Booster clothing required more planning than expected
COVID booster appointments were dominating people’s diaries.
Scott and Chris had heard from listeners arriving dressed in clothes which made upper-arm access unnecessarily difficult.
One woman had experienced a wardrobe malfunction while trying to expose the correct part of her shoulder.
Scott’s advice was practical.
Wear something with a sleeve which moves easily.
Do not turn a five-second injection into a changing-room puzzle.
Who-Vent remembered the Juan Sheet era
Door 16 of the Who-Vent Calendar returned to a kitchen-roll advertising campaign remembered by almost everybody.
Juan Sheet.
The recurring character played on the claim that one sheet of the product could do the work of several ordinary sheets.
Scott and Chris had not discussed the advert in years.
Hearing it again immediately placed them back in the period when the character was everywhere.
Exactly what Who-Vent was designed to do.
Gary went 4,200 miles for a hook-up
Hook-up Higher or Lower returned with Gary, also known as Woody.
His random fact was a remarkably long tongue which could reach his nose and chin.
The mileage was even more striking.
Around:
4,200 miles.
Gary had met a woman on holiday, remained in contact and later travelled to Orlando.
She worked around Disney World.
The visit came with the extraordinary benefit of access to the parks as well as the romantic reason for travelling.
Scott thought this sounded like one of the better long-distance hook-up packages the feature had heard.
The next caller needed only five metres
Then came another Chris, from Gloucestershire.
His random fact involved being attacked by a swan while working around deliveries or farm paperwork.
His hook-up distance:
roughly five metres.
The person lived next door.
Scott and Chris loved how the feature could move from an international flight to walking a few steps across adjoining properties.
Mileage clearly had no relationship with effort, outcome or romance.
Lewis Capaldi’s festive Bangers returned
The archive went back to a Christmas edition of Bangers featuring Lewis Capaldi.
Scott, Chris and Lewis each supplied a festive track and a caller had to choose.
The clip included Lewis’s relationship with *Fairytale of New York* and the same deliberately chaotic competitive energy the feature always had.
The transcript occasionally mislabels names around the archive intro, but the material is clearly Lewis Capaldi.
Christmas crackers and festive covers finished the quiz
Don’t Look It Up went fully seasonal.
Cracker jokes included the usual awful puns.
Santa crossed with a duck becomes a Christmas quacker.
A desert carol becomes O Camel Ye Faithful.
Christmas songs were also remixed into unfamiliar electronic or dubstep versions.
By the end of Thursday, Scott and Chris had reached the point where almost every ordinary feature had acquired a Santa hat.
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