S12E7 Gabrielle Drake, Pauline Collins, Arthur Marshall, David Hunt.
S12E8 Gabrielle Drake, Pauline Collins, Arthur Marshall, David Hunt.
Host/Team captains: Robert Robinson, Frank Muir, Patrick Campbell.
S12E8 Gabrielle Drake, Pauline Collins, Arthur Marshall, David Hunt.
Host/Team captains: Robert Robinson, Frank Muir, Patrick Campbell.
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00:00No, neither's he.
00:01Get on with it.
00:02What it is, it's a very, very cheap and expensive form of hassock.
00:08Because when a peasantry knelt down and their kneecaps came in touch with the stone floor,
00:14the vast cries of, ow, which was bad for worship.
00:18So what a trush is, it's a rather tallish bit of stone with matting on top so that when
00:25the peasantry drop down, there's only a muted agony and the service is much quieter and
00:30more suitable to worship.
00:33Right.
00:34Yes, now David Hunter.
00:39I think it must be obvious that this is from one of those typical British artisan vocabularies,
00:49which I personally find really rather dull, not like caramusal or caramushal or whatever
00:54you call it.
00:55This is an ordinary word from nothing more important than brick building.
01:02What it means, it's a verb, of course, you trush a brick.
01:05You dip a brick in the water to make it a porous brick, to make it soaked.
01:12The main thing is that this keeps out the mortar you're going to slosh it into.
01:16And that is simply what trushing is.
01:20Some bricks, of course, are extremely porous.
01:22The mind thinks instantly of Aylesbury Cobbins, for example, and they have to be very well
01:30trushed.
01:31Yes, one might expect so.
01:33Gabrielle.
01:34Well, trush is actually what's left when you've burnt a candle right down and the wick's gone
01:38and all you're left with is the mushy sort of wax in the bottom.
01:42That is actually called trush.
01:45And if you remember in the electricity strike, we were told to use trush, it wasn't actually
01:50called trush, for making new candles with.
01:52But what you can also do with trush is mix it with lanolin and it's an excellent cure
01:58for chill blains.
02:00Yes, just smear it on.
02:03It's candle ends, it's a nasty hard hassock and of course it's soaking a brick that needs
02:09soaking.
02:10Patrick.
02:12These fairly stern observations about the noble profession of brick building, rather
02:19unwelcome, I thought.
02:21They may be artisans, but they're still good workers, well, some of them, if they're at
02:25it.
02:26It's their language.
02:29No connection with brick building and hassockery.
02:35The end of a candle is called the end of a candle.
02:38It's a hassock.
02:39It's a hassock.
02:40Let's see your card, quick.
02:42Frank, Frank did say it was a hassock, true or false, Frank?
02:45I was here when you said it was a hassock.
02:47Of course it's true.
02:48APPLAUSE
02:55You didn't really believe you were going to get lucky there, did you, Patrick, but you
02:58did.
02:59Yes, it's that sort of hassock, it's made of stone, little bit of canvas over the top,
03:03just comfortable time for chassery.
03:05Patrick.
03:06The chassery is a shrine that's built over...
03:09You'd better move faster.
03:10..the remnants of a saint.
03:11It could be some pancreas, it could be some pancreastation, but...
03:16It said underneath that it would be a chassery.
03:19Goodie, goodie.
03:20Arthur, a few words.
03:21It's a very, very late ripening pear and sometimes, if the winter's been kind, you can have them
03:27for Christmas dinner.
03:28Pauline.
03:29It's the mark of office of a very grand housekeeper.
03:31It's a purse in which she keeps all her bits and pieces, like a screwdriver, a pencil,
03:36screwdrivers and corkscrews and all the things she needs.
03:40Braces and bits and everything.
03:41It's a pear, late ripening pear, it's a monument over a saint and it's a housekeeper's badge
03:46of office.
03:47Frank, you may now do Christmas.
03:49How much have I got, nine minutes?
