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APPLAUSE
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Gooooood evening! Good evening,
good evening, good evening,
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and welcome to QI
where we have prepared for you
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a veritable gallimaufry of gaffes,
gammons and other gingambobs.
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On the panel tonight we have
the gotch-gutted Hugh Dennis.
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APPLAUSE
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What does that mean?
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A glimflashy grinagog,
Phill Jupitus
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APPLAUSE
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A gravy-eyed, gundiguts,
Andy Hamilton.
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APPLAUSE
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And a proper gilly gaupus,
Alan Davies.
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APPLAUSE
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And to attract my attention tonight,
the buzzers are all on a
Georgian theme. Hugh goes...
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OBOE PLAYS STATELY MELODY
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Ah. Andy goes...
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BASSOON PLAYS JAUNTY TUNE
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LAUGHTER
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Phill goes...
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JOLLY MELODY ON STRINGS AND FLUTE
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LAUGHTER
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Wow! And Alan goes...
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MUSIC: "When I'm Cleaning Windows"
by George Formby
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LAUGHTER
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It's George Formby.
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# When I'm cleaning windows. #
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Yes, George Formby. Excellent.
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APPLAUSE
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You might have been able to tell,
that I've been reading my
18th century book of Georgian slang.
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And I called you gravy-eyed.
What do you think that means?
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Eyes like gravy?
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Well, rheumy, runny eyes.
Glimflashy?
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It means an angry person.
I think their eyes are flashing,
the glims of their eyes.
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There is a great phrase called
"whiddle my scrap".
Do you know what that means?
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Does that mean you can
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exchange your car for £2,000?
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Very good!
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No, to whiddle somebody's scrap
means to see their game,
see what they're up to.
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He whiddled my scrap.
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And so, I have decided to institute
a game of whiddle my scrap.
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It's an early version
of Call My Bluff.
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So let's play whiddle my scrap.
Let's have a word.
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Let's have your team.
You've got to do it as
Robert Robinson or I'm not playing.
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AS ROBERT ROBINSON:
Ah, it's a gentleman of three outs.
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What can it mean? What can it mean?
Andy has the answer.
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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
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A gentleman of three outs was a
genteel Georgian expression
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and it meant, someone without money,
without wit and without manners.
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So they were the three "withouts".
It was someone without money,
without wit and without manners.
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Like a sort of Piers Morgan
of the 18th century.
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Well, before he got rich, yes.
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Yes, yes! Good.
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A gentleman of three outs
is a status thing.
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The 18th century was a period
in which many of the great homes
were built.
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Lesser people couldn't afford
massive houses,
so they built smaller houses.
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But they put lots of outhouses
on them.
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So if you were a gentleman of three
outs it would mean you had
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three outbuildings
and that would have been a mark
of your status and your means.
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Or, it was Punch Magazine's
genteel description of the notorious
highwayman, Jonny Tripplearse.
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LAUGHTER
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Now, one of those
is maybe more plausible...
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than the others, I don't know.
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Right, so... Ah, team, who's your
captain? Who's going to guess?
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It's a...
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THEY GRUNT INCOHERENTLY
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I never really used to like
Call My Bluff. I thought it was
quite boring because of this bit.
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I always used to like the bit
where someone would go,
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"I'm leaning towards Hugh..."
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And they look at you
and try and see if you crack.
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Sometimes they say,
"Have a plump, have a plump".
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Plump for something. The first one.
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The gentleman without manners.
Reveal yourself, is it true?
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It's easy to go for the first one
because you couldn't actually
remember what it was.
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What he said.
I wasn't really listening.
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I can't stand Call my Bluff.
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This is why... Why are we playing
Call My Bluff? It's a shit game!
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We've invented a really good game
and we're playing a shit one.
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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
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It's a way of allowing
our brilliance to stand out.
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On Call my Bluff,
they're busy playing QI.
They're having a right laugh!
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Shall I do it the way
Diana Rigg would do it? Go on.
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You're right!
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APPLAUSE
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Now let's have the next word.
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And it's...
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Grog blossom. Would you like to
explain what grog blossom is?
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It's actually the, kind of, mould
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that you get around
the inside of a barrel of beer,
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that you have to clean out
before you can use it again.
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I'd like to, if I may, do it in the
style of the usual, customary,
out-of-work actor they used to have
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on Call My Bluff who would then
really lean into his definition,
in an effort to beg for work.
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Imagine if you will...
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So true!
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..a lone figure walking across
Hampstead Heath...
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the sun glinting in his very eyes,
for, he is making his way back
from an evening at the inn.
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Where he has partaken...
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of mead and other
lascivious beverages.
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LAUGHTER
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Adorning the chin of said
stout fellow...
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are pimples,
for they betray his excesses.
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And these,
at the time, were known as...
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Marty Fitch, 01287 469,
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available for panto.
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Grog blossom.
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Ah, bravo!
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APPLAUSE
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So it's some kind of spot caused by
drunkenness,
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or it's the mould growing
on the inside of a barrel of ale.
Would you like to confer?
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I think it's the stuff around
the barrel. Do you? The dull one.
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Yeah. We're going
for the dull answer please.
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Alan, true or bluff?
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It's a bluff!
GROANS
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So the true answer... So then I have
to do it like they do,
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And of course, the man walking across
the common, it was he! Ha-ha!
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Yes...it is.
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APPLAUSE
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That's enough gratuitous
Georgian grossness, let's look
at a notable gaffe now.
