No Such Thing As A Fish - Little Fish: Yum Yum, Plum Plum
Episode Date: November 9, 2025Dan, James and Andy discuss YOUR facts, in episode two of our brand new weekly show. This week's subjects include beds, wind, panhandles and Devo. We also meet our first four listeners who have bec...ome Fact Custodians.
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Hi everyone, welcome to the second ever episode of Little Fish.
Little Fish is a show where we list your facts, things that you've sent in to the podcast at QI.com inbox.
Andy has sifted through them and he has found the very sweetest plums, sent them over to the rest of us and we're going to go through them today and chat about them.
Are they true? Are they not true? Do we know more about the subject? Have we never heard of
any of these words before in our life.
We will see as we move on.
So who is going to do the first fight?
It can't be me because I did the intro.
It has to be one of you two.
Oh, go on.
I'll throw a plum your way then.
Jump in, let's do it.
See how sweet you find it.
Yum, yum, yum, plum, plum.
My page.
Sorry.
One of these days, one of these catchphrases will pay our handy,
and everyone will be saying,
yum, yum, plum, plum.
It'll be the new six, seven.
You'll see, James, when I'm opening nightclubs around the country
shouting yum, yum, plum, plum.
Right, this is from the unimprovably named Nathan Gallimore Strong.
I think friend of this parish.
I think we may have heard from him before.
Oh, yeah.
But he says, the windiest place in the UK is the butt of Lewis.
That's it. Thanks, Nathan.
There you go.
And it's basically, it's on the Isle of Lewis.
Lewis and Harris.
Harris and Lewis.
and the butt is on a very, very northern tip of Lewis.
And during his trip, he also wrote his first finicular railway.
So congratulations, Nathan.
Oh, very good.
It's a little bit contentious, this fact.
I did do some follow-up.
I always thought it was further north.
So is it Cape Rath or something that's in the far north of Scotland?
I always thought that was the windiest place.
Well, I think on average, Shetland is windier.
Oh, yeah.
So the butt of Lewis has been named by the Guinness Book of Records a few years ago.
So they have their methodology.
I still consider Shetland to be part of Denmark.
Oh, because you, yeah, you have controversial political opinion.
And if you're listening, Danes.
Is it Denmark or no way?
There was one of them where we got it as maybe a dowry or something from some Scandinavian country.
But the rules were that they were allowed to buy it back at any stage.
Like when we first got it, but Shetland or Orkney.
Right.
They said, yeah, you can have it.
As soon as we can get 12 marks together, we're going to buy it back.
So, and I think it's still true that in theory they could buy it back if they want.
Really?
To know that.
Okay.
Well, so if you're listening, Vikings, get the money together.
How windy?
How windy is this?
It's pretty, it's really windy.
The thing is, how do you measure how windy something is?
Yeah.
Is it average speed over the year?
Maybe, for me now, because I live by seaside, I could judge it.
If I saw where Margate lives on a list, then I think I could then judge it by personal experience.
Yeah, yeah, because it's quite windy where you are.
Oh, it's wild.
The wind in Margate is insane.
And it comes out of nowhere.
Like, we have this amazing...
You can't see it coming.
We were sitting one time in Margate.
There's these things which are called the steps that go onto the beach, and you often see it.
Lots of beaches out there are done.
It's things called the steps.
If you've ever been to Rome, they have a Margate tribute, which is called...
the Spanish steps. Do they?
Oh, well, there you go. See, yeah, it's coming up, Margate.
So we were sitting on what felt like a normal day, and we were with our neighbors.
These seagulls get coming and eating our fish and chips.
And Chloe did this thing where she picked up the final few chips, and she threw them out
to the ocean, and just at that moment, this giant gust of wind came, blew the chips to the left
right onto a couple that were kissing on the steps, and about 12 seagulls just darted into them.
She had to run after them.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
They were literally being attacked by these gulls.
Is that a true story?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's one of my favorite moments.
In fact, I have a photo.
Well, that might, Dan, that sounds very windy.
