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449: No Such Thing As the Blancmange Olympics

No Such Thing As A Fish

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Irish Moss Saves America

Irish mass is used medicinally, it's good for like your throat. In fact, there's some evidence that it might stunt the replication of COVID as well. But anyway, the person who introduced it into medical use was a guy called Mr Todd Hunter. And he did a play called The Land of Hearts Desire in Dublin and everyone just booed him off. They kept booing him every time he put it on. It was taken off the rotor of the playhouse. George Bernard Shaw went on to write Pygmalion - which my fair lady was based on.

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