Answer Me This! - AMT202: Leap Years, Teddy Boys and Andy McNab

Episode Date: January 26, 2012

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To support sustainable food production, BHP is building one of the world's largest potash mines in Canada. Essential resources responsibly produced. It's happening now at BHP, a future resources company. Simon Cowell's called off his engagement, who saw that one coming? That's to be this, that's to be this. Who'd have thought Hollyoaks would still be running? That's to be this, that's to be this. You're wrong, Helen Oh, no That never happens

I don't believe it That literally never happens What have I done? Well, married Martin, number one We could be here all day The relevant point is Maria, who's been in touch to say You're wrong, Hugh Laurie's album is amazing. I didn't say it wasn't amazing.

I just said I didn't want to hear it. Yeah, actually, I remember that moment. I said, are you interested in Hugh Laurie doing a blues album? You said, as any reasonable person would, no. I love hearing him do Face Trumpet on Fry & Laurie. I want to keep that just pure. She says, Hugh Laurie's album is amazing. I must have listened to it about a hundred times.

Good for you, but you and I are different people, Maria, and I don't want to listen to it. Anyway, she says other than that, last week was a great Answer Me This episode. Well, about 60 billion people disagree with you, Maria. There aren't even that many in the world. A lot of you have written in, so, oh, you're idiots, you don't know the peas pudding rhyme.

Peas pudding hot, peas pudding cold, peas pudding in the pot nine days old. No, I don't. Never heard it. I knew it. I'd just forgotten it because it's not a good rhyme. It's not got a catchy tune like Food Glorious Food has got that helps you remember it. Although I did say, didn't I, when you said that it was Food Glorious Food, that that wasn't a nursery rhyme. That should have been, we should have all realised that that wasn't it.

Depends on the kind of nurseries you hang around in. In Olly Mann's nursery, Lionel Bart is a nursery rhyme. I came down the staircase every day in my nursery going, with one look. Well, now I know the peas pudding rhyme. And from peas in a pudding to peas in a pudding, this is from Carol from Greenock, who says, my 17-year-old son makes ice lollies from frozen peas by adding wait for it coca-cola to the peas oh what fresh hell is this and placing a teaspoon into it as it freezes to use as a lolly stick that's the only part of this bit that i agree with so helen answer me this do you think the ice lolly companies might want to use this idea commercially wouldn't have thought so they don't even seem that inclined

to use real fruit well i reckon coca Coca-Cola have analysed the market for ice lollies before. They're a big global conglomerate. Are they? Are they doing well? Yeah, they are, Helen. And I reckon if they wanted to enter that market, do a, say, 40p Coca-Cola branded version. They've had their opportunity. They'd probably use the classic cola flavour first Or possibly cherry coke Before using pulses I mean how did the pea flavoured coke line Work out It's a horrific idea Wasn't that new coke

I think they only sold it in South America didn't they The thing is though it is made of a secret blend Of vegetable extracts isn't it So that is for all we know peas might be in there As it is But they'll never be able to market it on the basis of how peas in is the point. No, I think if anything, that would put people off the cola lolly that they might have been waiting all this time for. Exactly.

So even if peas were the magic ingredient, Carol, they wouldn't like, I imagine, your son's lollies to have visible whole peas as chunks in the middle. Also, I just don't think it would look nice. Well, here's a question from Chris from Harlow who says, I've just finished a rather lovely curry at my local indian restaurant have a good morning tomorrow and as and as per usual we received some hot towels to wash our hands and face with after we finished however surely it can't be cost efficient to offer every diner a hot towel after their meal after all it only seems to be chinese and indian restaurants that do it so ollie answer

me this why do chinese and indian restaurants give out hot towels at the end of the meal and what was the first place to do it well okay firstly your point about it being cost effective before i get onto the origins of this putting a reusable towel in a microwave yeah it's the most cost efficient thing think of all the things that they could give you to make you feel special and first class shortly before you receive the bill exactly and to get your muck off your hands so you don't smear the restaurant with gravy and yes and a reusable towel dunked in water which last time i checked comes free out the tap well it's not free free it's pretty free they're paying for it anyway they're paying for it in the third world um so i think actually cost efficiency wise is

very sensible thing to handle more so than the mints disagree with actually cost efficiency wise is a very sensible thing to hand out more so than the mints disagree with your cost efficiency point I can think of nothing else that would create that feeling of being spoiled that's so cheap but