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How did Captain Schlitt's number two
sink his own U-boat?
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I'm assuming that the good captain
was in the bath. This couldn't have
happened in an actual...
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No, it was a real...
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You mean playing with a toy U-boat?
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And it was a number two.
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Oh, I see, a number two
in that sense.
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Yes. Not in the "yes, number one,
carry on, number one".
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He might have blocked the loo
and caused some sort of
terrible backup...
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affected the ballast.
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Imagine how the lavatory
on a submarine works. Ah!
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Sorry, a bit of a clue.
A ruthless competitor!
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LAUGHTER
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It's something to do with the flush
on the toilet.
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How does that work
when you're underwater?
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It sucks it out,
but lets water in?
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Yes. The point is that obviously the
lavatorial arrangements of a boat
that is submersible are complex.
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Because you can't just flush the
water out, the way you can in an
aeroplane or train,
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you have to have special training
to operate the flush.
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Or...
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you shoot a sailor out of
the torpedo tube, tied to a rope.
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He relieves himself,
and you pull him back in.
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LAUGHTER
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Well it seems that what happened was
Captain Schlitt, in his U-boat,
U-1206, this is April 14, 1945.
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Just before the end of the war...
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Oh, how annoying.
Very annoying for him!
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And he has a poo. And he claims
that the loo was faulty
and didn't work properly.
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Klo. Klo as they would say,
klo...gebrochen.
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IN GERMAN ACCENT:
It was not working.
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But there is a theory that, in fact,
he'd just done a rather monster
and unpleasant poo,
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and was too embarrassed to ask the
sailor, who was responsible for the
doing of the flushing, to come in.
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Because there was a bit of a...
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And so he did it himself and got it
in the wrong order and he filled the
place with sewage and water.
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AUDIENCE GROANS
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But more importantly...
He just left it? Yeah.
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As you would if you're in a hotel
for example!
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IN GERMAN ACCENT: There,
it was...that was like that
when I went in. It was...
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Ja, ja. Don't go in that one.
My God!
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So has he climbed out of the tower of
the submarine, and the...
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No, they're underwater,
that's the point. Did they perish?
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Well, what happened is there was
this leak, the water came in
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and it leaked into...
what powered those U-boats? Diesel?
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No.
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They had a battery.
A huge acid battery.
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And when the seawater
hits the battery it creates?
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Chlorine gas, toxic chlorine gas.
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And so they had to rise up to the
surface to vent, and they were
spotted and blown out of the water.
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So just because he basically...
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That's very unfair to shoot a man
with his trousers round his ankles.
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It is a bit.
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Toilet's blocked.
This doesn't count!
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Captain Karl-Adolph Schlitt
sank his own U-boat using nothing
more deadly than its own lavatory.
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Now, getting up.
What gets you up in the morning?
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LAUGHTER
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Bizarre picture to choose.
But, erm...
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I'm a writer,
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and getting up in the morning,
isn't really part of my job.
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LAUGHTER
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I used to leave
the World Service on overnight,
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just very quiet on the radio, so I
thought I'd wake up quite naturally.
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But I was listening to Radio Four on
the way to work the next day and I
heard the news on the radio
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and I thought, I dreamed this?
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For two days I thought I was psychic.
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Because I'd been dreaming what I was
listening to on the World Service.
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I thought, oh my God,
I've got the powers!
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Are there ones you know of?
Did you ever use as a child,
if you didn't have an alarm clock?
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This is the old wives one.
Bang your head on the pillow,
the number of times...
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So, one, two, three, four, five, six.
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And you would... Wake up at six.
With concussion.
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Have you not tried that?
Maybe you have to have been
to a boarding school.
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If you were doing a raid
on the kitchens or something,
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we'd say, OK, we'll get up at three
and we'll go down to the kitchens
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because they had these big blocks of
catering jelly, and you'd eat the
blocks of jelly...
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Left out especially for the ones
who were going to raid the kitchen.
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Probably. The kids have
been raiding the kitchen again -
better leave some jelly out.
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We would go, bang, bang, bang,
like that. Three, and you'd wake up
at three. It seemed to work.
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We were convinced it did.
Sleep researchers say it doesn't.
You just wake up a lot
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because you're not sleeping.
And you look at your watch and you
only remember the one that works.
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You've got a tremendous headache.
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You don't get up early. Are you
a night owl, do you work late?
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No. I can get up early if I have to.
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Yeah. It's reckoned that
20% of people are genuinely...
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you know, it is a difficulty for
them because they are larks or owls,
as you might say.
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They are early or late, and that's
to say they fall asleep at dinner
parties if they're a lark,
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and just can't get up
if they're an owl.
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Teenagers are owls, aren't they?
Young children are larks,
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teenagers are owls. Very old people
tend to get back to being larks
again and rise early.
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It's very irritating if people do get
up very early, they will justify that
by saying,
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best part of the day.
Best part of the day.
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It's not! It's just part of the day.
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I see another bit of the day...
When nothing's open.
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There are things that happen early
in the morning that are different
if you've stayed up for them,
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than if you've woken up to them.
Like, it's three or four
in the morning
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and you're having an all-nighter
and you hear the binmen
and you feel guilty.
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You hate the fact the morning's
come. If you wake up to it,
you think, yes! It belongs to me!
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It's a big difference, isn't it.
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I used to live in a house
in Hernhill and I had the room
at the front.
