369: No Such Thing As Quartz For The Courts

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss skillful french bunnies and ancient chinese sunnies.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:20.0	to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
0:23.5	My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with Anna Toshinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray,
0:28.3	James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:32.8	facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:38.4	Starting with you, Andy.
0:40.7	My fact is that the doctor who invented the first decent thermometer suitable for rectal
0:45.0	use was named Thomas Allbutt.
0:47.6	It's the ultimate in nominative determinism isn't it?
0:51.8	It is.
0:52.8	Yeah.
0:53.8	I'm a cheap joke at the expense of a brilliant doctor who has done a lot more for the world
0:58.8	than I ever will.
1:01.3	Do you think I was trying to look into whether or not he got any sort of stick for it at
1:05.4	the time, you know, if anyone made any jokes about it, couldn't see anything.
1:08.2	It was just pure respect for the man.
1:09.8	Wow, I'm missing a trick in those days, weren't they?
1:12.1	It is.
1:13.1	When was this?
1:14.1	It was like, tell the...
1:15.1	It was the 1860s.
1:16.1	He invented it in 1866 I think.
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