Sat 14 Oct 2006
* Swimming pool violence and Taiji Quan. Is wearing flippers in the pool cheating?
* Trugo.
* Stupid terms for poo, toilets and genitals.
* Being gangbanged by three clones of Lieutenant Daniels.
* Internet libel, accents, and Jana’s big news.
October 16th, 2006 at 1:57 am
Congratulations, you two!!
October 16th, 2006 at 8:43 am
Yes, congratulations! I wonder if it will have superpowers.
October 16th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
Congratulations to you all! What wonderful news!
October 16th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Thanks, everyone. If it doesn’t have superpowers, I’ll be bitterly disappointed and immediately put it up for adoption.
October 16th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
You’ll name it after me of course.
I expect nothing less for my commitment to listening to your podcast!!
If it’s a girl, you must still stick with Kevbo! (Please don’t name her Suri.)
You’ll have to invest in a fetal heart monitor with sound so Baby Wondertwin can podcast along with you.
October 16th, 2006 at 11:01 pm
I think I speak for all listeners when I say, “THE WONDER TWINS ARE INBREEDING!! What horrors have they wrought??” I’m also assuming this is Zan’s and not Lieutenant Daniels’ child.
But seriously, congratulations! How exciting. I’m at the age now where I’m starting to contemplate whether or not I want to make a little prey animal part of my life and one of my biggest fears is of becoming a “baby person.” I can’t stand those people. So I appreciate your understanding of the baby peeople-hating public.
October 17th, 2006 at 8:38 am
Heart-felt congratulations!
I guess it would be possible to be wise after the announcement, winding back over the weeks looking for clues that the event was imminent, but who cares… All the very best!
And congratulations on saying that the podcast will remain a desert island of non-babyhood in an ocean of parenthood. Brave words!
October 17th, 2006 at 8:50 am
According to Trivial Pursuit, “Truego” and “Plane Overhead” are little-known Australian games.
Solved: A transcript of a radio show talking about obscure Australian games including TRUEGO notes down verbatim the sounds heard during the show, including a plane flying overhead.
The noting of PLANE OVERHEAD is deemed to be a title as it is in capitals. The compilers of Trivial Pursuit are too lazy to read the whole article, and miss the point that PLANE OVERHEAD is actually a plane overhead, not a weird Australian game.
Evidence:
http://www.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/1998/sportsf/sf980925.htm
That is as satisfying to solve as any Sherlock Holmes case must have been, I can tell you. I love the Internet.
October 17th, 2006 at 10:10 am
Brilliant work, Zebulon. I can only imagine how much better the show would be if I put as much research work into it as you.
In fact, I’d like to take this opportunity to note how much Jana and I appreciate your support of the show, in preparation for remarks about Irish dancing in the next episode which you may find offensive.
October 17th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
Oh wow. The mystery is solved! Plane overhead! That’s hilarious.
Remarks about Irish dancing? Will we finally find out which is stupider: Morris dancing or Irish dancing?
October 17th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
Jana is correct and the shortening of words and adding ‘ie’ to them is also widespread in Britain: chockie bickie, pressie, etc.. However, what the UK doesn’t do is to add an ‘o’ to the end: garbo for garbage man etc.; that’s pure Oz.
And talking of Plushies, would a group of pterodactyl fetishists be known as ‘Pterries’?
There is a strict heirarchical ranking for toilet euphemisms. Some are much more polite than others and you need to judge the context before choosing one. Can I therefore speak up in defence of the word ‘loo’? It is the only one that you can say to anyone over here old or young, male or female, genteel or rough, without causing someone offence. It appeared in the language perhaps as early as 1922, probably from the French “lieux d’aisances”, literally a “place of ease,”, i.e. rest-room. It was picked up by British servicemen in France during World War I and brought back.
October 18th, 2006 at 9:31 am
I prefer the term ‘beakies’ for pterodactyl fetishists. And I don’t think ‘loo’ needs defending; I only said it sounds poncy in Australia, as does ‘potty’. That doesn’t mean I have a problem with people using it in a different cultural context.
October 19th, 2006 at 12:37 am
Congratulations to my two favorite Australians. All kids should be this lucky to have such cool parents. Just out of curiosity, from a medical standpoint, should you be staying away from the chickens? Just something to keep in mind. You hear so much about things you can catch from birds these days. Anyway, hope all goes well and best wishes from the USA.