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And there was one binman who
thought he could sing.
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And at six in the morning he would
sing, Don't Cry For Me Argentina.
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But he could never get
the last note. So you had...
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LAST NOTE INCORRECT:
# Don't cry for me, Argentina... #
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LAUGHTER
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No!
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It used to vary, morning to morning.
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And it was...
I was that close to insanity,
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cos he was my lark, every morning.
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Rex Harrison did your bins?!
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He had two sisters called
Marge and Tina, didn't you know?
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Hee-hee!
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Do you know what the American
Indians supposedly did to ensure
they got up for a dawn raid?
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They didn't have alarm clocks.
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Leave the window...
leave the curtains open?
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No. Dogs?
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They would drink lots of water.
So they needed a wee.
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So you would have to get up
for a wee. MIT produced a clock
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which, when you press the snooze
button, it runs off and hides...
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Ha-ha!
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..so that when it rings again you
have to get up to stop it.
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And it's programmed each day to hide
in a different place, so it's never
in the same place. Quite clever.
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They are working on
really important projects.
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And there's another one,
which is an alarm clock
in the shape of a dumbbell.
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You can't shut it up
unless you do 30 reps.
So it's a way of getting fit
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and waking up at the same time.
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What a deeply demoralising -
that clock thing - demoralising
start to the day.
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You've been outwitted by a clock.
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The first thing that's happened in
your day, the clock's given you
the run-around for half an hour.
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There's another one, which every
time you press the snooze button,
it's got an on-line connection,
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you donate money to
a political cause you hate.
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That's quite clever, isn't it.
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We've got a clock, it's like a
cuckoo clock, but it's a monkey.
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And he comes out and goes,
Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! on the hour.
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But only ever when I'm saying
something important.
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Unbelievable. I'll be saying,
now look, no. The thing is, what
you've got to understand...
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Ooo! Ooo! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
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And one day it's going to end up
like the cuckoo clock
in Steptoe And Son.
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Like waiters is restaurants,
when you've reached
the punch line of a joke.
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And so she says... And who's having
the lamb? Very annoying.
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Well there you go, there are of
course many cunning ways of waking
yourself up without an alarm clock.
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American Indians swore by a nice
full bladder.
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Here are samples of
handwriting from our panellists.
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I want you to match
the handwriting to the panellist
and see what you can say about it.
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Give reasons if you can.
Obviously don't say your own,
cos you'll know your own.
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"Hello, my name is Phill Jupitus."
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I wonder who that could be.
I think there's a clue in that one.
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It's rather good handwriting.
It's quite, sort of,
calligraphically learnt.
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"Dear Points Of View,
I wish to complaint about QI."
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Can I ask why I'm wearing a beret?
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LAUGHTER
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In my photo,
that's the eyebrow I can't control.
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People always think that I'm being
quizzical when they say something.
I can't, It's just up there.
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Is it on its way up,
or on its way down?
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I've no idea.
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So, any thoughts? What about,
I must not answer back to...
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D is Phill. D is Phill. I think
there's a strong chance it's Phill.
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I know that D is Andy, cos he writes
on my scripts.
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Rude things,
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when we're filming.
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Does he have that fine handwriting?
It is very fine.
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Yes, that is me. Congratulations
on fine handwriting.
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A graphologist would say of yours,
that cos it's mostly joined up,
logical, systematic thinker.
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Some words are more spaced than
others, therefore open, honest,
but deep in thought.
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Sociable because of the slightly
forward slant to the right.
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Right. So, OK that's good. We can
eliminate D as being Andy Hamilton.
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I think C is Alan.
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Because it's the untidiest?
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No, I just think it's Alan.
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Don't know why. Is it you, Alan?
284
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Yes. It is. Oh, that's really good.
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How did you know?
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Did you watch me doing it earlier?
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No, I just thought,
that looks like Alan wrote it...
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LAUGHTER
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..which is the only way
you can play this game.
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Close lettering is unstable
apparently.
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Oh.
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There wasn't much room
on the bit of paper. No? Ah...
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I had to squeeze it in to get it in.
294
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Letters not mostly joined up -
sometimes does things
without thinking.
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It was a big, fat pen!
You can't do joined up.
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You gave me a marker pen!
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B and A left. I think Phill and I
can probably work out...
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The logical thing.
So B is Phill, yeah?
299
00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:42,440
No. B is Hugh. It's quite good
handwriting. It's quite flowing,
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quite feminine almost.
Well, you know...
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I'm very in touch
with that part of my nature.
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It's very nice handwriting.
Does it say anything about me? Yeah.
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Joins up most, but not all letters.
Artistic and intuitive.
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Self-control, egotism and coldness
on the other hand
because it's upright.
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Why's being upright mean that...
306
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It doesn't. It must be understood,
the British Psychological Society,
and any imperative test ever done
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has shown that graphology,
as a way of interpreting character,
has zero validity.
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Like astrology.
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So this is a bit of a, kind of,
non-round? Yeah.
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But no, it's interesting to know
that. And even in America it's not
allowable in court.
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Forensic...
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Sorry!
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I mean, you know, but...
314
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Forensic graphology, where you prove
that this person did write this,
that is allowable.
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But the idea that you can interpret
character is absolute nonsense.
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I must say, I'm not looking forward
to the DNA round.
317
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The worrying thing about it
is that 3,000 British businesses
use graphologists for recruitment.
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They actually hire people on the
basis of a completely specious...
