President Obama’s State of the Union address? Meh. Practicing all your life one of two classical instruments because your mother says so? Snore. Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes? F***ING AWESOME. Okay, so we couldn’t exactly hit the mediocrity hat trick. BUT on a week when Internets were down in Egypt and Chicago, sickness spread across the nation, and broom closets became our only refuge, we still managed to pull together a whopper of an episode for you peeps. Enjoy it while sitting by a warm fire, sipping some hot cocoa as you await your inevitable frozen fate this fine winter…
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This Week’s Post-show Song Pimpage: Jascha Heifetz plays Ibert “Le Petit Âne Blanc”
06/02/2011 at 8:01 am Permalink
Whoa, Stephen at 53:38 you said it sort of helps to be a gymno-phile if you want to workout at a fitness center a lot. To prevent any future faux pas: gymno= nudity phile=loving
06/02/2011 at 9:54 am Permalink
@rbzargon Whoa! Definitely didn’t intend that meaning. Thanks for the correction.
08/02/2011 at 5:13 pm Permalink
The modern word “gymnasium” is derived from the words for “nude” and “exercise” because all Greek sporting and physical fitness activities were done in the nude. I have not found a single word that matches Stephen’s original intent. I would love to know if there is one meaning “lover of fitness” or “lover of exercise.” Words are awesome, gang. 😀
14/02/2011 at 9:54 am Permalink
Wait, so are we implying that Stephen in *not* a lover of nudity?
14/02/2011 at 12:03 pm Permalink
Not necessarily. Only that I am a lover of the gym and don’t know how to express that with a single clever Greek word.
06/03/2011 at 12:27 pm Permalink
φι^λ-ασκητής
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=filaskhth/s