Chum (Recorded live at Chichester Festival Theatre)

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It’s the second instalment from our live show at the Chichester Festival Theatre and in this episode Susie and Gyles take us through the revolving doors of the language of hotels. Gyles re-visits his days as an MP as we uncover the origin of the word ‘lobby’ and Susie reveals the icy reason why at 15, she aspired to be a hotel manager! Fortunately for us, Susie instead decided to become a lexicographer and takes us on a few further visits to hostels and chamber chums with detours to pickets and prisons along the way. The 1000 strong crowd at Chichester put Susie and Gyles to the test with their questions (transcribed below) and came up with some very inventive definitions for Susie’s Trio. Questions from the live audience - TRANSCRIPTION: Sarah Brocker, - “Where does the word Trug for a garden basket come from?” David Lambert, Chichester - “What is the origin of the word ‘Flapjacket’, it sounds as if it should be made of surgical steel doesn’t it?" Audience member 3 - "At university, I used the word ‘somewhen’, and people looked at me like I was stupid?" Audience member 4 - “How do you pronounce Gif?” A Somethin' Else production. To buy SRWP mugs and more head to.... https://kontraband.shop/collections/something-rhymes-with-purple If you would like to sign up to Apple Subs please follow this link https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/something-rhymes-with-purple/id1456772823 and make sure that you are running the most up-to-date IOS on your computer/device otherwise it won’t work. If you would like to see Gyles and Susie LIVE and in person on our Something Rhymes With Purple UK Tour then please go to https://www.tiltedco.com/somethingrhymeswithpurple for tickets and more information. Susie’s Trio: Griffonage - sloppy or careless handwriting Cachinnate - loud cackle Cancatevate - to heap stuff into a pile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.8	Hello, and welcome to another episode of the award-winning Something Rimes with Purple,
1:13.8	hosted by me Suzy Dent and my wonderful co-host, Charles Brandrith. This episode was recorded
1:19.6	in front of a fantastic live audience in Chichester in December. It was so much fun to
1:24.3	thank you again to all of those who came. If you're based in the UK and would like to join
1:29.0	us live, then we've got three more dates coming up, two in London and one in Newcastle.
1:33.8	So please go to tiltedco.com, forward slash something rhymes with purple for tickets, or
1:39.2	you can follow the link in the program description.
1:42.8	Because of the mic setup, some of the questions in the Q&A are a tad on the quiet side, but
1:47.4	don't worry, we've transcribed them into the program description if you need anything
1:51.0	clarifying. Also, you'll notice that for my trio, I've handed over responsibility to the
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