00:10:25] and they've been adopted by different types of movements throughout that period.
[00:10:29] So obviously you had workers, construction workers wearing these things.
[00:10:33] Then you had the beatnik movement who popularized jeans
[00:10:35] and then the hippies got on behind it because all of a sudden
[00:10:37] became anti-establishment to wear jeans.
[00:10:39] Now dads.
[00:10:40] Now dads.
[00:10:40] And mum jeans, Google mum jeans is what I'm talking about.
[00:10:43] Our generation is probably the last of the generation to accept jeans
[00:10:46] as the popular trouser wear of our group.
[00:10:49] Now the youth would rather wear tracksuit bombs or slack pants apparently.
[00:10:53] I think yeah.
[00:10:54] Jeans.
[00:10:54] Hipsters have changed what we wear.
[00:10:56] Yeah.
[00:10:57] Haven't they? But they go back and pick old clothes.
[00:10:59] Jeans are kind of associated with 80s like football, hooliganism.
[00:11:02] Jeans are white trainers, that kind of thing.
[00:11:04] Yeah. Or even that bleach white kind of denim for like, you know,
[00:11:07] not stasky, not true.
[00:11:08] Even thinking of the fonts.
[00:11:10] No, Miami Vice kind of that look, you know, the kind of jacket and jeans thing.
[00:11:13] You know, but it'll be in when the kid says in and it'll be out
[00:11:16] when the kids say it's out.
[00:11:17] But the kids are the teens are now buying more from Nike
[00:11:20] who decided to change their sportswear into a phrase that I find appalling
[00:11:24] which goes back to the franken word thing, which is called athleisure apparel.
[00:11:29] Perfect. I love it.
[00:11:30] To half athletics, half leisure.
[00:11:32] I'm going to buy the whole set in small and wear it down the high street
[00:11:35] just to show them how ridiculous it is.
[00:11:36] That athleisure apparel now comprised of 28%
[00:11:40] of teens apparel purchases up from 6% in 2008.
[00:11:44] As a result, Bloomberg report that Levi's,
[00:11:46] who were the iconic gene makers of our time,
[00:11:50] have struck a problem of late because they're not adapted with these times
[00:11:53] and gone for a similar line.
[00:11:54] So as a result, Levi's sales have dipped
[00:11:56] from over seven million US dollars per year to now only 4.8.
[00:12:01] I'm so sad they're not making as much money as they were for.
[00:12:05] There's the boohoo.
[00:12:06] But now everyone is going to be dressing like they're part of some kind
[00:12:11] of Olympic sports. I think if you wear sportswear
[00:12:13] and you're not doing any sport, you should be thrown into the nearest.
[00:12:16] We should have prisons on every street corner, like post boxes.
[00:12:20] Well, like the old Doctor Who police box.
[00:12:22] They were prisons. You should throw them in there.
[00:12:23] All right. Next word for you.
[00:12:25] D word, Doctor Google, a name given to anyone who self-diagnoses
[00:12:29] themselves on the internet.
[00:12:31] Also a very dodgy doctor I used to have when I was younger.
[00:12:33] Curtsy have read it.
[00:12:34] These are some of the most common, most popular self-diagnoses
[00:12:37] for medics around the world.
[00:12:39] Aids, cancer, black plague.
[00:12:42] One guy was having seizures from a parasite.
[00:12:45] Turned out he was psychotic and was self-treating.
[00:12:47] What he thought was a parasite infestation by drinking household cleaning agents.
[00:12:53] That is crazy.
[00:12:55] When he started seizing afterwards,
[00:12:57] this reconfirmed his his own parasite diagnosis in the mind.
[00:13:00] So he drank more household cleaning agents.
[00:13:03] That's a cognitive bias, right?
[00:13:05] One patient had diarrhea.
[00:13:07] D words. Yeah.
[00:13:08] It was yellow and liquid.
[00:13:09] The patient said there was something very wrong
[00:13:11] and somehow the tubes inside his body must have got crossed
[00:13:14] because he was coming out of his bottom.
[00:13:16] Right.
[00:13:17] Because it was that liquid, wasn't it?
[00:13:19] Right. Yeah.
