Salem
About Salem
Salem is the capital city of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, which runs north through the city. The river forms the boundary between Marion and Polk counties, and the city neighborhood of West Salem is in Polk County.
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It was 1820, and this guy called Colonel Johnson had decided it was getting ridiculous that everyone thought tomatoes were poisonous. So he stood on the steps of Salem courthouse, and he ate this whole bowl of tomatoes in front of this huge crowd.
from No Such Thing As A Killer Tomato, 2015-04-10 at 00:02:48 · read transcript
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That's interesting. I assumed it was a really old term. I assumed it comes exactly from that period of the Golden Age of Salem. You'd have thought so, but no. But there's, and I didn't even write his name down, because I thought it was such a pointless or meaningless thing to invent, because there's always credit to the guy who invented the crow's nest. It is in the 19th century.
455: No Such Thing As A Suspicious Duffel Bag, 2022-12-02 · listen
That's true, and if you're meeting someone as a friend for the first time, and they're kind of looking at your legs going... Sizing you up. It's a curious thing because traditionally, witches around the world, if you think about the Pendle witches in this country and you think about the Salem witches in the United States, traditionally, it's been women. I believe the Icelandic witches are predominantly male.
335: No Such Thing As A Cardigan For Ginger Rogers, 2020-08-21 · listen
Aren't the bristles on toothbrushes? Plastic is, I mean, then nylon as well. Do you think this is going to be the explanation for sort of Brexit and Donald Trump and all of that? It's actually just like, you know how we've discovered that the Salem witch crisis was people say it's caused by the ergo from the dodgy bread? It's going to be that we were just eating microplastics. That's it.
No Such Thing As A 15-Hour Working Week, 2019-11-08 · listen
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