Podcast appearances and mentions of John Pollack

In this minisode, CEO Louis Dargenzio and President John Pollack share the inspiring story of how they pivoted their business model help our community. Alongside an incredible group of volunteers, they sprung into action and created a furniture showroom for families affected by the Los Angeles wildfires. Louis began his career as a Teamster Local 399 Honeywagon Driver and worked his way up to become the founder of Zio Studio Services, a leading production services company, and later served as President of Sunset Studios. John is an entertainment executive using his skills to unite the community and help rebuild Los Angeles.  Learn More at: https://zellosupport.com/

Looking at the career of Branch County's longtime sheriff, who is retiring at the end of the year.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good analogies led to cheaper cars and Apple computers; bad ones to lives wasted and lost. And while puns might not always make you smile (or grimace), they helped pave the way for written language.

Steve Pickell is the new Chaplin at the Branch County Jail.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A golf outing next week will help fund the annual Shop With A Hero program in Branch County.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Branch County Sheriff's Department's new drone played a big part in analyzing the destruction from last week's tornado near Sherwood.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There will be an increase in Branch County Sheriff's Department road patrols later this year.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After seeing this movie, when you sing Silent Night, you might start thinking of automatic weapons and gang members. Silent Night is directed by John Woo and stars Joel Kinnaman as a Dad who's young son has been killed by gang members. He's understandably wrought with grief and filled with rage. He decides that he's going after the gang that took his son and turned his life into a living hell. Not sounding at all like what the song Silent Night is about? Exactly. The silent part comes from when he's shot in the throat by a gang member and permanently loses his voice. That doesn't stop him from training to be Rambo and looking for some payback. Does this movie have very much to do with Christmas? Watch my spoiler-free review to find out and to see if it's worth firing up the sleigh for this movie. Silent Night also stars Catalina Sandino Moreno, Kid Cudi, Harold Torres, Vinny O'Brien, Yoko Hamamura, Anthony Giulietti and John Pollack. Support the showFeel free to reach out to me via:@MoviesMerica on Twitter @moviesmerica on InstagramMovies Merica on Facebook

Generous local donations allowing the Branch County Sheriff's Department to get their new drone in the air.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Branch County's Shop With A Cop is Wednesday night in Coldwater.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Branch County Sheriff' John Pollack reacts to increased state funding for secondary road patrols.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Financial writers have been telling CFOs that they need to become storytellers in their businesses. How?John Pollack is a former presidential speechwriter and he's an expert in analogies. He's delivered a popular TEDx presentation on the topic and this book Shortcut takes a deep dive into the anatomy of this powerful tool to sell our ideas.In this interview, we hear examples of good analogies, how they shape the legal system, and how baseball impacted a California law leading to unintended consequences.Accordingly, John's message becomes a solid bridge for financial leaders becoming better storytellers.

Todas as sextas, o guionista e autor Renato Rocha entusiasma-se a falar de um livro.

Karl Helicher, former director of the Upper Merion Library, sits down with author John Pollack, to discuss his book "Cork Boat". (Recorded 2004)

Branch County Sheriff John Pollack joined us to discuss Friday's ribbon cutting and upcoming tours for the new county jail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We discuss clinical trials using CNTF to treat MacTel Type 2 with Dr. John Pollack, Chief Medical Officer of Neurotech Pharmaceuticals.

We discussed roadway safety during harvest season with Branch County Sheriff John Pollack on this week's Branch County Ag Today segment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we spoke with John Pollack. John helps people tap the full potential of language to articulate ideas, reveal truths, and persuade others to action. His fluency flows from working in journalism, politics, philanthropy and the corporate arena. A former Presidential Speechwriter for Bill Clinton, John has spent more than 15 years as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, public sector leaders and major philanthropists. He is the author of 4 books, including Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation and Sell Our Greatest Ideas. In this episode we talked about the power of analogies in communication and speechwriting. We hope you enjoy it! +++ Take the Impactful Presenter Scorecard to benchmark your ability to deliver powerful presentations and identify opportunities for improvement: https://presentationscorecard.scoreapp.com/ Want to learn more about how you can grow your business and increase your influence through great presenting? Register today for our FREE Masterclass "3 Key Success Factors for Great Presentations": http://ideasonstageuk.eventbrite.com

