The Plaice to Know

Episode

No Such Thing As Catastrophic Shoelaces

2017-04-28 · 3 places on the map · episode transcript

  1. Soviet UnionFictional / spaceHistorical (former USSR)

    It does not sound like a great party, the 26th Congress of the Soviet Union. It sounds pretty grim because the leaders were pretty sclerotic and elderly at that point. Was it Brezhnev who was in charge at the time? And…

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  2. TumblrOne-offUnited States

    It's what people who use Tumblr say to detect another Tumblr user in the real world — it's a code: if you're reading a newspaper in a park and someone said, "I like your shoelaces," you would say that response and they…

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  3. McVitie'sOne-offUnited Kingdom

    They had the official one, which was made by McVitie's, but this was 1947. There was a lot of rations going on at the time. Eleven cakes were donated by different countries from around the world to say, you probably…

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