2014-09-20
31 分钟We run it on QI a few years ago.
Yeah.
Which was, there's no such thing as a fish.
There's no such thing as a fish.
No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.
It says it right there, first paragraph, no such thing as a fish.
Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Shriver, I'm sitting with two of the regular elves, Andy Murray and Anna Chazinski,
and we have a special guest today, it's the co-host of Answer Me This, Helen Zaltzman.
And once again, we've gathered around with our favorite four facts from the last week,
and here they are, in no particular order.
Okay, fact number one, and that's you, Helen.
Yes, I discovered that LOL,
the acronym that people now use to signify the fact that they're weak-minded and words are inadequate for their own needs.
Used to me, not laugh out loud, or even lots of love,
but little old lady, which doesn't come up that much now in Twitter and text speak,
but it was a medical definition, and they had a whole list of little old lady-related abbreviations,
like Lollinad, which was little old lady in no apparent distress,
which you would think, why did they need to note the absence of distress,