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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Andy and Jenny Ryan discuss criminal times, baffling crimes and spurious rhymes.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, James here. Now before we start this week's show, just a couple of bits of business.

0:04.3

First of all, this episode was recorded while Anna was still away, and so her place has been taken

0:10.6

by one of my oldest friends, the absolute genius that is Jenny Ryan. Now if you're a fan of

0:18.0

quiz shows, you would know her as the fixer of the chase. If you're a fan of singing talent shows,

0:24.8

you might remember her from Celebrity X Factor last year, where she got to the final. If you're a

0:30.1

fan of podcasts, which I know you are, you might know her from fingers on buzzers, the brilliant

0:36.0

quiz based podcast that Jenny does with comedian Lucy Potter. And actually, if you go into the back

0:41.7

catalog of fingers on buzzers, you might find an old episode with myself and Anna Toshinsky on,

0:48.2

if you are missing her so much that you really need to hear her dulcet tones. Okay, I'm with the

0:53.5

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

1:14.4

to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK. My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here

1:19.9

with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin and special guest Jenny Ryan. And once again, we have gathered

1:26.0

around our microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in a particular order,

1:31.2

here we go. Starting with you, Jenny. Here we go, Trigger Warning for Growsness. One theory of the origin

1:40.0

of the nursery rhyme Pussycat Pussycat is that it's a reference to Queen Anne's poor personal hygiene

1:46.7

and an accumulation of grime that wants fellow Taberskirt during a service at St. Paul's Cathedral.

1:53.3

Wow, wow. Okay. Let's start with that one. Okay, well, let's start with the with the actual

1:59.6

nursery rhyme because not everyone might know it, right? So how's it go? Andy, where do you regales with

2:04.8

that? Oh, it's Pussycat Pussycat. Where have you been? I've been up to London to look at the queen

2:09.6

followed by loads more lines. There is more. Pussycat Pussycat, what did you there? I've chased a

2:16.9

little mouse under her chair or I've tried to do that. That's actually the important bit now, I think.

2:21.8

That is the important bit. Yeah. Yeah. So it's thought that little mouse is a mouse shaped deposit of

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