73: No Such Thing As A Useless Condom

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 7 August 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Anne discuss the preparations for D-Day, secret library porn, and cannibalistic cane toads.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:18.4	to you from the QI offices in Coffin Garden.
0:21.2	My name is Dan Tribert.
0:22.2	I'm sitting here with Anich Zinski, Anne Miller and James Harkin and once again we have gathered
0:27.3	around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in a particular
0:31.9	order here we go, starting with you Chazinski.
0:36.1	My fact this week is that as part of the preparation for the D-Day landings, the Allies used condoms
0:41.8	to collect soil and sand from the Normandy beaches.
0:44.9	Why?
0:45.9	Because they just felt like it.
0:48.0	So this was called Operation Postage Abel, which was the operation that preceded the D-Day
0:52.5	landings to check that they were going to work and it involved sending Allied forces out
0:58.2	under the cover of night in mini submarines and then getting them to swim to the beach with
1:03.2	a bunch of condoms and scoop up lots of sand in them.
1:06.1	Because I guess condoms are just useful receptacle.
1:07.8	I think they ran out of buck, I think they started off with some sort of tapour and ran
1:11.6	out and ended up using condoms.
1:14.2	And it was to check that the sand wasn't going to be difficult to walk on.
1:18.0	It was to check that it wasn't the wrong kind of sand.
1:20.5	I think they suspected that it was a sort of sinking sand.
1:23.4	Oh, okay, right.
1:24.7	So they ran out of buckets, so they used condoms.
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