Mystery hour - Why aren't there jokes on lolly sticks?

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2012

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Is the word Jubilee connected to royalty, why aren't there jokes on lolly sticks and why do we say the Queen is Queen of England and not of Britain or beyond?

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0:30.0	It's past 12.
0:35.6	LBC 97.3. Call 0845-6060973.
0:42.3	Text 84850, tweet at LBC 973.
0:47.4	This is London's biggest conversation with James O'Brien.
0:52.5	Three minutes after 12, this is LBC 97.3.
0:56.7	What a shallow, unfeeling, callous bunch you are.
1:00.5	We could have ministerial blood on the carpet by close of play today,
1:03.9	as Jeremy Hunt continues to give increasingly patchy and, frankly,
1:09.6	diabolical evidence to the Leveson inquiry. God, I'm glad I don't work for the BBC and I'm allowed to actually express an opinion. But do you care? Well, yes, of course you do. Are you bombarding me with demands that Mystery Hour does not bite the bullet today and make way for continuing coverage of events of the Royal Courts of Justice.
1:28.1	Is my switchboard already full of people itching to ask their question and avail themselves
1:32.7	of this weekly opportunity to solve mysteries?
1:35.2	Yes, it is.
1:35.7	I'm going to try and do that thing that's supposed to be impossible.
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