No Such Thing As The Sword In The Carbon Fibre is the 121st episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 17th episode of the third year, and the 28th episode of 2016. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.
Description[]
Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss wood-sucking catfish, wizard prison, and Ancient Egyptian butchers.
Facts[]
- The reason Merlin isn't called Merdin is to avoid confusion with a 12th century word for faeces. (Ptaszynski)
- Mate tea leaves sometimes flow upstream from the cup to the teapot. (Harkin)
- Butchers in Ancient Egypt wore high heels. (Schreiber)
- There is a fish called the Amazonian wood-eating catfish, but it is unable to digest wood. (Murray)
Trivia[]
- Greg Jenner is the source for a fact about Glastonbury Abbey and King Arthur.
- Schreiber's love of BRIAN BLESSED is mentioned.
- Schreiber mentions that Merlin was sorted into Slytherin, according to Pottermore. Ptaszynski, Harkin and Schreiber are all Slytherins.