No Such Thing As Floating Vaseline is the 323rd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 11th episode of the seventh year, and the 22nd episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded from home due to COVID-19.
Description[]
Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss what vaseline does in water; why an owl was found in an owl; and why you need to always keep in the lines.
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Facts[]
- Early proposals for raising the Titanic back to the ocean's surface included filling it up with ping-pong balls, injecting 180,000 tonnes of vaseline into it, and turning the ship itself into an iceberg. (Schreiber)
- In 1927 an owl was found that had another owl in its stomach, and that owl had a third owl in its stomach. (Harkin)
- Almost every Englishman at the Battle of Agincourt ate a small amount of soil just before the battle started. (Murray)
- The first known colouring book was meant for adults. (Ptaszynski)
Trivia[]
- This is the tenth Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
- When Murray attempts to see if vaseline floats, reference is made to Episode 321: No Such Thing As A Frothy Beer, when Schreiber did an experiment to see if human skin oil collapses the head of a glass of beer.
- Different species of the same type of animal eating each-other was part of a headline fact in Episode 184: No Such Thing As Dinosaur Diaries.
- Schreiber mentions the fact about a golfer called "The Shark" catching a shark from The Book of the Year 2019, which was featured in the Audiobook of the Year 2019 Preview.
- After Murray describes a ludicrous folk story about Neville Chamberlain being cursed by a mythical owl, Schreiber questions why Murray is allowed to get away with that when he couldn't.
- Harkin mentions examples of nominative determinism such as a saddler called Saddler, a knight called Horsey, and an archer called Bower.
- Being excommunicated for mentioning Jesus' foreskin was mentioned in TBA.
- Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton were discussed in Episode 303: No Such Thing As Suckling's Column.
- Panini sticker albums were discussed at length in Episode 221: No Such Thing As A Fully Carpeted Country.
- Hitler's moderate reputation in Asia was discussed in TBA, and him being Time's Man of the Year was mentioned in TBA.
- Colouring books referenced:
- Altman, D. M., Cohen, R. E., Cohen, M. A. (1962). The John Birch Coloring Book. Chicago, IL: The Serious Products Co.
- Hans, M, Altman, D., & Cohen, M. A. (2017). The Executive Coloring Book. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons. (Originally published 1961.)
- Roman, A. A., Laikin, P., & Drucker, M. (2014). JFK Coloring Book. Camarillo, CA: About Comics.
Further Reading[]
- Marsh, L. (2015). The Radical History of 1960s Adult Coloring Books. The New Republic.
- McCormack, J. W. & Kantrowitz, L. (2017). The strange, subversive roots of the adult coloring book craze. Vice.