Money for Old Rope

Money for Old Rope

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Money for Old Rope episodes

  • MythBusters Did It!

    Adam and Terence lack a cat…

    Idioms:

    • A rolling stone gathers no moss
    • Bless their little cotton socks
    • Alternative names:

      Super Magic Sparkle Pen

      Ideas for other Podcasts
      Seductive Paper Dance
      The Night Clouds are Forming
      Terence Reads Latin
      A Jewel of a Podcast

      Links:

      Final Space (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb

      Adventure Time’s Finale is the Beginning of Something New

      Deuteronomy 22:11 Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

      MythBusters – Wikipedia

      YouTube – MythBusters in the rain

      White Rabbit Project (TV Series 2016) – IMDb

      Parks and Recreation (TV Series 2009–2015) – IMDb

      Making It (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb

      Jim Henson – Wikipedia

      YouTube – ERB, just including this for how great it is.

      Nomad (comics) – Wikipedia

      Kuala Lumpur – Wikipedia

      American Revolutionary War – Wikipedia

      YouTube – Another great song!

      The League of Gentlemen – Wikipedia

      George Cotton – Wikipedia

      Ganges – Wikipedia

      Accidental Tech Podcast

      Hello Internet

      No Such Thing as a Fish – Wikipedia

      Slow Burn

      The Wire (TV Series 2002–2008) – IMDb

      99% Invisible

      Ferrite Recording Studio: Ferrite Recording Studio — Wooji Juice

      Audacity (audio editor) – Wikipedia

      Byker Grove – Wikipedia

      YouTube – Shot in the face!

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      38 min
    • The ASMR One

      Adam and Terence listen to a cat.

      Idioms:

      • The cat’s pyjamas
      • Chance your arm
      • Play a blinder (sort of)
      • Alternative names:

        Licking Wendy Houses

        Tastless Rubbery Eggs
        Interesting Buttery Friend
        Yellow Silk PJs
        All Bacon Fry-up
        Odd But Accurate

        Links:

        Autonomous sensory meridian response – Wikipedia

        Prohibition in the United States – Wikipedia

        Donald Trump – Wikipedia

        Meowth – Wikipedia

        Rudyard Kipling – Wikipedia

        YouTube – Everybody Wants to be a cat

        Absinthe – Wikipedia

        Darjeeling – Wikipedia

        10 of the Most Dangerous Airports in the World

        Tad Dorgan – Wikipedia

        Yes! We Have No Bananas – Wikipedia

        Dancing plague of 1518 – Wikipedia

        George Cross – Wikipedia

        St Patrick’s Cathedral

        Final Space (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb

        Disenchantment (TV Series 2018– ) – IMDb

        YouTube – The Robot Hell Song

        John DiMaggio – Wikipedia

        Arrested Development (TV Series 2003– ) – IMDb

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        46 min
      • The Queen’s Glass Eyes

        Adam and Terence listen to Deborah’s cough, entirely self-inflicted.

        Idioms:

        • Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
        • Fit as a fiddle
        • All the world’s a stage
        • Alternative names:

          Melting from the face

          American inner monologue
          Socks is great
          Shiny Shiny House
          Deborah’s cough

          Links:

          YouTube – Queen’s guard

          Just William – Wikipedia

          Dennis the Menace (U.S. comics) – Wikipedia

          Dennis the Menace and Gnasher – Wikipedia

          Walter Matthau – Wikipedia

          Gold leaf – Wikipedia

          Joey (TV series) – Wikipedia

          Pearl & Dean – Wikipedia

          YouTube – Simpsons Ape Song

          Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Wikipedia

          Lindsey Stirling – Wikipedia

          Ronald Reagan – Wikipedia

          Big Brother (UK TV series) – Wikipedia

          William Shakespeare – Wikipedia

          Y Tho | Know Your Meme

          Cold War – Wikipedia

           

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          45 min
        • Jelly Boat Universe

          Adam, Deborah and Terence are together for the first time ever! We mainly talk nonsense…

          Idioms:

          • Lead someone down the garden path
          • Take it with a grain of salt
          • Push the boat out
          • Alternative names:

            Scurvy’s the one I wanted

            Space Pirate… Ghost
            Champagne Jelly Boats
            Greasy Idioms
            Barely Remembered Degrees
            Tez the Cabin Boy
            72 Ingredients

            Links:

