Topic: Hell In A Handbasket

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Probably a Super Delegate
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.