Bunny Trails

This episode is inspired by the raw emotions of a teenager as we explore the word scar and the phrase "Scarred for Life". Dan quotes many animated 90s movies. Shauna waxes poetic. Dan creates new baseball team mascots. #BunnyTrails   Note: Dan's mic is a little wonky on this one. But fortunately Shauna does most of the talking. We'll get that fixed. Copyright 2022 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

What happens when we, as speakers of a language, just decide to misquote a phrase until it takes on a life of its own? You get something like "Gild the Lily". Hear Shauna swoon over Heath Ledger in a Knight's Tale while Dan treks through Oscar Wilde shade, bad technicolor movies, and puppy-sized elephants to tell this week's story on #BunnyTrails. Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

How long can a chicken live without its head? Despite internet stories to the contrary, running around like a headless chicken doesn't come from chickens, nor does it come from a literal removal of the head. You can get the real story on this week's #BunnyTrails. Bonus: Procrastination tips and time travel. Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

Shauna and Dan talk about the ancient phrase, never look a gift horse in the mouth. What would $200,000 in 1912 be worth today? Is it true you can tell the age of a horse by looking at its teeth?  What is the best ice cream flavor? Listen now, because we have answers to one of those questions on this week's #BunnyTrails Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved Get all the cool features! Find the show notes at our forever home!

Shauna and Dan take a cool drink of gourd water this week as they explore the phrase Cool as a Cucumber. We learn Dan abhors cucumbers unless they've been drowned in vinegar and he dislikes some of the previous words for cucumbers. It seems some old-timey folks disliked them, too. Bonus discussion: is cereal a soup? #BunnyTrails Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved Get exclusive content for as little as $3 a month! Shownotes, Bios, and links to everything we do!

This week Shauna and Dan look into the phrase, Right Up My Street, and its counterpart, Right Up My Alley. Plus, a bonus look into the origin story of Sob Sister, an early 20th Century term for women reporters. #BunnyTrails Find the show notes and links to everything we do! Join the community, including our new tier with original digital artwork by Shauna! Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

This week we learn it's not just a picture that paints a thousand words. Join Shauna and Dan as they explore the other ways a thousand words have been used. Plus, Dan's musical mind disease. And we learn which came first, sliced bread or the toaster. #BunnyTrails Show notes, plus links to everything we do! Join the community, including our new $10 tier with original digital artwork from Shauna! Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

This week Shauna and Dan look at all the things that could have gone wrong, and how they actually did. Well... sort of. We look at the phrase Murphy's Law. We step into the bitter feud that seems to exist here and look at how this phrase from the 1800s got named, maybe, in the 1940s. We just present the facts as we know them. Don't at us. Or do. #BunnyTrails Check out the show notes, or links to everything we do! Join the Community, including our new $10 tier with original digital artwork from Shauna! Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

This week Shauna and Dan explore the phrase Every Rose Has Its Thorn. We learn the Hawthorne rose can cause loss of vision if the torn scratches the cornea of your eye. How is this helpful? Shauna knows. It's medical journals, farthings, calf-boots, and classic rock on this week's #BunnyTrails Join the Community! Get the show notes for free! Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

Shauna and Dan explore the phrase 'bull in a china shop'. They start with silly songs before imagining Cary Grant and the Golden Girls in an old-timey murder mystery. Then it's dance battles between high school principals before settling down with a refined bovine enjoying a spot of tea. Plus a new segment to end the show! #BunnyTrails See the show notes! Join the Community! Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

WERE-PANTHERS?!   Dan introduces you to this retro episode on dead as a doornail where he and Shauna discuss the origins of door-nails and alternate phrases like dour as a doornail and dead as a herring. A HERRING!!! Plus, sage building advice from the writings of Bob Villa.   Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

This week Shauna and Dan look at the history of "Silent as...", such as silent as the night and silent as the grave. Dan shares a creepy story, then messes up the outro. Shauna talks XXX, which is either pornography or roman numerals. #BunnyTrails #AfterDark Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

Shauna and Dan explore why the lion is called the King of the Jungle when they don't live in jungles. Turns out, our view of what "jungle" means today may be heavily skewed by the pop culture of the late-1800s and mid-1960s. Looking at you, Rudyard Kipling. Bonus conversations about mockbusters, animated 90s movies, and the great con artist PT Barnum. #BunnyTrails Join the Community! See the show notes! Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

Dan is an uncultured swine and did not know what a Penny Dreadful was. Shauna educates him and explores the origins and alternative names to this popular literary phenomenon from the 1800s. Special thanks to Victorian Britain for making this episode possible. #BunnyTrails Join the community and support this educational artform! Find links to everything we do! Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

This week Shauna and Dan discuss the concepts of "Keeping Score". From its Old Norse roots to the sports and marriages of today. With appearances by pretentious kitchen appliances, Durant/Durant, and bartenders with a word about P's & Q's. Catch it all on this week's #BunnyTrails! Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

This week Shauna and Dan explore the numerous origin stories of the phrase get down to brass tacks. Does it come to use from rhyming slang or coffin nails? Or perhaps furniture making or clothing materials. Or does it come to us from an older phrase not having anything to do with brass tacks? Find out on this week's #BunnyTrails   Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

This week Shauna and Dan talk with author Grace Tierney about her new book, Words the Vikings Gave Us. From Bluetooth to Narwhal, the Old Norse language gave or influenced some of English's most well-known words. Plus there's talk of Vikings the TV show, the Viking role in the unicorn mythos, and Norse inspirations in video games.  #BunnyTrails Check out Grace: wordfoolery.wordpress.com  Words the Vikings Gave Us: amzn.to/3kuDbUr   Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

This week Shauna and Dan talk about how the pupil is a hole in your eye, but is also sorta shaped like an apple. Kinda? Anyway, you can be the apple of our eyes by listening to the show and sharing it with others!  Also, if you are financially able, join our kick-butt club at www.patreon.com/bunnytrailspod Also, check out The Endless Knot, https://www.alliterative.net/podcast Seriously... Aven and Mark are brilliant humans and phenomenal people. Visit them, and tell them we sent you. Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

From bartenders to school children, clothing to dancing, typesetting to top quality, everyone and their dog has an idea about where this phrase comes from. Shauna and Dan explore the likely origin stories to help debunk the myths and narrow down the options on this week's #BunnyTrails Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved

Dan is sick, so Shauna revisits an episode that originally aired in November 2018!  Ever wonder who would anyone want to beat, or flog, a dead horse? Well, wonder no more, as Shauna and Dan explore the progression from a pointless act to money owed, and eventually back to pointless act. Hint... the popularity of the phrase as we use it today has close ties to politics. Who'd have thunk it?!?  Copyright 2021 by The Readiness Corner, LLC - All Rights Reserved