319
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Good a way as any though, isn't it?
320
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But it's botty water!
321
00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:03,840
Girls have nicer handwriting than
boys though, don't they?
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That is one thing you can often,
not 100%, but you can tell gender.
323
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And you thought I was a girl!
324
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Not always, I said not 100%.
325
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We actually Tipp-Exed out
the smiley-faced dots over the eyes.
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I like yours, Phill, your "A"s.
It says here, about self-control,
egotism, coldness,
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unstable, sometimes does things
without thinking.
328
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I'm with you there. Yeah. Unstable.
329
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Whoa!
330
00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:29,720
Thinking of having a fight.
Who is the coldest?
331
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Let's both get a 99
and just stand there with it.
332
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First one to melt loses.
333
00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,360
Whoa. I thought I was cold.
334
00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,000
Phew! He is cold.
So you did a handwriting test?
335
00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,360
Yeah, I sat a test to become
a French train driver.
336
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What?!
337
00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:57,480
My friend's dad was psychologist for
SNCF, and in France they had this
idea that, you know,
338
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a responsible job like a train
driver, you ought to find out
if the person's a maniac or not.
339
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We don't bother with that. And...
340
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:08,240
So I sat the test,
and there was a handwriting element.
341
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What they did was, you had to hold
the pen in your wrong hand, and
there was a kind of rubber ring
342
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around the middle,
and you had to try and trace over
what was written there.
343
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If it drifted up the page,
you were assertive,
or possibly too aggressive.
344
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And if it went down the page,
you were deemed to be too passive.
345
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Good Lord.
346
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What was really interesting was the
tests were all actually common
sense. There was one
347
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where they said, press that pedal if
it's green, that if it's red, that
if it's yellow
348
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and you'll hear a hooter if you get
it wrong. You did it for about 15
seconds
349
00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:50,920
and then they arbitrarily sounded
the hooter. And it was just to see
if you went to pieces or not.
350
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I'm fascinated how you can drive
a train too passively though.
What do you do?
351
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How can you be too passive?
Ooh, we're going terribly fast.
352
00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:02,360
Ooh, no!
You're turning into Alan Bennett.
353
00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:08,000
Well there you are. How can
you tell when you're a victim
of the Goldilocks effect?
354
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BASSOON PLAYS JAUNTY TUNE
355
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You feel just right.
356
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Ah.
357
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That's sort of exactly what a
Goldilocks anything is. Because
that's the nature of Goldilocks.
358
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Absolutely right.
It's all about, this one's too much,
that one's too little,
359
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this one is just right.
360
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:29,480
The Goldilocks effect
is used in business.
361
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You set a price for something....
Then you set three bears on them.
362
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:40,440
You have a range of three
and the most expensive one
is unbelievably expensive.
363
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The second on is really
a quarter as much
and it seems just as nice, really.
364
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:50,840
Then there's a third one that's
really very cheap and most people
will go for the second one.
365
00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:55,600
They think it's just right. They
think, The first one's too
expensive. That's a bargain!
366
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A good example, supposedly, of
Goldilocks pricing is the airfare.
367
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Basic economy price for a
transatlantic airline is about £500.
368
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,440
There's business class for
a mere £3,500.
369
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:13,800
Then first class with a full size
bed and the ability to order food
whenever you want for £8,000.
370
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And, according to Goldilocks
pricing, business class
with all its perks
371
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looks like a bargain compared to
the £8,000 even though it's still
seven times as expensive as economy.
372
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I was talking to Steve Cram once.
He's a very nice chap,
very fast runner.
373
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He said that
when they make trainers,
374
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they have to make some
that are extremely expensive
because people will buy them.
375
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,600
If they don't,
the other manufacturer
will charge £200 for basically...
376
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Once you get to about £60,
this was ten years ago
so maybe it's a bit more now,
377
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then they're really
about the same after that.
378
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,840
Once you get to £100, £120, £150,
you're just giving them money.
379
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That's prestige pricing,
which is, again, bizarre.
380
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:58,000
If something is expensive enough,
people will believe it must be
quality and they see me coming...
381
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They see those people coming!
382
00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:03,160
There are other Goldilocks things.
383
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There's a Goldilocks zone - the
distance from the sun a planet has
to be in another solar system,
384
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which would support water where
it wouldn't be too hot or too cold.
385
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:17,480
There you are, anyway, Goldilocks
pricing is a technique where one
item is given a huge price tag
386
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,960
to help persuade us that the next
one down is relatively good value.
387
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:24,040
Now we're off to Ireland where the
policemen are called...?
388
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,680
Guards. Guards, the Garda, exactly.
Did you hear about
389
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:32,640
the Irish policeman who tried to
arrest a Polish driving licence?
390
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:34,480
Do you know this story? You do?
391
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:41,320
I sort of... Someone was done for
speeding or something in lots of
different parts of Ireland? Yeah.
392
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That's exactly right.
393
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:47,440
He had 50 offences against him
and was fast becoming the most
wanted motorist in Ireland.
394
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:53,440
But Prawo Jazdy is a master criminal
because he had different driving
licences with different addresses.
395
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:58,520
This Prawo Jazdy had all these...
Goodness knows what he was up to
apart from the driving offences!
396
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:04,840
That was what everyone was puzzled
by. They really wanted him but it
turned out one Garda member said,
397
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,000
IN IRISH ACCENT:
I think, I may be wrong,
398
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,760
but Prawo Jazdy
is the Polish for driving licence.
