No Such Thing As Proust’s Sausage Roll is the 460th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 45th episode of the ninth year, and the 1st episode of 2023. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was live at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London.
Description[]
Live from the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss Popeye, Proust, Hankies and Spankies.
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Facts[]
- Originally, Popeye the Sailorman got his powers not from eating spinach, but from rubbing a lucky magic head. (Schreiber)
- Marcel Proust once woke up the members of a famous string quartet at midnight, and made them all come back to his house to play a specific piece for him. (Ptaszynski)
- In the 1920's, a smart young man would have two handkerchiefs, a blower and a shower. (Murray)
- In the 1960's, owners of a theme park in Pennsylvania had guards with plastic bats in their tunnel of love ride who were instructed to give an admonishing thwack to any bare bums they saw.(Harkin)