Yeah, so that's how I'd be able to tell.
But the strongest gust ever recorded in the UK was at Kairngorm Summit in 1986,
which is a mountain in the highlands.
In Scotland, yeah.
Which was 173 miles an hour.
I think that's the strongest any gusts, any,
individual gust has been recorded.
But I think in general, it's normally Shetland that is the windiest on average, I believe.
I know, I know.
You'd be lifted off into the air when you'd be lifted off in the air.
Oh, yeah.
Don't wear your big coat.
Thank you, Nathan.
Yeah, great facts.
Okay, here's a fact from Josh Glendening, who says,
a soldier who spent too long on the toilet because of an upset stomach caused the star.
of World War II. So do we know about this incident? No. Okay, this was this was called the Marco
Polo Bridge incident. It was 1937, often considered to be the start of the second Sino-Japanese War,
which then evolved into World War II. And so the story goes that in the 1930s, Japan had invaded
and put it in a puppet government and named it Manchuria. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So in July 1937,
there was a Japanese private, Shumara Kikojuro, who was stationed near the bridge, and he went
missing. So a few soldiers accused the Chinese military of having taken him and were holding him
hostage. And so they started climbing over the walls to find him. They started asking questions
and getting a bit of an aggressive response. And it just kind of built up tensions. Meanwhile,
this soldier comes back after a while saying, sorry, my stomach was gone. I had to dip into
the forest and just relieve myself. And in that time, enough of a fight started that it went
to a full-blown war.
I just feel like we've missed one or two steps here.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, it's...
Probably some political things happening.
There were a few political things.
Also, there's another theory that he was visiting a brothel that he hadn't gone to the toilet.
And a lot of historians, but this has been poo-poohed by a lot of historians.
Poo-pooh-ed.
Very good.
Is the idea that this was staged, so he was told to go away so that they could pretend he was missing
so that they could find an excuse to go in.
But so, yeah.
I've heard this story before and I think it rings relatively true.
The basics are true, aren't they?
Really?
I read a couple of years ago, I read Sir Anthony Beaver's history of the Second World War.
Oh, did he mention it?
He says this is the exclusive course.
Does he?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
He says everything else would have been absolutely fine.
It's 18 chapters on this guy's dodgy tummy.
That's right.
Just a little bit.
And then there was a skirmish.
Does he go into the Sino-Japanese
Or does he start 1939?
Oh no, he goes into extraordinary detail
About the whole global nature of it
Yeah, yeah
It starts with the soldier actually, page one
It's about the soldier who
I think he was from Korea
Or he gets drafted into the Japanese army
When they invade
And then Japan
locks horns with China
And then he's taken prisoner
After some fight by the Russians
And then he ends up
He ends up serving in three or four different armies
Always being pressed into a different army
over the course of the war. It's an absolute nightmare scenario for him.
And he's used as an example of how this war affected absolutely everyone in the world.
But his account is sort of grimly funny.
And then he was taken prisoner by the Russians.
And it just goes on and on and on like that.
Yeah.
Like the forest gump of war.
I suppose so.
And this guy, your private den was taking a forest dump.
That's why you get the big bucks, Andy.
Yum, yum, plum, plum.
Okay, my first fact comes from Ian Jones, and he says, I'm a pediatric surgeon.
That's not his fact.
His fact is about the Fanonsteel incision.
You gave me a load of German.
You gave me some German ones last week as well.
Nice.
Yeah.
And German is not my first, second, third, or indeed a hundred and ninety-third language.
But this incision is one that this person did.
It's basically the most common way of doing a caesarea.
But you use it for some other surgery down there, but it's in the shape of a panhandle, and it's on the bikini line.
And it gives you good access to the pelvis and stuff like that.
Now, the incision is called fan and steel, because fan and steel in German means panhandle.
Okay.
But the surgeon who first described it was called Herman Johannes Fanenstiel.
So he invented it.
It has the same name as him,
but according to him,
it's named after the fact that it's the shape of a panhandle.
