Bogarting Bangers - 31 Aug. 2009

[This episode first aired June 6, 2009.]<br/><br/>Has the age of email led to an outbreak of exclamation marks? Do women use them more than men? Also, is there a word for the odd feeling when you listen to a radio personality for years, then discover that they look nothing like your mental picture of them? And what's the origin of the verb 'to bogart'?<br/><br/>Writing in the 'Guardian,' Stuart Jeffries contends that our email boxes are being infested with exclamation marks <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/29/exclamation-mark-punctuation>, known as 'bangs' or 'bangers' (without mash) to some people. Jacob Rubin also wrote on the subject <http://www.slate.com/id/2173076/pagenum/all/> a couple of years ago in Slate.<br/><br/>If you tell a buddy, 'Don't bogart that joint,' you're telling him not to hog the marijuana cigarette. Ahem. We know phrase was popularized in the film 'Easy Rider' (performed by The Fraternity of Man <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6yMj0JGLWs>) but does it have anything to do with Humphrey Bogart?<br/><br/>You know that odd feeling when you've listened to a radio personality for years, but when you finally meet them, they look nothing like you'd imagined? Is there a word for that weird disconnect? 'Radiofreude,' maybe?<br/><br/>Martha shares what F. Scott Fitzgerald and Elmore Leonard had to say about exclamation marks. Short version: Neither is a fan.<br/><br/>Quiz Guys John Chaneski and Greg Pliska lead a couple of rounds of 'Chain Reaction,' a word game that's great for parties and long car rides. Two players try to make a third one guess the word that the other two are thinking of. The trick is that they have to give alternating one-word clues to build a sentence. Hilarity ensues. Hillary sues.<br/><br/>Why do some people refer to a couch or a sofa as a 'davenport'?<br/><br/>How should you pronounce the word 'gala' <http://www.bartleby.com/61/9/G0010900.html>?<br/><br/>Grant reports some etymological news: A recent article in the journal American Speech suggests a new source for