No Such Thing As A Bored Shrew is the 282nd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 22nd episode of the sixth year, and the 33rd episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Bremen Teater in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Description[]
Live from Copenhagen, Dan, James, Andrew and Anna discuss Bjorn Borg's karate-tennis instructor, singing teachers for canaries, and what happens when a shrew gets brain-freeze.
Facts[]
- When 11-time grand slam tennis champion Björn Borg came out of retirement he returned using a wooden racket, and was coached by a 79-year-old karate expert from Wales. Three years later he retired again, having failed to win a single match. (Schreiber)
- Shrews cope with winter by shrinking their own brains. (Murray)
- According to US intellectual property law you are not allowed to hold any patents if you are the Holy Spirit. (Harkin)
- In the 18th century you could hire a professional canary trainer to expand your canary's singing repertoire. (Ptaszynski)
Trivia[]
- This is the twenty-third stop on the In No Particular Order Tour, and the first in Denmark.
- Schreiber's fact came from Ash Gardner, but unlike previous facts he provided, this one is true.