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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss ancient greek bathtubs, badgers on submarines and the logistics of Santa's Naughty and Nice List.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish A Weekly Podcast coming

0:20.2

to you from the QI offices in Covern Garden.

0:23.2

My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray

0:27.6

and Annotzzynski and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite

0:32.6

facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.

0:37.8

Starting with fact number one and that is my fact.

0:40.6

My fact this week is that a pub in London has just renamed itself the Bill Murray.

0:45.6

However, because they couldn't get his permission they had to name it after William Murray

0:49.8

who was King Charles I's whipping boy instead.

0:52.7

Yes, so this is a pub in Angel, North London and they wanted to give tribute as a fact

0:58.6

that they were renovating the pub and renaming it.

1:01.1

But there's a law that you can't name a thing like a pub after a living person unless

1:04.5

you get their absolute permission.

1:06.5

Yes, that's why they needed his permission.

1:08.6

I did not know.

1:09.6

Oh, okay.

1:10.6

That's why you don't see pubs called like the Peers Morgan everywhere.

1:13.1

Yes, yes.

1:14.1

Did he try to get Bill Murray's permission?

1:15.9

Yeah, they did quite a few things.

1:17.3

They found a friend of Bill Murray's brother who they got in contact with.

1:21.2

Bill Murray famously doesn't have an agent but there's a number that you can call him

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