[00:13:20] So that I mean, I think as I went to a doctor a few years ago
[00:13:22] with a similar problem when I was going to the toilet to do a poopy,
[00:13:25] it's coming out like a string.
[00:13:27] And so the doctor goes to take your child's stuff, which I did.
[00:13:29] And he goes right. And he pulls out these scissors.
[00:13:31] I was like, what are you going to do?
[00:13:31] He goes, I'm going to cut six inches off the bottom of your string vest.
[00:13:35] Eat it.
[00:13:38] Now you're gritting teeth.
[00:13:42] One male nurse wrote,
[00:13:43] I had a patient come in to the emergency department
[00:13:46] complaining of a breast lump.
[00:13:48] He anxiously stated that there was a mass that was very painful to touch
[00:13:51] and he was convinced it was going to die of breast cancer.
[00:13:54] After a battery of questions,
[00:13:55] I asked him to take off his shirt so I could examine and touch the mass.
[00:13:59] After a couple of seconds, I turned to him and said, sir,
[00:14:03] that lump is your rib.
[00:14:06] And finally, a patient went into the ER with a gangrenous toe.
[00:14:10] He said, don't worry about it. It'll get better with antibiotics.
[00:14:12] I know my body. Don't worry. It's fine.
[00:14:15] So he left with the antibiotics that he asked for
[00:14:17] and was told to return if anything changes.
[00:14:19] He came back the next day with the toe in his hand.
[00:14:23] Some people. Yeah.
[00:14:24] There's a whole reason we have the Darwin Awards.
[00:14:26] Have you heard about the Darwin Awards?
[00:14:27] I have done. Yeah.
[00:14:27] Yeah, we could have covered that as well after the indeed.
[00:14:29] But I had to go into the hospital for a scan
[00:14:32] because I had a lump in my breast and I was like, well,
[00:14:35] that could be anything like ingrown hair or some kind of fluid.
[00:14:39] Anyway, so I went in and they went there's definitely a lump there.
[00:14:42] So after you have to go for a scan
[00:14:45] in the hospital and sit there and they scan you and they check you
[00:14:47] and they diagnosed me with gynecomastia.
[00:14:50] What's that? The medical term for manboob.
[00:14:55] That's sad.
[00:14:56] The thing is, it's not so much that you were worried
[00:14:58] and it's obviously a very upsetting process to go through.
[00:15:00] The fact that they turn around and say, you've got mantis, mate,
[00:15:03] you had to get a doctor to tell you that.
[00:15:04] I did say what is that?
[00:15:05] And they said it's a large breast in men triggered by estrogen
[00:15:08] or testosterone imbalance.
[00:15:10] Oh, so it doesn't mean I'm fat.
[00:15:11] Just means I'm over emotional and I'm not doing enough sport.
[00:15:14] But you're not on HRT either.
[00:15:16] So I did have a small brush with Dr. Google.
[00:15:20] If you've Dr. Google yourself,
[00:15:22] please let us know what you've given yourself.
[00:15:23] Thanks.
[00:15:25] And finally, here's the word I have for you.
[00:15:27] It's another one of my 50 pound words.
[00:15:29] It is Dactylogram.
[00:15:31] Do you know what it is?
[00:15:31] Have a go at you think it is a Dactylogram.
[00:15:34] Yeah, Dactylteridactyl.
[00:15:36] I think it is five sided drawings or birds,
[00:15:40] pitch the birds.
[00:15:41] Can you give yourself a ding on that?
[00:15:43] Hello? No, because you're wrong.
[00:15:46] You're such a prick.
[00:15:49] I'm going to give myself one anyway.
[00:15:50] Let's do it.
[00:15:51] No, it is simply fingerprinting.
[00:15:54] Oh, I love it.
[00:15:55] Dactylograms fingerprinting.
[00:15:57] Yeah, it's fascinating as well
[00:15:58] because we're all aware of fingerprinting
[00:16:00] being used in crime now.
[00:16:01] And you think obviously a turn of the century thing,
[00:16:03] maybe 1700, 1800 they discovered it.
[00:16:05] Apparently fingerprints were quite well known
[00:16:08] and quite common as a term of identification.
