2016-09-24
45 分钟Hi guys,
just before we start this show we wanted to let you know about last week's show on which you might remember we had a few facts about Leonardo da Vinci
that we were slightly suspicious about and we just asked someone
if they could get in touch and provide us with a reliable source so
that all these things that sounded too good to be true could be verified as true and someone did get in touch to tell us
that they weren't true.
I'm afraid Leonardo da Vinci may not have even made the giant whisk.
We fell for a hoax.
This is a hoax book that was written in the 1980s.
It's called Notas da Cocina da Leonardo da Vinci and it's full of lies,
cruel lies that were then repeated in biography after book after history magazine throughout the decade solely for the purpose of making me look like an idiot.
Thanks so much to Pedro Almada who was the person who emailed in to tell us about
that original text and who also managed to avoid writing in huge capital letters you total and utter gullible morons.
Very grateful to him for being so restrained on that front and
for letting us know and I'm so sorry to the rest of you for saying these things that turned out not to be true.
Won't happen again.
I promise the upcoming podcast is almost entirely true.
Okay on with the show.
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.