I know what to get you for your birthday we've got a microwave heaven so anyway where was the first place to do it no one knows it's a Japanese tradition

based on oshibori that's what they call it oh yeah which literally means hot towel so it's not like it's not we got this tradition so we better just take it very literally but it's funny that isn't it a lot of japanese things like that like karaoke sounds like an exotic thing that just means like singing words or something something like that don't write and tell me

exactly what it means but it's something like that it's a literal word it doesn't surprise me that it's japanese because um they seem very keen on customs promote cleanliness, particularly where food and drink are concerned. And also they seem very embarrassed personally if they're not clean. Here's a question from Darren from across the pond. He lives on Hampstead Heath. He says, my partner's cousin and her husband, a Baptist minister, stopped by on Christmas day for dinner. While I genuinely like them, that's generous of you, every time we share a meal, we must

hold hands around the table and pray for what seems like an eternity. You don't pray for eternity, Darren, for anything about Christianity. You get that anyway. Well, you pray that your soul isn't in internal damnation. That's right, yeah. So it's probably worth spending the eternity now to save on the eternity later. That's right. I'm an atheist.

I find it very rude that they come to my house and make us go through this ritual. They're only trying to save your soul. I would not dream of going to anyone's home for a meal and make them conform to my belief system if I was not completely certain that they shared it. So, Helen, answer me this. What should

I do? Maybe don't invite a Baptist minister around on Christmas Day. What do you think's going to happen? It's his cousin and he likes his cousin. And you're not going to say to your cousin, don't bring your husband, especially if you like the husband as well. Maybe just invite them around for drinks and not for meals. Yeah, maybe.

I mean, look, if it was any other lunch, I'd probably agree with you. But I think on Christmas Day, he's allowed. It's the most important day of the Christmas. No, it's not. That's Easter. No, Christmas is more important. You can't ask a Christian not to pray on Christmas Day. It's the most important day of the Christmas. No, it's not. That's Easter. No, Christmas is more important. You can't ask a Christian not to pray on Christmas Day.

It's ridiculous. Exactly, that would be more offensive and rude, wouldn't it? But I take your point. He could pray before he went in. That's true. I do think it's a bit presumptuous. I don't think it's the prayer itself. I think it's more that they have lumbered everybody with what they want to do, regardless of what everybody else wants.

If Darren is going to someone else's house and they choose to pray, you just keep your head down and don't make an exhibition of yourself and just go along with it. But coming to somebody else's house, I agree, it's their problem, really. I think in that situation, I would take the hit and be like, OK, well, I've got to pray for two fucking minutes.

I'll just, you know, swallow my atheist pride for 120 seconds and have a nice Christmas day. Is that an energy drink? Atheist pride. It's a bitter. I've just had a great idea. I doubt it, but let's see. Just before you all hold hands, everybody pick up a cracker.

Then put up with the praying. And then after the amen, bang! If you've got a question Email your question To answer me this Podcast at googlemail.com Answer me this Podcast at googlemail.com

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And on Friday, the UFO sighting that gripped colonial America. We discuss this and more on Today in History with The Retrospectors. Ten minutes each weekday, wherever you get your podcasts. Time for a question from Hayley, who says, As 2012 is a leap year, I was thinking about proposing to my boyfriend. What? Oh, I wouldn't want to marry him at any other time. But opportunity knocks.

I don't understand. Traditionally, on the 29th of February, a lady is allowed to reverse the natural order of things and propose to her gentleman friend. I see. It's 5th century Irish tradition when St. Bridget complained to St. Patrick that women had to wait for ages for men to propose. And so St. Patrick decided that

women were allowed this one day every four years to propose to men. And also, if men refused, they had to pay a fine of usually a pretty garment or something for the lady. And also, interestingly, February the 29th, which was a late addition to the calendar, of course, to even up the days, had no legal status.

