2021-01-08
56 分钟Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with Anna Tyshinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with my fact this week, my fact is that while working as a publisher, the poet T.S.
Eliot liked to sit his visiting authors on a whoopee cushion before offering them an exploding cigar.
Did he do this with everybody?
Yeah, I don't know if people were warned about it, I think most people assumed it wouldn't happen,
he was a very serious guy according to the writings that he released,
so the idea that you would enter the office of the great poet T.S.
Eliot and have a cigar explode in your face while making a loud fart seems out of place, doesn't it?
Do you think maybe the very grave,
serious persona he had throughout his life was all an act so that he could do this, japed without people expecting it?
That's a great idea.
Could have been all building up to this.
All the front, yeah, yeah.
It wasn't just his authors who came in who he would turn these sort of practical jokes onto,
he once broke up a board meeting as well by setting off a bucket full of firecrackers underneath the chairman's legs,
so he was all over the shop, he was a nightmare to work with.