Something Rhymes with Purple - Thank You and Farewell!

Episode Date: July 23, 2024

Wow, this is the final episode of Something Rhymes With Purple. Susie, Gyles, and all of us at Purple HQ want to say a massive THANK YOU for being the best audience in the whole wide world.  We have had such fun making these episodes, and of course we had to finish with a listener correspondence special. Thank you for an amazing 5 years. SRWP - over and out! We love hearing from you, find us @SomethingRhymes on Twitter and Facebook, @SomethingRhymesWith on Instagram or you can email us on our email address here: [e-mail] Want even more purple, people? Join the Purple Plus Club by clicking the banner in Apple podcasts or head to purpleplusclub.com to listen on other platforms' Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:  Optriculum: Something whose name you can’t remember for the moment. Discumgalligumfricated:Greatly astonished but pleased. Hiptiminigy: A cry that expressed exuberance of spirit. Gyles' poem this week was the infamous 'Our Revels Now Are Ended' quote by Prospero in The Tempest by William Shakespeare Our revels now are ended. These our actors,  As I foretold you, were all spirits and  Are melted into air, into thin air:  And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,  The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,  The solemn temples, the great globe itself,  Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve  And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,  Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff  As dreams are made on, and our little life  Is rounded with a sleep. A Sony Music Entertainment production.   Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts     To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [e-mail]  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to the final episode of Something Rhymes with Purple. My name is Giles Brandreth and as ever, I'm with my colleague, friend, podpanion, Susie Dent. Hello. Also known as Susanna Dent. Now Susanna Dent MBE. How are you feeling today, Susie? Very sad, because although I'm very excited about, you know, what the future might hold for you and for me and for us doing things together, I am so sad that this is coming to an end, because it's been five years. It has been, what, 277 episodes plus lots of subscription episodes, it is part of my part of the fabric of my

life sitting in here in the study um with my my microphone my strange props from my comedy countdown and and you uh so i'm gonna miss it terribly i'm gonna miss the purple people have you ever seen a film called brief encounter i? I have. It's a famous black and white film made, I think, in about 1945. Yeah. Written by Noel Coward, one of my favorite writers, playwright, actor, screenwriter, directed by David Lean and starring Celia Johnson, wonderful actress, and Trevor Howard. And I was lucky enough to meet and, in fact, work with Celia Johnson and to meet and to know Trevor Howard, even though the film was made before I was born. And it's a film about a romance, a brief romance, a brief encounter, a love affair

between a man and a wife. They're both married, and he's a doctor, and she's a married woman. They meet at a railway station, and they have this brief encounter. And in it- But it's a series of brief encounters. Yeah, it is a series of brief encounters. And indeed, there are two versions of the story, one of which is an early play version, in which they clearly do spend a night together. But I think in the film version, they don't. So it's thwarted love in that sense. But it ends, in a way, happily,

because she goes back to her husband, who realizes that she's been somewhere else. It's a very, it's a weeply, it's a very moving film. And wonderful music by Rachmaninoff. Beautifully made black and white film. But in it, there's a speech by Celia Johnson, which I have in my head. I don't need to look this up, and I hope I'm not misquoting, but it's relevant to us today. Nothing lasts. Neither happiness nor despair, not even life itself lasts very long. So you've got to remember, Susie, that nothing lasts.

And as we know, both of us, I know particularly because I've written a book about how to be happy. New edition out now. Why not plug it? The Seven Secrets of Happiness with the great Irish psychiatrist and psychologist, Dr. Anthony Clare. And he taught me that change is good for you. If you resist change, you'll be unhappy. Change is the salt of the soup of life. So this is a change for us and for our regular listeners, but that can be good for us.

And we know that nothing lasts. No, we know that nothing lasts. And I think if you listen to a lot of business gurus, they would say exactly the same thing, that you cannot improve if you do not evolve. But still, that doesn't stop there being the real sense of nostalgia, I think. There is. And nostalgia is one of the most potent emotions that people can feel. People love looking back. They love looking back. And as we look back on the Purple Experience for us, without any question at all, the best part of the Purple Experience

has been the purple people. Yes, it really has. And the Purple people have become such a cliche to say, you know, that people that you've never met become a family to you. But we do know, because we have actually met lots of you, we do know how many listen to us us and we do know, thanks to you, that it does mean something in your lives, which is lovely because not a week goes past that Giles and I don't sit here together and someone has that week come up to us and told us how much they love it. And that's what we'll miss the most. But you will be able to find us somewhere else for sure. And we will be giving news of that. Oh, yes.

