Dust Bunnies and Ghost Turds - 6 April 2009

[This episode was first aired November 22, 2008.]<br/><br/>Feeling fankled? It's a Scots English word that means 'messed up' or 'confused.' In this week's episode, Grant and Martha also discuss a whole litter of synonyms for 'dust bunny,' a slew of different terms for the piece of playground equipment you slide on, and the proper way to refer to a baby platypus.<br/><br/>When you were growing up, what did you call that piece of playground equipment that you climb up and then slide down? A former New Jersey resident recalls that when her family moved to Indiana, her playmates were startled when she called it a sliding board. They called it simply a slide. So is sliding board a regional term? Yes, indeed. Depending on where you grew up, you might have spent your childhood whooshing down a sliding pon, a sliding pond, or a sliding pot. Then there's the British name for it, chute, as well as Yiddish glistch, and Australian slippery dip.<br/><br/>You know the type: Those guys whose everyday wardrobes are the fashion equivalent of oatmeal, with nothing fancier than khaki pants and knit shirts. One such fashion minimalist wonders if there's a specific terms for guys like him. He puts the question this way: 'What's the opposite of a clothes horse?' Martha and Grant try to come up with a suit-able term. 'Label-agnostic,' maybe?<br/><br/>Quick! That stuff under your bed--what do you call it? Dust bunnies? House moss? Beggar's velvet? Ghost turds? Those fluffy little puffballs go by lots of different names. But a caller is perplexed by his mother's term for those ever-multiplying dustwads: slut's wool.<br/><br/>Quiz Guy Johnny C--a.k.a. John Chaneski--works his magic with a new puzzle called 'Three's a Charm.' The object of the game is to figure out the one word that can be placed in front of each of three other words to form three new, understandable terms. Like this: What one word fits before the words 'surgery,' 'history,' and 'exam'? We thought 'rectal' might work, but turns out it didn't.<br/><br/>How about the phrase