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265: No Such Thing As A Hole In The Bowl

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Live from Redruth, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss Disney-themed punishment, grandfather clocks, and George Eliot's massive right hand.

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0:00.0

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

0:20.0

week coming to you live from Rammuth!

0:28.7

My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Aniches Zinsky and Drew Hunter Murray and James

0:34.8

Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts

0:39.7

from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.

0:45.1

Starting with fact number one and that's my fact this week, my fact is after the author

0:50.7

George Elliott died, her family spent 50 years publicly denying that she had a massive

0:57.0

right hand. Where to start with the questions?

1:03.4

Did she? Well basically before she was famous this was in the 1840s she was talking to

1:09.9

a neighbour, she was in her mid-20s pre-fame and she stretched out her right hand and with

1:15.4

some pride demonstrated how massive it was. So I look how big this is and it was big she

1:21.2

said because in her teenage years she was making butter and cheese on her family's

1:25.3

farm so she was doing all the churning that she needed to do and as a result she built

1:29.2

up this massive hand. So it wasn't even by birth like she built it herself and she said

1:37.3

that it was so big her hand, comparative to the left hand that she had that it left her

1:42.0

kind of lopsided because the weight of it. She did say that.

1:46.4

She did to this in this anecdote so this is the problem it was an anecdote that was said

1:50.7

before she was famous and when she died 28 months after she died a biography was released

1:56.5

where someone had gone to the local town and so on and it interviewed neighbours and the

2:00.8

neighbours said yeah she was this person with a massive hand that she told me about.

2:04.9

It sounds like something that was made up by the neighbour doesn't it?

2:07.6

Well this is why the family was very furiously denying it. They were saying it was not, she

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