03:52Just to say.
03:53Oh.
03:54Quick.
03:55The pear.
03:56The pear, the pear, the pear.
03:57That was...
03:58Oh, goodness me, it was Arthur, wasn't it?
03:59True love, Arthur.
04:00It was.
04:01It's a bullseye!
04:02That was a fine move.
04:03Well done.
04:04Well done.
04:05Well done.
04:06Well done.
04:07Wonderful, yes.
04:08Absolute bullseye.
04:09Yes, yes, yes.
04:10So, a chasserie is indeed that.
04:13It's a pear, late ripening pear, eated at Christmas.
04:16Brings us to the end.
04:17I declare that the winners, certainly, five, three, are Frank Muir and his team.
04:20Thank you.
04:21Thank you.
04:22Thank you.
04:23Thank you.
04:24Thank you.
04:25Thank you.
04:26Thank you.
04:27Thank you.
04:28Thank you.
04:30Four rum swizzles from the Oxford English Dictionary next time.
04:33Until then, goodbye from David Hunt.
04:35Goodbye.
04:36Arthur Marshall.
04:37Gabrielle Drake.
04:38Pauline Collins.
04:39Frank Muir.
04:40Patrick Campbell.
04:41And goodbye.
04:59Goodbye.
05:00Goodbye.
05:01Goodbye.
05:02Goodbye.
05:03Goodbye.
05:04Goodbye.
05:05Hello.
05:29Call My Bluff with, as ever, the clog dancing champion of Old Tralee, Patrick Campbell.
05:35Thank you.
05:37Thank you.
05:39After an unaccountable defeat last week, mostly through bad luck and business worries.
05:48Nonetheless, Pauline Collins.
05:51Hello.
05:52And the only laugh in the whole of the new statesman, Arthur Marshall.
06:03I don't think there should be more than one laugh in the new statesman.
06:12Anyway, now we have the Mr Chips of St Andrews University, Frank Muir.
06:18Good evening.
06:20Naturally enough, I'm making no changes in my winning team for the next bout.
06:30And from Bristol and the Bristol Old Vic, Gabrielle Drake.
06:37And from the Commonwealth Institute, mastermind, Sir David Hunt.
06:49Let's try and get ourselves a word.
06:51They're all there behind the set.
06:53Calabas is the first one.
06:54And as you probably remember, Patrick Campbell and his team will define calabas three different
06:59ways.
07:00One is true.
07:01And that last one is the one that Frank and his team are going to try and pick.
07:05So what about this word, Patrick?
07:08Calabas is a very wide canoe used by red Indians who are going hunting.
07:18But accompanied by more than one wife.
07:23Up to the number of two to three or four squaws.
07:30Plus little nippers and mothers-in-law.
07:33You've got to have a wide canoe for that mob.
07:35That's why it's called a calabas.
07:38Oh, yes, yes.
07:41Arthur Marshall has a turn.
07:44Arthur Marshall.
07:45A calabas was something that went off with a not very loud bang about the time of the
07:51Spanish Armada.
07:53It was a smallish field gun that was rather erratic.
07:57And rather a nasty thing because it wasn't filled with cannonballs.
08:01But filled with, I don't know, stones, boulders, almost anything you happen to be lying around.
08:07Somebody's head, your sandwiches, anything.
08:10You popped into the calabas and shot it off.
08:15Now, Pauline Collins.
08:19A calabas is a stone, like a peach stone or a plum stone,
08:23which is very rarely found inside a coconut.
08:27And it's such a rare thing that the South Sea Islanders regard it as more than a mere freak of nature.
08:33They think it's a source of good luck.
08:35And they wear it as a charm around their necks.
08:39Right enough.
08:40Well, it's a family canoe.
08:43It's a stone inside a coconut, not very often come across.
08:46Field gun, firing sandwiches, apart from anything else.
08:49Frank.
08:50I've consulted with my union here and management.
08:55And we are unanimous.
