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Anna Tyshinski

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
225 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

And he still remembers whenever you heard that silence, you know, you probably don't have time to save yourself at that point.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

That's a good point.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

I like this real nonchalance in an article I read from Time magazine in 1940.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

So it's September 1940 this was written, so middle of the Battle of Britain.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

And it said, last week, while screaming bombs were falling on London...

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

C. Martin Wilber, curator at Chicago's Museum of Natural History, called attention to the exhibit of Chinese whistling arrows and used the blitz as a way to segue into ancient Chinese whistling arrows.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

But these were the precursor.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

So these were arrows that were hollow on the inside.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

And so they whistled as they flew and they were to frighten people.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

And the Manchu emperor used them to scare people off the streets when he was walking through.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

So they couldn't harm people, the ones that he used.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

I know, you know, if you're one of his cavalrymen and he's, do you want a pig or a trumpet to carry on your horse?

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

Yeah, they hate bees.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

No, it's cartoons.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

I can't believe he needed to be straddling it rather than just next to it.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

I mean, he'll refuse that excuse with me in the cinema.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

Sounds like Rees Darby wailing after he sat on a hot bomb.

No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As Uncle Egg

How do we know they're doing it by mistake?