America’s Wealth Coach Pete D’Arruda has two tax experts on Financial Safari. Ed Lyon is CEO of Tax Master Network and John Pollack is CEO of MPath Advisory.  Kevin Brucher says Roth conversions in your 60’s means tax free income in your 70’s. Mike Levy discusses fees in your portfolio. Richard Pellitier says Covid -19 has some of his clients on edge. Eric Kearney says he’s concerned about taxes. Steve Sedahl has a Brokers Behaving Badly. Call 800-662-6808. Text PIZZA to 21000. FinancialPizza.com.

Libraries and Librarians in the Pandemic with Melanie Meyers, Jaime Taylor, Emily Drabinsky and John Pollack. Emily Drabinski is interim chief librarian at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She took on this role effective March 15th. The library building closed on March 13th. Prior to joining the Graduate Center, Drabinski spent ten years at Long Island University, Brooklyn as a teaching librarian and union activist. She edits Gender & Sexuality in Information Studies, a book series from Library Juice Press/Litwin Books. Melanie Meyers is the Director of Collections and Engagement at The American Jewish Historical Society. Prior to joining AJHS in 2018, she was the Senior Manager for Reference and Outreach at The Center for Jewish History, New York City. She is an instructor at The Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University, where she teaches a variety of classes for the special collections/rare books specialization, including “Special Collections Librarianship” and “History of the Book”.  John H. Pollack is Curator, Research Services, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. He has worked in this department since 1995. His responsibilities include providing assistance to students and scholars, and teaching and organizing class sessions centered on the collections. John holds a PhD in English from Penn. He specializes in Early American literature and history, and early modern book history. His research has focused on topics including Native American languages and Benjamin Franklin and colonial education. Jaime Taylor is the Discovery and Resource Management Systems Coordinator at UMass Amherst. During the pandemic she has been both keeping library catalog and search systems live for remote teaching, learning, and research; and working on the Five College Consortium’s implementation of FOLIO, an open source library services platform. She is currently working on a book chapter about project management in consortia; her professional interests include organized labor, anti-racism work, library instruction from a systems and technical services perspective, and flattening managerial hierarchies more than is currently fashionable.

