No Such Thing As Money’s Bog Bottoms is the 522nd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 3rd episode of the eleventh year, and the 11th episode of 2024. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, as well as special guest and QI creator, John Lloyd. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Holborn, London.
Description[]
Dan, James, Anna and John Lloyd discuss Orwellian liars, neolithic fires, spicy pillories and dusty lilies.
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Facts[]
- When the impressionist Claude Monet lived in Giverny, he had six gardeners, one of whose whole job was to wash and dust the water lilies and clean the surface of the water. (Lloyd)
- Neolithic Europeans regularly burned their houses down for no apparent reason. (Ptaszynski)
- Despite warning us that everything we say would be recorded, we have lost all the recordings of everything that George Orwell said. (Schreiber)
- In 14th century London, one punishment for selling unclean spices was to be put in the pillory and have the spices set on fire beneath your nose. (Harkin)