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Roger from New Orleans, Louisiana, recalls that at odd moments in a conversation his father-in-law would toss in a puzzling non sequitur: I had one gunch, but the eggplant over there. That was probably a misunderstanding of the catchphrase phrase I had one grunch, but the eggplant over there, popularized in the 1950s by MAD magazine. The catchphrase originated in a 1951 book called In One Head and Out the Other (Amazon) by humorist Roger Price, co-inventor  of Mad Libs. In it, Price jokingly advocated what he called the Avoidism philosophy and featured a character named Clayton Slope who “had a clever trick of saying any conceivable sentence so that it sounded like ‘I had one grunch but the eggplant over there.’” http://waywordradio.org

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When lexicographers look at linguistic corpora, they find that the color name hazel is most often followed by the word brown. The descriptive term hazel blue, as in hazel blue eyes, is rarely used. If you ever get tired of using the word hazel, you could always reach for the word avellaneous, which means the same thing. http://waywordradio.org

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A listener in Colby, Wisconsin, says that growing up, she called a drink with ice cream in root beer a black cow. But when she moved to Wisconsin, she found that the locals called the same beverage a root beer float. The era of drugstore fountains and soda jerk slang led to lots of colorful names for these bubbly beverages, including brown cow (chocolate ice cream in root bear), purple cow (grape soda and vanilla ice cream), orange cow (orange soda and vanilla ice cream). Other colorful drink names include mud fizz and black-and-white. In Australia and New Zealand, where ice cream and soda drinks are called spiders, you can have a lime spider or an orange spider. In some Spanish speaking countries, a cola-flavored drink with ice cream is a vaca negra or vaca preta, both of which mean “black cow.” http://waywordradio.org

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In English, you can express skepticism with the saying when pigs fly. In Tagalog, a similar sentiment is expressed with a phrase that translates “when the crow turns white, when the heron turns black,” and there’s a Hungarian phrase that translates as “when red snow falls.” German speakers invoke Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag or “St. Never's Day.” http://waywordradio.org

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In Japanese, an irresistibly cute baby might be described with an expression that translates as “Even if I put it in my eye, it wouldn’t hurt.” It’s a form of what psychologists call cute aggression, or the overwhelming urge to squeeze, crush, or nibble something that seems impossibly adorable. http://waywordradio.org

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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Bookshop|Amazon) is a powerful and fascinating look at the history of the disease and how its persistence continues to shape global health. The author, John Green, writes movingly about his own struggles as well, and the challenges of writing in general. Green is also the author of the wildly popular young adult novel The Fault in Our Stars (Bookshop|Amazon). http://waywordradio.org

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A Vietnamese phrase suggesting the impossibility of something occurring translates as “when the loach lays eggs at the top of the banyan tree,” a loach being a bottom-dwelling fish. http://waywordradio.org

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Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a take-off puzzle involving the letters V and W. Each sentence clues two words, one of which has lost either a V or a W. For example, what two words does the following sentence suggest? He plugged his guitar into the loudspeaker and began an improvised intro. http://waywordradio.org

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