#No Such Thing As A Fish

[saltingthecookingwine]

I just heard Neil Gaiman (I’m not @ tagging him on purpose, don’t want to spam him) talking on a podcast about the origins of the word “bagel” and it’s gone off into the weeds (it’s No Such Thing As a Fish, so it’s kinda weedy anyway) on the origins of the word “lox” so I did some light searching around and holy shit. That last line goddamn.

So this word “lox” that English borrowed pretty recently from Yiddish, is so stable that is was probably pronounced the same way and referred to the same thing (salmon) 8000 fucking years ago when Proto Indo European was a spoken language.

Fucking cool. And as an American Jew I feel like bagels and lox are an essential part of my cultures foodways so it’s interesting to learn that the words have such history.

I’m choosing to interpret this as humans being fucking into smoked salmon since the jump, mostly because I love smoked salmon of all kinds, including super salty lox so it gotta be a universal human truth of course

[maaikeatthefullmoon]

Calling the Good Omens fandom!

I’m off to see the No Such Thing As A Fish live record tour in Manchester later this month & they encourage people to bring in their own facts.

I want to submit something GO-related that’s not obsessive & eye-roll-y, but fun enough that it could actually be considered.

I’m ND though so my idea of ‘fun’ misses the mark all too often when it comes to ‘fun facts’…😳

I had one in mind but it’s probably more fact and less fun, so hit me with ineffable ideas, please!!

[okie-dokie-wo]

Phil Dunster is the audiobook narrator for a book that was released in some regions (not the U.S.) today, April 25.

The book is "A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering" by Andrew Hunter Murray, of the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish.

Murray tweets about the book here. His Linktree.

Review from Irish News:

Al has rules for breaking into wealthy people’s second homes when the owners are away, such as wearing gloves, never running away if seen, and having at least two stories if he has to explain what he’s done. He also doesn’t go back to the scene of a previous ‘interlope’, as he calls his break-ins – and Al isn’t his real name. But all his careful planning for living a life at someone else’s expense changes dramatically when he discovers a group of similar ‘interlopers’ – and they stumble across a dead body. The unlikely group of unofficial house-sitters go on the run, trying to avoid being charged with murder but determined to find a killer. The book is filled with humour, shocks, love and hate – and a few handy tips on how to beat the housing crisis. Fans of the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish – which Murray co-hosts – will love his trademark style of being funny, thoughtful and all-round entertaining. 8/10

Visit Penguin Books UK for various places to listen to it.

(Note that the book is region locked and not released everywhere.)

[scarysanctuary]

😚🥰

[haveyouheardthispodcast]

[puddingandtame]

Dan Schrieber will say the most insane shit with his full chest and it lodges in my brain like:

1. He joked his laminated list with his wife includes Murray Bartlett and the Yeti

2. He had a ghost experience with his cousins will in a Tibetan hotel room as a child

3. His wife complained to her acupuncturist about trying to concieve their third child and the acupuncturist was so convinced it was Dan's fault the acupuncturist scheduled an appointment for him to get his sperm count checked. THE ACUPUNCTURIST. And God knows why he actually went and when he reached out for the results they had sent the results to the ACUPUNCTURIST and she OPENED the RESULTS. Then told his wife in all her years she'd never seen such strong results.

4. I think his wife or their neighbor hid a copy of Allister Crowley's book in the garden shed and it disappeared and they still don't know what happened to it.

I SHOULDN'T KNOW THESE THINGS but he so cheerfully offers up the most unhinged stories.

[359midnightburgers]

Any underwear is edible if you are determined enough.

- no such thing as a fish

[innestahtinen]

went to see No Such Thing As a Fish on tour, and enjoyed it. i don't really listen to them by myself, but if my dad puts it on for the three hour drive to see the extended family for christmas or whatnot, i'm ok.

we got a program, which got put in my backpack, but i didn't look at it, so with about twenty minutes to go, i was thinking about who would be cast in a biopic if hollywood ran out of idea; James looks like my mental image of Paul Giamatti, Dan like Dan Levy, and the other two were more difficult. went with pre-beard hbomberguy for Andrew and Thomasin Mackenzie for Anna, which you could accuse me of things for having an age gap there and unrealistic standards for women and all. and it got to the end, and i mentioned it to my brother and he pointed out the understudy bit in the program, which had Dan Levy as Dan Schreiber.

had a great idea for the title, and was going to say something about listening, because i call out in the middle of it, but i've forgotten the name. it's the one where the first fact was about a boomerang grenade.

[Remembered it, "No Such Thing as a Bee's Dick]

took my copy of department of truth vol 2 with me to get signed. i like cryptids too, and so i was keeping the page open that had bigfoot on it, but as we had a photo taken, i took my finger out, so i'm fine with;

good show.

[lykegenia]

Medieval Catholics would have really loved the fact that, taxonomically, everything counts as a fish

[brasskingfisher]

So in today's social awkwardness......

I was listening to the latest episode of NSTAAF at work and had my colleagues ask why I was laughing so hard. I then had to explain the mental image of a conga line going through a sex dungeon.....

[lateralcast]

Lateral Highlight (100): A very odd tapas bar

Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski and Andrew Hunter Murray from 'No Such Thing as a Fish' discuss a restaurant riddle.

[little-exhausted]

Is there anyone else whose entire personality is No Such Thing As a Fish and who desperately wishes there was a real fandom

where are my people

[dark-as-a-lake]

This fanart will only make sense to about 10 people on a discord chat, but if you don't already listen to No Such Thing As A Fish... I highly recommend it. Some fun weird facts from some fun weird people at QI, and these are the hosts reimagined as D&D characters

[degenezijde]

Listening to No Such Thing as a Fish, with Doctor Who writer Jenny Colgan as a guest, and they're talking about the Weeping Angels. James mentions it's like the children's game 'What time is it, Mr Wolf?' which suddenly reminded me that I also played that game as a child here in Belgium, as 'wolfje wolfje hoe laat is het'

Love children's culture

[myopinionisimportant]

The great thing about the No Such Thing As A Fish team is that they all seem superficially sensible, but none of them is reliably the voice of reason because they're just...such huge nerds.

James is a man so pedantic that he refuses to order 'one panini,' Andy is entirely obsessed with the many exciting traits of sphagnum moss, Anna once spent several weeks trying to get a dick joke into the podcast, and Dan is so obsessed with ghosts and conspiracies and Yetis, and also loves to get his facts from his least reliable friends, to the point that his facts are now met with skepticism even when they're verifiably true.

They beautifully combine extreme sensible grown-up-ness with incredible silliness, and I love them for it.

[cornsword]