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🗓️ 19 September 2014
⏱️ 31 minutes
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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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