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No Such Thing As A Fish

7: No Such Thing As The Loch Ness Monster

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2014

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Episode 7: This week in the QI Office Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing) and Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) discuss parachuting dogs, a misbehaving coconut, the longest game in the world & more...

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0:00.0

We run it on QI a few years ago. Yeah, which was there's no such thing as a fish.

0:04.6

It's not a nice such thing as a fish. No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater life.

0:10.0

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

0:18.2

Hello and welcome to no such thing as a fish. This is a QI Elf podcast coming to you from our offices in Covert Garden.

0:25.2

My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with three other QI Elfs, James Harkin, Anagizinsky and Andy Murray.

0:31.8

And once again, we're huddled around our microphone and these are the best facts that we found out from the last seven days.

0:37.8

So in no particular order, here we go.

0:40.8

Okay, fact number one, we're going to start with you James.

0:43.8

Okay, yeah, my fact this week is a computer game has been invented that takes more than a lifetime to complete.

0:50.8

Is it digitized monopoly?

0:53.8

Oh, yeah, because remember that thing we found there was a computer simulation of monopoly and they found that something like 12% of all games will go on indefinitely.

1:02.8

Yeah, which is not true because it's much more than that.

1:05.8

What do you mean so with monopoly? How would it go on?

1:08.8

Everyone would own a certain portion of the body just keep going.

1:11.8

Terry Preciott has a computer game in his book which is called Journey to Alpha Centauri, which takes over 3000 years to play.

1:20.8

And it's just you know the screen save the very old passion screen save with just the moving dots for a spaceship.

1:25.8

It's that with a counter counting down for 3000 years.

1:28.8

And at the end, the dot appears in the middle of the screen and it says welcome to Alpha Centauri now go home and someone has actually made that it's a very rough game.

1:36.8

We're going to find out about this.

1:38.8

No, what's going to be going on?

1:39.8

Okay, this came from the design museum I went there this weekend.

1:43.8

It's the design of the year 2014.

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