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Answer Me This!

AMT388: Lolly Stick Jokes, Pizza Cutters, and Wombat Scat

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Comedy

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In AMT388, questioneers wonder about pizza cutters, lolly stick jokes, cubed poo, lawns, and the house in the middle of the M62 motorway. Find out more about this episode at . Send us questions for future episodes: email written words or voice recordings to [email protected]. Tweet us Facebook Our new album Home Entertainment is available now for £paywhatyouwant for a limited period at , where you can also obtain our other special albums, AMT episodes 1-200, and our Best Of compilations. Hear our other work: Helen Zaltzman's podcasts The Allusionist at and Veronica Mars Investigations at ; Olly Mann's five podcasts including , The Week Unwrapped, and Four Thought at ; and Martin Austwick's music at his Tom Waits podcast Song By Song at , and his new music'n'science podcast Maddie's Sound Explorers, hosted by Maddie Moate, at . This episode is sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus, the streaming library of courses on topics from wine to mystery fiction to yoga to formal logic to dog training. AMT listeners get a free month at . Squarespace. Want to build a website? Go to , and get a 10% discount on your first purchase of a website or domain with the code 'ANSWER'.

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0:00.0

Does Michelle a Barless Podcast do songs about square space?

0:05.0

How close would you willingly get to a bear's face?

0:11.0

How's a bit less, how's a bit less, better than lonely, how's a bit less?

0:17.0

Well, well, well. In the last episode, when we were contemplating the origins of flapjacks, the O.T. kind,

0:23.0

versus the pancake kind, and I mentioned this draw of myth in Scotland that used to be full of cold porridge.

0:29.0

Oh, why do you have to even mention it again? It's given me nightmares for a month.

0:32.0

And yet a lack of evidence pointing to the definitive existence of those draws.

0:36.0

Hmm.

0:37.0

Lucky for us, Nick from Remfrucia has piked up to say,

0:40.0

I am in Scotland, and I can confirm the porridge draw story is true.

0:45.0

He's checked every drawing Scotland free of an smear of O.T.

0:50.0

Nick says it doesn't happen anymore, at least not with anyone I know.

0:53.0

But the older generation would tell you that they used to regularly get porridge slices

0:58.0

from a draw. There would be big wooden metal tray line draws in the kitchen.

1:02.0

This was the porridge draw or just a general cooling draw.

1:06.0

So I suppose it's like if you use the salad draw in the fridge but filled it with burrit.

1:11.0

Yes. I mean, there's nothing repugnant about a salad draw when you use that terminology.

1:16.0

I was just pretty repugnant. It's got a little green slime in it.

1:19.0

Right. Future generations might be as equally put off as I am by the very concept of a porridge draw.

1:24.0

Yeah.

1:25.0

But maybe it's just what you're acclimatized to.

1:27.0

I just don't know how you would then get that metal tray clean ever.

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