09:01If ever there was an ideal bluff, it's a rare stone in the South Seas,
09:07which the natives believe to be holy or something.
09:10So it must be a bluff.
09:13It's a wide canoe full of mothers-in-law.
09:17Could be, I suppose.
09:19But we rather think that it's Arthur's inaccurate field gun,
09:24stuffed with people's heads.
09:26Yes, he did say it.
09:27Arthur, now you own up.
09:28True or bluff?
09:29He tells you now.
09:39That field gun you scored a bullseye.
09:41Yes.
09:43We must have another word.
09:45Shermer is the next word, and Frank will define it.
09:49Shermer.
09:51If you've ever taken any interest in the private life of a pilchard,
09:57you will know this word.
10:00Because what is known by those who know about the private life of a pilchard
10:06is that they go a bit balmy in late summer.
10:09Your average hair goes a bit balmy in March.
10:12Your pilchard goes strange late-ish summer.
10:17Just below the surface of the sea,
10:20they shimmer and tumble and jump and play so joyfully.
10:25And this piece of larky behaviour is done by a shoal.
10:29In other words, a shermer, which is a shoal of playful pilchards.
10:36LAUGHTER
10:38All seem gloomy fish to me, but they are.
10:40David Hunt?
10:42I can't hope, I'm afraid, to sparkle in the way in which Frank Muir does.
10:49First of all, I haven't got the equipment,
10:51and secondly, what I have to say is not in the least bit sparkling.
10:55It's all nothing but etymology.
10:57The shermer spells, you'll notice, with an S-H and not an S-C-H,
11:04although it is the Yiddish rather than the high German form
11:07of the thing that comes from the verb meaning to protect,
11:11and that's exactly what it is.
11:13It's a leather protector which cobblers put over their knees.
11:18It's like an apron, only it's really more of a pad.
11:23I think it doesn't have strings.
11:25But it is a protection for the knees of a cobbler
11:28as he cobbles away, cobbling shoes,
11:31and so he knows that a really shrewd blow at the shoe
11:35won't break his thigh because he has his shermer there.
11:39That's a pretty full sketch of it.
11:42Yes, indeed. Gabrielle, it's your turn.
11:45Well, a shermer is a sort of a drinking glass
11:49which is to be found mostly in certain parts of the United States,
11:54notably Philadelphia, and it's really a tumbler.
11:59And the bottom third of it is glass, solid glass.
12:03I suppose the second third or even the top two thirds
12:06are filled with bourbon or gin or something,
12:09and you slug it down, one off, like that,
12:12and then you bang your shermer's bottom down on the table again.
12:16It's a tumbler.
12:19It's a shoal of playful pilchards
12:22and it's a sort of cobbler's apron.
12:25Patrick chooses now.
12:28A glass is called a glass all over the world.
12:32It's never been called a shermer.
12:35Whatever it's filled with, you don't hang down your shermer.
12:38Especially glass that's found in a schooner.
12:41What about this non-Elch-Deutsch?
12:44Yiddish pad.
12:47Just a moment. Don't...
12:50Don't bash your own knee with your hammer yet, lad. Don't go away.
12:53Fish don't go mad.
12:57They might fly around a little underneath the water.
13:00They're not going mad.
13:03Your pilchard is not...
13:06It's a pad used by shoemakers.
13:09The cobbler's apron. David Hunt, you said quite a lot about that.
13:12Was that true or was it a bluff?
13:15I must look and see. It's another bluff, isn't it?
13:18APPLAUSE
13:22We knew too much there.
13:25It certainly didn't sound as though he was teasing, but he was.
13:28Now, who gave the true definition?
13:31Shimmer, shimmer, shimmer, shimmer.
13:34I don't believe it!
13:37APPLAUSE
13:40Yes, shermer is a shoal of pilchards.
13:43Tomato sauce that makes them mad.
13:46Virile is the next one. I'll pronounce it, you will, I don't know.
13:50Arthur Marshall defined it.