And also, we both write lots of books. So please buy our books. We'll be grateful. And at the end of the program, we'll also give you our contacts so that you can get hold of us via Instagram and X, which is what Twitter is now called, if you want to keep in touch and see what we are up to. And the joy is our people really are a global community from Ghana to Guatemala, from Adelaide to Aberdeen, literally around the world,

people are listening to this podcast and we're grateful to you. And we thought we'd end with some letters, literally picked at random from the postbag. And so this is your episode, a correspondence special. And who are we going to talk to or hear from first? So our first email comes from Adam Wilkinson, who is closer to home than many. He's in Skipton in North Yorkshire. And he says he is an avid listener of our podcasts. He's hooked. He's a late comer, but he's worked his way through all the episodes for which we are

incredibly grateful, Adam. Well, start again. You've got to go back. How many are there in all? 276 there will be. And then seven with this one. Oh my goodness. And there are countless, there are dozens and dozens then seven with this one. Oh, my goodness. And there are countless, there are dozens and dozens of bonus episodes as well. So there's many, many hours of listening. Start all over again to cope with your addiction. Yes. So what's this question he's got for us?

Hi, Giles and Susie. I'm an avid listener of your podcasts and can honestly say I'm hooked. I was a relative latecomer to them but I've now worked my way through all of the episodes so thank you and thanks for the hours of learning and entertainment. As they say every day is a school day. Some words and phrases that have puzzled us. Slap up meal. This phrase we use sometimes and always question its origins. The phrase pulling pulling out all the stops, we assume that this was something to do with an organ and using sound capabilities.

Are we correct in this understanding? Thanks again. Adam Wilkinson from Skipton in North Yorkshire. So, slap up meal. Now, I know you know your dickens very well, Giles, and I don't know if you remember, I think in David Copperfield, he refers to a slap-bang meal, which I think it's slap-bang that Dickens uses. And essentially,

this is food that is very unceremoniously slapped straight down on the table and you eat very quickly. So the opposite of a slap-up meal. And we think that this is actually from the use of bang up. Now, bang up was sort of Northern dialect for something that was of superior quality. You know, when we sort of say bang to rights or bang up to date, the idea of something clean and decisive. And so something that is bang up or slap up, the idea is of something that is of the highest quality definitively. So first rate, first class, grand. And it came about in the 19th century. So that's that one. And pulling out all the stops, Adam, you are absolutely right. It is to do with all the bells and whistles, which is another phrase that we took from the organ.

And you pull out all the stops, you the sound and um you know you go the whole length to make something sound perfect that's where that one comes from i've seen people playing the organ it's extraordinary because there are pedals as well and often there are a lot there's several lots of pedals and they're playing with their feet and their hands at the same time i'm amazed any man can play the organ i'm not not surprised women can, because they are accustomed to doing two things at once. But that men can play the organ seems amazing to me. Well, in Chester Cathedral, where you regularly stand conferring honours and degrees because you're a Chancellor, there's a beautiful organ, isn't there? A fantastic organ playing.

Wonderful. Up in the loft there. Yes. there and fantastic organ playing wonderful up in the loft there yeah yes i would visit the organ loft um more often than i do but i'm a little bit nervous of heights okay do you have do you have a fear of heights um only uh not heights per se but cliff tops of course that's understandable you think you're going to throw yourself off well that's that's called um la pelle de vide isn't it in french the call of the void la pelle du vide the call of the void or the call of emptiness oh my gosh so it's that we talked about this in our emotional um vocabulary episode it is that sense that you know you don't want to jump but you could and it's that sort of slightly vertiginous feeling that there is that potential

