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- Hurry up, son. lt's about to leave.
- OK.
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(Whistle blows)
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(Brakes screech)
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(Man) 'We'd like to apologise
to customers for the delay.
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'This is due to the track
going up some steps.'
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(Armando ) I'm constantIy aware
of the passing of time.
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From the moment I get up,
I can feeI the day start to sIip away/
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I want to pack more into it
Iike go-ahead fataIIy iII peopIe
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who go on a time management course
for the dying. '
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ltemise the things you want to do
in those last three weeks.
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Those of you with two weeks left
may wish to make priority lists.
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We aII have to cope with time passing.
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This pearIy king thinks he can cope,
but he can't.
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He is Danny Chivers
and he's been sacked
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because his work can be done
by a computer.
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Danny went home and screamed
into a big tub of buttons.
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This puppeteer has changed
with the times. He's Keith MidgeIey.
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l'm gonna put out your fire! Ha ha ha!
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When his act
was dying on its fIuffy arse
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he found he couId earn a fortune
doing this.
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l need to cool down!
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(Cheering)
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(Chanting) Off! Off! Off!
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(Screaming)
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? Spy on me, baby, use satellite
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? lnfrared to see me... ?
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(Chanting) Strip! Strip! Strip!
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? Aim, gonna fire, shoot me right
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? l'm gonna like the way you fight
You know what you are
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? Sex bomb, sex bomb
You're a sex bomb... ?
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''Do you perform scientific experiments
on animals for a living?
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''lf not,
please disregard this letter bomb.''
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Why do l waste time
reading all my junk mail?
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''Learn to speak Tarzan.
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''Have you ever wanted to speak
like the Lord of the Jungle?
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''Now is um heap big chance.''
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l do it every morning,
even though l know it makes me late.
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''Dear Householder, are you a recently
housed asylum seeker just moved in?
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''lf so, please accept this turd
through your letter box.
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''lf not, then our apologies for the turd.''
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Right, this is all going in the bin.
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Get rid of this.
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l now have lost a lot of the day.
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l've concluded that the only good thing
about seeing time passing
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is we can watch Margaret Thatcher
get closer to death.
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(Bang)
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This is gonna take for ever.
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There isn't enough time
to get everything done,
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so every night Rupert Murdoch gets in
and says, ''Shite! Didn't ring China!''
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Or Radiohead delay a new album
because they want to read Harry Potter.
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There isn't time to stop and marveI
at things happening right now.
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Now some medicaI notes are being
mixed up, a showroom seIIs a Vectra.
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A dog bitch gives birth
in Stenhousemuir,
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groomed men go out on the shag.
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Derby County seek a new manager,
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'a super teacher feeIs sick,
Denise Van Outen steps on a Iandmine.
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HaIf a teen band take cocaine,
a spy Ieaves his Iaptop in the pub,
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'Rod Stewart wonders
if he'II ever catch a bus again.
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'Diane Abbott trips on a pen,
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MichaeI Schumacher is disappointed
by the post.
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A man ignores feng shui and buys
a Dennis the Menace duvet cover,
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someone has got the ThunderbaII,
AIan Sugar opens his mouth to speak.
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Buitoni come up with a new shape of
pasta, Meat Loaf fIies into Gatwick...
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'A week ago, my wife's doctor said
that she's only got 34 years to live.
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'So we've obviously had
to think things through.
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'l've packed the job in to look after her.
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'We're gonna just spend the time we've
got left doing the things we want to do.
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'So we're going off to live in Disneyland.'
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(Doorbell rings)
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- Hello.
- Hello. l'm from the Sunday Observer.
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l gather you bought today's copy?
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Yes, l take the Observer.
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l'm not interested in what you
fucking take, love! Have you read it?
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- Yes, l read it this morning.
- Let's have a look then!
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What are you doing?
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What's this? Oh, look! lt's the Business
Section, looking distinctly unread!
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- l don't read it.
- You fucking should!
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- What's going on?
- You haven't read any of them!
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- l've read most of them.
- Let's have a little exam then.
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Sit down. Tell me, what do they say in
today's paper is the best region of ltaly?
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- Tuscany! Why?
- l don't know.
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Because of the fucking food!
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What does Susannah Clapp say
about Simon Russell Beale's ''Hamlet''?
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l don't know, but l have seen it.
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l don't care
if you've seen the arse-wiping play!
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What did Susannah Clapp
say about it?
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l don't know.
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She says, ''Beale makes every line sing
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''and every line his own.''
What does she say?
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He makes every line sing
and every line his own.