And I wonder whether that meant that just anything happened on that day was just so crazy that even something as mad as a woman proposing to a man could take place. Something as topsy-turvy as a woman being in control of her own destiny and sexual feelings. Anyway, Hayley continues. I know he, my boyfriend, wants to get married, as we've talked about it before,

and he's told me he thinks of me as his fiancée. Is that him asking in a really rubbish way? I think it might be, isn't it? He's not playing his cards close to his chest, is he? I think the reason he hasn't asked yet himself is that he's currently in education and not earning enough to buy a ring. Well, the ring's only the start of it.

If you want to get married, even the most minimalist way is going to cost you hundreds of pounds. That's right, yeah. Registrars, they don't come cheap. And to be honest, when he leaves education at the moment, he's not going to get a job.

He's not going to have any money for ages. Maybe he could pass the time by hand-making rings out of discarded household objects. We've been together for two years and lived together for about one and a half years very happily. I honestly can't stand to be away from him for one night

and he's the same. He loves himself too. I really do. He's indivisible from himself. I really do want to marry him and spend the rest of my life with him. This is good practice for me, reading this kind of schmaltz without any kind of irony.

It's all right, because Ollie only cries when he sees a killer whale dancing. It's funny because it's true So Helen answer me this Do you think Women should ask men To marry them And then she's got a series of other questions Okay well I'll just answer this one first

I don't see why not but I think Why on this day If you want to ask him just ask him Any other day That's my instinct too but then perhaps you could argue and i'm just playing devil's advocate here because i kind of agree with you but perhaps you could argue that marriage is quite a traditional thing to do full stop so if you're gonna do it why not do the traditional thing of having the man ask you and then be the little woman who has no legal rights like traditional marriage well but that's

become a chattel but i'm I'm saying this from the point of view of someone who doesn't want to get married because I think it's outdated. But I'm saying if you're going to do it. And because you don't want the hassle. Will he feel a little emasculated? Depends what kind of man he is, I think. Martin, would you have felt emasculated

had I asked you? Because I felt emasculated that you asked me. He needed a bit of emasculating. Strongly agree. Well, it's difficult. I think if I were in his position and I was asked by my girlfriend for marriage, I would feel like I wasn't really ready

to be able to put on a good show for the wedding. I'll tell you how I'd feel, actually. I'd feel like she was asking me, but really she would want me to then ask her, because it's so embedded in our culture that the man asks the woman. Even though she asked me, I'd then propose to her anyway somewhere else. That's what happened

with Britney and Kevin Federline. Is it? Yeah, she asked him and he said no and then he asked her thinking, meal ticket! That's very strange, isn't it? Because there's a certain aspect of the proposal that for the woman it's finally like a sense that the man has committed to them. But then Hayley and her boyfriend have only been

together for two and a half years, which to her seems like a long time But in many ways is still in the honeymoon period She continues I'm a little worried that I may be robbing him of the chance to propose to me And losing the once in a lifetime opportunity to be proposed to From that sentence it sounds like actually Hayley would like not to propose to him And it's not because of the emasculation etc

She wants to have that moment where she's sure that he wants to get married and they do the thing that makes her feel feminine maybe and do i have to buy him a ring she says if she proposes to him yes yes i think you do otherwise you're not proposing are you if the man proposed to you without a ring you'd consider it an insult so yes if you're going to do it properly yes now if this was a zoe de chanel film yes and she was doing the proposing oh everyone would say yes, wouldn't they? Especially Martin. They would. But she'd do it in a kooky way that didn't involve a ring,

wouldn't she? She'd probably make a playlist or something. She'd put some special bell on his bicycle that reminded him of her every time he rang it. Yeah, exactly. And she'd synchronise his phone with his computer with the doorbell so that they all played the moldy peaches or

something and everyone watching it would be like oh my god that's so hot but actually i think you need a ring unless you're men don't really wear engagement style rings often do they oh now that's true because you the lady typically gets something quite ornate for an engagement ring but actually the man doesn't want that he wants normally quite a simple band or a digger yeah get him a digger every man wants a digger you could sort of stand on the uh on the scoopy bit and propose from there that'll be adorable helen and ollie answer me this i don't want you to dance or kiss but reveal your theories and take off your muzzle ponder my query and solve this puzzle it's swell good golly you crazy kids oh Helen and Ollie answer me this Okay, time to take a question from our phone line, the number for which is...

