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🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming |
0:19.7 | to you from the QI offices in Covern Garden. |
0:22.9 | My name is Dan Shriver, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin and Anna |
0:28.2 | Tishinsky. |
0:29.2 | And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts |
0:32.5 | from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go. |
0:37.6 | Starting with fact number one, that is James. |
0:40.1 | Okay, my fact this week is that in the 1920 Winter Olympics, US skater Theresa Weld was |
0:47.6 | the only woman in the figure skating who performed jumps. |
0:51.8 | But she was marked down every time she did because her skirt rose above her knees, which |
0:57.2 | was considered too scandalous. |
0:59.6 | Did she have pants on? |
1:01.4 | Yes, you can't tell if it's got rises above the knees. |
1:05.5 | Depends on along the pants, huh? |
1:07.0 | Yeah, possibly they could be like gloomers. |
1:08.7 | Yeah, they did wear pants down to the knees back then. |
1:11.5 | So it sounds very sexy, James. |
1:14.3 | Oh yeah. |
1:15.3 | And clearly it was at the time. |
1:16.3 | Yeah, it depends when, when about she were. |
1:18.2 | If she wore what she was wearing then, now in the Winter Olympics, like just to show |
1:23.8 | behind the curtain, we're actually recording this when the Winter Olympics are on. |
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