Episode
528: No Such Thing As A Toilet Haiku
The city of Matsuyama has over 90 post boxes specifically for mailing haiku.
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This is the capital city of Shikoku Island, which is one of Japan's islands. The city sort of calls itself the home of haiku because very famous haiku poets lived there. The first post box was installed in 1968 to…
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In the UK, we had our own version of the Nickelodeons and they were called Penny Gaffs. The difference being that in the UK, there were one penny to go in, whereas in America it was a nickel. The problem was a nickel…
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They're always complaining in the newspapers, like I can't sell my house. In actual fact, the reason that they can't sell them very well is because they're on the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern…
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There was a great article all about the history of the word muff on the Oxford University Press website by Anatoly Lieberman, and it's all these different words come from muff — so Danish muff means clown, and Dickens…
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