Germans!

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We open with an amazing but true fact about the British and American Dennis The Menaces. Then, to celebrate our first letter from a listener in Germany, we discuss European aristocrat-swapping, which leads to Paul rating the Queen’s hotness; then we list the many German words in everyday use in English (turns out, it’s not just cars, food and dogs.) Then Jon returns to take the quiz: Paul attempts to figure out where Paxo goes, and Jon tries Alpo. Yum!

Conkers!

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In our very first episode, we discuss whose Dennis The Menace is better, how Americans don’t know what Pass The Parcel is, food mishaps, and what happens (or doesn’t) when you change Sirie’s accent on your iPhone. We also finally put the “Alumin(i)um” debate to rest and later, Martin Pond calls in from the northeast corner of his bed to play “That’s Not English” – the only quiz that lets you discover what the yanks call a lilo, what the brits call a ghetto blaster, and that explaining the rules of the game “Conkers” makes people giggle a lot. Email or tweet us with your stories! In-studio guest: Paul Johnson.