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No Such Thing As A Fish

31: No Such Thing As A Snake In My Pie

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Episode 31 - Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Andy (@andrewhunterm) and Anna (#getannaontwitter) discuss urinating prophets, one man and his mushroom, weird wedding customs and who invented the electric pillow.

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0:00.0

We run it on QI a few years ago.

0:02.0

Yeah.

0:02.5

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

0:04.5

It's not a nice or something as a fish.

0:06.0

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

0:10.0

He says it, ride that first paragraph, no such thing as a fish.

0:13.0

Hello, welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covern Garden.

0:26.0

My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with Andy Murray, James Harkin and Aniches Zinsky.

0:30.5

And once again, we've gathered around the microphone with our four favorite facts on the last seven days.

0:35.0

So here we go in no particular order.

0:37.0

Let's do it.

0:40.0

James, back number one.

0:42.0

My fact this week is that in the 17th century there was a prophet called Dorothy Harling

0:48.0

who would kill you of your sins by urinating on the afflicted part of your body.

0:53.0

Wow.

0:54.0

When you've got a sin, what was the afflicted part of your body?

0:57.0

Well, if you'd been swearing, it could be your mouth.

0:59.0

Right.

1:00.0

If you'd stolen something, it could be your hands, I guess.

1:03.0

Okay.

1:04.0

If you'd thought a dirty thought, your brain should piss in your ear.

1:07.0

Into your ear.

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