It's time to kick 2020 in the ass, and say good bye! @Bnosanchuk (B-Nos) and @theJDStaley share our favorite recommendations in media. We jump right into @Bnosanchuk TV appearance on the News this week. HBO joining Netflix in his support of Dave Chappelle regarding boycott of his historic show. HBO-Max/Warner Takeover. The crew also discusses Andrew Shultz upcoming Special and "Selena" the series, both on @Netflix. Includes their worthless opinion on "The Interview" on Prime, 1979 on @Xfininty Free, and so much more non-sense.  Movies: I saw very few NEW movies 1. Birds of Prey; Saw in Feb. IN theater. 2. The Wrong Missy; Netflix David Spade, Lauren Lapkus. Hella Funny 3. An American Pickle- HBOMax Seth Rogan 4. Tiger King Netflix 5. Marvelous Ms. Masiel - Amazon 6. Komisky Method - Netflix 7. Black AF# - Netflix 8. One Strange Rock - Nat Geo 9. Hostile Planet - Nat Geo 10. Eric Andre Show - Revisited Music/Albums: 1. Run The Jewels 4 2. Dark Lane Demo Tape - Drake Streaming Performers (Youtube, Twitch, Zoom, other) 1. Z-Trip on Twitch 2. Sammy Obeid's Zoom Comedy shows Streaming Performers (Youtube, Twitch, Zoom, other) 3. Your Mom's House live PPV shows, 2 Bears Live   Podcasts Ongoing -Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank -Office Ladies- Jenna Fisher (Pam) and Angela Kinsey (Angela) revisit and tell behind the scenes production stories about each episode. -2 Bears 1 Cave – Tom & Bert - Fitzdog Radio- Greg Fitzimmons - Tin Foil Hat w/ Sam Tripoli - Call Her Daddy w/ Alex Cooper, sex, dating and relationship advice - The 500 w/ Josh Adam Meyers - Whiskey Ginger w/ Andrew Santino - The Brilliant Idiots w/ Charlamane the God and Andrew Schulz - Flagrant 2 w/ Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh - DLC : Video Games podcast w/ Jeff Cannata and Christian Spicer (5by5) - 5by5 at the Movies with Keith and Dan (5by5) - POSTWrestling- Rewind-a-Raw, Rewind-a-Dynamite, UFC recaps w/ John Pollack and Wai Ting - UpNXT: NXT recaps w/ Braden Harrington and Davie Portman - Fight Game Podcast w/ Double G and John LaRocca   NEW PODCASTS (into my rotation) - Sunday Papers (NEW) – Greg Fitzimmons and Mike Gibbons give their take on the news as they go threw the Sunday newspaper - The Josh Potter Show (NEW)- YHM studios - Sal Vulcano and Joe DeRosa are Tasebuds (NEW)- Hash out food arguments - Sixth and Jump (NEW)- Ari, Big Jay Okerson and Dan Soder deep dive review 21 Jump Street eps. - The Bill Bert Podcast- Bill and Bert - Sal and Chris present Hey Babe! (NEW)- Sal Vulcano and Chris Destefano - Rob Lowe : Literally  Seasonal/ Short-term - Gangster Capilitalism (Andrew Jenkins): Season 1 about the college admission SAT scandal. Season 2 about the internal beef within the NRA.(2020) - GURU: The Dark Side of Enlightenment: about self help guru James Arthur Ray. Also doc currently on Prime called Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of James Arthur Ray. - Wind of Change: Wind of Change song was rumored to have been written by CIA and not hair metal band Scorpions. - Nice White Parents- School systems and who has most influence - Juan EP- Peter Ronsnberg and Cipha Sounds deep dive into life and legacy of Jay-Z.

Branch County Sheriff John Pollack, Coldwater Fire Chief Dave Schmaltz, Bronson Fire Chief Scott Wilber, and Bronson Police Chief Steve Johnson were in the studio to talk about the 911 Surcharge on the November 3, 2020 ballot in Branch County See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Slate is dark, and its staff are taking a much needed and deserved breath. And with that, Team Gist has gone dark for a day, too, so we bring you two old interviews from the fall of 2014. First, an interview with biologist and mathematical modeler Nina Fefferman, who at the time this was recorded was based at Rutgers University and working on predicting the spread of Ebola. Now she's at the University of Tennessee and modeling Covid-19. The second interview is about the power of analogies with author John Pollack who chats with Mike about his book Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slate is dark, and its staff are taking a much needed and deserved breath. And with that, Team Gist has gone dark for a day, too, so we bring you two old interviews from the fall of 2014. First, an interview with biologist and mathematical modeler Nina Fefferman, who at the time this was recorded was based at Rutgers University and working on predicting the spread of Ebola. Now she's at the University of Tennessee and modeling Covid-19. The second interview is about the power of analogies with author John Pollack who chats with Mike about his book Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the twelfth episode of Ghost Stories of Canada! Today we'll be taking a dive into the ghostly history of the Yukon. We'll have a close look at the infamous Caribou Hotel, the deadliest ship wreck in the Pacific Northwest, and Groucho Marx... yes, you read that correctly.Episodes will be released every Monday and Thursday starting on July 1st and each episode will cover a different province or territory of Canada.Our reading list for this episode is as follows:Great Canadian Ghost Stories by Barbara Smith published in 2018 by Touchwood EditionsCanadian Ghost Stories by Barbara Smith published in 2001 by Lone Pine PublishingThe Wreck of the A. J. Goddard: A Sternwheeler from the days of the Klondike Gold Rush by Linsey Thomas, Doug Davidge, and John Pollack accessed on yukon.caYukon Paranormal, Episodes 1 and 3 on Travel Yukon’s YouTube channelEpisode cover art: Adobe Stock photo #173824318 by @schame87Visit us online at https://discoverthepast.com/Even better, come join us on one of our history tours or Ghostly Walks! We would love to see you out there!Enjoy the episode,Zach

More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/more-pun-and-games. Puns have been called both the highest and lowest form of humor. There is something about them that is at once painful and pleasurable, capable of causing either a cringe or a chuckle. But what exactly is it about word play that we find humorous? Is there something in particular about puns that makes them especially cringe-worthy? How does the humor of a pun compare to other types of jokes? We may know why the chicken crossed the road – but can we eggsplain what’s funny about it? John and Ken get punny with John Pollack, author of The "Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics."