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Welcome back to Something Rhymes with Purple, which is dedicated to you, our listeners, the purple people. We next hear from somebody else who's in England. This is Phil in Essex, and he's been in touch to say this. Hi, Susan Giles. I'm a Purple Newbie and really enjoying your podcasts and your very deep back catalogue. I have a question about how telling the time is spoken of. I'd always wondered about the manner my grandmother used in one aspect of telling the time, specifically how she said 25 past and 25 minutes to the hour, i.e. 5 and 20 instead of 25, a bit like 4 and 20 blackbirds I guess. This feels like a Germanic link, although there is no German

in our family tree, but coming from the Kent coast, maybe an influence had crept over somehow, or was just something she picked up from her parents or grandparents. Very interested to hear your thoughts. Thank you very much. This is Phil in Essex. What are your thoughts on that one, Susie? Yes, I mean, it may have its roots in Germanic, because certainly in German, you would have for 25, you have 25. So you have the five first and then the 20. But I would just say that this wasn't geographically specific. It was used in a widespread way within older generations for telling the time. It was the convention from telling the time, five and 20. Money was counted out in exactly the same way, wasn't it, in pre-decimal currency very often. And as you say, 4 and 20, Blackbirds, etc., it was simply the older model for counting.

And it was very, very widespread. But you'd have to go back a fair way to find it. It's not used these days. We go down under now. Hello, Susie. Hello, Giles. My name is Tim. I live in Perth, Western Australia, and I love your podcast. I was recently back in the UK visiting my mum where we went window shopping and we stopped by a window that was selling little knickknacks. Mum explained, findles. I asked her what this meant,

and she said, little bits of rubbish. Apparently, it was a word her father used. It was born and raised in Ireland. So, I don't know whether it's a family word, whether it's got usage in Ireland, or whether it's got broader usage. I've looked on the interwebs. I can't find anything, but I'm a bit stymied by not knowing anything about the spelling. So, any light you could shed would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. Findles, Susie. Yes, findles. Stymied is such a good word as well, isn't it? But yes, findles.

Okay, so I had to do a bit of digging for this one, but it is there in the OED where findles really, it's a bit of a riff on findles. So it was quite often an instance of finding. It was a discovery, especially a kind of valuable one. Also, it might be finding wreckage at sea. But in its earliest meanings, it was a gimmick or a contrivant. So, it was a sort of thingamajig, which may explain to some degree the use of it as an exclamation. So a little bit like, oh, fiddlesticks. So I think that's probably where it began. But to be honest, so many of our explanations like fiddlesticks are quite nonsensical and they just sound great. That Findles also quite does. Do you remember in our last bonus episode,

I think, does somebody said, their grandmother said, well, I'm being Mogadored. And that was equally, I think, born for its sound, although Mogadore does have specific references. So I think that's what's going on here. But it was a lovely one to look up

because I'd never, ever heard of it. But Findle, yeah, some contrivance or gimmick or later some discovery. And you said what an attractive or interesting word stymied is. Yes. Well, not least because we don't really know where it comes from. So, there are lots of different meanings for stymied, but it essentially in golf is an opponent's ball, which lies on the putting green between the ball of the player and the hole they're playing for, which obviously stymies them. But I don't think

that was its origin. I think stymie goes back before then, and the golfing term was probably named after that for impeding or obstructing. But we're talking sort of mid-1800s. And if indeed it was golf, then that would be lovely because it would explain something very literal where something's obstructing another player's view to something which is an impediment more generally. Have you ever played golf? Mini golf, I love. Oh, I adore mini golf. Yeah. My father was a huge golf player. He liked Lynx courses.

But no, I haven't. Have you? Can I mention you out on the golf course? No, my father also. My father played golf at university and loved golf all his life. Yeah. Followed it avidly. Didn't play as often as he would want to. I regard, I'm with Mark Twain, who described golf as a good walk spoiled.

Oh. I'm aware that, you know, golf is an anagram of flog. It's not my idea. I really can't understand why people watch it on television. You know, this tiny little ball flying through the air. You can't see it.

But people do love it. Crazy golf is what I like most of all. I love crazy golf. And you're sort of a funny wobbly course and then it ends up going into a windmill and it makes the you know yeah thing of the windmill what do they call the paddles what do they call the wings sails sails thank you the sails of the windmill go round and round honestly yeah okay let's move on now

another letter here from a lady from kirsty hi i hope you're well i'm a massive fan of something rhymes with purple it's the coziest learning imaginable. I was chatting to my partner, Trey, and we were trying to figure out whether there was an etymological correlation between munch, lunch, and crunch. He was also bamboozled to learn after a bit of Googling for myself that the usage of the word munch might predate lunch. Is that correct? Thank you for creating a brilliant show. All the best, Kirsty. Now, Giles, I chose this particular question myself, I have to say. I had a hand in this one because for a very long time, you have been saying to me that one of the gems that you have taken away from this podcast, together with apricity, which you mentioned in your new book.

