Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Chazinski and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with you, James.
Okay,
my fact this week is
that the Mulan Rouge had a kankan dancer who would distract patrons by kicking off their hats before promptly downing their drinks.
Such a good trick.
It's a dangerous trick.
Yeah, cause you might just kick someone in the face.
Oh, I was thinking the alcohol poisoning, but yes, these were problems.
But actually the kicking in the face thing,
that was one thing that the kankan dancers would do is deliberately pretend
that they were going to kick someone in the face.
If they were taking too many liberties on the front row,
they would kind of do a kick that got quite close to their face, and so that was the thing they did.
And as for the alcohol poisoning, unfortunately this lady called La Goulou,
otherwise known as Louise Weber, unfortunately she did in the end succumb to the drink.