
Episode 44 • • 1:30:36 - 1:34:06
44: Probably a Super Delegate
Language Revitalization, Hell in a Handbasket, Wreck of the Hesperus
Efforts to revitalize archaic phrases like "cripes" and "hell in a handbasket" are discussed, with the latter potentially originating from the use of baskets to catch heads at the guillotine. Another phrase, "the wreck of the Hesperus," is traced back to a famous shipwreck that became a shorthand for a messy room. The goal is to create a canonical list of these older epithets to use as modern memes.