OIS@ASRS co-chairs Emmett Cunningham Jr., MD, Mark S. Humayun, MD, PhD, and John Pollack, MD, took a few minutes to share their thoughts on the second OIS@ASRS. Dr. Humayun, the outgoing ASRS president, shares details on his next undertaking – finding a way to measure the value of vision protection. Meanwhile, Dr. Pollack highlights one of his priorities after taking over as ASRS president.

Brian Fritz is joined by the Fight Network's John Pollock as they recap the 2017 NJPW G1 Climax including Tetsuya Naito winning the tournament for the second time, the countless incredible matches including Okada vs. Omega III, if this is the greatest G1 of all-time, the dramatic return of Shibata, whether or not the format should be changed, and what matches lie ahead for New Japan heading into 2018 and Wrestle Kingdom in January.

John Pollack, a former Presidential Speechwriter for Bill Clinton, helps people tap the full potential of language to articulate ideas, reveal truths, and persuade others to action. His books include The Pun Also Rises; Cork Boat; The World on a String; and most recently, Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation and Sell Our Greatest Ideas. John stops by the show today to discuss the comparisons or parallels you should use in your marketing. For example, your business might explain itself as the Cadillac of Toasters, the Uber for X, or the Facebook of X. Steve Jobs has a story where he explains the "bicycle of the mind" and Ronald Reagan used great imagery in his "Morning in America" TV campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmuP8gsgWb8 John also discusses the five elements of a great analogy: 1. familiarity, 2. highlight similarities and obscure differences, 3. a useful abstraction, such as cut-and-paste, 4. tell a coherent story, 5. deliver emotional resonance. Resources John D. Pollack (Official Site) Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas (Book)

EPISODE 03 SUMMARY - JOHN POLLACK Author // Consultant // Speechwriter // Journalist // Reporter ———————————————— What is needed within cyber security industry communications to generate the kind of awareness and training materials that enable governments, businesses, and the general public to protect themselves against cyber security threats? We want people to hear our message and act in accordance with responsible security behaviours, but what changes do we as an industry need to make in order to accomplish this goal? Join Bruce and John as they converse around these questions and unpack topics such as: John was a strolling violinist at a restaurant where the head chef taught him that people eat twice, once with their eyes and once with their stomach, and that good communication relies on a combination of a sensory stimuli. Building a relationship with an audience, fostering trust, requires communicators to listen as much, if not more, than communicate. Communication needs to come from a place of empathy and this is often missing. The importance of authenticity and credibility in developing and delivering effective communication that supports change in behaviour. "Washington is where good words go to die" comment illustrating the impact of internal corporate communication guidelines on the effectiveness of communications designed to raise awareness and influence behaviour.   “…We ought keep our eye out for ways to capture people’s attention because capturing people’s attention, and holding it, is the essence of communication…”   PROJECTS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED: The Analogies Project Shortcut (by John Pollack)   CONNECT WITH JOHN: Website   Thank you for listening! Please subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, and if you enjoyed this interview, please share with your friends and colleagues and leave a 5 star rating and review.   Thanks for listening.   Bruce & The Re-thinking the Human Factor Podcast Team