02081235807 Or you can Skype answer me this. If you like. You can sound more positive about it, Helen. It's a good thing to do. Yeah, it's a free service. Woo! Skype answer me this. Yeah, just make sure you're not folding your phone more positive about it, Helen. It's a good thing to do. It's a free service. Woo! Skype answer me this. Yeah, just make sure you're not folding your phone in a strong wind, please, because then we can't hear what you say. Yeah, that's annoying.

And let's see who's called us today. Hello, it's Judy from Plymouth here again. Helen and Ollie answer me this. A word of the phrase, losing one's marbles, came to mean becoming insane or forgetting something there. I read a brilliantly bonkers theory about this that is really blatantly untrue. This expression evolved out of the British thieving the Elgin Marbles. I wonder whether that had something to do with it.

No, of course it doesn't. Well, it's ridiculous, isn't it? Great ruse, though, isn't it? Ollie's looking blank. Have you not heard of the Elgin Marbles? I'm afraid not. Did you just sleep for your first 20 years or so and absorb zero information? I wasn't classically educated, Helen.

Well, there used to be a freeze around the Parthenon in Athens, in Greece. You've heard of Greece, right? I've heard of Greece. It's the word. And so the Brits swiped them, put them in the British Museum. Now they won't give them back. So it's a marble, not a set of marbles.

I assumed it was some massive marble. Hey, I'm artists just as stupid as me. The Elgin Marbles? I've never seen them. Literally no idea what they look like. Anyway. Where are they now? They're in the British Museum. And the Brits don't want to give them back because they're saying, well, the Greeks can't never seen them. Literally no idea what they look like. Anyway. Where are they now? The British Museum. And the Brits don't want to

give them back because they're saying, well, the Greeks can't look after them. Right, yeah, yeah. Anyway, this expression, it probably derives from the French marbles in the 19th century, which just meant your stuff. So if you'd lost all your stuff, your life was in tatters. I have this image of, like, spectacularly dropping a bag of marbles

and they're just rolling underneath all of your furniture and you can't find them again. I think that works quite well. Yeah. I think that's why it still has power. Kelly Mara. She's Dave, phoning in from sunny Cyprus again. My young apprentice dazzled me this morning with his knowledge

when he informed me where a teddy bear gets its name from. Now, as nonplussed as I was by this little gem, it did get me thinking. Helen and Ollie, answer me this. Where does a teddy boy get its name from? Now, as nonplussed as I was by this little gem, it did get me thinking. Helen and Ollie, answer me this. Where does a teddy boy get its name from? I assume there is no connection between Teddy Roosevelt, wasn't it? President of the USA teddy bear thing and

50s rock and rollers. Not much. Teddy boys were so cool because of the Edwardian look, weren't they? That's right. They were reviving the fashions of generations previous, as people do now. 80s revivalists that weren't they? That's right. They were reviving the fashions of generations previous, as people do now, 80s revivalists that weren't even alive. Oh. Brick Lane.

Okay. It was that, and they were originally called Cosh Boys because they were often quite violent. And one of the advantages of the Teddy Boy jackets was that they were quite roomy and had a lot of pockets, so you could hide weaponry in them and booze. It's one of the ironies about the name, isn't it? Sounds so cosy.

You sound like, out of everyone, out of rockers and punks you'd give a teddy boy a hug wouldn't you yeah i wouldn't know because uh because they'd knife in the back and also they've got those big greasy quiffs and that would hit you in the face and leave a mark that's right uh the express newspaper claimed credit for having coined the term in 1953 the last good thing they did because they shortened edward to teddy and put it on their front page about the teddy boys but the term in 1953. It was the last good thing they did. Because they shortened Edward to Teddy and put it on their front page about the Teddy Boys. But the term was in use before that. So they were reviving the traditions

of the Edwardian period. Well, not the traditions, not the etiquette and the butlers, just the look. Not the pre-First World War, arms race, etc. Not that. Just the look.

Yeah. And then that got shortened to Teddy for Edwardian. Yeah, and then the look. But I wonder whether, as well, this look kind of took off because, you know, after the war, there was still clothes rationing

and probably the mid-50s was the first time that this generation had been able to afford clothes and express themselves through them because before the war, they wouldn't have been old enough or alive

and clothes were very expensive. So maybe this is the first great teen fashion movement, the Teddy Boys. Presumably a lot of clothing like pre-Second World War was quite class-oriented. A lot of class divisions got broken up

in the First and Second World War, and suddenly there was this slightly classless style. It had Edwardian, presumably, had slightly posh connotations, but they weren't posh people, the Teddy Boys. No, in fact, it was a big working-class movement. In a way, then, it's kind of like the Beatles wearing suits or something.

