PATREON UNLOCKED - Butter'd Parsnips, Ep. 32: EPICnyms Pt. 5: "A Guy That Got Wounded and Captured and Fell Down the Stairs and Died & Also Math"
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PATREON UNLOCKED - Butter’d Parsnips, Ep. 32: EPICnyms Pt. 5: ”A Guy That Got Wounded and Captured and Fell Down the Stairs and Died & Also Math”

2025-08-18
EPICnyms are back! In this, the fifth (third?) installment of the EPICnyms series, Emily and Seth take you on a ride from phooey to philosophy.Starting in the Deep South with a word named for a county named for a man with some awfully bad luck, Emily reveals how a synonym for nonsense came from a political move to get right with his constituency.Seth follows up with a 9th century mathematician whose work gave us that awful buzzword you see being blamed for our deteriorating attention spans.And finally, as per usual, they'd already been recording for so long...
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