#2402: A Wicked Haircut

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The sudden, gut-wrenching need for 'A Wicked Haircut' is a part of Car Talk Puzzler lore. Dennis from Ohio experienced this firsthand, as a result of an iced tea on a long drive and he writes to tell Click and Clack about it on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at plus.npr.org/cartalk or find the Car Talk channel in Apple Podcasts.

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0:00.0	This message comes from NPR sponsor,
0:02.2	Sony Pictures Classics, presenting Freud's last session.
0:06.0	Anthony Hopkins is Sigmund Freud, and Matthew Good is CS Lewis
0:10.3	in Freud's last session, now playing select theaters. Hello and welcome to Car Talk on National Public Radio with us
0:34.0	click and clack the Tappert brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the
0:36.9	center to defiantly split infinitives here at Car Talk Plaza.
0:41.2	This is sad here, I think.
0:43.7	Do do do do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,
0:45.4	the news flash.
0:46.6	Oxford University Press says it's okay to occasionally
0:50.7	split an infinitive,
0:52.2	like the infinitive Q45 no the I30 I mean I read this
0:56.2	article the other day London writers London it is, they look at writers.
1:03.2	Feel free to split infinitives and don't worry about starting a sentence with
1:06.9	but because some age-old rules of English grammar are just school rule mythology.
1:11.8	A new writing guide said, the plain English guide to be
1:14.8	published by the Oxford University press on August 10th has raised eyebrows
1:19.8	in the more traditional cradles of learning. So they now say it is okay occasionally and they give
1:25.1	some examples and I mean it does make sense actually. Where are the examples?
1:30.8	Hey give us pre-telling. Here they are.
1:35.0	There are some examples, actually from another article.
1:38.0	Consider these colloquial possibilities.
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