No Such Thing As A Magic Oven For Chimps is the 190th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 34th episode of the fourth year, and the 45th episode of 2017. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at The Stand in Newcastle.
Description[]
Live from Newcastle, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss British boomerangs, primate rock-paper-scissors, and why the Catalans are so anti-cat.
Facts[]
- Britain exports over 50,000 boomerangs every year to Australia.[1] (Murray)
- The Catalan region does regular checks of websites that end with ".cat" to check that they're about Catalonia and not about cats.[2] (Harkin)
- When Walmart opened in Germany, it scrapped its policy of making employees smile at customers because the Germans found it too weird.[3] (Ptaszynski)
- It is really easy to beat chimpanzees at the game rock-paper-scissors.[4] (Schreiber)
Audience Fact[]
Throughout this tour, the Elves gave away a copy of The Book of the Year to the best audience-submitted fact.
Cleaning your teeth is the only time you get to clean your skeleton. (Scott Robinson)
This fact was challenged by another audience member, but Scott won in a game of rock-paper-scissors and ended up winning the book.
Trivia[]
- This is the second stop on the 2017 Tour.
- This is the second of two episodes at The Stand.
- The fact about a high-profile hacker's password being the name of his cat + "123" is brought up, having been previously mentioned in TBA
Notes[]
- ↑ BBC: Reality Check: Does the UK sell boomerangs to Australia?
- ↑ The Washington Post: The curious case of .cat, the Internet’s weirdest, most radical domain
- ↑ HuffPost: Why Did Walmart Leave Germany?
- ↑ ScienceDaily: Chimpanzees learn rock-paper-scissors