David Baddiel and Rev Richard Coles in Stand Up & Deliver
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Do you ever have that feeling where you’re so interested in something you can hardly hear it? It’s so gripping, your ears freeze up with a sort of overattentiveness? It’s like the opposite of glazing over with boredom (a skill with which I’ve never been blessed); more like a deafness brought on by a desperate anxiety to hear.
I get it when a hotly debated answer is about to be read out in a pub quiz. I get it when a friend says, “You won’t believe who Sarah’s seeing now…”. I would have got it at the beginning of the “roadmap broadcast” on Monday night, if its contents hadn’t been so comprehensively leaked beforehand. Honestly, they’re really going to have to work on the theatre of these announcements.
Today is Angel s 41st birthday. So, I decided to take a deep dive into the number 41 to see what it really means for Angel as she launches into her fifth decade of really loud and obnoxious existence. And, yes, Angel! Your FIFTH decade!!
I checked out Affinity Numerology s website in hopes it would shed some light on the big FORTY-ONE. As I expected, it provided some probing and interesting insights, which I have reacted to and adapted for my morning show cohost.
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Here are Affinity Numerology s key descriptors for the number 41 and how I think they relate to Angel.
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My mom was a registered nurse for nearly 50 years. She retired two years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. One of her first jobs was working as a nurse s aide at a rest home in rural Alabama where she remembers wiping brown streams of chewing tobacco-tinged drool from the faces of old women who were too weak or disoriented to clean their own faces. My mom told me many touching, cringeworthy and funny stories throughout her career. As the COVID-19 pandemic grinds on, there is one patient from my mom s long career whom I think of quite often, an anonymous person that I know of as the Unknown Patient.
Science is all about questions â but how many of these can you get right?
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Science is all about questions. What is the sun? Why is gravity? I wonder what would happen if we made this thing go super fast and then smashed it into little bits?
Quiz shows are also, in their way, about questions, although even the best ones rarely come close to science s potential to create a black hole that destroys the universe. What they do have over science, though, is a hard time limit to actually get answers.