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 and I am sitting here with James Harkin,
Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Chasinski 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 fact number one and that is my fact.
My fact this week is that a pub in London has just renamed itself The Bill Murray.
However,
because they couldn't get his permission they had to name it after William Murray who was King Charles I's whipping boy instead.
Yes, so this is a pub in Angel,
North London and they wanted to give tribute as a fact that they were renovating the pub and renaming it but there's a law that you can't name a thing like a pub after a living person unless you get their absolute permission.
So that's why they needed his permission.
I did not know.
That's why you don't see pubs called like the Piers Morgan everywhere.
Did he try to get Bill Murray's permission?
They did quite a few things.
They found a friend of Bill Murray's brother who they got in contact with.
Bill Murray famously doesn't have an agent but there's a number that you can call him on and propose projects.
Or offer parts to presumably that's the main function of it actually.
Yeah, exactly.
His answer phone is his agent and he listens to them so I think they left a few messages on that and they were going to take an ad out in the newspaper in the local city where he lives so