Today’s episode is about language and working out what things mean – generally by saying the wrong things first, and then looking back on them to either laugh or cringe. Features:
- Blurts and faux pas – when you don’t know what the right thing to say is until you’ve already said the wrong one
- Demonstrating how irony works to your secondary school students by living ironically
- A rendezvous with a supermarket checkout machine
- A starfish and a universal theory of humour
- Quaint things your five-year-old daughter says after listening to a lot of Enid Blyton books
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