RAY: Bye. OK. It's now time to reveal to the entire world how memory is affected over the years by carbon monoxide exposure. Do you remember last week's puzzler, Tommy?

TOM: Yes, of course. You mean the French peasants who went into the fields and trampled on all the tobacco plants.

RAY: I must have been looking over my shoulder.

TOM: Of course, I remember.

RAY: And like I said, "I'm willing to take whatever it takes. I'm willing to take whatever criticism I get on this puzzler cause I've already had some criticism from the staff who doubts this."

TOM: What the hell do they know? Come on. I think this is beautiful. It's brilliant. I could kill you it's so beautiful.

RAY: Now, here it is and I will give the rebuttal answer as well.

TOM: Yeah. Sure.

RAY: During the 19th Century formerly gruntled, but now disgruntled --

TOM: Disgruntled --

RAY: French peasants would go into the fields of their landlords and would trample the crops that they were supposed to be, you know, harvesting --

TOM: Yeah --

RAY: To show their discontent or disdain for the way they were being treated and abused. They would trample the crops with their wooden peasant shoes. Out of this behavior a new word was born. It has entered not only the French vocabulary, the Frannch vocabulary, but the English vocabulary as well and it's a very common word. A word you could hear every day. Especially --

TOM: Especially if you work for the government.

RAY: What is this word that --

TOM: Or the IRS.

RAY: Was created out of this peasant behavior uprising.

TOM: Yeah.

RAY: Well, if you knew what the French word for wooden shoe was you might have a clue.

TOM: Of course. I mean, I'm sure a lot of people do know what the name for wooden shoe is --

RAY: Especially if you're a crossword puzzle. It's sabot. S-A-B-O-T.

TOM: Un sabot or un pair of sabots.

RAY: So, as the French are want to do, they add an A-G-E to make a word out of sabow and aash and they get like, they got like declotage --

TOM: Fromage.

RAY: Fromage.

TOM: Vin-tage.

RAY: Veen-tage. If you look, a word that's often used when referring to our show - gar-bage. And they came up with the sabo-tage.

TOM: Yeah.

RAY: Now --

TOM: Because those peasants had, in fact, sabotaged the plants.

RAY: Well, they hadn't until --

TOM: Until that day.

RAY: The word was invented.

TOM: Yeah.

RAY: They wouldn't have done anything.

TOM: What are we going to call this?

RAY: Now, there's a rumor around the office here --

TOM: That this answer is wrong?

RAY: That it is the Dutch workers who of course wear the wooden shoes, throwing them into the machinery, and gumming up the works. Breaking the machines.

TOM: Yeah, but we have a Dutch opinion on this matter. Didn't what's her name -- what is her name?

RAY: Eltz.

TOM: Eltz. Didn't she tell us that the people who worked in the factories didn't wear wooden shoes, farmers wore wooden shoes.

RAY: There you go. So I'm sticking with my answer no matter what.

TOM: I'm with ya.

RAY: Do we have a winner?

TOM: And besides -- I mean it's not a Dutch word anyway. What do the Dutch got to do with it?

RAY: They call them sabats.

TOM: Sabats. No, that's when you go to church, on the Sabat. Yeah, well, we got a winner. This week's winner is John Temms from Spring, Texas, and for having his correct answer chosen at random from among the thousands and thousands of correct answers that we got on this one, John gets our newest CD. Dr. Ruth should look out. This is a whole collection of calls about couples and their cars. It's called "Men are from GM, Women are from Ford," and it's guaranteed to permanently cement any relationship you may now have or even be contemplating.

RAY: They don't use that word in the Hoffa household I bet.

TOM: No, they don't use that word.