Semiquincentennial

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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PURPLE PEOPLE! Today is an extra special day for Something Rhymes With Purple - we are celebrating our 250th episode! So to celebrate, we have decided to rifle through our glorious inbox, and answer YOUR questions. Thank you so much for tuning in each week, here's to the next 250! - from Susie, Gyles and everyone down at Purple HQ. We love hearing from you, find us @SomethingRhymes on Twitter and Facebook, @SomethingRhymesWith on Instagram or you can email us on our NEW email address here: [email protected] Want even more purple, people? Join the Purple Plus Club by clicking the banner in Apple podcasts or head to purpleplusclub.com to listen on other platforms' Don’t forget that you can join us in person at our upcoming tour, tap the link to find tickets: www.somethingrhymeswithpurple.com Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: Foozle: to bungle. Otiose: serving no useful purpose. Tongue-hero: a braggart or self-confessed hero. Gyles' poem this week was 'You Know How A Cat' by James Laughlin You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your beauty & a promise of my love. A Sony Music Entertainment production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative
0:07.0	and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. Maybe this is catching up with creative
0:11.9	friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe.
0:16.0	And thanks to The Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away.
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0:27.0	Now January's forecast starting cold and grey with outbreaks of boredom before brightening up dramatically as
0:33.6	Fri Annuary rewards sweep across the country hundreds of Merlin annual
0:37.2	passes 50 private cinema screenings and sun-soaked family holidays. The outlook is
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0:47.2	for a chance to win epic family prizes. Sign up on the McDonald's app now.
0:51.1	18 Plus, purchase medium or large fries by 31st of January for an entry
0:55.1	enterprise draw maximum 28 entries only via app of participating restaurants terms of lie.
0:58.1	Hello Giles here and knowing that we have a family audience and the purple people often include some very young people
1:05.2	just to say that today's episode does include some language that some people may find uncomfortable or offensive.
1:13.0	Welcome to a special moment in the history of podcasting.
1:19.0	Welcome in fact to the 250th episode of Something Rhymes with Purple.
1:25.2	My name is Jars Brandreth, and for 250 episodes I have been co-presenting this podcast with my
1:32.2	good friend, who I speak of as the world's leading
1:35.7	lexicographer she is much more modest than that how would you describe yourself
1:40.0	Susie Dent what does it say on your passport it just I don't think I do we put an occupation on our passport. I don't think I've got one on mine.
1:48.0	I don't think we do anymore.
1:49.0	When I was young you did, but maybe you don't have to any longer.
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