399
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:16,480
And, red faces all round, the Garda
had... There it is - Prawo Jazdy.
400
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:23,960
Hang on a minute! The fact it said
permis de conduire above it might
have been a hint but there we are.
401
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,840
They're still looking for his
brother, Rzeczpospolita Polska.
402
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:32,440
On the subject of driving licences,
guess who had the first driving
licence in the world?
403
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:33,920
The Queen.
404
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,440
No, oddly enough, you couldn't be
"wronger" because the Queen has...?
405
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,520
No driving licence.
No driving licence.
406
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:44,480
She's the only person in Britain
who doesn't have a driving licence
yet who drives. Cheat!
407
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:50,120
I mean, in a legal way. She's the
only one who has no legal need
for a driving licence.
408
00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:55,800
What does she
show them at Blockbusters
to prove her address and that?
409
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,600
A £20 note.
410
00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,000
LAUGHTER
411
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,200
That would do it.
412
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,880
APPLAUSE
413
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:09,480
Well, no, but the first ever driving
licence, not surprisingly, perhaps.
Who invented the motorcar?
414
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:15,600
Mr Benz. Mr Benz, Karl Benz,
as in Mercedes Benz. Yeah, exactly.
415
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,240
He just made one for himself?
No, the citizens demand...
416
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:24,240
IN GERMAN ACCENT:
I think I need a licence!
It's a dangerous machine.
417
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:28,120
I need a licence to drive.
418
00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:29,960
Now I can drive.
419
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:36,960
IN GERMAN ACCENT:
Driving licence number one.
Zero zero zero one.
420
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:40,080
'I bet the first thing he did
when he got on the road'
421
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:41,640
was stop the next bloke and go,
422
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,280
IN GERMAN ACCENT:
"Where is YOUR licence?"
423
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,800
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
Oh, dear.
424
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,840
IN GERMAN ACCENT:
I will issue you with the licence.
425
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,320
It's five marks.
426
00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:56,960
Zero zero zero TWO!
427
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,560
Good day to you!
428
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,000
Where is your licence?
429
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,840
I will issue you with a licence.
430
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,920
Five marks.
431
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,480
Zero zero zero three.
432
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:16,640
I don't know how he kept making
the cars. Yeah, he was so busy!
433
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,440
The authorising body was called
the Dampfkessel Uberwachungs-Verein
434
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,320
which means the Steam Boiler
Supervision Association,
435
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:27,000
which granted the first mandatory
licences in Prussia.
436
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,920
IN GERMAN ACCENT:
The SS...A.
437
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,160
LAUGHTER
438
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:36,920
Until the 14th of May, 2002,
women in Lithu...
He was still doing it! No.
439
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:42,120
Number one million one thousand...
440
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:43,960
Five euros.
441
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,120
Where is your licence?
442
00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:50,160
LAUGHTER
443
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:54,640
In Lithuania in that year, women had
to undergo a certain test in order
to get a licence.
444
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,600
What do you think that test was?
In where? Lithuania? Yes. Smear test?
445
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:02,400
Yes, a gynaecological examination.
You're joking!
446
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:09,200
I don't know... There was one man
who ran the entire office. He
paid... Oh, right.
447
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:17,000
It is rather bizarre. Well...
The Chinese have multiple choice
driving test questions, 100 of them.
448
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:22,520
One of them includes, "If you come
across a road accident victim whose
intestines are lying on the road,
449
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:28,080
"should you pick them up
and push them back in?"
Is the answer yes or no?
450
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:33,200
I should think you don't push them
back in... You're right. ..I would
have thought. I'm not a doctor!
451
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,960
Didn't they have that weird thing in
the cultural revolution in China?
452
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,680
Traffic lights here are green for go
and red for stop.
453
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:45,600
They thought, during the cultural
revolution, that that was incorrect
and red should mean go
454
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,600
because, culturally, Communism and
all the rest of it...
455
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,360
But they failed to change all the
traffic lights,
456
00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:56,960
so on some traffic lights
green was go and on some red was go
and they had thousands of accidents
457
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:03,280
and then they had to, sort of, change
it back. Wow. Hence the probability
of intestines lying on the road.
458
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,960
Probably where it came from in the
first place. A practical question.
459
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,720
They're not actually green. They're
kind of blue. Yes, they can be.
460
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,840
Because red and green is
a very common colour blindness,
461
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:20,480
so when they first did red and green
it was a disaster for some people,
who just carried straight on.
462
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:24,360
They couldn't tell whether it was
the top or the bottom.
No, so the green...
463
00:28:24,360 --> 00:28:27,760
If I see a black and white film,
I can tell which light's on,
can't you?
464
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,240
But not in the dark, Stephen!
465
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:34,240
You are relying on the colour,
let's face it, usually.
You're right. I'm sorry.
466
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,640
Can we not argue?
That is what the terrorists want.
467
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,960
LAUGHTER
You're right!
468
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,480
Thank you, voice of sanity.
469
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:48,360
I did hear a character in a film
once say, "Don't look at the lights,
the lights never hit anyone."
470
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,440
That's quite a good motto for
driving. It is.
471
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:55,080
IN GERMAN ACCENT:
This is one I will use!
472
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,920
Don't look at ze lights,
ze lights never hit anyone.
473
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:02,840
Ausgezeichnet.
