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No Such Thing As A Fish

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🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Dan, Andy, Anna and Anne discuss the world's worst poetry recital, where all the world's hazelnuts go, and the first ever advert on Channel 5.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:21.4	to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
0:24.6	My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with Anichezinski, Andrew Hunter Murray
0:29.7	and Ann Miller and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:34.4	facts from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go.
0:40.1	Starting with fact number one and that's my fact this week, my fact is that Scottish
0:44.2	poet William McGonagall's writing was so bad, a circus hired him to give poetry readings
0:50.4	under the condition that audiences could pelton with eggs as he read.
0:56.5	And he de-agree to do that?
0:57.7	He agreed, except at the job.
0:59.7	He was paid 15 shillings per performance and he was actually slightly on hard times so
1:05.7	he accepted it probably going why I need the money.
1:08.1	And the eggs maybe?
1:09.1	Yeah and it wasn't just eggs, it was stale bread as well, flour, he got a lot of products
1:13.2	that he could go home with.
1:14.7	Unfortunately the performances were put to an end quite early on and he was disappointed
1:19.7	about that supposedly.
1:20.7	Yeah, weren't they put to an end because they were too riotous.
1:23.4	It was in 1893 the authorities banned them because they were getting so out of control.
1:28.8	Just while the enthusiastic about pelting him.
1:31.3	He was pretty tough to get an audience though, he was quite keen to spread his poetry regardless
1:35.8	of how much anyone wanted to hear it.
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