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What Do Twins Cultivate? Or Mimes?

Posted by Grant Barrett on May 15, 2021 · Add Comment

On our Facebook group, listeners are playfully crowdsourcing what people in different professions might punningly plant. For example, what kind of fruit tree might twins cultivate? What type of flower might be planted by a professional mime? This is part of a complete episode.

Piffle Swearing Replacement

Posted by Grant Barrett on January 20, 2018 · Add Comment

A Los Angeles, California, man says his mother studiously avoided swearing. Instead of a curse word, she substituted the word piffle, which was often even more effective than a four-letter word because it was so unexpected. Piffle is most likely onomatopoetic, suggesting a disgusted exhalation through pursed lips. It’s common in the United Kingdom, and [...]

Foreign Language Fitness Program

Posted by grantbarrett on October 16, 2015 · Add Comment

A teacher in Dallas, Texas, is trying to learn Spanish in order to chat casually with some of his students. He’s having some success with the smartphone app DuoLingo. But an app won’t necessarily give him the slang vocabulary he needs. A good way to learn a new language is to approach it as you [...]

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What Do Twins Cultivate? Or Mimes?

Piffle Swearing Replacement

Foreign Language Fitness Program