13:53A virile is a rather fancy sort of mouthpiece
13:57for a brass instrument,
14:00a trumpet or a hunting horn.
14:03And why it's called a virile
14:06is that it isn't the normal kind of one.
14:09It has rather beautiful concentric rings engraved
14:12or whatever around it,
14:15which makes it a thing of beauty
14:18and it's very tall with the purity of the tone of the instrument.
14:22A mute, is it?
14:25A mouthpiece.
14:28You fit on to the trumpet.
14:31I got the wrong end.
14:34Don't be drawn into further explanation, Arthur.
14:37I haven't elaborated.
14:40Now it's Pauline Collins' turn.
14:43I suppose the best known owner of a virile is Cary Grant.
14:46It's one of these, you see.
14:49It's the cleft part of a cleft chin.
14:52It's called a virile.
14:55And also it was reputed
14:58to have been sported or indigenous
15:01to people who were witches or warlocks.
15:04Yes.
15:07Just like Cary Grant.
15:10It's the middle one.
15:14We'll take a poll later on.
15:17Anyway, Patrick's turn now.
15:20A virile is a small beetle that floats
15:23on the surface of ponds.
15:26It's got little feeble legs.
15:29It can't move around at all.
15:32Little legs don't push it forward.
15:35But when it has a little wind coming up,
15:38it erects a kind of appendage on its back
15:41that makes a little sail.
15:44Good little fellow.
15:47And this causes it to fly across the water
15:50in such a nuts which it munches.
15:53Lovely.
15:56So it's a rather feeble but clever little beetle.
15:59It's a cleft in the chin
16:02and it's the mouthpiece of a trumpet
16:05with all sorts of engraving on that.
16:08Would you like to choose?
16:11We think these descriptions have been absolutely splendid.
16:14All three, and how they're managed I don't know.
16:17This is the best game I ever played in.
16:20We go forward now without hope
16:23but without fear
16:26and suggest that it's a mouthpiece of a musical instrument.
16:29That means you've forgotten what the other two were.
16:32LAUGHTER
16:35I can never forget the description and the gestures.
16:38I thought it was sweet.
16:41Nonetheless, you swiftly dive for the engraved mouthpiece.
16:44Arthur, you did say it was that, true or false?
16:47I did.
16:50You've got it!
16:53APPLAUSE
17:00The man's a marvel.
17:03You've got the mastermind on your side.
17:06I think a handicap should be added there.
17:093-0.
17:12Virol is certainly that part of the trumpet.
17:15Now it's David Hunt's turn to tell us about
17:18Halicret, Halecret, I don't know.
17:21The frog...
17:24The French pronunciation is the correct one.
17:27Halecret.
17:30I'm sorry to be pronouncing it with a Norman French accent.
17:33There is some argument about whether it came to England with the Angevins.
17:36But whether that or not, it was extremely early.
17:39You seem to say Anchevies.
17:42I do, yes.
17:45You get that clear, not Anchevies, but Anchevies.
17:48The Anchevins, yes, I prefer calling them that.
17:51And what it is in one word is a vulnerary.
17:54Stop there.
17:57My dear fellow, that was the next word.
18:00Well, in other words,
18:03if I may, for the benefit of our viewers,
18:06in other words, a thing that you put on...
18:09that you put on wounds.
18:12It is a lotion for wounds much used in medieval times.
18:15The name itself, of course, is purely local
18:18and derives from Halecret,
18:21which is a small village in the Angoubois
18:24near Alençon,
18:27where the water originally came from
18:30and it was at one stage, I must admit,
18:33blended with Alamon according to another source with treacle.
18:36And it comes in Henry VI, Part I,
18:39where Talbot says, give me some Halecret to my wounds.
18:42Now, he pronounced the T.
18:45Well, I should tell you that Sir David will answer questions afterwards.
18:48Gabrielle.
18:51A Halecret is, or it was,
18:54a wooden tombstone which was used to mark a grave
18:57in the Isle of Man.