            The Office (U.S. TV series) – Wikipedia

            List of ancient Egyptian dynasties – Wikipedia

            List of ancient Egyptian dynasties – Wikipedia

            Sean Bean – IMDb

            Garden-path sentence – Wikipedia

            Geocentric model – Wikipedia

            Heliocentrism – Wikipedia

            North–South divide – Wikipedia

            Face of Boe – Wikipedia

            Little Women – Wikipedia

            The Secret Garden – Wikipedia

            The Railway Children – Wikipedia

            Jurassic Park – Wikipedia

            David Attenborough – Wikipedia

            Richard Attenborough – Wikipedia

            Edwardian era – Wikipedia

            THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST on acast

            Call Me Kevin – YouTube

            Hello Internet

            Jeremy Hunt – Wikipedia

            Nicolas Cage – Wikipedia

            skeptic | Origin and meaning of skeptic by Online Etymology Dictionary

            Shoulder angel – Wikipedia

            Oprah Winfrey – Wikipedia

            Ainsley Harriott – Wikipedia

            Louis XVI of France – Wikipedia

            Electorate of Mainz – Wikipedia

            Prussia – Wikipedia

            Unification of Germany – Wikipedia

            Pliny the Elder – Wikipedia

            Black Death – Wikipedia

            Pontus (region) – Wikipedia

            Mithridates VI of Pontus – Wikipedia

            45 min
          • Conscientiously Objecting Pigeons

            Adam, Terence and Lucy take on underwear… we’re also extremely ignorant about American sports!

            Idioms:

            • Cut and run
            • Mum’s the word
            • Don’t get your knickers in a twist
            • Alternative names:

              Drive-by Podcasting

              Our bad history
              Idiomatic Verb Phrases
              Let’s Twist Again
              Smokey Ghosts
              Knicked my Bocks

              Links:

              Lavalier microphone

              Pirates of the Caribbean

              Johnny Depp

              Disney Sheriff of Nottingham

              How it’s made – Newspaper

              Dennis Skinner

              Oliver Twist

              Blackadder

              Assassin’s Creed

              Elizabeth I (bit out on the date… again…)

              Vietnam War

              Iraq War

              Brexit (such a horrible word)

              David Cameron – whistling

              Monty Python

              And Now for Something Completely Different

              Anime bloody nose trope

              Royston Vasey

              Corned Beef

              Homing Pigeon

              Kibosh

              Vaudeville

              Heelys

              Return to Oz

              The Craft

              New York Knickerbockers

              Knickerbocker glory

              New York Knicks (also Knickerbockers, but basketball, a bit dull)

              Google Books

              Train from Katanga

              Mills & Boon

              Geordie Racer

              Stottie cake

              Pasty barm

              Harmen Jansen Knickerbocker

              Washington Irving

              George Cruikshank

              Bloomers

              Plus fours

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              42 min
            • Super Hairy Leg Time

              Adam, Lucy and Deborah talk about the heat, again, and we also get into Terence’s hairy legs!

              Idioms:

              • That old chestnut
              • Don’t cut your nose off to spite your face
              • Spinning a yarn
              • Alternative names:

                Elongated Film Chat

                Peter Molyneux Sucks
                Floating Babies

                Links:

                Fable (2004 video game) – Wikipedia(great game)

                Peter Molyneux – Wikipedia

                Jack and the Beanstalk – Wikipedia

                Lionhead Studios – Wikipedia

                Bullfrog Productions – Wikipedia

                Theme Hospital – Wikipedia

                Theme Park World – Wikipedia

                Dungeon Keeper – Wikipedia

                Dungeon Keeper 2 – Wikipedia(one of the best games ever)

                Godus – Wikipedia

                Curiosity – What’s Inside the Cube? – Wikipedia

                Can Xerox be used as a synonym for photocopy? – Quora

                Hoover vs. vacuum – Grammarist

                Velcro – Hook-and-loop fastener – Wikipedia

                Austin Powers – Wikipedia

                Goldmember – Wikipedia

                Hokusai – Wikipedia

                The Great Wave off Kanagawa – Wikipedia

                (Pokemon edition)The Great Wave Off Kanto by missypena on DeviantArt

                Photorealism – Wikipedia

                The Birth of Venus – Wikipedia

                The Merchant of Venice – Wikipedia

                Macbeth – Wikipedia

                Henry IV of France – Wikipedia (not quite the Henriest Henry)

                James Hardy Vaux – Wikipedia

                Red thread of fate – Wikipedia

                Minotaur – Wikipedia (Theseus!)

