No Such Thing As A Sad High Five is the 79th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 27th episode of the second year, and the 38th episode of 2015. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Description[]
Live from The Edinburgh Festival, Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss Scrabble's unlikely champion, why you shouldn't pick a fight a hairy frog & all the latest in itch news.
Facts[]
- The current French Scrabble Champion, Nigel Richards, does not speak a word of French. (Schreiber)
- The world's only venomous frogs headbutt their enemies to death. (Harkin)
- When the film All Quiet on the Western Front was released in Germany, Joseph Goebbels went to see it at the cinema, and within 10 minutes he had released stink bombs, itching powder and white mice to make people flee the cinema. (Ptaszynski)
- Defunct sports from the early 20th century include archery golf, boxing on horseback, and competitive flagpole-sitting. (Murray)
Trivia[]
- This is the fourth of five live episodes recorded at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
- Andy's fact comes from Ed Brooke-Hitching's book Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling, and Other Forgotten Sports.