Sinister

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

If you’re easily grossed out then probably best to cover your ears for this one… in honour of the spookiest time of the year we’re digging around words with gruesome origins. From black books to black boxes, sarcasm to travel, and from loopholes to chivvying along, we uncover the often bloody backgrounds to these seemingly innocent terms. We also recoil at those everyday words that send a shiver down our spines, Susie has a trio of words to remember, and Gyles tells some particularly gruesome tales involving Chevy Chase, Rod Hull, and a terrifying woodwork teacher. A Somethin' Else production. Susie’s Trio: Witches’ knickers - a term for plastic bags stuck in the branches of a tree Abibliophobia - the fear of being without books Balatronic - pertaining to a clown or a buffoon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Something else.
0:09.0	Ooh!
0:12.0	Is it cold?
0:14.0	That's Susie Dent. I'm Charles Brandruth and welcome to another episode of Something Rimes with Purple.
0:21.0	It's because Halloween is almost upon us, which is why I was getting a bit spooky.
0:26.0	Ooh!
0:28.0	They need to be better than that, Charles.
0:30.0	Doesn't that frighten you? Doesn't that frighten you?
0:32.0	Inward?
0:34.0	No, clearly it does. Well, I'm glad it does, and I don't want to frighten anybody.
0:37.0	I always know my wife and I when we watch Shelovish and we can't watch anything vaguely frightening.
0:43.0	The moment in any drama the cellos begin playing, my wife says it's about to be a murder.
0:48.0	We've got to change sides. And we've never seen any of these murders because the moment the cellos strike up,
0:53.0	we're pressing the...
0:55.0	What about murder? She wrote or something like that, surely. Surely you can...
0:58.0	I love Angela Lansbury.
1:01.0	She's amazing.
1:02.0	Murder she wrote is great fun.
1:04.0	She was 95, you know the other day.
1:06.0	Remarkable person.
1:08.0	But no, that's as far as we ever go.
1:11.0	Even Miss Marple with Joan Hickson, she was a definitive Miss Marple.
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