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Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Hello to our poor, powfagged Purple People! Aren’t we tired this week? Whether you’re sitting in digs having just dashed off staged or weary after a hard day at your sexy occupation, we are here for you! And this week we'll be guiding you through the entertaining and esoteric world of… video games! Are you a fan of Space Wars circa 1977, or are you a 7th generation lemming? Are you a speed bump or a snowflake? Are you dying to know what, according to gamers, is the difference between a cow and a sheep? Well never fear, Susie is here to take you through fragging, Fortnite and respawning, while explaining just how silly it is to be salty. Elsewhere Gyles is bamboozled by your Purple Post before sharing a lovely Martyn Hesford poem, reminding us all to "rip the sky open… eat the lilac flower… and breathe". Susies trio: Plothering- chucking it down with rain Woofits- unwell feeling, or a slight moody depression Princock- a foolish and conceited person If you’d like to get in touch with Gyles and Susie then please do! At [email protected]. Try 6 free issues of The Week magazine worth £23.94 today. Go to http://bit.ly/SomethingRhymeswithPurple and use your special code PURPLE to claim your 6 week free trial today. To buy SRWP mugs and more head to.... https://kontraband.shop/collections/something-rhymes-with-purple A Somethin' Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Something that's...
0:09.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Something Rimes with Purple,
0:14.0	where Charles Brandres and I just waxed lyrical about the English language
0:19.0	and learn quite a lot along the way, I have to say, hi, Charles.
0:24.0	Hello, it's wonderful to be with you. I've just learnt something which I must share with you immediately.
0:28.0	And I'm going to share it with you before you throw a bucket of cold water over it.
0:32.0	Right. It's this, it's about language.
0:35.0	You know when we go on tour, you go to digs, you stay in digs.
0:40.0	Yes.
0:41.0	And people call it a digs list, if you have a list of places you go to stay.
0:46.0	Digs list, all right? You know that, you're familiar with that phrase.
0:49.0	I do, and I think I told you the origin of this before.
0:52.0	Yes, and what is it? What do you think it is?
0:54.0	Well, I think it goes back to the Californian gold rush,
0:58.0	what also happened in Australia, and it was the diggings around the gold mines.
1:02.0	Yes.
1:03.0	And then accommodation was dug up after the same earth and the little shanty towns also grew up.
1:10.0	But it was the accommodation that got the diggings, hence the digs.
1:13.0	Well, I can tell you, that's not true. You're wrong.
1:17.0	You're wrong, the world authoritative, the world's greatest lexicographer,
1:21.0	the girl who knows all the answers, apologise for using the word girl.
1:24.0	I've got a note here saying you're not allowed to use that anymore.
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