147: No Such Thing As Burrito Party Boy

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Anna, James, Andy and Alex discuss the unluckiest politician in the world, the elephant on the River Thames, and the best way of getting invited to Buckingham Palace.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Things A Fish coming to you from the
0:18.8	QI offices in Covent Garden.
0:20.9	My name is Anna Toshinsky and I'm here with Alex Bell, James Harkin and Andrew Hunter
0:25.9	Murray.
0:26.9	We've gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven
0:31.1	days and in no particular order, here we go, James Harkin.
0:36.5	OK, my fact this week is that in 1683 some people were ice skating in the Netherlands when
0:42.7	the ice broke away and they floated all the way to Essex.
0:46.2	Well, maybe.
0:49.2	Well, it happened.
0:51.2	Well, it happened according to some people.
0:54.8	So this is from a book called The Thames and its tributaries by Charles McCoy.
0:58.7	It's an old book and he says it's reported that this happened.
1:03.3	He says that some skate sliders upon those large icy plains were unawares driven to sea
1:09.5	and arrived living, though almost perished with cold and hunger upon the sea coast of Essex.
1:15.5	OK, and you know what, I don't really believe it, but it is a kind of thing that happened
1:19.8	and it's kind of related to the mini ice age that happened in the 17th century when
1:26.4	it got really, really cold and basically the sea was freezing and all the rivers were
1:30.8	freezing and they had these frostfares in London and there was lots of crazy stuff that
1:35.3	happened whether this happened and don't really know, but I believe it.
1:39.3	Yeah.
1:40.3	I don't want to.
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