19:00It was carved from yew wood.
19:03Alas, it is no longer,
19:06presumably because the Isle of Man ran out of...
19:09not of corpses, but of yew wood.
19:12Corpses?
19:15No, it didn't run out of corpses. It ran out of yew wood.
19:18You're arguing with me. You're arguing with her.
19:21You would. I think, Frank, you'd better get off.
19:24I think so. I don't know how to pronounce it.
19:27It could be Halecret or Halecret or Halecret
19:30because, quite frankly, you do not see a lot of these about now.
19:33They are iron waistcoats
19:36which were split in two
19:39and then buckled on.
19:42Tudor Elizabethan times,
19:46although they were pike-proof,
19:49and pilchard-proof, as far as I know,
19:52they were much used to enhance a great noble's equipment.
19:55You're not listening to me.
19:58Shall I stop? Yeah. I'll stop.
20:01Good. Well, what they say it is, it's a heavy iron waistcoat.
20:04It's a sort of lotion you put on wounds
20:07and it's a wooden tombstone.
20:10Arthur Marshall has the chance to choose one.
20:13There was too much of this wound lotion.
20:16It went on forever, so I rule that out immediately.
20:19I rather like your wooden tombstones in the Isle of Man
20:22and it's hard luck they ran out of wood.
20:25But I don't think it's right.
20:28I settle for the iron waistcoat.
20:31Ah, well, now, that was, yes, that was frank, wasn't it?
20:34I am prepared to give you another chance.
20:37Would you prefer to choose something else?
20:40No.
20:43Oh, yes!
20:46APPLAUSE
20:52Yes, we've got the first 11 here tonight.
20:55Yes, that's finally what it is.
20:58It's an iron waistcoat.
21:01Amazing that anyone should want to wear one.
21:04Now we have willy wool and Pauline, you define it for us.
21:07A willy wool is an Australian term
21:10for a large expanse of country.
21:13Oh, thank goodness.
21:16Like the outback.
21:19And they do have an expression in Australia...
21:22They do, yeah.
21:25..which is in the willy wars, which means somebody lives very far away,
21:28like we say in the sticks. That's it.
21:31Yep, OK, well, that's one of the definitions. Now comes Patrick's.
21:34A willy war is a willful wind
21:37that howls around the horn.
21:40You might ask me, which horn?
21:43Which animal has the horn belonged to that the willy war howls around?
21:46But you'd be wrong.
21:49Because it's Cape Horn.
21:52That's where the willy war howls around, because it's a willful wind.
21:55Thank you.
21:58Lovely. Arthur Marshall's turn now.
22:01A willy war is a Lancashire slang term
22:04for something that rarely is called
22:07willy's tentering machine.
22:10And it's to do with cotton.
22:13And it's a sort of drum that revolves
22:16and it has hooks on it, hence tenter hooks.
22:19And it sort of unravels the cotton
22:22and puts it into a more manageable form,
22:25willy war.
22:29Well, it means outback in Australia.
22:32It's this machine that teases out the cotton
22:35and it's a sudden gust of wind
22:38more or less round Cape Horn.
22:41Gabrielle, your choice.
22:44Well, I should say probably the most unlikely
22:47sounding definition
22:50is this wind howling round Cape Horn,
22:53this willy war wind.
22:57Outbacks, yes, it's quite an Australian sounding word,
23:00being banished to the willy wars,
23:03I suppose.
23:06Or the cotton machine.
23:09Well, that also sounds quite likely,
23:12but because it sounds the most unlikely,
23:15I'm going to say that it's the wind howling round Cape Horn.
23:18Oh, it was Patrick who said this.
23:21Now he's got to tell us, true or bluff.
23:27APPLAUSE
23:38Willy war is all that Patrick said it was,
23:41possibly more.
23:44Now we have Cicel.
23:47Gabrielle, your turn to define.