Yeah, exactly. That doesn't happen now, does it? What, a nice band wearing suits that is young? Arctic Monkeys or something. Well, he's quite a dandy, Alex, but in a country gentleman way. Wouldn't come out in white tie, though, would they? Or something very formal. That's a good point.

Why aren't any of these bands wearing white tie and tails? White tie looks great on guys. Morning suits, fantastic. What if you dribble something on it? What, what's the problem? Well, then you've got an eggy stain on your white tie But that applies for any outfit, Alan Don't take eggs on stage

Sometimes you might need a valuable shot of protein Before performing a concert Hello It's former Prime Minister and Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher here While waiting to die, I tune the wireless to AnswerMeThisPodcast.com and watch Loose Women with the sound down. It could tame the unions any day.

Girl power! Here's a question from Becca from Chesterfield who says, the ex-SAS turned author Andy McNabb really bugs me. I just don't understand why he hides his face. Surely people can find out more about him from knowing his name and current slash past occupations than they can from having seen his face. So answer me this, Ollie. Why does he feel the need to hide himself from the world

and yet it seems everyone can know his name and life story? I think he feels the need because he's got terrorists who are tracking him down who want to kill him. It strikes me as naive a bit, this. And is Andy McNabb even his real name? I always assume not. Yeah, no, it's his pseudonym, yeah. Well, then it's quite hard to track down that Andy McNabb. And I know that

he did specific things, like he was a sniper in a place. So did rather a lot of other ex-servicemen. Yeah. But also, if he revealed his face, then presumably some of the things in his non-fiction books would put people in danger because you'd be able to more readily associate

who they were if they were out in the field with him. Maybe he doesn't reveal his face because it's very at odds with the character he's taken pains to establish. Actually, he's got a pencil moustache and a monocle. He looks like John Waters. His contract, apparently, with the MOD

says that he still has to send his writing off to them to be assessed. Wow, so he doesn't give anything away that is actually of sensitivity and import. Yeah, exactly. Good point.

Nationwide secrets and stuff. But you'd think, if that was the case, if he's on that sort of contract, if he knows that sort of stuff, that he'd be banned from writing at all, wouldn't he? Well, I think anyone who's in the SAS would be under the sort of Official Secrets Act. I wonder how effective Andy McNabb's books have been as a recruitment tool for the military.

Well, this is what I was getting at here. Oh! I think the MOD probably would stop someone even slightly hinting at things that could reveal state secrets but for the fact that clearly it's the case isn't it that this is like a promotional drive his stuff because it makes it look cool doesn't it and gives you a career as an author if you've already dreamt of that yeah all your life yeah well seriously there's a point there isn't there you know you come out and see amazing experiences that other people will be it will make you more interesting it's basically what it's advertising as well as look at the danger and the excitement. Here's a question now from Jenny who says, Helen, answer me this. Prior to the invention of email, did computer keyboards have the at symbol?

Yep. And I, in fact, have got a typewriter from, I don't know, the 30s and that's got it on there. And I always thought, is it really worth giving this its own key? Well, they used to have it on fruit and vegetables, didn't they? They'd have apples and pears. It would be 10 apples at 10 pence each with the at symbol in the middle to denote the price of fruit per fruit well i've always confused me about the at symbol even when i was a little girl seeing it at the greengrocers i thought is that really quicker than writing the two-letter word at yeah and so why did that come about as a thing well actually it probably is a

bit quicker because you just have to do a big squiggle and it's very instantly recognisable. It's probably international as well, isn't it? Well, it is now. It's done very well for itself, the app symbol. I'll tell you what needs reviving because it's now a sign of something that is, again, just too old to exist. The underscore.

