Sam McTrusty’s unusually large hands
Twin Atlantic’s Sam McTrusty arrived for Innuendo Bingo after a photograph outside Broadcasting House made his hands appear larger than his face. Scott and Chris initially blamed perspective, then compared hands in the studio and accepted that they were at least generously sized.
Sam had been recording a BBC Scotland session late into the previous night and was preparing for Twin Atlantic’s first trip to Australia. Despite the schedule, he was enthusiastic about the game and considerably more willing than Chelsee Healey had appeared during the previous week’s uncertain debut.
Innuendo Bingo
The clips ranged across Antiques Road Trip, Benidorm and other television and radio programmes. A story involving King Charles II and a member of the clergy, an unresolved concern on Benidorm and the usual accidental wording gave Sam and Chris repeated opportunities to soak one another.
Sam committed fully and the game became one of the wettest for some time. His clothes joined the growing collection of wet jeans and underwear left around the studio, while listeners who had rearranged lunch breaks to watch believed the pictures justified their planning.
Beyond couple noises
After the previous day’s experiment, caller Emma revealed that she and her boyfriend no longer needed ordinary words at all. “Me-me” could receive “mama” as a response confirming that everything was all right, while “awawa” meant “I love you”. Their pet names could move through woodland creatures including squirrel, mole and badger.
Scott and Chris tried learning the language and quickly lost track of its grammar. Emma accepted that being together for a long time might have pushed them too far, but the noises and improvised vocabulary remained perfectly intelligible within the relationship.
Listeners divided between calling her an inspiration and begging the programme to stop. Some wanted Emma to call her boyfriend live, but Scott judged that the feature might already have reached its natural limit.
Do not make Taylor Swift angry
Alan Dedicoat played Real or No Real, which returned to Taylor Swift’s control of her lyrics and public image. The discussion reinforced the lesson that using her phrases or provoking her fanbase could have consequences far beyond an ordinary disagreement.
The game also demonstrated a recurring problem: facts heard on air were difficult to retell later because nobody could remember whether they had been real. Chris had already adopted “MDR”, the French abbreviation for laughing, from an earlier round and was using it to confuse people in messages.
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