23:50I expect you've all wondered how those Roman matrons
23:53managed to get all their menfolks togas
23:56so glistening white.
23:59Well, the answer is Cicel.
24:02Cicel was a compound of lime and starch
24:05and Roman laundresses
24:08used to use it to starch the togas.
24:11And some recipes for Cicel
24:14recommend just a pinch of indigo.
24:18And that is presumably...
24:21It presumably acted like sort of Victorian blue bag,
24:24you know, whiter than white.
24:27Right, so after that, Frank, it's your go.
24:30I hesitate, really, to say what this is.
24:33Oh, not again!
24:36Cicel is a weight you hold in your hand
24:39to make you jump better.
24:42The Greeks used to hold them,
24:45the Greeks used to hold them one in each hand
24:48and for a long jump they would
24:51thrust the weights backwards and then jump forward
24:54and they were under the impression that it helped.
24:57I don't understand how it did, but...
25:00Cicel.
25:03Yes, nice guy there, David Hunt.
25:06Well, this makes me feel very much at home,
25:09although on television,
25:12you ought to be asking Magnus Magnusson this,
25:15although I think that Arthur Marshall,
25:18with his knowledge of Dr Johnson,
25:21who, remember his book on the history of Iceland that he read,
25:24will do just as well, because Cicel is
25:27an administrative district of Iceland.
25:30It's the area presided over by a Cicel man
25:33who is the Icelandic equivalent
25:36of a Lord Lieutenant
25:39and I'm given to believe
25:42that in the year 1798
25:45there were no less than 21 Cicels
25:48but no snakes at all in Iceland.
25:51It was 1799.
25:54A sharp reproof.
25:57It's a pleasure to be busking with you both, I may say.
26:00Anyway, let me repeat in short order what it was.
26:03It was bleach for making togas crisp,
26:06it's an Icelandic county or region
26:09and it's a couple of weights in a jumper's hand
26:12apparently made you jump better.
26:15Pauline, your turn.
26:18Have a good guess.
26:21I'm fairly drawn to David Hunt's
26:24Icelandic regions
26:27but from my slim knowledge of Icelandic
26:30I don't know that it's a particularly Icelandic word
26:33but he's blinking away.
26:36Now, Gabrielle's
26:39Roman robin
26:42starch
26:45is also quite tempting
26:48but then again
26:51Cicel doesn't seem to have any Latin roots
26:54and I don't think that we would have
26:57translated such a word into an English form
27:01therefore
27:04I'm going to swing towards Frank
27:07and his weights
27:10because I think it probably helps you to jump
27:13I think if you have two bags which you swing along
27:16as you walk, you move a little bit quicker.
27:19Yeah, well, if it helps you in the end, it hinders you at the beginning
27:22but still we should soon.
27:25Too off-luff was that, Frank, I wonder.
27:28It's true, isn't it?
27:37How can it help? You're carrying great stones.
27:40It's a very seductive notion
27:43that if you swing them forward it might take you back.
27:46Anyway, who gave the truth?
27:49I know you've got it there.
27:52There.
27:58It's this Icelandic region and...
28:01I told you my knowledge was slim.
28:04The rest of you is too, very attractive.
28:07Thank you.
28:10I ring the bell and we get Twagga.
28:13The score's standing at 5-1 and Patrick will define Twagga for us.
28:16Twagga is a
28:19kind of Hampshire Dorset word
28:22meaning to walk delicately
28:25or to shuffle along.
28:28Was it not
28:31in 1907
28:34that a jocular nature lover
28:37wrote to the Daily News
28:40and said green finches
28:43may often be observed
28:46twaggering along a branch
28:49as if they had corns on their little feet?
28:52He wasn't making a joke, obviously,
28:55but he had observed green finches,
28:58whatever they are.
29:01Sounds as though he suffered from a lisp or something
29:04from swaggering along.
29:07A Twagga is an old word
29:10for a piece of tuft of hair
29:13that sticks up on top of a boy's head.
