No Such Thing As Walking the Life Jacket is the 131st episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 27th episode of the third year, and the 38th episode of 2016. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and QI Elf Alex Bell. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.
Description[]
Dan, James, Anna and Alex discuss duct tape for ducks, duck tape for ducts, Duck duct tape and ducks in ducts. And ducts.
Facts[]
- Margaret Thatcher ordered that all government documents should have slightly different word spacing, so they would know who a leaked letter came from. (Harkin)
- Duct tape should not be used on ducts. (Bell)
- Oxford University's first ever professor of chemistry, Robert Plot, believed that fossils were actually frozen urine. (Schreiber)
- Leonardo da Vinci made sculptures out of marzipan and got angry when people ate them. (Ptaszynski)
Trivia[]
- Regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent.
- Alex Bell guests, making his eighteenth appearance.
- In preparation for series two of No Such Thing As The News, two "dummy run" live performances are announced. These were released as Episode 133: No Such Thing As Paranoid Ants and Episode 134: No Such Thing As Sauce for the King of Sweden.
- Da Vinci's marzipan sculptures are again mentioned in TBA.
- Robert Plot's notes were the ones which Richard Brookes wrote "scrotum humanum" on. This fact was previously mentioned in Episode 30: No Such Thing As A Song in the Sound of Music and Episode 75: No Such Thing As Diarrhoea Drive.
- Some of the dubious facts from this podcast are corrected in the following episode.