474
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,840
We're motoring along nicely here,
so can you tell me
475
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:11,000
what travels from Land's End to
John O'Groats every year
476
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:17,600
at about
one third of a mile per hour
but it slows down a bit on hills.
477
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,040
Does it specifically go
from there to there or...
478
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:26,720
It goes from the south to the north
but it includes going from Land's
End... Is it a tectonic wave or..?
479
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,800
No, not a tectonic wave.
I don't know if they exist.
I just made it up, I think.
480
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:35,840
It's something slightly more
abstract. It's a phenomenon, which
you were sort of getting towards.
481
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,200
Is it dress sense?
482
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:46,560
If we're talking about moving from
the south to the north... Ooh,
careful! Now, now. Now, then.
483
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,920
The Gulf Stream or something?
Is it a windy thing? It's seasonal.
It is a season.
484
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:52,480
Winter? Spring.
485
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:58,560
Spring is the answer.
Spring takes eight weeks
to get from the very south coast,
486
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:03,240
all the way up to the very north
and up to the Orkneys.
But what's the definition of spring?
487
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:08,320
There's a phenotype analysis
you can do of particular
common plants blooming.
488
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:13,880
Anyone from the Midlands who goes
to London will say, "Oh, my God,
they've already got daffodils out."
489
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,120
Or they'll go north and say,
"They haven't got tulips yet."
490
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,600
It's very noticeable. They're
too lazy to sow the bastards!
491
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,160
It's like when the weather man
on Radio Four goes,
492
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:26,080
"You might like to make note that
it's the first day of spring today."
493
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:33,320
IN SCOTTISH ACCENT:
No, it's not! I think you'll find
I'm still freezing here.
494
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,240
Eight miles a day it does? Spring?
495
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,080
Is that what we're saying?
496
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:43,320
It takes about eight weeks to get
from John O'Groats and that's about
a third of a mile per hour.
497
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:49,280
You could walk and just beat spring.
Yeah. You could. It's a weird
thought. Very weird.
498
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:55,600
If you timed it with a daffodil
and walked at exactly the right
speed, it'd go pop-pop-pop-pop.
499
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,840
And it would be rather beautiful.
500
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,440
I'm in touch with my feminine side!
501
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:05,040
You're responding to your
handwriting beautifully.
502
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:10,000
It's the phenological observations,
as they call them, of the various
things that trigger spring.
503
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,480
It's a rather wonderful thought,
spring moving up like that.
504
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,400
Why do birds fly south
in the winter?
505
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,520
I thought you were going to sing
Close To You! To go to Margate.
506
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,400
Because it's too far to walk. Bah.
507
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,200
They're going because it's warmer
presumably, aren't they?
508
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,840
What's the advantage of the warmth?
Well, you feel nicer.
509
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:33,280
More food to eat. There's nothing
like the sun on your feathers.
510
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:37,080
It's the insects.
In the north, in the frozen earth,
you can't get at them
511
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:42,000
or they've died or are in a dormant
state and are not available.
Food for the birds is not there.
512
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,280
So it is food.
513
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:47,200
Spring travels north
through Britain at around
one third of a mile per hour
514
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,680
but arrives two days later for every
hundred foot of elevation.
515
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,760
As we're travelling
at a snail's pace,
516
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:57,400
never mind snail mail, what happened
to the snail telegram or telegraph?
517
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,200
LAUGHTER
518
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,360
That's not it, is it?
That's just... No.
519
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:08,600
An amazing young Frenchman called
Benoit had a theory that when two
snails, male and female, mated
520
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:15,200
that forever afterwards
they had a telepathic power.
There's some mating snails for you.
521
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:20,040
And that, no matter how far away
they were, that they could
communicate thoughts to each other.
522
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:26,640
So, he raised money to develop this
system where he had a sort of dish
523
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,880
to which he glued 24 snails
524
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:35,280
which he labelled A to Z, missing
out, I think, Q and X possibly.
525
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:39,000
And then the mates of each one
he did the same to on another dish
526
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,160
and the other dish
could go to New York,
527
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:46,280
all he had to do was wibble the A
and the A in New York would wibble
because it had mated with the...
528
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:50,000
And so you'd send your message
by typing snails
529
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,840
and the person at the other end
would watch the snails vibrate
and read out the message.
530
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,920
But, as I say, the amazing thing is,
he found someone to invest in this.
531
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,560
LAUGHTER
532
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,520
And that, gentlemen,
is how we broke the Enigma code.
533
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:10,040
Isn't it fantastic?
It was called the Pasilalinic -
534
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:15,720
a sympathetic compass using
"escargotic" vibration.
535
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:21,680
Those snails are just disgusting.
Lying all over each other.
Will they stop it! Get a room!
536
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:27,920
Technically, they have got a room.
They carry their room around with
them! That's their thing.
537
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,840
Is it wrong to be aroused now?
Because I am.
538
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:36,600
Anyway, sadly the Pasilalinic
Sympathetic Compass or snail
telegraph simply didn't work.
539
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:41,160
Whilst on the subject of gadgetry,
however, what's the point
of those machines?
540
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:47,120
Ah. That's, eh, an eternally filling
glass in the middle. Never empty.
541
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:52,120
Perpetual motion. Oh, points to the
man, absolutely! They're all
perpetual motion machines.
542
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,520
Or attempts to design
perpetual motion machines.
What is a perpetual motion machine?
543
00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:00,840
One that never stops? One that is in
motion in perpetuity, Stephen. Yes.
