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Hello, Bugleers and welcome to issue 4107 of the Bugle Free Independent funded by you,

the listener, official podcast of none other than Poseidon, Ancient Greek God of the Sea,

to have the old Trident Wielder on board, should certainly ensure we have some very nice and

calm sea crossings in future. I am Andy Zoltzmann and joining me from Mumbai for this special Bugle

Indian Elections special Bugle show, it is Anu Vapal. Hello Andy, hello, very excited to be here

this week because as you know India is in the middle of a tiny thing, a billion people are heading

to the balls to elect a leader, not a big thing, not affecting the country very much, but it's

very exciting to be here to report from the ground by which I mean from my apartment.

We will touch on this more in greater detail. Shortly we are recording on Wednesday this week for

complicated logistical reasons. Well I'm going to Ireland to watch cricket but let's talk it up.

Wednesday the 1st of May to be precise, Mayday, no less, in one of every day is Mayday in Britain

at the moment, but on this day in 1851 Queen Victoria, I'll dig Pants herself, opened the great

exhibition at Crystal Palace, some hugely influential exhibits including a precursor to the

Fax machine, what a revolution in correspondence, that must have been. I don't know who's the first

person to fax a picture of their own backside from the great exhibition. History does not relate

that. The world's first voting machine, the world's first pay toilets were used, people would pay

a penny to use the toilets. Hence the term spend a penny originates from that, one of the great

British euphemisms for a bodily function. Those using the toilets for a less liquidinous and more

conclusive exflegrucion were given a commemorative Sumerian gemstone known as a shite, hence the term

take a shite. That's been a long week, it's Wednesday, it's been a good short week. As always

some sections of the bugle are going straight in the bin. Well this week a special Game of Thrones

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