Get Your Nickels Together for a Jitney Supper (Rebroadcast) - 6 June 2011
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A Way with Words
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🗓️ 6 June 2011
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:34.5 | 877929963, and you can still send this email to Words at wayward radio. |
| 0:41.9 | And you can still find us online at wayward Radio.org and you can still find this online at wayward radio.org. |
| 0:46.0 | You're listening to a way with words.'m Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. |
| 0:55.4 | When I was very young I happened across a copy of Reader's Digest and I saw something |
| 1:01.2 | absolutely mystifying. |
| 1:03.0 | On two facing pages there were all these little line drawings |
| 1:06.4 | and under all those were these seemingly unrelated capital letters |
| 1:10.1 | separated by spaces. |
| 1:11.6 | The first row of letters read F-U-N-E-X. Fun-X, few-x, what in the world? And right above |
| 1:19.4 | those letters was a line drawing of a little old man sitting in a restaurant talking to the waiter. |
| 1:24.6 | But what was the connection? |
| 1:26.2 | I puzzled over this for a long time and then I finally realized that if you sound out those |
| 1:30.2 | letters individually and if you sound like a little old man then f-U-N-E-X is if you any eggs? |
| 1:38.0 | The guy wanted breakfast. |
| 1:41.0 | Have you any eggs? |
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