544
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:07,000
You're asking a silly question.
Think, boy! There's more to it -
there must be no input of energy.
545
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,400
No energy in but you should be able
to get energy out.
546
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:14,800
Because it's moving.
And it transgresses what law?
547
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,120
Thermodynamics. The first
and second laws of thermodynamics.
548
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:22,080
There's a Simpsons episode
where Lisa builds
a perpetual motion machine.
549
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,400
Homer says, "In this house
we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
550
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,240
It is a great line, but
the point is they can never work.
551
00:34:29,240 --> 00:34:34,600
Leonardo actually did drawings of
attempted perpetual motion machines.
552
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,640
He realised... He's drawn
a chocolate orange from the top.
553
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,360
Oh, yes!
LAUGHTER
554
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,760
How boring have you got to be
to draw a diagram of how to
take a chocolate orange apart?
555
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:48,480
He invented a lot of things but I
didn't know he invented that.
556
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:53,920
He wrote in his notebook, "Oh, ye
seekers after perpetual motion, how
many vain chimeras have you pursued?
557
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,320
"Go and take your place
with the alchemists."
558
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:02,200
So he spotted quite early on that it
was never going to work. Sadly, our
universe is not made in such a way.
559
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,640
You'd only need one and you could
power the world from it, in theory.
560
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:12,000
You only need one and you could power
the world from it! Sorry, Mr Bond.
561
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:18,360
That brings us now, grumbling to the
gizzards of general ignorance,
562
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,280
so fingers on buzzers, if you would.
563
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,600
Take a child and give them a really
sugary drink. What happens?
564
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,840
I haven't got any kids.
I've no idea.
565
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,040
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
566
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:34,120
But, speaking as an uncle,
567
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:39,800
I'm often discouraged from
giving them too much chocolate
because they go, in quotes, mental.
568
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,440
Aah, right. Is that it?
569
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,280
No, it's odd.
570
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,120
Almost every mother watching this
will disbelieve me
571
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:52,120
when I say that medical evidence
shows that sugary drinks
do not cause hyperactivity.
572
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,840
They do NOT cause...
I know, it's shocking.
573
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,640
You're all going,
"You should see mine. It does.
I swear to you, it does!"
574
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:03,520
It doesn't. Maybe it's just any sort
of fuel so if you gave them a drink
of water or an apple...
575
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,680
You do test the children who do this
by giving them drinks which have no
sugar at all,
576
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,120
though the parents THINK
they have sugar...
577
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,280
It's the parents that change!
The parents PERCEIVE it.
578
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:17,560
And the parents who perceive it
are the ones who most hover over
their children
579
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,720
and are most critical of their
children's behaviour anyway.
580
00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:27,000
They're the ones who apparently
notice it. Was this research
funded by Coca Cola?
581
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:32,240
We trialled this question on the QI
website and none of the mothers
believed us.
582
00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:36,040
They all said, "I don't care
what the scientists say,
my child goes nuts."
583
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,960
I don't believe it either
but then I am very in touch with
my feminine side.
584
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,680
Kids dip quite quickly anyway,
don't they?
585
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:47,040
If you keep giving them something to
snack on, they'll go up again.
586
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:51,920
That's how it works with my nephews.
They run around for a bit then go,
"Oh... Uh... Oh..."
587
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:56,800
They go, "Ugh, I want to go home."
The you give them a sandwich
and they go, "We're up!"
588
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:01,960
It seems to be quite hard work
keeping an even keel
through the day.
589
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:03,600
I think that's generally true.
590
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:07,920
We know you won't believe us
but sugary drinks
don't make children hyperactive.
591
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,080
That's why we call it
general ignorance.
592
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:14,000
However, what happens if you leave
teeth in a glass of cola overnight?
593
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,480
They completely dissolve
and disappear.
594
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,160
KLAXON WAILS
595
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:22,840
No, it turns out they don't.
596
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,280
There was a famous occasion in 1951.
597
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:30,320
A doctor appeared before
the House Of Representatives
special committee.
598
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,920
He was called Clive McKay of Cornell
University.
599
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:37,400
To dramatise his testimony, he said
that a tooth left in a glass of Coke
600
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,920
would begin to dissolve
after two days.
601
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:44,080
Even if his claims were accurate,
it is of absolutely
no relevance whatsoever
602
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:50,480
because you don't soak your
teeth in it. Isn't that the one
that cleans your money?
603
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:54,120
I believe it does. HP sauce. That's
really good at cleaning money.
604
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,280
It's the vinegar - that's what does
it. Is that it?! Yeah.
605
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,840
All that money I've been wasting
on HP sauce...!
606
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:06,120
I used to drink a lot of Coke in my
early teens and my mum used to say,
607
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:11,720
"You shouldn't drink Coke because it
stains the inside of your stomach."
608
00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:14,240
LAUGHTER
609
00:38:14,240 --> 00:38:17,720
That's going to put the girls off,
isn't it(?) Yeah.
610
00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:23,200
How do you know that's not true?
You don't but you think, "If I ever
see the inside of my stomach,
611
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:27,720
"it's probably
going to be a bit late to worry
about what colour it is."
612
00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:32,720
I can't wait, Andy. I don't like
to talk about a friend's death
but at your post-mortem...
613
00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:38,080
Look at this, terrible stained
intestine... Coke-coloured tripe.
