loading . . . Parrot Blabs Smile Recipe – Ep. 73 In which the lass on the bus may have been pondering ‘Mars (anag.)’, solving a maze, anticipating a dessert at the Fat Duck or worrying about the Bill(y/ie).
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## **SPOILERS** and links below the pic…
– Ready? Three, two, one … nope, already beaten by a chimp. That’s numberwang.
– Who are you calling a bird-brain? Presumably they’ve checked for Clever-Hans-ism, though.
– ‘Do you know the piano’s on my foot?’ ‘You hum it son, I’ll play it.’ … only with ants. Thanks, ants. Thants.
– Amaze amaze a, er, maze.
– A sudden awareness of quantity. (Etymology there folks.)
– We have dispensation to use this symbol: ℞. (There was famously once a pharmacist who used as their slogan ‘We dispense with accuracy’ until someone pointed out the issue with that, whereupon they changed it to ‘We never dispense with accuracy’ 🤦)
– Bloomin’ Hestonthal’s book, and a tart reminder of his method.
– That Latin anagram and its solution (anagrams = ars magna).
– Galileo! (Galileo) Galileo figured out…
– Sing along: ‘The chances of anything orbiting Mars, are 100%: terror and dread. The chances of anythiiiing orbiting Mars, are 100%.’
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