Now, Ian Jones's personal theory,
which I agree,
is that he deliberately drew the incision
in the shape of a panhandle
so that he could name it after himself.
People do do this sometimes, don't it?
Wasn't there an element of the periodic gallium?
Gallium.
And it was named after a guy who's
So he said they named it after France
Yes, Gaul
But actually I think he was called Lecoq
That's it
Or something similar
Which is chicken
And Gallus Gallus is the Latin for chicken
That's it
That's it
So yeah
Like people do do it
And to be honest
It's such a coincidence
I've never seen the word
Fan and Steele before
I mean
What if actually the surgery
Will be much better
And easier to conduct
If it was a completely different shape
that doesn't look like a palm handle.
Yes.
It could be that, you know,
all these years,
people who are having cesareans
are having the wrong shape
just because of his.
Well, we should look into that.
That's insane.
That's really good fact.
That's very good.
And great theory.
I can give you more on surgeons.
Yeah.
Yeah, go on.
There's a more.
Jean Casimir Felix Guion
was born in Reunion.
He came up with a new way
of removing bladder stones
through the peridium.
but he's more famous for being the probable inspiration for this song Frerejaka
No way wow
My little one sings that non-stop at the moment
Do they know that it's about removing
Bladestones through the Peronium?
No but we never get to the third verse of the song so
I'm sure what are the lines you get Ferreirajaka, Frerezaka Dormevous
Dormevoo Sonele Matina
Sonele Matina ding dang dong dong
Deng dang dong
So is that we've had a patient come in
Complaining of severe
It's the sound of the bladder stones fall
into the pan.
It's the ding-dang-don.
Good, good.
Is the perineum
the bit in between
the anus and the genital?
And the other genital opening.
What's the grundle?
That might just be you, Dan.
I thought that was another term for that.
I've never come across that.
Have you not? So the band that does our theme tune,
Emperor Yes, Ash, who wrote our song
and sings the song.
He was originally in a...
band called Grundle. And I'm pretty sure it was to...
Wow.
Is this Aussie slang?
No, no, no, no.
All right, Mr. Schreiber, let's get you up on the chair and just have a quick look at
the grundle, sir.
Oh, you've got a bedcase of the parish? I can say it, mate.
Dan, let's have another fact.
Okay, here's a, here's not so much a fact, but a great pub quiz question.
All right, so this is from John Dunn.
He says, my favorite pub...
The metaphysical poet.
He said, my favorite pub quiz question is, and here's a question now, and I'm going to ask it to you two.
What are furthest north, south, east, and west states of the United States?
Come on, mate.
Yeah, you're, okay.
I think I was born yesterday.
All right, so let's start, let's start with South.
What's the, what's the Southest?
Southest.
Southest.
I'm going to say, um, Dakota.
North Dakota.
North Dakota.
It's a trick question.
Okay, well, for me it has to be North Carolina.
Okay.
No, it must be Hawaii.
It is Hawaii.
Oh, very good.
Correct.
What is the north-thest state?
I think that has to be South Dakota, doesn't it?
Okay, playing seriously for a second.
I'll say Alaska.
Correct.
It is Alaska.
It is.
That is correct.
Okay.
One each.
Westest.
Westest.
I would say Alaska, Alaska.
Correct.
It is Alaska.
Oh.
Yeah.
Interestingly, it's got North and West.
Yeah.
So, okay.
That's two, one, but you probably might have said the same.
I would.
And also, I'm going to get the next one, right.
Okay, so I'll give this one to Andy.
Most eastest.
I feel like it's going to be a trick, but I'll say,
West Virginia
West Virginia
No I'll say one of those ones
Over on the far right hand sides
I'll say Rhode Island
Rhode Island incorrect James
I'm going to say it's Alaska
again
Correct
Because the Aleutian Islands go over the international
Dateline
Oh for heaven's sake
Yeah
Is that amazing
South is the only one Hawaii
that is not claimed by Alaska
So north, east, west
are all Alaska
What?