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Good. Have you read what Germaine
Greer said about the art of delegation?
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- No.
- You fucking should, you soppy tart!
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You'll get your arms ripped out
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if you don't read every section
of that Sunday Observer!
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lf you don't, babe,
l'm gonna be watching you.
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l don't care where you go.
You can fuck off to Tibet
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and l shall have men, nutters
from Parkhurst, dressed in yeti suits,
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up Everest with meat cleavers,
ready to chop your tarty fucking legs off!
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You know what l'm saying to you?
Right...
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There's the Business Section.
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There's an interesting article
about the NASDAQ. Read it!
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Hello, Hugh! l'm trying to avoid being
ravaged by time's withered claw.
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- ls it the same for you, being old?
- Yeah.
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l suppose life was very different
in the old days.
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lt was very different.
We never had sushi.
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l mean, we had to improvise.
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We'd go to the fish shop and say,
''Don't bother frying it.''
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Or my mother would make sushi
out of corned beef.
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Was it exciting
when new things came along?
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Well, l certainly remember
the first set of ''Star Wars'' films
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long before ''Phantom Menace''.
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And when ''Return of the Jedi'' came out,
there were street parties.
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George V came out to see it...
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and we were all given a silver sixpence
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with a picture of Queen Victoria
on one side
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and a picture of Jabba the Hutt
on the other.
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Hugh smeIIs of memories.
He's stopped time by spouting his past.
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(Hugh) 'They were great days.
We all had Gillette Contour,
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' but not Contour Plus. 'But we knew
it was just around the corner.'
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Over here there used to be a
Homebase. Now they've just ruined it.
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I've Iearnt from Hugh to discover
the past everywhere.
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(Hugh) 'We had blackouts in those days,
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'so we used to get to school
wearing infrared goggles.'
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God, it's still here!
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As a kid l used to come down here
every weekend to be bullied. Argh!
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l love it when people try
and keep the past alive.
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This happened recently when the
Emperor of Japan visited Britain
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and the Mall was lined up
with British ex-servicemen
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who had been Japanese
prisoners-of-war.
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They were demanding an apology
for their mistreatment.
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They were protesting by turning
their back on him as he went past.
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lt was the world's first Mexican back.
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The Emperor said, ''We will apologise
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''if you apologise
for what the West did to Nagasaki.''
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The British said, ''We did.
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''The next day we called on Nagasaki,
but no one was in.
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''Apart from one guy who turned
his back on us, but it fell off.''
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Ladies and gentlemen,
on behalf of the city of Sheffield,
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l would like to welcome you
to this Knife Attack Reunion.
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This year we have not only the group
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travelling home from the theatre
who were attacked...
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(Applause )
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...but also for the first time
all four of the gang who set upon them.
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(Applause )
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And a special welcome
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to Alistair and Bobby
who have flown over from Australia.
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And who some of you may remember
took part in the prison gang rape
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of one of the convicted attackers
in the shower in...1 983, was it?
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- 1 984 it was.
- 1 984, l stand corrected.
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Don't forget, as ever,
the children's crèche is in the forecourt.
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And children, the bouncy castle
is made of rubber, so no knives!
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(Man) Darling, this is Harry Watkins,
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one of the gentlemen who
attacked me 20 years ago.
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- Hello! l've heard so much about you!
- No, l didn't attack you.
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- You didn't attack me?
- No, l stabbed your wife.
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- Good heavens!
- l had you down on the ground.
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Then she came over, pulled me off,
then l turned round and said, ''You bitch!''
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- You remember?
- ''l'm gonna cut your face!''
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- That was me.
- Hang on a minute.
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- Australia?
- Yeah.
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And you were whose, er...rapist?
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Tommy Bannister. Me and Al.
But in prison, that was.
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- l see, yes. Not any more.
- No, obviously not now, no.
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This gentleman stabbed me...
This gentleman stabbed you.
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- Really?
- l slashed your face.
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Didn't you then do
a History of Art degree?
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No, that was Tommy.
He did the Open University.
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- You stabbed me in the chest?
- That's right.
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The prosecution
made so many mistakes.
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Absolutely.
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- Oh!
- No, no! Calm down, calm down.
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- lt's only plastic!
- l'm so sorry.
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- She still gets funny about it.
- There you are.
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Hello, Tommy! Wa-hey!
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Force of habit again!
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Never mind, Tommy.
Made you jump there, didn't he?
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What happened in the shower?
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(Bobby) We were all in Pentonville.
We caught him in the shower.
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What happened? l don't...
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(Bobby) Well, he bent over and we...
