No Such Thing As A Game Of King's Footsie

No Such Thing As A Fish

Comedy, Nature, Science, History

4.7 • 18.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Episode 36 - Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Andy (@andrewhunterm) and Anna (#getannaontwitter) discuss criminal camels, ancient yo-yos, trucking bees, maize mazes and terrible reasons to call 999.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	We run it on QI a few years ago.
0:01.6	Yeah.
0:02.1	Which was, there's no such thing as a fish.
0:04.4	Yeah, there's no such thing 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, no such thing as a fish.
0:18.6	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
0:26.3	My name is Dan Schreiber.
0:27.8	I'm sitting here with Andy Murray, Anna Chazinski, and James Harkin.
0:31.7	And once again, we've gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
0:36.6	and in no particular order, here they are.
0:40.9	Chazinski, fact number one.
0:43.6	My point is that if you got into an argument in 18th century Abbasinia,
0:47.6	you could resolve it by blaming everything on the camel.
0:51.6	The camel.
0:52.4	On the camel, yeah.
0:53.6	What all arguments about who had eaten the hay?
0:56.5	I think it's another all crimes, but yeah, were traded by camels.
1:01.1	Blamed on the camel too much, he's bound to get the hump.
1:03.5	Hey, how long have you been planning that?
1:06.9	Yeah, so this was first recorded in Bruce's travels into Abbasinia to discover the source of the Nile.
1:12.6	And this book was written between 1768 and 1773, and it was his travels around Africa trying to find the source of the Nile.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from No Such Thing As A Fish, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of No Such Thing As A Fish and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.