
115 = Jolly Good Euphemising and Hollywood Sign Sizing
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🍆 What’s the “female equivalent” of phallic?
What’s the font size of the Hollywood sign?
🦈 And we’re always open for AOBusiness
Thanks to our excellent experts appearing in voicenote form - Dr Ben Whittle, Chella Quint OBE, and Linus Boman.
Daan’s paper in the American Journal of Archaeology which cites this very podcast: doi.org/10.1086/735650
The world’s largest enlarged letter: https://www.pleasedonotbend.co.uk/categories/world-record
If you’re heading to the Edinburgh Fringe, you can get tickets to see Bec here: https://tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk/event/14:5884/
And you can get tickets see to Matt here: https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/getting-triggy-it-matt-parker-does-maths
Here’s how to get involved with Matt’s Moon Pi Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/standupmaths
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