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No Such Thing As A Fish

27: No Such Thing As An Egg And Cress Portsmouth

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Episode 27 - Dan (@schreiberland), Anna (@nosuchthing), Andy (@andrewhunterm), and special guest Helen Zaltzman (@helenzaltzman) discuss little old ladies in space, a gang of spying squirrels, Gandalf the Grey's real name, and more...

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0:00.0

We run it on QI a few years ago.

0:01.6

Yeah.

0:02.1

Which was, there's no such thing as a fish.

0:04.4

You did a nice such thing as a fish.

0:05.6

No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.

0:09.9

It says it right out first paragraph, no such thing as a fish.

0:18.0

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

0:22.4

coming to you from the QI offices in Covenant Garden.

0:25.0

My name is Dan Triber, I'm sitting with two of the regular elves,

0:27.6

Andy Murray and Anichesinski and we have a special guest today.

0:31.2

If the co-host have answered me this, Helen Zoltzman.

0:33.4

And once again, we've gathered around with our favorite four facts from the last week,

0:37.2

and here they are, in no particular order.

0:40.6

Okay, fact number one, and that's you, Helen.

0:43.7

Yes, I discovered that L-O-L, the acronym that people now use to signify the fact that they're

0:49.6

weak-minded and words are inadequate for their own needs.

0:51.9

It's used to me not laugh out loud or even lots of love, but little old lady,

0:59.2

which doesn't count that much now in Twitter and text-peak, but it was a medical definition.

1:03.9

They had a whole list of little old lady-related abbreviations like

1:08.6

Lollinad, which was little old lady in no apparent distress, which you would think, why do they need

1:13.4

to note the absence of distress? All you would just note the fact that she was distressed.

1:18.1

And Lollinad, which stood for little old lady, fall down, go boom.

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