Welcome to this episode of the Real Fast Results podcast!  Today’s episode features a very, very special guest.  His name is John Pollack, and he is a world-class writer and an expert on the use of language.  So, if you are an author or publisher, you are going to gain a lot by reviewing this material.  John helps people just like you to tap the full potential of language to reveal truths, articulate ideas, and persuade others to take action. Download the Complete PDF Show Notes Free for this Episode John’s expertise comes from working in the corporate arena and for nonprofits.  Additionally, he is a journalist as well as a former Presidential Speechwriter for Bill Clinton, and he has spent more than a decade as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and public sector leaders.  His proficiency doesn’t end there either.  John has worked as a speechwriter on Capitol Hill, as a foreign correspondent in Spain, and is known for his work as a project manager at The Henry Ford, which is a museum of American innovation. [bctt tweet="Becoming flexible in the association of ideas is the key to becoming stronger when using analogy." via="no"] Above all else, John is probably most recognized for the empathy and creativity that comes across in his writing.  He has a tendency to venture off the beaten path, and this has led him to become more persuasive as a result of the insight and understanding he has gained.  Moreover, his world view has grown immensely from working and living in places like Africa, Antarctica, and Europe.  He has also hitchhiked across Australia, explored Caucasus, and skippered a boat, which he built out of 165,321 corks, down the Douro River in Portugal.  Some of his written works include The Pun Also Rises, Cork Boat, The World on a String, and Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation and Sell Our Greatest Ideas.  Without further ado, John welcome to the show… Learn How to Use Analogies to Communicate Better and Persuade More People How to Broaden Your Awareness of Analogies Effectively Using Analogies in Your Writing 5 criteria of what goes into an analogy How to Craft a Good Analogy Play with language and ideas Download the Complete PDF Show Notes Free for this Episode Connecting with John The best way to reach me is through my website, JohnDPollack.com.  Also, if you are interested in learning more about the subject of learning to use analogy, pick up my book, The World on a String and Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation and Sell Our Greatest Ideas.  You can find it on Amazon and through other great retailers. Real Fast Results Community If you are diggin’ on this stuff and really love what we’re doing here at Real Fast Results, would you please do me a favor? Head on over to iTunes, and make sure that you subscribe to this show, download it, and rate & review it. That would be an awesome thing. Of course, we also want to know your results. Please share those results with us at http://www.realfastresults.com/results. As always, go make results happen!

Moe and John Pollack discuss how analogies reveal connections, spark innovation, and sell our greatest ideas.

Jim interviews John Pollack about his latest book, Shortcut.

