21: No Such Thing As Testicle-Retracting Sumo Wrestlers

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Episode 21: This week in the QI office, Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Andy (@andrewhunterm), Anna (@nosuchthing) and Alex (@alexbell) discuss freedom kissing, hippo castration, iceberg cowboys and whether or not we should blow up the Moon.

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0:00.0	We run it on QI a few years ago.
0:01.6	Yeah.
0:02.1	And which was, there's no such thing as a fish.
0:04.4	It's kind of a nice, such thing as a fish.
0:05.6	No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.
0:10.0	He says it right there, first paragraph.
0:11.5	No such thing as a fish.
0:12.6	Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast
0:24.4	coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
0:27.0	My name is Dan Schreiber.
0:28.2	I'm sitting here with four other elves.
0:30.2	I've got Andy Murray, James Harkin, Anna Chazinski, and on fact checking duties, Alex Bell.
0:35.3	So once again, we've gathered around the microphone with our favorite facts from the last seven
0:38.8	days.
0:39.8	And in no particular order, here we go.
0:42.4	Anna, fact number one.
0:44.8	My effect is that made in Germany, product labels were originally intended to put people
0:49.6	off buying the product.
0:50.8	It was a law pass in England in 1887, which forced foreign companies to put labels saying
0:56.8	where the product had been made on their items because British companies were worried about
1:00.8	German knockoff products flooding their market and being cheap and tacky.
1:04.4	Typical inferior Germans.
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