293: No Such Thing As A Sexy Ceiling Fan

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss prehistoric sippy-cups, Rasputin's litigious assassins, and the coolest ever publicity stunt.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:18.6	to you from the QI offices in Covenant Garden.
0:21.6	My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, Anich Zinsky and
0:25.9	James Harkin, and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four
0:29.7	favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go.
0:35.2	Starting with you, James.
0:36.9	Okay, my fact this week is that the Mulan Rouge had a can-can dancer who would distract
0:42.5	patrons by kicking off their hats before promptly downing their drinks.
0:47.1	It's such a good trick.
0:50.1	It's a dangerous trick.
0:52.1	Yeah, because you might just kick someone in the face and then...
0:55.1	Oh, I was thinking of the alcohol poisoning.
0:56.5	Oh, yeah.
0:58.5	But yes, that's two.
0:59.5	These were problems.
1:00.5	But actually, the kicking in the face thing, that was one thing that the can-can dancers
1:05.2	would do is deliberately pretend that they were going to kick someone in the face.
1:08.8	If they were taking too many liberties on the front row, they would kind of do a kick that
1:12.3	got quite close to their face.
1:13.8	And so that was the thing they did.
1:15.8	And for the alcohol poisoning, unfortunately this lady called Lat Gulu, otherwise known
1:20.6	as Louise Weber, unfortunately she did in the end succumb to the drink.
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