Exactly how many black men are killed each year by law enforcement? How many are unarmed? In the wake of Ferguson, it was difficult for journalists to get precise answers to these questions. On The Gist, Reno News & Review editor D. Brian Burghart talks about Fatal Encounters, his project that attempts to crowdsource a national database of deadly police force. Then, John Pollack, author of Shortcut, explains the elegant power of analogies. For the Spiel, tax rates. Are they too low or too high? Mike says that’s the wrong question to be asking. Get The Gist by email as soon as it’s available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SUMMARYWhy do some puns strike us as clever, while others are plain old groaners? Martha and Grant puzzle over this question. Also, the difference between baggage and luggage, a royal word quiz, the "egg" in egg on, what to call someone who doesn't eat fish or seafood, Hawaiian riddles, and why we say "You bet your sweet bippy!" FULL DETAILSWhen President Barack Obama had the Oval Office redecorated in soft browns and beige, The New York Times headline read: “The Audacity of Taupe.” The hosts discuss how puns work, and what makes them clever. Martha recommends John Pollack's new book, The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More than Some Antics.http://www.thepunalsorises.com/What do you call someone who doesn't eat fish? A caller wants to know, but not because of dietary requirements. He's a string bass player who plays in an ensemble that's tired of being asked to perform Schubert's famous composition, the Trout Quintet.http://www.classicalnotes.net/classics/trout.htmlMartha and Grant tells him he has several options. Among them: non-pescatarian, anti-marinovore, anichthyophagist--and, of course, non-seafood eater.What's the difference between baggage and luggage? After all, it's not as if anyone confesses to having emotional luggage. The hosts conclude that usually the word “luggage” specifies the container, while “baggage” is more likely to refer to that which is lugged inside the container. Martha shares a quotation from Joseph Addison, no fan of puns: “If we must lash one another, let it be with the manly strokes of wit and satire: for I am of the old philosopher's opinion, that, if I must suffer from one or the other, I would rather it should be from the paw of a lion than from the hoof of an ass.”Quiz Guy Greg Pliska has a royal quiz in honor of the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William. He celebrates the wedding of the King and Queen with clues to answers that contain the letters "K" and "Q" next to each other. The answer to "The band that recorded 'Take Five,'" for example, is the "Dave BrubecK Quartet."Where'd we get a word like skyscraper? Martha explains the image literally refers to scraping the sky, but first applied to the topmost sail on a ship, and later to tall horses, and high fly balls in baseball. There are similar ideas in other languages, as in the Spanish word "rascacielos" and French "gratte-ciel." In German, the word is picturesque as well. It's “Wolkenkratzer,” which literally means "cloud-scratcher."Grant shares some fill-in-the-blank puzzles from a listener. For example, "There's one w______ on a u________" and "There are 5 d________ in a z_________ c__________."A listener remembers her mother used to say, "Your Monday is longer than your Tuesday." This phrase offered a subtle way to notify someone that her slip was showing. Other expressions convey that warning as well, including "Monday comes before Sunday" and "Saturday is longer than Sunday." Also, if someone whispers "Mrs. White is out of jail," it's time to check to see if your slip is showing. Ditto if you're told you have "a Ph.D.," but you've never earned that degree. In this case "Ph.D" stands for "Petticoat Hanging Down."Martha's been reading the Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English again, and stumbled across a synonym for "fried chicken." It's preacher meat.http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/dictionary/"The Die is Cast" is the title of an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. A listener and his wife disagree about what kind of "die" is meant here. It's not a reference to metallurgy -- it's a quotation attributed to Julius Caesar. When he crossed the Rubicon to lead a campaign against his enemies, he supposedly declared, "Alea jacta est." The word "alea," which refers to one piece of a set of dice, is an ancestor of the modern English word "aleatory," which means "by chance." What happens when a clock gets hungry? It goes back four seconds. Martha talks about how puns weren't always considered "bad." Cicero praised them as the wittiest kind of saying, and Shakespeare made plenty of them, for both serious and comic effect. In the early 18th century, though, things changed. Pamphlets with titles like "God's Revenge Against Punning" began appearing, and the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson denounced them as "the last refuge of the witless." Martha and Grant discuss why some puns work and others don't. Martha recommends John Pollack's observation in The Pun Also Rises describing how "for a split second, puns manage to hold open the elevator doors of language and meaning as the brain toggles furiously between competing semantic destinations, before finally deciding which is the best answer, or deciding to live with both."Where'd we get the expression You bet your sweet bippy!? It's from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, a zany television show from the late 1960s. The word "bippy," by the way, means "butt." The phrase "You bet your sweet bippy" is a linguistic descendant of earlier versions that go back to at least the 1880s, when phrases like "You bet your sweet life" were commonly used. http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=rowanandmarThe show also popularized such phrases as "Sock it to me!" and "Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iGvzmOoh3YWhy is Cairo, Ill., pronounced "KAY-roh"? Why do Midwesterners pronounce Versailles as "Ver-SALES" and the New Madrid Fault as "New MAD-rid"? Grant explains that these names are far removed from their earlier incarnations and function as a sort of shibboleth among the locals.Martha springs another pun on Grant: Knock-knock. Who's there? Tarzan. Tarzan who? “Tarzan Stripes Forever.”Why do we speak of trying to egg on a person, meaning to urge them to do something? Martha explains that the "egg" in this case has nothing to do with chickens. This kind of "egg" is derives from an old root that means to "urge on with a sharp object." It's a linguistic relative of the word "edge."Grant wraps up with some Hawaiian riddles from the book Riddling Tales From Around the World, by Marjorie Dundas, including this one:My twin was with me from the day I crawledWith me till the day I diei cannot escape himyet when storms come, he deserts mehttp://books.google.com/books?id=qnWz6zrE8RUC&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=%22My+twin+with+me+from+the+day+I+crawled%22&source=bl&ots=dTLR_OAxIm&sig=vvHKYEeCGLgl2SqLqqqpcOn8d_A&hl=en&ei=drrZTcbZEoeusAP9wtWFDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22My%20twin%20with%20me%20from%20the%20day%20I%20crawled%22&f=false--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! 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