Yeah
Okay here's one
Kathy Oliver from Ontario, which is at least in the same hemisphere as most of Alaska,
she said, my husband and I love your podcast, and it keeps us entertained on drives to my various treatments over the last two years,
which leads me to a fact idea for you.
When you get a stem cell transplant, you will stink of creamed corn for a couple of days.
Wow, okay.
So the stem cells are frozen using a substance called dimethyl sulfoxide.
DMSO and it stops them from getting damaged, but it has this peculiar odour that smells to most
people like creamed corn. DMSO actually is very pungent, but to such an extent that you can taste it
by touching it. So if I had a petri dish of DMSO now and you put your finger in it, you'd be
able to taste it. Wow. And that's because it directly triggers the nerves that normally react
to taste. That's insane. Yeah. That's absolutely insane.
How many different foods does that work with?
This is not a food.
Okay.
This is a chemical.
And I don't know of any food stuff.
I guess garlic could do it like that, maybe?
Because that seems to go through your skin, but that's just, I guess.
I mean, I thought.
There's a theory about that.
I remember you're walking around with an onion in your sock to see if you could taste it.
As QI research years and years and years ago.
I've got two pictures for you off the back of this.
Oh, yeah.
So number one, there should be a Google for smells.
That should just be a Google for spells.
How do you, what do you search?
As in what do you type?
You're not typing.
You're not typing with your nose.
So what do you put in that you're trying to find?
I haven't worked out all the details yet.
Is it like Shazam?
Instead of a phone, you hold a giant nose in the area where you are.
And it goes, hmm, baked crumpets.
That's exactly what it is.
Very nice idea.
Okay, brilliant.
That's good.
Right.
We've solved that one.
I feel like I came up with that idea, really.
We were on the room, three-way split.
really great great work everyone
see for the first set of quarterly results
okay so second idea
off the back of that the touch restaurant
right you don't eat anything but you just
go in and you put your fingers through holes
in the table into various
different foods that you can then taste
yeah right okay
but the only thing on the menu is
DMSO
so far so far maybe some garlic
but you've got to wear it for a month
but I think that will be good
if we can find enough foods that you can taste through your finger
That would be awesome.
I've got to say I'm in on the Shazam nose.
Andy, I'll let you develop this a bit more before committing.
I'm sharing it with you guys three ways no matter what, including the debts.
Okay.
I just want to say to everyone listening to this, I'm happy to share my Shazam nose with everyone who's listening to this.
We can all have 0.0.01%.
That's really generous.
But one of you listening will have to make it.
Who's next? Do you want to do another one, Andy?
Or Dan, do you want to jump him on?
Yeah, I've got one here.
So this is from Edward Malloy, who says this is their favorite fact.
Norwich is the only city in history to be excommunicated.
In 1274, after a riot in the cathedral, Pope Gregory the 10th excommunicated the entire city
until they repented and repaired the damage done to church property.
Clearly, it has had a lasting effect as Norwich is now the least religious city in
England per the 2011 census.
Is that right?
Kind of right.
I looked into it.
It's almost right.
I didn't fully get an answer to the excommunication, but Norwich is very much not a religious city anymore.
It's interesting because there's a saying about Norwich, which is that it has a church for every week of the year and a pub for every day.
So a lot of churches.
That must be Norfolk, right?
There's no way there's 32 churches in Norwich.
Maybe there is. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I take that back.
It's just a saying. I don't think there's exactly 365 pubs either.
But it's the, it is. It's the LA of Norfolk. I would say, Norwich. Right.
You know what I mean? It's the it's the mega city of Norfolk. Isn't it? Of Norfolk? Oh yeah.
There's Kings Lynn, of course. Oh yeah. Of course. There's Kings Lynn. That's fair. That's
fair. There's Kings Lynn. Well, a census was done in 2021 and it showed that those who said that they don't have any religion, don't
believe in any religion was 53.5%
Wow.
So it's 76,9773 people and that's a jump from a decade ago when it was 42.5 and that's 56,000
people. So it's the second least religious city in the UK.
Oh, so there's town or city. Yeah.