I find this so hard to believe. Are you going to tell me about luncheon, luncheon, luncheon? Yes, yes. So the luncheon and the luncheon thing. And when I looked recently in the OED, I saw that things have been slightly updated. Either that or I got things completely wrong. And that actually luncheon now does come before lunch. So I am going to have to completely disabuse you

of the gen that you've probably been sharing with everybody at dinner parties up and down the land. Can I am going to have to completely disabuse you of the jam that you've probably been sharing with everybody at dinner parties up and down the land. Can I say I have? I've been spreading this all over, in fact, all over the world. Because whenever I'm asked to speak at a lunch, I tell them this. This will surprise you, ladies and gentlemen. Lunch is not an abbreviation of luncheon. Luncheon came after lunch to aggrandize the function. So this is a luncheon luncheon came after lunch to aggrandize the function yeah this is a luncheon function but i'm enjoying lunch because i like to munch my lunch i'm sharing this news with this bunch here and i got it all wrong oh my goodness thanks to you keep doing it keep doing it and blame me i may start listening back to all of the episodes to make sure that what you're telling people is correct. No. Well, luncheon and lunch, both in their earliest forms, meant a slice of something. So,

like a slice of pie or a hunk of bread, that kind of thing. And for a while, it was thought, or I thought, that luncheon was, as you say, a sort of postification, if that's the word, of the word lunch. And that would not be without precedent, because if you remember Welsh rabbit, which people think is surely the original, and Welsh rabbit, as it is called over here. So, for those who are non-British, this is cheese on toast. Excuse me, are you sure you've got that right? Because I've turned that into another of my party pieces. I've got to check everything that Susie did. I have got that right because it began as an insult against the Welsh. There are many insults

against the undeserving Welsh people. And Welsh rabbit was the implication that they had to eat cheese on toast because they couldn't afford meat. And later on, people thought, Welsh rabbit, what's that all about? We'll make it Welsh rabbit. Anyway, going back to lunch and munch and crunch. So, I think what we hear here is Kirsty says that the usage of word munch might predate lunch. And that is absolutely true because the first record of munch that we have is from 1425, to eat eagerly and audibly or with evident enjoyment. And you will find it also in Chaucer, in Troilus and Cressida. So that was the 15th century. Then you go on to lunch, which as I say, was first used to mean a piece of like a hunk of cheese, for example. That was from 1591. So, lunch in that sense, Giles, is before luncheon, okay? So, that does predate luncheon. So, I wasn't wrong on that score. But as a synonym of luncheon, the first record of

lunch is from 1829. And it says in the dictionary, now the usual word is accepted in specially formal use, though formally objected to as vulgar. Okay, so lunch has been around longer than luncheon, but in that narrowed sense of something that was taken at midday, possibly then luncheon came first. So that's where I'm putting my hand up. And then we have crunch, which is older than any of them. And then we have crunch, which is older than any of them. And that is more recent. And that is a variation on an older word, crunch, which is really quite an ugly sounding word. And crunch maybe was chosen because it sounds a little bit more subdued and less obtrusive. And it was a nice riff on munch. So there we go. They're not at all related other than in their sound, Kirsty, but you have given me a chance to refine a previous answer when it comes to lunch and

luncheon. But just, you know, I would just keep doing what you're doing. Look, Kirsty, you must have a lunch party next year because 2025 will mark the 600th anniversary of the word munch. Is that correct? 1425 is the first known use of it. There you go. Yeah, that's perfect. So how amazing. A birthday party.

