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What does dog hair have to do with hangover cures? Also, where'd we ever get a word like "dude”? And what's the word for when unexpected objects form a recognizable image, like a cloud that looks like a bunny, or the image of Elvis in a grilled cheese? We have the answers.

Portions of this episode first aired November 1, 2008.

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Apple core, Baltimore! Ever play the rhyming game where you eat an apple, then shout "apple core," and then the first person to respond "Baltimore!" gets to decide where (more specifically, at whom) the core gets tossed. This old-fashioned game is hours of fun for the whole family! We promise.

"A fish stinks from the head down." When an Indianapolis woman is quoted saying that, she's accused of calling someone a stinky fish. She says she wasn't speaking literally, insisting that this is a turn of phrase that means "corruption in an organization starts at the top." Who's right?

Dude, how'd we ever start using the word "dude"? The Big Grantbowski traces the word's origin–it's over 125 years old. Here's a

Quiz Guy John Chaneski drops by with a puzzle involving overlapping words. He calls it, of course, "Overlap-Plied Linguistics."

If you're hung over, and someone offers you a little "hair of the dog," you can rest assured you're not being offered a sip of something with real dog hair in it. But was that always the case? Grant has the answer, and Martha offers a word once proposed as a medical term for this condition: veisalgia.

A new resident of Pittsburgh is startled by some of the dialect there, like "yinz" instead of "you" for the second person plural, and nebby for "nosy." For a wonderful site about the dialect of that area, check out .

If someone says he "finna go," he means he's leaving. But finna? Grant has the final word about finna.

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