Riddled Through With Riddles - 27 Oct. 2008

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🗓️ 27 October 2008

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Here’s a riddle: “Nature requires five, custom gives seven, laziness takes nine, and wickedness eleven.” Think you know the answer? You’ll find it in this week’s episode, in which Grant and Martha discuss this and other brain-busters. Also: how did the phrase “going commando” come to be slang for “going without underwear”? And which word is correct: orient or orientate? Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org. Be a part of the show: call or text 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; elsewhere in the world, call or text +1 619 800 4443. Send voice notes or messages via WhatsApp 16198004443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Deliverer because anything goes this Christmas. Yes, even sprouts on a pizza or gravy on sushi.
0:10.0	The rules are, there are no rules. Have a Cantonese on Christmas Eve or a faulty on
0:15.7	Boxing Day and when you're so over the leftovers bring on the ramen from big brands to
0:21.9	local favorites this Christmas it's all on your doorstep with
0:25.0	deliver room. Geographical restrictions, Tees and C service and delivery fees apply. You're listening to Away with Words. I'm Martha Barnett.
0:37.0	And I'm Grant Barrett. Martha, see if you can guess what I'm talking about.
0:41.0	I never know what you're talking about.
0:42.0	No, no, no.
0:44.0	No, this is a riddle, listen to this.
0:45.0	Oh, a riddle, okay, a riddle.
0:47.0	Nature requires five.
0:49.0	Custom gives seven.
0:51.0	LASiness takes nine and wickedness 11. What is it? Sick days? No, no, no, no.
0:57.0	calories? Five calories? No, this is a celery, no.
1:04.0	No, it's hours of sleep a night.
1:06.0	Listen again. Hours of sleep.
1:08.0	Nature requires five, custom gives seven,
1:11.0	laziness takes nine, and a wickedness 11.
1:13.8	Oh, very good, okay.
1:15.8	That's not bad, right?
1:16.8	I get it, yeah.
1:17.8	I found that when I was browsing, believe it or not, issues of the Journal of American
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