Actually, we must get together for lunch that day. Yes. And have a lunch to celebrate the 600th birthday of munch. Perfect. Forgive me, the munchies wanting to be, is that having a tag of the munchies is being hungry? Is that right? Yes. So the munchies have various kind of specific uses. So in terms of food, snack food, particularly 1906, and then 1971, definitely munchies are snacks to

eat after you have smoked a bit of weed, but that's much later. The country in the world that I think has contributed more to the English language, given its size, than any other country, in my view, is Ireland. Some of my favourite writers, the wittiest writers that we know, Sheridan, Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, great poets like Yeats, playwrights like O'Casey, extraordinary people like Samuel Beckett, they all come from Ireland. So I think it's appropriate that our last letter in this main episode should come from Dublin. It comes from Emily Egan. Hi, Susie and Giles. I was recently having a conversation with my husband and I said the phrase blowing smoke up your arse. It was him that stopped the conversation and asked where

that phrase came from. We both decided while the meaning was to placate or butter up, the actual action described sounds very unpleasant indeed. Any idea where this comes from? Lots of love from Dublin, Emily. unpleasant indeed. Any idea where this comes from? Lots of love from Dublin, Emily. Well, it does sound rather unpleasant, but giving tobacco enemas was once upon a time thought to be a cure for various ailments. And indeed, yes, you can find specifically shaped bellows that were due just that. However, it does not, in terms of timing, look as though there is any association between the phrase blowing the smoke off someone's arse and the use of those tobacco enemas because the phrase begins to appear just before the Second World War, by which time the bellows would have

been a thing of the past, thankfully. And in English already was the phrase to blow smoke, which is the same as camouflage, actually, because in French, camoufler meant equally to blow smoke in someone's face, so you literally could not see them or not be seen. And that was the idea of blowing smoke. In other words, you were trying to disguise what you were up to. And the second part of the phrase was probably added just to coarsen it, and it probably then appeared within, it seems, the British and the US military. There is one other explanation though, which is quite funny. And that is that in the First World War, not the Second World War, it's said that in the trenches, British troops would hold up dummies to attract the fire of enemy snipers. I think this probably did exist. So you would hold up a dummy, almost like a guy, if you think of guy forks. that in order to make these dummies more realistic, they would put a cigarette in its mouth,

and then a soldier crouching below the dummy would blow smoke out of it through a tube through the body, which is an ingenious idea. But again, there's no evidence, sadly, to support this, certainly not in connection to the phrase. I love that story. That's great. And I love Dublin. Do you go often to Dublin? Not enough. Not enough. I haven't been for a few years. Oh, well, there's a new museum in Dublin that I recommend. It's called, let me see if I can remember it right, the Museum of Literature in Ireland, which they may pronounce it Molly, it's spelled Mowly,

but they may pronounce it Molly because there's a lot about James Joyce and Molly Bloom being a character created by James Joyce. So it's a museum of literature, but it's, of course, it's got lots of books in it, but it's also a celebration of literature. The way they celebrate authors, poets, playwrights there is just brilliant. So I recommend that if you've not been to Dublin recently. I'm just going there in the near future with my friend, the great Dame Judi Dench. We're going to do a show celebrating her life, which I'm looking forward to. Wonderful. That sounds perfect.

Very much indeed. And I'm looking forward to your final trio, three interesting words. You can find more interesting words by Susie Dent in our wonderful book, Word Perfect. But you've plucked three words from where to share with us today? From an American folklorist called Louise Pound, who was born in the latter decades of the 19th century. She was born in Nebraska. She was a professor of English at university there for quite a long time. And she contributed three word lists to a journal. And these word lists contained things that she had collected from students at the university. So they were around at the time, they were university slang in the early 20th century, this would have been.

And I just think they're lovely and you will understand why I chose the last two. So the first one is just incredibly useful, and there's always been a linguistic gap in English. An optriculum is something whose name you can't remember for the moment. An optriculum. I mean, how often have you all been there? Were you had it? Was it in this show? Oh, yeah, windmills and sails.

Yes, and I'm afraid as the years go by, it's happening more and more regularly. in there you just you just well you had it was it in this show oh yeah windmills and sales yes and i'm afraid as the day as the years go by it's happening more and more regularly well i'm sure a lot of people will feel the same um up triculum up triculum and is there can you unpack it to explain why it means that no she didn't she didn't say um you'd think it would have something to do with the eyes but she didn't unfortunately give etymologies. But at least it's a word that fills the gap. The second one is clearly a nonsense word. Now, you know I talk about being either blutterbunged, which means overtaken by surprise, or betwittered, which means overcome with pleasing excitement. Well, this has the same kind of touch. It is discomgalligamfricated.