Isn't it somewhere called Satan, Satanford or something? That's the least religious.
That's not a city though. No, it's the city. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a
parish, isn't it? No, do you know what I mean? I think it's got an amusingly apt name,
the least religious place in the UK, but I can't remember what the name is. I would have,
without knowing that little clue, I would have said most likely it would be somewhere like
Brighton or Bristol, like somewhere where lots of cool young people live. So, yeah, sort of strongly
secular. Do you want to have another guess, Andy? James has it right, but do you want to have another
guess? No, I'm going to stick with Satanford, I think. Okay. Brighton and Hove. Wow. Yeah. Had
55.2% of people declaring no religion. Gosh. Yeah.
Alastair Crowley had his funeral there. In Brighton? Yeah, might have something to do with that.
Was he from there? No, but I think he passed away in Hastings and I think his body ended up in Brighton
for some reason. He was cremated there. It's not so far, is it? No, it's on the coast.
Very windy. Is it? Do you want to release those ashes near a couple making out?
Here's one from me. I already have a bone to pick.
with Andrew Hunter Murray. It's episode two. And I already have a bone to pick because she sent us
these facts. And listener, think back to audience facts one. When I said, here's one from
Wayne Hoyt, or is it Holt, because it looks like it should be Holt. Well, this week I have one
from Wayne Holt, H-O-L-T. I assume it's the same person and I assume one of them is a
Mispelling. I've got to check.
Although I did have a eyesight check yesterday and I need reading glasses.
So maybe you need to check. Can you check? Is that a Hoyt and a halt?
Yeah, it's a hoit and a halt. Right. Yeah. Okay.
Wayne does write in a few times. He writes in frequently. We have a few frequent flies in the fishing box.
Does he change his surname every time he writes in?
I've got to check. You've got to work on your pseudonyms, Wayne.
What's the fact, James?
Well, actually, the fact is to do a spelling.
Oh, no.
The fact is that in concert, the band Devo
sometimes performed as their own opening act
pretending to be a Christian soft rock band called Dove,
the band of love, which is an anagram of Devo.
Very nice.
That's really good.
I'm really sorry, James.
They're both from Wayne Hoyt.
Wayne Holt doesn't exist.
That's not a real person.
I've mistyped his name.
There will be a Wayne Holt out there.
If you're listening, Wayne,
how's Wayne going to solve this situation?
Wayne's only going to confuse matters.
Yeah, if you happen to be listening to Fish
and you're called Wayne Holt, write in,
let us know you exist.
Yeah, simple.
Shall I do one?
Yeah.
This is from Jessica Rhingyzen, from Texas,
and she writes that Napoleon and Lord Wellington
are kind of related, and it's America's fault.
Okay. This is admittedly quite tenuous, but the story is that Napoleon had a younger brother called Jerome, who visited the US when he was in his late teens, and he eloped with a lady called Elizabeth Patterson. Then Napoleon wanted Jerome to come back and marry a European princess, because it was part of his plan to consolidate power while he was conquesting territories, right? So he brought Jerome back.
Elizabeth stays, but then Elizabeth hops on a boat, and Napoleon bans it from.
landing. So she has no choice but to go and port in London. So that's where she lands. Jerome
remarries and basically they never see each other again. Now the tenuous link that we've been
given here from Jessica is that while she was in London she was living with a lady called
Marianne. Marianne was her sister-in-law. Marianne's husband dies and she remarries Richard
Wellesley who's the elder brother of Arthur Wellesley who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Good Lord.
Small world, isn't it?
I'm starting to think it's a slightly bigger world
than I was imagining.
Okay, I mean, I was lost so long ago.
Yeah, it's just about clung on until the end.
I tell you what, though, I did recently visit the room where Wellington died.
Did you?
Yeah.
I went down to Walmer Castle in Kent.
Oh, it's a good day out.
It's really good.
It's a proper castle.
It's 400 years old.
It's not one of these sort of plastic castles that you get these days.
You know, sort of like fake castles.
just to state me home with a few turrets.
That's Disneyland.
