Merry Christmas everyone!

Ho! Ho!

Yep!

Thanks, Ben.

Well, as you can see, we are all in the Christmas spirit, and why would we not be?

Because we have a very special guest for you here today.

That's right. It is the man known as the chief gnome of the QI operation.

He is the person who brought us four, including Anna, together, to make no such thing as a fish. It is John Lloyd. Yes, the Christ figure to our three wise men. Oh, my God. Okay. Okay, no. I'm rowing back. He's the producer of QI. He's the producer of every great comedy series you watched. Black Anna's spitting image, not the 9 o'clock news, so much. And he's the author of a book called The Meaning

of Lith, co-written with Douglas Adams 42 years ago, and it's just been reissued. It's a fantastic

book. Yeah, this book is basically a dictionary of things that there should be words for,

but they don't exist. And so, what they've done

is there are signs of place names all around the UK that don't have any meaning attached to them

and they've attached these observations to those to create new words. Like Bath?

No. Bath has a meaning. That already has a meaning, deadly. Yeah. Sandwich, for example.

No, you guys are screwing this up. Des Moines? The two little lines coming down from your nose to your mouth of the Des Moines. Ah, nice. I like Ely. That's always been my favourite. The first tiniest inkling that's something, somewhere has gone terribly wrong. Okay. So that's the meaning of life. It's available in all shops now.

It's a brilliant Christmas present, stocking filler.

Main present, I would say.

Absolutely.

But what if you're listening to this,

and it's too late to do the shopping,

and you need to get the fish lover in your life a gift?

What to do is get the fish listener in your life.

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