384: No Such Thing As Jiminy's Cricket Shop

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss the unsexiest striptease imaginable, the Michaelangelo of fake rocks, and a mysterious ascent of Mont Blanc.
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:19.7	to you from the QI offices in Covern, Garden.
0:23.0	My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting at a very comfortable distance from Anatishinsky,
0:28.0	Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones
0:32.0	with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order, here
0:36.6	we go.
0:38.2	Starting with fact number one, that is Anna.
0:41.1	My fact this week is that in 1877 all able bodied men in Nebraska were required by law
0:47.6	to spend up to 12 days killing grasshoppers.
0:50.4	Wow, wow.
0:51.4	Wait a minute, I'm always looking for the loophole up to 12 days.
0:57.0	Well, they had to spend two days definitely so you can't get out of a weekend and then
1:03.8	if there was further work needed then the government state government could call on you
1:07.1	to have an extra take.
1:08.1	So it was up to 12 days because some people enjoyed it so much it started
1:11.3	looks like a pathic and it's like all right we need to cut you off here.
1:15.0	Exactly.
1:16.0	You can't devote 365 to it.
1:18.6	How many grasshoppers can there be that everyone?
1:20.7	I mean no, Nebraska even though it's quite sparsely populated but that's a lot of grasshoppers
1:25.7	to kill isn't it?
1:26.9	Many more than one grasshopper per person so it was a lot.
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