Good grief. I've put it in the notes because it's unpronounceable. Discomgalligamfricated, and it means greatly astonished, but also pleased. And I thought that was an apt choice for how you and I have been astonished that this podcast has attracted the wonderful listeners that it has, and that we've been going for so long. So I think astonished but pleased, if only it was pronounceable, would be a nice way on which to end. And then finally, the same thing. We may be feeling sad, but equally, English will always be the most wonderful thing in the world. And we are just its curators for

a little while and we will be going on to do new things. And this is another one from those students in Nebraska. Hipti Minigi. Hipti Minigi is a cry that expressed exuberance of spirit. Hipti Minigi. How do we spell that? Well, it's all in the notes. So if people want to go to the program notes, but for those who need it, it's H-I-P-T-I-M-I-N-I-G-Y. Oh, not too bad at all. No. And actually, if you want to know more about Susie Dent, you can do so by following her either on Instagram or Twitter, now known as X.

Do you have a website as well, Susie? I don't have a website, but you do, don't you? I do, actually. And my website, in fact, there are pictures of suzy on my website you must check them out looking very glamorous um my website is www but you don't need that any longer apparently no did you know that no you don't you don't it's the only brief version in the world that takes longer to say than the original that's so funny yeah anyway after the www dot it's simply giles brandreth that's my name g-y-l-e-s-b-r-a-n-d-r-e-t-h dot net

so giles brandreth dot net and you can go there and you can find out about me read my blog you can find all the books that i've written and published there including books about words and language and most important you can find out if you see tours, if you go there somewhere, which shows you where I'm appearing and when I'm appearing with Susie Dent. So keep looking, checking out jazzbranders.net. That's my website. But people can follow you on Instagram, can't they? They can follow me on Instagram.

And yes, the dates will be up at some point. Just to say, if you're looking at the moment, don't worry, they're not up yet, but they will be hopefully at some point. Just to say, if you're looking at the moment, don't worry, they're not up yet. But they will be hopefully at some point. We will be doing some shows together because that was also one of the joys of the Purple Podcast. Meeting people. Yeah.

Meeting people. Purple live. Your Instagram is simply at Susie Dent, isn't it? It is. And on X, you are Susie at Susie underscore Dent. Exactly. And I'm on Twitter, X as Giles B1, G-Y-L-E-S B1. And then on Instagram, it's at Giles Brandreth. It is. Now, it's time for my final poem. Yes. What do you think I've

chosen? You can guess this, can't you? What do you think? Who is the greatest poet in the English language? It's got to be Shakespeare. It's got to be Shakespeare. It's got to be Shakespeare. And can you guess what I've chosen? Oh my goodness, it's going to be a sonnet. No, it's not going to be a sonnet. It's about the same number of lines as a sonnet. It's from a play, and it's a play first performed around 1611, 1612. It's one of Shakespeare's last plays. Maybe it's the last play he wrote himself without a partner. Anyway, it's quite appropriate. The lines are spoken by Prospero in The Tempest.

Our revels now are ended. These are actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air. And like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit shall dissolve. And like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on. And our little life is rounded with a sleep. I am full of whist.

That is beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. It's brilliant, isn't it? Anyway, that's it from us. You'll find us elsewhere, but it's been huge fun having your company over the last five years. Please feel free to start the shows right from the beginning and relive the magic that was Something Rhymes with Purple. Something Rhymes with Purple is a Sony Music Entertainment production. It was produced by Naya Deer with additional production from

Jennifer Mystery, Richie Lee and Olly Wilson and back with us for the final time. We should say, I think we cannot complete this without saying huge thanks to Sony. Huge thanks to Naya, our most incredible producer

who has seen us through thick and thin. And indeed her predecessors, all the people who've been involved in this. Yes, absolutely. Lawrence, Harriet, we've had some amazing producers. And we've also had some amazing engineers. Oh, the engineers have been extraordinary. Their appearance sometimes has left a little bit of desire. But I have to say, I mean, they are a remarkable group of people whose skill has made it possible for you to listen in near perfect quality. When it hasn't been perfect, it's because I was either too near the mic or too far away from the mic.

Couldn't ever quite get it right. But they did their best to make it sound good. They did do their best. I'm particularly grateful to this character, best to make it sound good. And we are particularly grateful to this character who has become a character in the pantheon.

The purple pantheon. The purple pantheon. Looking so shoveled today. He is indeed. On our behalf. So we are saluting Yes. Gully. But most of all, we're saluting you purple people. Thank you for your company. Over and out.