[00:16:11] They even think back in prehistoric times
[00:16:13] like in Nova Scotia,
[00:16:15] they found artwork that was signed by artists
[00:16:17] with their thumb prints or palm prints.
[00:16:19] Also in ancient Babylon,
[00:16:21] fingerprints were used on clay tablets
[00:16:23] as business transactions.
[00:16:24] So you'd put your thumb on the tablet
[00:16:26] to basically sign it.
[00:16:27] And again, China had the same thing as well.
[00:16:29] China would use thumb prints on their seals
[00:16:33] for sealing letters or documents.
[00:16:34] You could also use that wax and put your thumb.
[00:16:37] I have a slight issue with this.
[00:16:39] Go on.
[00:16:39] It's fine that you put your thumb print
[00:16:41] on a thing to go, that's mine.
[00:16:43] How the hell do I know what your thumb print looks like?
[00:16:46] How do I go?
[00:16:46] Oh, that's definitely Paul's thumb.
[00:16:48] But here's where you fast forward
[00:16:50] a little bit ahead to understand
[00:16:51] why they might have done that.
[00:16:52] So the first English use of it was done by,
[00:16:55] I have to read this out,
[00:16:56] was done by a guy called Sir William James Herschel
[00:16:59] in July of 1858.
[00:17:00] Now what he did was he was the chief magistrate
[00:17:03] of Hooli district in Jungapur, India.
[00:17:06] And he used fingerprints on native contracts.
[00:17:09] They obviously couldn't sign their name
[00:17:11] or things like that and he was a businessman.
[00:17:13] He was trying to get their property,
[00:17:14] their land, their workers, however he could.
[00:17:16] He made a deal with a local businessman
[00:17:18] and said off top of his head goes,
[00:17:20] oh, just push your hand on this ink
[00:17:22] and put it on the contract.
[00:17:23] And the businessman was impressed.
[00:17:24] It became official.
[00:17:25] Oh, I've seen what I've done here.
[00:17:27] What it turned out was they were impressed
[00:17:28] because they thought it was some kind of way
[00:17:30] of putting their soul or some part of them
[00:17:32] in printing it onto that document
[00:17:33] to make it more legal.
[00:17:35] And that just stuck.
[00:17:36] And he began to collect hundreds and hundreds
[00:17:38] of hand prints from all the people
[00:17:39] he would work with on his floor.
[00:17:41] How did he know whose was it?
[00:17:42] Well, he didn't but eventually he began to figure out
[00:17:44] whose were those markings
[00:17:46] and could start to associate those hand prints
[00:17:47] with people he'd worked with.
[00:17:49] And you go fast forward even to 1883.
[00:17:52] Mark Twain wrote a book called Life on the Mississippi
[00:17:54] which talked about a murderer
[00:17:55] who was identified using fingerprint identification.
[00:17:58] Same and later, but called Puddin Head Wilson
[00:18:00] was in a court trial where fingerprints
[00:18:02] were used in the narrative to solve that crime as well.
[00:18:05] Can you have a toe print?
[00:18:06] Potentially, yes.
[00:18:07] I guess the same logic applies.
[00:18:10] Toe print.
[00:18:10] You're just saying all these barefoot burglars.
[00:18:12] Yeah.
[00:18:12] Some people can confuse koala and gorilla fingerprints
[00:18:16] for human fingerprints.
[00:18:17] So if you want to rob a bank,
[00:18:19] take a koala in with you to hold the gun.
[00:18:21] If you get kicked in the face by someone who's barefoot.
[00:18:23] Potentially.
[00:18:24] That's how you know that, you know.
[00:18:25] I guess the thing is we don't use our feet as much
[00:18:27] around the house.
[00:18:28] It's probably Jean-Claude Van Damme.
[00:18:29] It's probably gonna...
[00:18:31] We've got a roundhouse kicked to your head.
[00:18:32] I don't need to see the fingerprint made.
[00:18:34] It was Jean-Claude Van Damme.
[00:18:35] Did he have a cause light in the mullet?
[00:18:37] It was Jean-Claude Van Damme.
[00:18:38] Yeah, but here's the weird and gross thing
[00:18:40] to end this story out about fingerprints.
