No Such Thing As A Rocking Chair In Space

No Such Thing As A Fish

Comedy, Nature, Science, History

4.7 • 18.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2014

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Episode 39 - Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Andy (@andrewhunterm) and Anna (#getannaontwitter) discuss irritated astronauts, meaty rain, Britain's loudest snorer, and the garden party you don't want to get invited to.

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0:00.0	We run it on QI a few years ago.
0:02.0	Yeah.
0:02.5	Which was, there's no such thing as a fish.
0:04.5	You didn't know such thing as a fish.
0:05.7	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.
0:12.5	Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:25.0	to you from the QI offices in Covern Garden.
0:27.5	My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm sitting here with Anit Zinski, Andy Murray, and James Harkin.
0:32.5	And once again, we've gathered around the microphone with our four favorite facts from the last seven days.
0:37.0	And in no particular order, here we go.
0:41.5	James.
0:42.0	Okay, my fact this week is that the San Francisco Fire Department's ladders are made of wood.
0:48.0	Which is not perhaps the material you think would be good for putting near fire.
0:52.5	No, why are they?
0:54.0	It's because in San Francisco you have the wires that go over for the trams.
0:58.0	They're electrified.
0:59.0	And so if they use metal ladders, they might get electrocuted.
1:02.0	Yeah, they have had stories of people who, when they were trying to, they were trying to fight fires.
1:07.0	They put the metal ladder and it hit a wire of some sort and just blow up the fire fires
1:12.0	who are climate, not completely put out.
1:14.5	No, no, no.
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