Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming

to you from the QI offices in Covenant Garden.

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

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

facts from the last seven days and in a particular order, here we go, starting with you,

Schreiber.

My fact this week is that Tibet is suffering from a shortage of butter sculptors.

Yeah, this is people who make sculptures out of butter.

When you say shortage it means they must have some of them still.

They do have some but they must need a lot of them.

I'm not sure that's the case because if you have a mug you could start a shortage.

It would have just been extremely severe shortage.

I think that's when it's been called an absence.

Yes, yeah.

So, butter sculpting in Tibet is a very popular one.

It goes back a really long way and it's part of their Buddhist celebrations.

And so in the biggest Tibetan Buddhist festival which is called the Monlang Festival, then

the largest day of it is like the day when they light all these butter lamps and they make

all these butter sculptures and it's a way of celebrating Buddha.

But as victories, because it sounds a bit like butter, it's exactly the same.

I don't believe it's not butter.

Yeah.

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