[00:18:41] So obviously we can use them to identify dead people.
[00:18:44] This one coroner and fingerprint expert noted that
[00:18:48] if you find a hand in water, like if a person's been drowned
[00:18:51] and they've been bloated out to all,
[00:18:52] you can't really recognize them.
[00:18:53] What you can do is cause the skin is so loose,
[00:18:56] you can cut the skin off the hand,
[00:18:58] put it on your hand like a glove
[00:19:01] and then use your own pressure
[00:19:02] to get the fingerprints off that hand and thumb.
[00:19:05] I'm sure they've done that in a movie as well.
[00:19:07] They probably have, but it comes from experience.
[00:19:08] You can take the skin off like a glove.
[00:19:10] Wear it and that's how you can get the fingerprints,
[00:19:12] which you wouldn't be able to do in any other way.
[00:19:14] I was looking for a new hobby. Thanks.
[00:19:16] As I say, they've managed to use it
[00:19:17] because there's one story in 2012.
[00:19:20] They found a thumb in a belly of a fish
[00:19:23] and was like, oh that's interesting,
[00:19:24] where the thumb come to?
[00:19:25] Through the process of investigation,
[00:19:26] they got in touch with this guy
[00:19:27] who lost a finger during wakeboarding,
[00:19:29] lost his thumb and I was like, is this your thumb?
[00:19:31] He goes, yeah, where'd you find it?
[00:19:33] I've got both.
[00:19:34] Oh wait, no it is, it's mine.
[00:19:36] So the word again, Dactylogram.
[00:19:38] It was Dactylogram, yeah.
[00:19:40] Beautiful. Dactylogram.
[00:19:41] My final word for you is Destinesia.
[00:19:44] That's a great band.
[00:19:45] Yeah, Destinesia unknown.
[00:19:47] Destinesia, reaching your destination
[00:19:48] but forgetting what you went there for.
[00:19:50] Oh I call that every single day of my life.
[00:19:52] More common during work hours.
[00:19:54] It is a real phenomena.
[00:19:56] Do do do do do.
[00:19:57] Do you know why?
[00:19:58] Is it because the-
[00:19:59] Travelling memory loss.
[00:20:01] I think it's because it's something to do
[00:20:03] with the fact that we have muscle memory
[00:20:05] and we automatically know where we're going
[00:20:07] without the thought process
[00:20:08] to tell us how we're getting there.
[00:20:09] Take away nine million points.
[00:20:12] Oh.
[00:20:13] It is all to do with doorways.
[00:20:15] Bloody doorways.
[00:20:16] Research they've done computer
[00:20:18] and physical testing on many, many people.
[00:20:21] Research reveals that our minds treat doorways
[00:20:24] as event boundaries.
[00:20:26] So you walk through a doorway.
[00:20:28] Your brain goes, that's the end of that chapter
[00:20:31] and creates a new one.
[00:20:33] But it doesn't retain the memory that you had
[00:20:36] when you created in the previous room.
[00:20:39] So if you went from here to the kitchen
[00:20:41] you go across through two doorways.
[00:20:43] You'd be more likely to forget what you left here for.
[00:20:46] You get to the kitchen and then you go, oh, what?
[00:20:49] The problem is I would forget before I left this door.
[00:20:51] That's my issue in general.
[00:20:52] I have a memory like a sieve.
[00:20:53] Well then you have a real problem
[00:20:54] and then I would refer you to this quiz.
[00:20:56] Signs to look out for that your memory loss is a problem.
[00:20:59] Oh God.
[00:21:00] Signs to look out for that your memory loss is a problem.
[00:21:02] Just so I know, this isn't Mr. Google thing
[00:21:04] with the end of this list.
[00:21:05] I find that I've got Alzheimer's, right?
[00:21:06] This isn't one of those horrible-
[00:21:07] I have not docked Google due.
[00:21:09] This is actually true.
[00:21:10] All right.
[00:21:11] Do you have trouble watching TV
[00:21:12] or reading books and struggle to follow plots?
[00:21:16] No.
[00:21:17] Do you buy items from the shop
[00:21:18] forgetting that you've already got loads of them at home?
[00:21:20] Yes.
