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No Such Thing As A Fish

166: No Such Thing As A Courgette In Your Ear

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss chicken egg orientation, drawing on your ear drums, and the Georgian garden of celebrity trees.

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0:00.0

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

0:21.1

coming to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.

0:24.4

My name is Dan Shriver, I'm sitting here with Andrew Hunter-Marie.

0:29.6

I'm Dan Hesinski and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones

0:34.0

with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in a particular order, here we go,

0:40.0

starting with you, Andy.

0:42.0

Thank you.

0:44.0

Well that incredibly forgetful introduction.

0:48.8

My fact this week is that chicken's eggs turn from pointy end first to the blunt end first

0:53.7

just before they come out.

0:55.7

Like a baby?

0:57.2

Like a baby.

0:58.2

I don't know if babies have a pointy end but they, when a baby is getting ready,

1:02.6

yeah I guess that is the head.

1:04.6

So when you're getting ready to be born, babies will go into dive position.

1:08.5

Well most babies do.

1:09.5

Most babies.

1:10.5

I was a breach as was my brother.

1:12.5

So I wonder if chickens have the same thing where sometimes you get a breach one where

1:16.7

it's a awkward eggs.

1:17.7

Or awkward eggs, yeah.

1:18.7

And sometimes they have to sezerian it out because it's the pointy end first and it's

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