No Such Thing As A Trapezium-Shaped Hankie is the 217th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 9th episode of the fifth year, and the 20th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool.
Description[]
Live from Liverpool, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss bob.com, how to eat an avocado, and what the Ancient Greeks used for toilet paper.
Facts[]
- The ancient Greeks wiped their bottoms with pebbles.[1] (Murray)
- In 1860, there was a woman in Paris who made a living by blowing the noses of war veterans who had lost their arms in battle.[2] (Harkin)
- When avocados were first sold in the UK, they came with a leaflet explaining what they were and how to eat them.[3][4] (Ptaszynski)
- In the late '90s, Microsoft successfully acquired the extremely valuable domain name windows2000.com from a man called Bob Kerstein. In exchange, they gave him bob.com.[5] (Schreiber)
Audience Fact[]
Throughout this tour, the Elves gave away a copy of The Complete Second Year Cassette to the best audience-submitted fact:
Astronauts have to re-learn to play the guitar on the Space Station because they overshoot the frets due to their weightless arms.[6] (Mel Burton)
Trivia[]
- This is the ninth and final stop on the 2018 Tour.
- The word avocado deriving from Nahuatl was first mentioned in Australia v Mexico.
- James suggests that avocados don't even know they're avocados.
- Dan mentions humans dressing up as pandas when looking after pandas in captivity, which was previously discussed in Episode 213.
- Comic Sans was previously discussed in Episode 127.
- Anna is not on Facebook or Twitter.
Notes[]
- ↑ Scientific American: Toilet Issue: Anthropologists Uncover All the Ways We've Wiped
- ↑ Geri Walton: French Miscellany and Interesting Facts in the 1860s
- ↑ M&S News (@mandsnews) on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mandsnews/status/1024314934170140675
- ↑ BBC: A cultural history of the avocado
- ↑ The Register: Windows2000.com owner sells domain to Microsoft
- ↑ Quartz: How to play a guitar in space, according to astronaut Chris Hadfield