You see an underscore in an email address or on a Twitter handle, you just think, oh, that's old. Actually, Ollie, underscore is a very common character used in SQL databases. You took the words right out of my mouth, but that said... Must have been when you were kissing. But listen, friends,

if you're starting your Twitter handle with an underscore, that's a bad... There's so many reasons why it's bad. Like, one of them, very simply, is if you write it down on pen and paper and show it to someone They don't know whether it's a dash or an underscore Secondly, you have to press shift to use it Which means old people just can't handle it either

They don't want to handle it But I just wonder if a website came along Like the Twitter of the future That somehow changed the underscore so it was something else Made it sexy again Sexy underscore I'm bringing underscore back Well, here's a question from Charles from Nottingham and HMS Vanguard.

Two places at once. He's either from two places or he's got a friend called HMS Vanguard who's with him saying this question. But that's a weird nickname if he has. He says, answer me this, why are storks known for bringing the newborns to the mothers? Well, because midwives have been cut horrendously in recent years. Is this something that Disney has started? No.

Or is it from way before then? Yeah, ages before. It would be a bit radical for Disney to put that as a message in their cartoons if it wasn't an established idea, wouldn't it? I don't know. Birds doing the cleaning. Not quite the same, though, as a substitute for sex. I mean, that's just a racy area to get into, isn't it?

It's not a substitute for sex. It's a substitute for the horror that is labour. Okay, yes. Slash cesarean. Well, actually, as you say it like even if you leave the sex bit out of it yeah i mean you don't want really kids to see that visual image do you even if you explain you know they come out of your mummy you don't want to actually in a cartoon in the singing dancing uh silly symphonies type cartoon see that that in vivid detail. Now I'm wondering whether I had the same Disney films that everybody else had. They're very bloody.

Where did this image of the Storks come from? Was it from the butter? Do you know what? Apparently Storks are very family orientated birds and I find it difficult to ascribe emotion to birds. They always seem so chilly. But the Storks, they're apparently very conscientious homemakers. They look after the children very gently.

They return to the same place year after year. And apparently the myth went that when the storks migrated to the south each year for the winter, they went to Egypt to a swamp where the souls of unborn children live and brought them back. Did you ever get told in anything attempting seriousness by any of your relatives that you were brought here by the Storks? Because kids do ask. Don't know. That's where this has come from originally. No, no one

ever said, oh, I found you under the cabbage patch or anything like that. You were told from a very young age that I was a mistake. You were a mistake. I nearly gave birth to you in the toilet and I never wanted you. All of those things. G'day. I'm a daredevil answer me this how many wasabi peas can i put in my mouth at once and continue reading this sentence touch five Reading this sentence. Class of five.

A question about the magic of live television now to finish off this week's episode of Answer Me This. It's from Dan in London who says, Helen, answer me this. During live TV broadcasts on commercial stations, what do presenters presenters guests and audiences do during the ad breaks well have a massive orgy dan but only for three minutes then they have to quickly spruce themselves up oh ant and deck saturday night takeaway was a complete riot very bacchanalian um they all do different things don't they presenters guests and audiences

different beast in my experience that's the time when the presenters, etc. get to communicate with the behind the scenes team, say the producer, or they can receive new information, etc. If it's an interactive show as well, they can also decide what tweet or email they're going to read out when they come back from the ad break. Yes. The makeup people will scurry on and powder them

because they're getting a bit shiny and sweaty under the lights. What happens if it's like a live studio audience for like a live show? In the ad breaks, does the host tell some jokes and just keep them entertained? Usually what happens, if it's the kind of show where the audience have to be psyched up. So I mean, obviously it's one thing if they're going to watch

some Newsnight debate or something. They're quite psyched already. I'm going to see Jeremy Faxman I've got an amazing question lined up Will he notice me? Assuming it's something You know like the Jonathan Ross show Or even a daytime chat show like Loose Women

Where they're supposed to be rowdy Now X Factor presumably they put vibrators in their seats Now I know why you like it The warm up guy usually comes up I say guy it can be a woman but it's it's never a woman um the warm-up guy comes out and sort of uh psychs them up again i'd like to see what happens at something really really long and boring but full of famous people like the oscars because there's so many ad breaks they must be bored shitless or if they haven't won

something's gonna go off badly with them there well they're not supposed to go to the loo apart from during the breaks are they because it bad. But they've got those people that sit in their seat fillers. If I was Jack Nicholson, I'd go to the loo whenever I bloody wanted. Well, he's old. He doesn't really have much choice. Well, there we are.

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