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Oh! Oh, l see.
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l don't like him standing close to me
any more.
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That hand used to be my soap hand.
You did really well there.
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Do you want a sausage?
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(Laughter)
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AIec is 42 this morning
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and therefore has nothing further
to contribute to society.
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So today's the day AIec goes
into a home for middIe-aged men.
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(Tranquil music plays)
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Hello.
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Hello. A middle-aged man
just pissed himself.
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- Hello, hello. And you are?
- Alec Thomson.
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Alec, nice to have you with us.
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l think we're still... Yes, we're
preparing a chair for you over there.
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That'll be a few hours yet.
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Just come this way.
We had a slight accident earlier.
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- Would you like a small beer?
- Yes, lovely.
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- And there's videos, newspapers.
- OK.
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A nun will come by and give you a shave
in a few minutes.
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ln the meantime,
would you do something for me?
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Pop in there and examine yourself
down your trousers.
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- What do you mean?
- Look down the front of your trousers.
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- For what?
- For anything out of the ordinary.
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- Lumps, distension, anything like that.
- OK, right.
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Just something l'd like you
to get into the habit of doing.
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Good.
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From now on, more and more
of what you do in your life
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will be a waste of time.
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You have reared and now you are spent.
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You sit in a sports car, but you look
like a worm on a diamond, all right?
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What you have to adjust to is a world
in which people no longer fancy you.
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As you go through
this change,
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you will divest yourself of the clothing
and care products
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that previously you found beneficial.
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That was when you were young,
when your imagination was supple
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and could leap like a bird or a gibbon.
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The past is a distant yacht.
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What you haven't done now,
you will never get done. All right?
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Possibility is a private party
to which you are no longer invited.
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There is not now a single man
in this room
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who will ever be an astronaut.
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OK?
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Beer! Get your beer, boys!
Come on, hurry up!
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(Man over radio ) 'Roger.
Can l have your next position?'
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l've organised a little surprise
for tonight.
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- A concert from the Abba Tribute Band!
- That's great!
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(Tranquil music plays)
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Oh! l've pissed myself!
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- Oh!
- Never mind, never mind.
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(Man over radio ) 'Roger.
Can l have your next position?'
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We're always trying to freeze time,
stop it in its tracks.
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That's why we have so many revivals.
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We're going through an '80s revival,
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so people go clubbing
dressed as the old Channel 4 logo
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and every Wednesday is Kajagoogoo
Night at Westminster Abbey.
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But time moves on and in 5,000 years,
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who knows what will be remembered
from the last century?
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lt may well be Stalin
and lslamic fundamentalism,
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but it might just be the stock cube!
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l have found in Europe most people...
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- (Knocking)
- Come in!
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- Hi-ya.
- Hey! When did you get here?
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An hour ago.
Did you come by the Eurostar?
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Yeah. You must've got the one
just before me.
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Gary and the acquisitions lot
came down earlier to set up.
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Good, good.
So this is your room?
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Yeah, Stuart recommended it.
lt's all right.
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- lt's very nice.
- Yeah.
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You know this place used to be
a concentration camp?
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Yeah. Yeah, of course l did.
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l think it's quite nice.
Have you had a look around?
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The bathroom's great.
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No. Do the others know
about this place?
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lf they're at the bar,
they'll have a good idea.
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Why don't we meet over at the bar
before dinner?
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l don't know.
l feel l need a bit of fresh air.
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- There are some lovely woodland walks.
- Right.
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- l'll see you at dinner then?
- Yes.
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Hugh, what's your earliest
vivid memory?
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Me and my brothers got on
the charabanc one day
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and King George was driving it.
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We went to Wembley Stadium.
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Wembley was new then. lt had
just been finished for the Olympics.
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Who did we see there?
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Yeah, Rob Newman and David Baddiel.
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The onIy pIace where time seems to
come to a standstiII is at my barber's.
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Did l tell you l got stabbed
the other day?
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l found it quite a relaxing experience.
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He's interminabIe.
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A friend of mine done it for a surprise.
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Obviously, l lost a lot of blood
and all of this.
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Eventually l found most of it in a potty
cos my friend's very considerate.
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- Have you ever been stabbed?
- No.
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- Would you like to be stabbed?
- No.
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l know what l want for my next birthday.
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Top people have their nipples pierced
and their genitalia.
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ls that any different to a stabbing?
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One day I noticed a boy
who Iooked Iike me when I was his age.
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I remembered when I was a boy
at the barber's
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surrounded by big, hairy men.
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I remember thinking as you got oIder,
you became mostIy hair.