You're talking about Disneyland.
It's not Disneyland.
It's proper.
And there's a thing called being the warden of the sink ports.
It looks like it sank French or five, but it's not.
It's warden of the sink ports.
But it does mean five, right?
There were five parts.
It does mean five.
And it's spelled like the French of five.
But it is, I swear to God, they pronounce it warden of the sink ports.
I swear.
Like, I went in and I said to the lady,
nice to be visiting the sank ports.
She said, sync ports.
Anyway, she probably said that 100 times a day for 20 years.
You don't want to be calling your port.
sink anyway.
You're absolutely right.
It's a crazy choice.
But there is this honorary position
called Warden of the Sink ports
and Wellington was that.
So was the Queen Mum.
The old Queen Mum.
And actually when I visited
they had a Queen Mum lookalike there
for the day.
Did they?
Really?
Along with a kind of...
That kind of work must be drying up a bit.
Well, I made a sort of casual joke
about gin and she looked so disapproving.
Because you know, the Queen Mum.
She liked her gin.
She liked to drink.
My God, Andy, this was a tough
day for you. First of all, you walk in
and mispronounced sink pots
and then you make a perfectly harmless
joke about gin so the Queen Mother
look alike. And then I find out
Wellington's dead. It was awful.
It was terrible,
but no, it's a really
evocative room because they've got this tiny bed,
it's this camp bed, it's a military camp bed
that is still there from the day he died
and he must have died in about, what, 1850.
But he took this bed with him wherever
he went. When he went up to London
to be the Prime Minister, that military
camp bed went with him. How interesting. He slept on, you know, he slept in that bed in Downing
Street and then when he became warden of the sinkports, he brought the bed back to Warmer Castle.
You know what? I went to the place when Napoleon surrendered, which is in France,
is it, Ildre or somewhere? I can't remember. Or I'll de France, Ilderay, something like that.
And I might be misremembering this, but I seem to remember that he had quite a non-ornate bed as well.
Yeah, I remember being there and thinking, oh, wow, for a, you know,
someone who's so important in history,
what a shit bed.
These military dies.
I think it's the military like they're used to the campaigning lifestyle.
You know,
I saw the bed that Abraham Lincoln died in.
Really?
Yeah, it's when we were in D.C.
We had a bit of time off.
Because he was shot in the Ford Theater,
but then he was taken to a house not too far away.
I just need a little nap.
That's all right.
Just but to scratch.
No, they brought up to a house.
And so he died in a bed that was, his legs were hanging off the edge, basically.
He was tall, he was super tall and the bed was quite small.
And you can visit his bed.
You can visit this, yeah.
Okay, hear me out.
Okay.
Bed company.
And we sell replica beds of the great beds of history.
Oh.
We're going to clean up on the finance bros who want to think that they're living like
Napoleon or Wellington or Lincoln.
I mean, those are three perfect examples of like beds of the greats, right?
Yes.
Like you too can conquer Europe with our 9,000 pound bed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we'll just sell them a military camp bed.
What do you think?
I love it.
Okay.
All right.
Well, if you're listening to this, you can have 0.0.0.1%.
Okay.
So I think that's enough facts for the day that we've been sent in.
But we still have one more thing to do.
And that is to name some custodians of the archive.
So anyone who is in our top tier on Patreon,
becomes a custodian of a fact from no such things of fish.
It's very exciting.
I'm a custodian myself, if you remember listening back to episode one of this little fish.
But there will be more custodians named today.
We will tell you your name, which you might already know,
and then we'll tell you the fact that you're the custodian of.
So, Andrew, who is going to be our first non-fish member who is a custodian of a fish fact?
I just want to say that was incredibly slick, James.
And the concept of the shoutout is clearly very well embedded in your head.
First up today for a shoutout is Rachel not.
And her fact is the first ever sandwich that we know about contained wine.
Congratulations, Rachel.
That is now your fact forever.
Bilal the elder.
Is that who it was?
Hillel, Bilal, yeah, something.
And it was more of a rap.
It was more of a rap.
