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Gareth: He realizes he’s misplaced the pith hat. Dave: Oh, fuck that! This doesn’t work without the pith! Gareth: And he doesn’t want to walk up (on stage) with nothing– Dave: What the pith! Note: All pullquotes in this entry are, of course, Tommy Cooper quotes. Enjoy
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Once again, our hoses are inadequate for this job! –Gareth Notice the caption on this picture of William Rankin? Well, I have decided to give y’all a present. There’s going to be a follow-up to this entry shortly; you’ll get an extra soundfile. I’m gonna read
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Reason number three that I have called this podcast-to-be There Might Be Cupcakes: They allow mingling, because they are more finger food than plate food, like cake. Think back to your last shower or reception. Cake is served, and everyone sits down or perches somewhere and fills their…well…cakehole.
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One of The Dollop’s most popular episodes is also one of its earliest–Episode 3: Competitive Endurance Tickling. When it was recorded, David Farrier was on Kickstarter, trying to raise money to film a documentary about David D’Amato, the shadowy figure behind Terri DiSisto behind the homophobic slurs
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Dave: …and then they would all have an orgy. Gareth: Why the honey? They just like honey? Wil: You know, like at a restaurant…it’s an amuse-bush. Guest host: Wil Anderson Okay, y’all. These are the gold nuggets that I mine that you live for. BEHOLD: Martin Luther
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If you over-decadent (totally making that into a verb) a cake, you either get really strange looks, or you thrust the cake’s cost into the stratosphere. Or both. And no one wants a piece of super-expensive side-eye cake–that’s too unnerving to be fun. But cupcakes are expected
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Dave: Did you just call them Siamese twins? Gareth:…Wait a minute…are these the Wright brothers? Dave: I thought you were putting stuff together, but you’re not. The second Dollop subject in American Horror Story: Freak Show, the first being Lobster Boy. Conjoined twins are shown twice in
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Why “cupcakes?” Why cupcakes? Why show up if there might be cupcakes? Why are you calling your podcast “There Might Be Cupcakes”, flaky chick? So many reasons, starting with all the reasons in my friend @greggaestyle and his splendid comedy routine about the joy of cake. But so many more
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Relevant episode, post, and navigation: * Episode 28: The Talk Board * Dollopween October 1: Finding the Spooky Side (Dollopween 2015) * tag: Spiritualism * category: Religion: Spiritualism And away I bluster rant warn you review: I was quite excited to spend my monthly Audible credit on this book; what a fascinating idea–reframing
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Gareth: He’s sharing a tree with a snake! Dave: It’s Australia. Now, who was Rodney Ansell, the inspiration for the Crocodile Dundee movie series? As a young man, he made a living hunting feral water buffalo… “Feral“? As opposed to all those tame buffalo that sleep by firesides
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Dave: It started with ulcers on the genitals. Gareth: That is right off the bat a terrible start–and did you just wink at me? Before I dig (eww) deep on this one, let’s start with the science and stuff. From the Center for Disease Control, here you go–
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Hello, the name’s Red. Red Herring. –Gareth Before I get to going on this spooky-ass before and after event of my childhood, only seconded by the airing of the soul-scorching TV movie The Day After (weirdest school bus ride that next day EVAR), and the airing of the childhood-stealing