Anna Tushinsky

I mean, that's his fortune.

It didn't say anything about improving his fortune.

Yeah.

You've got to read the small print.

of north south carolina very cool yeah nice very mayor centric episode we've got today and actually i've got a related fact um that i got sent from lucy fray oh yeah and this is that in my town she says in my town of los alamos new mexico there's a pond downtown named ashley pond and it is named after ashley pond as in the surname is pond

Really good.

This is Andy's weird way of telling you this under the pseudonym.

One from Martha King.

She says this is the funniest fact she's found out recently.

Get ready.

Hold on to your britches.

In the first two original Thomas the Tank Engine books, the Fat Controller was called the Fat Director.

It's not the end of the fact.

The reason was that after the first two episodes or the first two editions, the railways were nationalized and the bureaucracy was rejigged and director became controller.

So that's why his name was changed from director to controller.

I will say that I preemptively look this up because I read a lot of Thomas the Tank Engine, which, by the way, is so full of weird old railway jargon that it's very hard to read to a young toddler.

But I knew my mum was going to come along and say, isn't it ridiculous you're not allowed to call him that anymore?

So I Googled it to check and it's not true.

Yeah, yeah, you're totally allowed to call him that.

He just happens to have been called Mr. Topham Hatt in some American editions, I think, but like modern editions happily call him the Fat Controller.