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🗓️ 31 January 2025
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Some of you wanted less not more Wordle chat. You pleaded even to the production team. But the team were scared. For there were Wordle emails that had come in. What if Emperor Robins found out they’d been squirreling such content away from him. It would displease him so. Thus he was presented with it all. And like a labrador at the bowl, he could feast. Feast until unwell.
So what of the pleas? With his 3.6 average word score laurel perched on his head, he peered down from his chaise longe. As the fickle thumb of fate turned down, and he yelled ‘No!’. And rather than getting less Wordle, it’s more. It’s double Wordle. Another 20 minutes 30 seconds of it all across two doses.
This’ll teach the complainers. The rioters. Eat your wordy gruel and be happy with it. Might assess ‘gruel’ as a potential for new starter words actually. Dave write that down. Elis was not consulted on today's content.
Anyway, aside from that there’s also non-etymological issues at play including Adrian Chiles’ pants and the rather frightening thought of ‘what if John was the second coming of Christ’.
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0:00.0 | Sir Alex Ferguson is the most successful British manager of all time. |
0:05.0 | Nobody is above him or this football club. |
0:08.0 | So how did an apprentice toolmaker from Glasgow become one of the most iconic figures in sporting history? |
0:15.0 | His strength of character, his determination, the fight on him. |
0:18.0 | He can be persuasive, he can be charming. He can be frightening. |
0:21.4 | I'm Kelly Cates, |
0:22.5 | and this is Sporting Giants, Sir Alex Ferguson. |
0:25.8 | I didn't want to feel. |
0:26.9 | I couldn't feel. |
0:27.9 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
0:31.8 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:35.2 | Music, radio, podcasts. Hello, everyone. It's Ellis John and Dave, and we've got that Friday feeling. |
1:02.1 | Dave's got a six-pack in his bag. |
1:04.5 | Oh, yeah. |
1:05.2 | And he's going to go off to Hampstead Heath afterwards to meet the lads, aren't you, Dave? |
1:09.4 | Next to your bush that you always sit by. |
1:11.6 | Yeah, for a midday madri. |
1:12.7 | Got me fags. |
1:13.7 | Got you fags? |
1:14.7 | He's got 20 Lambert and Butler and six cans of madri. |
1:17.6 | And he's, he wants for nothing. |
1:19.5 | Yeah. |
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