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No Such Thing As A Fish

9: No Such Thing As A Word For 'Silent Fart'

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2014

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Episode 9: This week in the QI Office Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) and Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing) discuss wig theft, un-claimed elephant sperm, hermits at the bottom of the garden & more...

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0:00.0

We run it on QI a few years ago.

0:01.6

Yeah.

0:02.1

And which was, there's no such thing as a fish.

0:04.3

It's not the nice, there's nothing as a fish.

0:05.6

No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.

0:09.9

It says it right there, first paragraph.

0:11.5

No such thing as a fish.

0:12.6

Hello, and welcome to another edition of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming

0:27.5

to you from the QI offices being covered guarded.

0:30.2

My name is Dan Schreiber.

0:31.5

I'm sitting here with three other QI elves, James, Mark, and Anich Azinski and Andy Murray.

0:36.4

And once again, we've gathered round the microphones to share our favorite facts from the last

0:40.4

seven days.

0:41.4

So, in a particular order, here we go.

0:44.2

James, let's begin with you.

0:48.9

Okay, yeah, my fat this week is it was fashionable in New York at the end of the 19th century

0:55.1

for ladies to wear live lizards as broaches.

0:57.9

Wow.

0:58.9

Nice.

0:59.9

With a pin on them?

1:00.9

Well, actually with a small leash, it seems.

1:02.4

This was in an article in the archive of The New York Times about the RSPCA complaining

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