It had like currants in or something, right?
It sounds delicious.
I think we said this at the time
11 years ago
when we covered it on the show
Anyway yeah Rachel
That's your fact
And we went into sandwiches
The Earl of Sandwich
Who we just covered again
A week or two ago
In recording
Yes we did
Of course
Well we're on a big wheel
Aren't we
We are
Dan have you got one
Yeah
This is a fact
That is now
going to belong
To Silas Gil
And that is
In 2003
three people in Mexico
Died of acne
Oh
If you put a gun to my head
and said, you've got a thousand guesses
as to the Christian name of the second ever
person to become a friend of the podcast.
Silas would have not been one of my thousand guesses.
No.
It's just a terrific name.
Because I think are these in order of the people who signed up?
So literally, I think Rachel and Silas
had to have had their hand hovering over the Patreon button
as the time struck midnight.
Yeah.
Wow.
And we should say Silas is an especially fish-friendly name.
Silas Manor.
by friend of the podcast.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
George Elliott.
That's right.
Okay, so the third custodian this week.
This is a Dan Schreiber fact.
And the fact is that amongst the other scientists called Einstein,
there are M.E. Einstein, who came up with a formula for predicting the composition of a pork carcass.
And Rosemary Einstein, who co-investigated the use of cannabis, alcohol and tobacco.
on 300 young persons at her university.
Could have done with an edit, Dan?
We're going to need a bigger certificate.
But drum roll, that fact now is under the custodianship of Helen Cosgrove Davis.
Congratulations, Helen.
Nice. That was a great episode.
That was a fact I took from a Mark Abrams book of the Ig Nobel Prizes, who James and I are
going to be seeing tomorrow.
He's in London.
We're on a big wheel.
Along with Case Molica, who did the paper about the first case of homosexual
necrophilia in the mallard duck.
Yep.
And who raised awareness for pubic lice
because they might be going extinct.
It's going to be a spicy lunch tomorrow.
Oh.
As long as he's not cooking, I don't really mind.
Oh, congratulations, Helen.
That's the longest fact that's become
custodianed so far.
Until the next done fact.
Shall I round us off with one more?
Yeah, go on there.
All right. This is a fact that is now
under the stewardship of Darcy.
Mr Darcy
We can only assume
Fitzwilliam if you're listening
Congratulations
And it's one of my facts
Is that the first contact lenses
Cost as much as a car
Yes you went to the museum
Didn't you to see
Yeah
The British Optical Association Museum
Those were the days
When we used to do proper research
Episode two
Quickly ended that
Yeah
Although we're on a big wheel
I went back there recently
No
For a party
Yeah
For a party
Yeah
They were finishing
Their refurbishment
of the museum. It's really good.
It's in the basement of the headquarters of the British Optical
Association. And
they invited some celebs along and they
also know so they invited me.
Who were the other big celebs who are at the party?
I can't name names. I'm sorry
it's very much an eyes wide shut situation.
Everyone was in masks. Ironically considering
their optometrists. Brilliant.
Does everyone wear masks and eyes wide shut?
They do. Okay, good. In certain scenes
not the whole way through it. That was very much a
of a reference for me, you know, when you try and do a reference to something.
You mean like when you say Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote...
Silas Marna?
Silas Marna.
Yep, exactly, exactly.
Because the thing is normally in a podcast, I would say that and then I'd cut it out
because I knew I got it wrong because I'd check it later.
But I've referenced it twice now, so it's going to have to stay in.
You've really shot yourself in the foot.
Okay, well, they are the next four custodians of facts in the No Such Things of Fish
Archive. Read the names again, Andy?
It's Rachel Knott. It's Silas Gil.
Gill, Helen Colesgrove Davis and Darcy.
Four absolute legends, the first four
people to sign up for our friend of the podcast
tier on Patreon, and you too
can get your name mentioned on this show
if you sign up to that tier.
But for now, it is time for us to
say goodbye, so bye, Dan.
It's goodbye from me. And it's goodbye from him.
Bye.
Bye.
