Abyssinia
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If you got into an argument in 18th century Abyssinia, you could resolve it by blaming everything on the camel.
from Little Fish: I am Dorkus, Queen of the Dorks, 2026-03-08 at 00:20:25 · read transcript
Other times Abyssinia came up
James has a theory because they say that the ancient Egyptians used crocodile dung as a contraceptive. Yeah. I think it was just actually a piece of clay from Abyssinia or from Ethiopia, and they used to make it into what do you call these, a pessary, and stop people from being able to impregnate you that way. You get it in all the lists of facts. It's like they use crocodile dung for contraception.
26: No Such Thing As A Yeti Fact, 2014-09-13 · listen
You could get Mussolini underpants as well, under kimonos as well. Really? Yeah. They had Hitler. They had Abyssinia. They had Hitler ones too, anti-aircraft guns on your under kimonos. It did go in that direction. They're seen as slightly embarrassing now, but they didn't start out that way. I bought some pants in Japan once, but they were Godzilla on them, so that's not the same thing as it.
361: No Such Thing As The Mosquito Effect, 2021-02-19 · listen
I think he was quite inspired by a guy called walking Stuart, who was a man he met in France and he loved walking Stuart. This is actually a guy who loads of the great philosophers and writers of the day really loved. He was a bloke who basically walked from India and through Persia and Abyssinia and African countries. Then he walked through America later. He loved walking.
No Such Thing As A Royal Seal, 2022-06-03 · listen
James has a theory that because in a lot of contracept, they say that the ancient Egyptians use crocodile dung as a contraceptive. Yeah. I think it was just actually a piece of clay from Abyssinia or from Ethiopia and they used to make it into, what do you call these, a peseree, and stuff people from being able to impregnate you that way. You get it in all the lists of facts, it's like they use crocodile dung for contraception.
No Such Thing As A Yeti Fact, 2014-09-13 · listen
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