Episode
244: No Such Thing As A Fishman
I remember when I first went to Toronto, years and years and years ago, and I called up my friend and colleague, Hugh Laurie. I asked at the front desk what attractions they were to see. They said, well, there's the…
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In Ontario, they have the Apology Act that came in in 2009. Their law now is that an apology is not allowed to be considered an admission of guilt.
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It wasn't in the shop. It was in the depository in Northampton, and they would send it to any address. And it was, I don't know, £1,200 or something. It's a huge number of volumes of this massive dictionary.
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The University of British Columbia has an official A-Lab, which is their syntax of speech lab — it's where you go if you want to study the linguistics of that kind of thing, and it's called the A-Lab.
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There's a great story, sort of like a gap year, where a woman writes to her sister, who's Canadian, and says, my son, your nephew's got his gap year, and he'd be landing in Newfoundland. I wonder if you could pick him…
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Ottawa launched a new slogan in 2001, and the slogan was 'technically beautiful.' What they were trying to say is that it's technologically advanced, it's great.
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Before the flood, God had delivered all his messages to people via these fish, these weird fish creatures. They were right near the Persian Gulf, and the idea was these huge fish creatures used to come out on the…
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You certainly have heard of Sodom and Gomorrah — the cities of the plain are at the bottom of the Dead Sea. There are still signs when you travel down the road to Jordan saying "Sodom that way", very pleasing.
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He went to what is now Mosul, which is where the library had been of King Sennacherib.
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Assyrian comes from Ashur, one of the tribes — it's staring us right in the face.
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