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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Comedy, Nature, Science, History

4.718.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2014

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Episode 35 - In a special live episode for the Chortle Comedy Book Festival, Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Andy (@andrewhunterm) and Anna (#getannaontwitter) discuss the invention of sarcasm, the Antarctic Fire Department, dogs disguised as lions, and a Ming dynasty astronaut.

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0:00.0

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

0:04.4

And it's not such thing as a fish.

0:05.6

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

0:10.0

It says it, right there, first paragraph, no such thing as a fish.

0:19.5

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast.

0:24.7

This time coming to you from the Turtle Comedy Book Festival in Camden, London.

0:29.6

My name is Dan Shriver. I'm sitting here with Andy Murray,

0:32.4

Aniches Insky, and James Harkin.

0:34.5

And this week, all of our facts are coming from the new QI book,

0:37.6

1,411 QI facts to knock you sideways.

0:40.8

So here are the four facts that we entered into that book,

0:43.1

and in no particular order, here they are.

0:45.2

Fact number one, James.

0:47.6

So my fact this week is Viking names included Desirus of Beer,

0:53.8

Squat Wiggle, Lust Hostage, Short Penis,

0:59.4

Able to Fill a Bay with Fish by Magic,

1:03.6

The Man Who Mixes His Drinks,

1:07.3

And The Man Without Trausers.

1:10.3

But so, okay, when you say that these are Viking names,

1:16.9

were they like, were they more than two, sometimes in a ship?

1:20.1

Was it like, you did you have to be like,

1:21.6

do we have a surname here? Because we've got two short penises on the low.

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