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No Such Thing As A Fish

125: No Such Thing As An Upside-Down Grand Prix

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss forte-pianos, spring-loaded hairstyles, and the not-so-gentle lemur.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming

0:16.5

to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.

0:19.4

My name is Dan Schreiber.

0:20.4

I'm sitting here with Anichezinski, Andy Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered

0:26.0

around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular

0:30.7

order here we go.

0:32.6

Starting with you, Andy.

0:34.5

My fact is that 18th century hairstyles included the Spannules is Mad Dog and the Drowned

0:41.2

Chicken.

0:42.2

It's all dues that you could get.

0:45.6

Do we know what they look like?

0:46.8

I haven't been able to find what these ones look like.

0:48.5

No, but there are so many insane styles.

0:51.5

I suppose we can imagine what a drowned chicken looks like.

0:54.2

Yeah.

0:55.2

Imagine that would be a desirable hairstyle for some kind of punishment.

0:58.8

Mad Dog as well.

0:59.8

It's bad hair basically, but you're drooling.

1:03.3

Yeah.

1:04.3

The Spannules is that a hairstyle that you see loads in 18th century paintings where women

1:09.0

have their hair flax on top and then curled down the sides.

1:11.9

Oh, okay.

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