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Above aII, the big men had
mad, Iiving eyebrows of frozen fire.
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And these monsters wouId occasionaIIy
haunt me in my dreams.
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I remember thinking,
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''Thank Christ I don't have big,
hairy eyebrows that need cutting!''
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On Iife's roIIer coaster
I was stiII at the start.
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I'd aIready ridden
through the first new thriIIs,
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past the first time I was stung by
a wasp, past my first Genesis CD,
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past the first time I mended a door,
the first time I'm mugged.
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I go past the age at which
I couId be conscripted during a war.
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Then I start to see the end in sight
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and I get ready to be cranked up
for the big drop into obIivion.
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And doing the cranking are the big,
hairy men, and then this happened.
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l've been on this new diet lately
and l lost loads and loads of weight.
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- The other day, l farted two stone.
- Right.
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- These eyebrows could do with a...
- Oh no!
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I had run out of future.
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My eyebrows were uncontroIIabIe.
I was no Ionger young.
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Never again wouId peopIe caII me
a whippersnapper, a young offender.
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Down I went,
past my first haemorrhoid,
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past the point where ''Smash Hits''
seemed to be in another Ianguage.
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I wouIdn't Iive Iong enough
to see househoId robots.
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I was sIipping down a box
in appIication forms.
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I was past the age where I wouId be
caIIed up if a war was going badIy.
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I was now oId enough to present
the medaIs at the OIympics.
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But l can't be an adult.
l'm only 37.
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I wanted to teII peopIe to get off
the roIIer coaster, especiaIIy chiIdren.
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Why did chiIdren want to grow oId
quicker, and smoke and be sarcastic?
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l've decided that if kids want to be
more and more like adults,
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l've got to stop them
in an amusing way.
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Say hello to Armando, the Great Adult.
Give him a clap!
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Ooh la! Ooh la! What's that?
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lt's a key for bleeding a radiator.
lt opens the air lock.
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lt is something each and every one
of you is going to have to do
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at some point in your life,
or get someone in for you.
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Ah la-la!
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(Applause )
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What about this?
We all know what this is.
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Fire! Now, they all say
there's no smoke without fire,
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but neither is there any fire
without one of these.
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A damages claim form!
Zoo-za-za!
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With a damages claim form,
be prepared for insurance companies
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to be sticky about what you can
and cannot claim.
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People can advise you on this.
Ma-ba-ba!
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This is a perfectly ordinary tin
of tomatoes.
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And this is a perfectly ordinary
any vegetable.
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And put the two together and you get...
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Va-voo-va! Va-a-a! Vo-o-o!
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An acceptable pasta sauce!
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l'm going to show you
how to pack a suitcase
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for a two-day business trip
to Europe.
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You've all seen ''Doctor Who''.
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The Tardis was bigger
on the inside than the outside.
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That doesn't actually happen.
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Things are actually smaller on the inside
than they are on the outside.
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You've got to realise that.
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As you get older, you may read these,
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though in time,
you'll find this one more annoying.
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This is what you say at Christmas time.
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''A thing for resealing wine!
That'll come in very handy.
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''Thank you.''
Zoo-za!
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l'm telling you all these things
is because
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a lot of responsibility
goes with adulthood.
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lt's not just a big laugh.
lt can be hell.
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So it's far better to enjoy your youth
while you've got it.
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lt's great, it's a laugh being young -
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sitting around in shopping malls,
sending text messages to each other,
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just hoping that one of your friends
has got a brother who owns a car.
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00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:16,076
And daring each other to go
into off-licences to buy something,
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then one of you does and comes out
with a big bag of Red Bull
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because they thought it was alcoholic!
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All right? So enjoy it!
Ba-za-za!
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00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:32,992
So, that's why l think that Stonehenge
is a very sophisticated anthill.
354
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:34,115
Right.
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00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,511
l mean, like the ants, they're very clever.
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00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:42,435
People say that animals are stupid
and don't know nothing,
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00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,194
but l think animals know a lot.
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00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:49,717
The mayfly insect
only lives for 24 hours?
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Scientists have helped
a mayfly to live for 7 years.
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lt turns out that
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the mayfly is cleverer
than people think.
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00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,389
lt only lives 24 hours so it
never learns nothing.
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00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,109
lf it lives for 7 years,
it'll learn quite a lot
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00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,669
and become good
at conversational French,
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00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:11,990
so it could order
wine and cheese
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quite accurately.
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00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,589
But it's only got
a little voice
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00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:18,955
cos it's a mayfly,
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so they had to build
a little amplifier to amplify its voice.