434: No Such Thing As Robinson Two-Soe
No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As A Fish
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🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 58 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 |
| 0:18.8 | to you from the QI offices in Covern, Garden. |
| 0:21.8 | My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anatishinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray and |
| 0:26.5 | Jane Tarkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our 4th favourite |
| 0:30.9 | facts from the last 7 days and in no particular order here we go. |
| 0:36.8 | Starting with fact number 1, that is Andy. |
| 0:40.4 | My fact is that the first man to use the word avocado in English was a pirate. |
| 0:45.3 | That just sounds like you say that normally Dan. |
| 0:58.3 | This is a guy called William Dampier and he was an explorer, he lived from 1651 to 1715 |
| 1:05.1 | and he was a lot of things actually, he was a hydrography, he was a scientist, writer |
| 1:09.9 | and naturalist, Royal Navy captain and we have a picture of him, it's in the National |
| 1:14.2 | Gallery, it's the only 100% genuine portrait of a British pirate. |
| 1:19.1 | Does he have a parrot on his shoulder? |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah I patch, he's biting a gold de blue and it makes someone walk the plank. |
| 1:29.5 | No I don't think he is, he looks like a normal man but he was a pirate and among lots |
| 1:35.2 | of other things and he wrote this account of the avocado pear tree and that's in the |
| 1:39.7 | OED when you look under avocado, his entry is the first one, he gave a little report about |
| 1:44.6 | the avocado and said how nice it was. |
| 1:46.0 | How many entries are there for avocado then after his one? |
| 1:49.0 | Well loads because the OED sort of gives, they give a loaded, when it's like a site |
| 1:52.2 | of it and so on. |
| 1:53.2 | Yeah, about five or six I think there's only one definition, I'm not sure you've got |
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