                American Horror Story – Wikipedia

                Bayeux Tapestry – Wikipedia

                Mean Girls – Wikipedia

                Freaky Friday (2003 film) – Wikipedia

                Blade (film) – Wikip

                42 min
              • Rudderless Gawping

                Adam, Sam and Terence try to talk sensibly, despite the heat…

                Idioms:

                • Never the Twain Shall Meet
                • Navel Gazing
                • Get off Scot Free
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                  48 min
                • Arrogant Philosophers

                  Idioms:

                  • Make hay while the sun shines
                  • The full monty
                  • Hobson’s choice
                  • Sponsored by:

                    A change in podcast editing workflow.

                    Rejected titles:

                    Photoshopping yawns

                    All Philosophers are Arrogant 

                    We Philosopher Kings

                    Debs’ Old English

                    The Suneth Shineth

                    I’m not mad!

                    Links:

                    Sophie’s Choice (it was also a book…)

                    First past the post (again, feels like I’ve linked this before.)

                    Plato

                    Aristotle

                    Plato’s Republic

                    Ties in decline

                    UK Summer

                    British dialects

                    Heinzhound 

                    Robert Carlyle

                    Stargate Universe (boo)

                    Battlestar Galactica

                    Mr. Bean

                    The Full Monty – Film

                    Montezuma (specifically the second one)

                    Hernán Cortés

                    Civilization – Game series (so good)

                    Embiggen 

                    Field Marshal Montgomery

                    Monte card game

                    Old maid

                    Shebang

                    How 2 (I’d completely forgot it was Carol Vorderman…)

                    Interrobang 

                    Why three busses come at once

                    Blue Peter badges

                    Unfiltered – James O’Brien

                    The Louvre

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                    47 min
                  • Forming a Guild

                    Idioms:

                    1. Tin foil hat
                    2. Got their comeuppance
                    3. At sixes and sevens
                    4. Sponsored by:

                      Bank holidays.

                      Links:

                      Muppets Tonight

                      Number 9 – Futurama 

                      Into the Wild Green Yonder

                      New Matt Groening Show

                      Roswell

                      Area 51

                      The X-Files

                      Wild West Red Dwarf

                      Westworld

                      Tin foil formally tin

                      How they make tinfoil 

                      Better Call Saul

                      Philip K. Dick

                      H. G. Wells

                      UNESCO 

                      World Wildlife Fund

                      British Humanist Association

                      British Eugenics Society

                      Brave New World (fantastic book!)

                      The Doors of Perception 

                      Bush Did 9/11

                      Chemtrails

                      Cloud seeding

                      Water testing planes

                      UK Cabinet Split

                      Cockney rhyming slang

                      12 Angry Men (first watched this in school, didn’t appreciate it)

                      A Few Good Men

                      Bottle episode

                      Editing in films discussion

                      City of London Livery Companies

                      Ancient Guilds

                      Livery

                      Terry Pratchett Guilds

                      Stonecutters

                      Tim Berners-Lee

                      Bill Gates

                      Guild Wars (never played)

                      World of Warcraft (played this too much)

                      43 min
                    5. Extra Bitter Beer

                      Idioms:

                      1. Turn on a sixpence
                      2. Cut someone some slack
                      3. Full tilt
                      4. Sponsored by:

                        Injured limbs.

                        Links:

                        Sixpence

                        Usain Bolt

                        Tron

                        Lightbikes (Light cycle!)

                        Pivot!

                        Charles Dickens

                        Back to the Future

                        Back to the Future Almanac

                        All the Year Round periodical

                        Dressage

                        Rube Goldberg machine

                        Honda Advert

                        House of Commons – Sixpence

                        House of Commons – Dime

                        Aloe 

                        Cooperage 

                        Bugsy Malone

                        Naruto running

                        The Incredible Crash Dummies

                        Crash test dummies TV

                        Taxidermy

                        Tilting in poker 

                        MOBA (Feel like we were a bit far off)

                        League of Legends

                        Dota

                        Dota2

                        Heroes of the Storm

                        Heroes of Newerth

                        Tilting in esports (an art?)

                        Jousting 

                        Warcraft III (such a great game, Ben’s great at it)

                        Fight over Dota Name

                        Rejected titles:

                        We’re all injured

                        We’re not mechanics 

                        Dimes, Daims, and Dames 

                        Wanging with Sticks

                        The Podcast Almanac

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                        33 min

                      About Money for Old Rope

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                      A podcast about idioms, featuring various Mancunians with a general disdain for everything outside of Manchester.