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Our faithful listeners get in touch: first Jochen writes from Hamburg to stick it to James about Easter, Heathrow Airport and British cars, but also asks about the origins of the word “loo.” Then Laci writes from Oregon and confirms the existence of a pop record once made by Bob Gandalf. Later, Ray Peacock of Peacock & Gamble calls in to chat about Star Wars figures, comedy double-acts, and getting more lines than any of the statues in the Doctor Who episode “Blink.” He then plays the “That’s Not English” quiz, and tries to guess what a “Monte Cristo” is, while Johnson tries to decipher a “sleeping policeman.”
Listening to Ray Peacock get all three American terms correct (two by sheer luck, I might add) makes me realize that Brits should be better at knowing American terms by the overwhelming influence of American culture on the rest of the world. Britain IS, after all just a tiny inland in the North Sea!!! (hah).
Or as Johnson likes to describe it, a “grey rock”!
That’s “cold” grey rock.