[00:21:21] I do that for breeze and quinoa, my big tube.
[00:21:23] Toilet paper.
[00:21:24] Do your friends and family subtly try
[00:21:25] and take over tasks for you?
[00:21:27] No.
[00:21:28] Okay, then you're all right.
[00:21:29] All right, okay, good.
[00:21:30] What about this one?
[00:21:31] Do you know your way around town
[00:21:32] but when given directions to others
[00:21:34] you don't remember the names of the streets?
[00:21:36] Yes.
[00:21:37] Then that's okay.
[00:21:38] All right, good.
[00:21:39] That last one is fine.
[00:21:40] That's the last one that says
[00:21:40] you don't have a degenerative brain disease.
[00:21:42] If you've had three of the others
[00:21:44] then you'd be in trouble.
[00:21:46] Destin Asia, reach your destination
[00:21:48] and forgetting what you went in for
[00:21:49] has another name when you're in shopping malls.
[00:21:52] It's called Maltzheimer's.
[00:21:53] That's good.
[00:21:56] It's a good word.
[00:21:56] It's cruel but it's good.
[00:21:58] So the next time you struggle
[00:22:00] to remember what you came in for
[00:22:01] blame the doorways.
[00:22:03] It's the door's fault.
[00:22:04] Just working an open plan office.
[00:22:05] But there's an interesting sidebar
[00:22:07] to this story as well where they say
[00:22:08] if you drive long distances
[00:22:10] you have to get from your home to work.
[00:22:12] People can put themselves at danger
[00:22:14] because they'll forget what they're doing.
[00:22:15] They're so used to doing that journey
[00:22:17] that they'll mentally blank out.
[00:22:19] So they say if you take these long journeys
[00:22:20] mix it up on Tuesday
[00:22:22] maybe go a different route
[00:22:23] or go on a different motorway or whatever.
[00:22:24] Listen to a podcast, reasonable volume
[00:22:26] while you drive.
[00:22:27] Exactly.
[00:22:28] Not in area just within the car speakers
[00:22:30] and make sure you can see your blind spot
[00:22:31] at all times.
[00:22:32] Be careful the next time
[00:22:33] you suffer from Destin Asia
[00:22:35] if in doubt go to thiccery.com
[00:22:37] whenever you forget stuff.
[00:22:38] Time for this week's cheat letters.
[00:22:40] Cheat letters.
[00:22:44] Die Bucks, D-Y-B-B-U-K-S.
[00:22:46] Any guesses? Die Bucks.
[00:22:48] Is it a coffee shop for
[00:22:50] coffees that have been...
[00:22:52] Lesbian.
[00:22:53] I was actually going to say
[00:22:54] had been colour corrected or something.
[00:22:57] I didn't quite go that all the way.
[00:22:58] Good. No, it's not.
[00:22:59] Die Bucks, D-Y-B-B-U-K-S
[00:23:02] in Jewish mythology.
[00:23:03] Oh no, don't tell me.
[00:23:05] Is it a box that holds a demon?
[00:23:07] Yeah, kind of, yeah.
[00:23:08] I've heard about this.
[00:23:09] There was a horror film based on this very thing that...
[00:23:12] Yeah.
[00:23:12] Big in horror movies.
[00:23:13] Yeah.
[00:23:14] It is a malicious possessing spirit
[00:23:16] believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person
[00:23:19] still used in small Yiddish communities.
[00:23:22] The Die Bucks was featured as the main antagonist
[00:23:24] in horror films like The Unborn, The Possession
[00:23:27] and many of the paranormal activity movies.
[00:23:30] We used a lot of Catholic exorcism.
[00:23:32] Horror stories, obviously the exorcists are a great example.
[00:23:35] This is that kind of Jewish replacement
[00:23:37] for that myth, legend, or whatever you want to call it.
[00:23:38] Really, Jewish word for some kind of evil spirit in a box?
[00:23:41] Yeah.
[00:23:42] I'm a living in a box.
[00:23:43] I'm a living in the Die Bucks box.
[00:23:46] Yeah, so there you go.
[00:23:47] It'll get you lots of points.
[00:23:48] 19 is Scrabble, 22 words of Friends, Die Bucks.