No Such Thing As A Poo Powered Plane is the 164th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 8th episode of the fourth year, and the 19th episode of 2017. 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 second-hand spacesuits, Jeremy Corbyn's luxuriant beard, and North Korea's flying taxi service.
Facts[]
- Ideas proposed for the US border wall include: a trench full of nuclear waste, a one-way mirror, and 3 million hammocks next to each-other. (Murray)
- North Korea's national airline, Air Koryo, owns 10 times more taxis than it does aeroplanes. (Harkin)
- All NASA astronauts are wearing hand-me-downs. (Schreiber)
- As of last week, whenever state media in Tajikistan mentions the President by name, they legally have to refer to him by his full title, which is "The Founder of Peace and National Unity, Leader of the Nation, President of the Republic of Tajikistan, His Excellency Emomali Rahmon". (Ptaszynski)
Trivia[]
- The Book of the Year is first announced in this episode, and all the facts in it are proposals for facts to be included.
- The episode begins with four facts which the presenters want to get into the book:
- Mafia members in Sicily have been banned from becoming godfathers. (Schreiber)
- Only 13 MPs voted against holding the 2017 UK General Election. One of them did so because the proposed date would clash with his honeymoon. (Harkin)
- A Norwegian slow TV show which follows migrating reindeer has had to be suspended after the reindeer stopped moving altogether. (Ptaszynski)
- Jeremy Corbyn has won 7 elections for Parliamentary Beard of the Year. (Murray)
- The episode begins with four facts which the presenters want to get into the book:
- Air Koryo was previously mentioned in TBA as the only airline with one star on TripAdvisor.
- Ptaszynski's somewhat dubious fact from Episode 160: No Such Thing As A Sausage Jacuzzi is confirmed.