29:16In the days when schoolmasters
29:19were excellent boys, they would pull these tufts
29:22and boys fighting amongst themselves, ragging about,
29:25would do the same thing and cry out,
29:28oh, look, he's tweaked my Twagga.
29:31Pauline Collett, now it's your turn.
29:34Twagga is an exceptionally well-developed
29:37south-down lamb.
29:40When a farmer sees a lamb which is much better endowed
29:43than any other sheep in his flock,
29:46he says, by God, that's a fine Twagga.
29:49And he cuts it up and makes it into chops.
29:52So, well... Twagga.
29:55So it's a fat lamb, fat south-down lamb,
29:58tuft of hair sticking up on a chap's head
30:01and it's to walk delicately or that.
30:04Frank, your choice.
30:07Mastermind said I haven't got the faintest idea,
30:10so...
30:13It's not the first time either.
30:19Now, Greenfinchers,
30:22dancing along, singing,
30:25see them twagging along.
30:28I think not, corns and all.
30:31But I might come back to you.
30:34Don't bother.
30:37The tuft of hair that small boys are tweaked was very jolly.
30:40Jolly good. Thanks very much, Arthur. Enjoyed it.
30:43That isn't it.
30:46The lamb is a bit non-you,
30:49being ill and being cut up into chops.
30:52So I think...
30:55Lamb.
30:58I wonder now whether it was, because who gave the lamb?
31:01Yes, it was Pauline who said about the fat lamb.
31:04True or bluff?
31:07I didn't post my card.
31:10I didn't post my last card. Ah, there it is!
31:13APPLAUSE
31:20It's a well-known fact.
31:23Let us move briskly
31:26for Soros, shall we, and hear from Frank.
31:29Soros.
31:32Musical instrument.
31:35Rather equivalent to...
31:41Without the drone. Bagpipes.
31:44Yes, bagpipe, but without the drone, not like a Scottish bagpipe.
31:47Rather jolly, French one.
31:50Used in Brittany a lot to accompany their dances, very ancient.
31:53Now I have to ask David Hunt to be fairly swift.
31:56Sorace is, in fact,
31:59the name in the Cordillera de los Andes
32:02altitude sickness.
32:05If you're in Chile or even in Peru, Cusco, for example,
32:08you get too high, you get the Sorace,
32:11they say, he's got the Sorace.
32:14He's got a headache, he's never retired, he's feeling awful.
32:17Gabrielle.
32:20Sorocce is a sort of Italian pottery made from hot mud
32:23taken from the hot springs of northern Italy
32:26and it's poured into moulds while it's still hot and baked
32:29with the result that lots of the little bubbles still get trapped in the mud
32:32and that's what gives this pottery its particular
32:35unique, fragile, delicate quality.
32:38Right, so it's pottery with bubbles in, it's mountain thickness
32:41and it's a bagpipe without the drone.
32:44Patrick.
32:47Fairly swift, my dear chap.
32:50A dismal prospect, isn't it?
32:53It's all silly about bubbles in mud and that mountain thickness is nonsense.
32:56It's this non-droning bagpipe
32:59but it isn't really because it's mountain thickness.
33:02You're choosing mountain thickness. That was David Hunter of Love.
33:05There you have it.
33:08Hunter!
33:20Well, there you have it.
33:23Thank you. Yet again, Frank Muir's team has won.
33:26Thank you.
33:35So they are the winners but still they did have the mastermind on their side
33:38whether the other side was fighting...
33:41We didn't have any Confucius on their side.
33:44I'm going to try and remember everything he said but anyway, I must get on now.
33:47We'll have another dollop of ectoplasm from the Oxford English Dictionary
33:50next time. Until then, goodbye from Arthur Marshall.
33:56David Hunt.
33:59Pauline Polling.
34:02Gabrielle Grape.
34:05Patrick Campbell.
34:08Frank Muir.
34:11And goodbye.
34:20APPLAUSE