No Such Thing As Captain Trousers

No Such Thing As A Fish

Comedy, Nature, Science, History

4.7 • 18.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2014

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Episode 40 - Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss military make-up, dinosaur erotica, Obama's honey ale and history's greatest farter.

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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	Yeah, there's no such thing as a fish.
0:06.0	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.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covenant Garden.
0:26.0	My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm sitting here with Anich Zinski and Miller and Andy Murray.
0:31.0	And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days.
0:36.0	And in a particular order, here we go.
0:42.0	Starting with you, Andy.
0:44.0	My fact is that in 18th century France, tooth pullers were entertainers who performed in front of cheering crowds.
0:50.0	So one of them had the party trick of pulling teeth out of a patient with one hand while firing a pistol with the other.
0:57.0	And all the while he had his head in a sack.
1:00.0	Why was he shooting? I don't get the gun shooting bit.
1:03.0	It's just, it's a touch of flamboyant. It's a scrubber.
1:05.0	Yeah. It was, it was entertainment.
1:08.0	Yeah. So it's got a really painful tooth. Great. Well, I've got a show on at 8 p.m.
1:13.0	You can make it.
1:14.0	There was one guy who did that in the late 1800s who was called Edgar Parker.
1:18.0	He might be the person you're talking about.
1:20.0	Okay.
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