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Something Rhymes with Purple

Triskaidekaphobia

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

For those Purple People among us who refrain from walking under ladders, avoid social engagements on the 13th or live in fear of a broken mirror than this is the episode for you, as Susie and Gyles will be discussing superstitions. From Saluting magpies to knocking on wood, Susie will take us on an exploration encompassing the biblical and mythical in an attempt to find the origins of these compulsions. We get a double helping of poetry today as Gyles celebrates the birthday of Einstein. However, Susie is quick to point out that he has missed celebrating one other annual event pertinent to today’s topic: the national ‘Open an umbrella indoors day’. Always next year.. A Somethin’ Else production. If you have any superstitions you’d like to share with Susie and Gyles or have any theories for the ones discussed today, then do get in touch at [email protected] To buy SRWP mugs and more head to.... https://kontraband.shop/collections/something-rhymes-with-purple If you would like to sign up to Apple Subs please follow this link https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/something-rhymes-with-purple/id1456772823 and make sure that you are running the most up-to-date IOS on your computer/device otherwise it won’t work. If you would like to see Gyles and Susie LIVE and in person on our Something Rhymes With Purple UK Tour then please go to https://www.tiltedco.com/somethingrhymeswithpurple for tickets and more information. Susie's trio: Gallitrap - A dialect word from Devon, Gloucestershire and Somerset for fairy ring. Summer geese - Steam that rises from the moors when rain is followed by hot sunshine. Haze-fire - The luminous morning mist that the dawn sunshine breaks through. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:34.3

original drama. The young gentleman's name would be Oliver. Oliver Twist. With Brian

0:41.2

Cox as Fagin. What have you seen? Street boy. Nikola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel

0:47.2

Caluia as Bill Sykes. Oh look at me like a hello to my lawyer. I love you, baby. With

0:52.2

original music by Dan Gillespie Cells. Subscription required. See audible.co.uk for terms.

1:09.2

Welcome to another episode of Something Rimes with Purple. This, if you're new to the

1:13.5

podcast, is a podcast and it's all about words and language. The fun we can have with

1:19.0

language. Also what we can learn from language. I learn a lot every week from my companion,

1:26.2

my friend, the person I describe, I think with justification as the world's leading

1:30.5

execographer, it's Susie Dent. No justification whatsoever, but it's a joy to be with you,

1:37.2

particularly at the moment, just because you remember during lockdown I always said this

1:40.4

was my oasis when we were kind of stuck inside and everything seemed very uncertain and

1:45.2

I think that's even more acute now. So thank you for being there today. It is a very grim

1:50.3

world, isn't it? Yeah. And I was with a psychiatrist this week talking about Ukraine and the

1:59.0

world and explained to the psychiatrist that I've got living with me at home now, my children

2:05.0

or some of them and my grandchildren and who are watching all this or catching up with

2:09.4

this. They don't watch television in the way we used to when we were young, but they

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