614
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:44,200
My goodness. Well, they do cause
tooth decay but not as much, as we
discovered in a previous QI, as...?
615
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,120
Jam. No.
616
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:51,360
Crisps, potato crisps. There is far
more tooth decay caused by them. No!
617
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:55,400
Yes. Because they stay on
your teeth? Yeah, they stay there
and hang around.
618
00:38:55,400 --> 00:39:02,040
Here's one you might actually
believe. Name an ape that walks just
on two feet and isn't human.
619
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:06,320
Because we obviously walk on two
feet rather than on our hands.
Only on two feet?
620
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,960
Yeah, it doesn't... Orang-utan? No.
621
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,640
KLAXON WAILS
622
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:18,760
They use the back of their hands,
like this. Is it a monkey with a
tail? I seem to remember seeing...
623
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:26,000
A monkey with a tail?
It's got a tail for balancing.
We need more from you there, Phill!
624
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,440
Baboon, gibbon, chimp...
Oh, you've said it!
Baboon. No. Gibbon, chimp. Yes.
625
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,000
KLAXON WAILS
626
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:39,000
Gibbon is the right answer.
The funky gibbon, in particular.
The funky gibbon especially.
627
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,080
Here are some gibbon.
628
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:46,840
Look at it go! Look at it go!
It looks so shifty,
like it's just nicked something.
629
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:51,160
It looked like he had the Mission
Impossible music in his head.
630
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:55,040
I can do this - do-do... That's
rather good, isn't it?
That's Russell Brand!
631
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:59,800
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
632
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:07,560
Do they do that just to taunt the
other apes? They probably do.
"Can you do this? I can."
633
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,840
It's considered to be
a more primitive way of walking,
the way we do and gibbons do.
634
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,840
Seems to have been earlier than
the four. I know, that's weird.
635
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:17,400
Let's finish with an easy one.
636
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:22,680
I want you to sort these creatures
and phenomena into age order.
637
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:26,240
Which is the oldest?
Oldest to youngest.
638
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:28,280
I'd put A first. The Himalayas.
639
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:32,080
Yeah. Hmm. No, they're quite young,
that's why they're tall.
640
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:37,880
Tall mountains are young because
they haven't been worn down... They
are the youngest thing on the board.
641
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,120
They are the youngest of all.
They're ONLY 20 million years old.
642
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,440
I think D, C, B, A.
643
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:50,720
D, C, B, A is not bad... D, C, A, B.
It's actually C, D, B, A. Oh, right.
644
00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:53,560
The oldest is the spider,
then the cockroach,
645
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:57,400
then the triceratops,
then the Himalayas.
646
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:01,760
In fact, it's quite interesting,
which is, after all, our business.
647
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:07,680
Ants are contemporaneous with
dinosaurs but cockroaches pre-date
them by at least 55 million years
648
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,760
and spiders are even older -
300 million years ago.
649
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:14,080
If the spider's first,
what did it catch?
650
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,640
LAUGHTER
Damn, that's good.
651
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:21,520
Flies but not cockroaches.
So, the fly was first?
652
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:25,400
Ha! Which came first, the spider or
the fly? A really good question.
653
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,360
There's a lot of webs and spiders
going, "Come on."
654
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,720
Out of innocent ignorance,
childish wisdom spills out.
655
00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:38,640
I'm only teasing, you know! No,
the dinosaurs lived from the Late
Triassic, 230 million years ago,
656
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,160
to the Cretaceous,
65 million years ago.
657
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,920
And Mount Everest was only
25 million years.
658
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,960
So, it's 25 million years younger
than the youngest dinosaur.
659
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:52,960
Hmm. A whippersnapper.
That looks like the pictures
from the worst spelling book ever.
660
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,560
LAUGHTER
661
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,080
There's a "dockroach" in the corner
662
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,360
and I saw a "binosaur"...
663
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,360
LAUGHTER
664
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,480
..and Alp. Alp, Alp! I get Alp!
665
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:07,840
That's very good.
666
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:09,520
Well done, everybody.
667
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,840
The "Himal-ee-as" or "Himal-eye-as"
or "Hima-lay-las"...
668
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,640
or the Himalayas,
as human beings say...
669
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,800
LAUGHTER
670
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:21,080
The Himalayas have only been around
for 40 million years.
671
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:24,760
The last dinosaurs died out
25 million years
before they were formed.
672
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:29,520
Spiders and cockroaches are even
older than dinosaurs. That's it.
Let's look at the scores.
673
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:34,520
Oh, my goodness gracious me!
We have a clear winner with
plus four points, would you believe?
674
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:36,800
Hugh Dennis!
APPLAUSE
675
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:40,040
A good score. Thank you very much.
676
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,040
But also in the black with plus two,
677
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,520
it's Andy Hamilton! Gosh!
APPLAUSE
678
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,720
That's never happened before!
679
00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:49,040
17 behind, with minus 15,
680
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,000
Phill Jupitus!
APPLAUSE
681
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,040
Ooh! Aw!
682
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:58,080
Oh, and way down
with the cockroaches
at minus 56, Alan Davies!
683
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:01,320
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you.
684
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,720
So, it's farewell from
Hugh, Andy, Phill, Alan and myself.
685
00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:13,880
I'll leave you with the story of
a couple who went to
the Natural History Museum
686
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:18,160
and they saw the big dinosaur
skeleton and asked the attendant
how old it was
687
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:22,600
and he said, "It's 65 million and 14
years and three months old."
688
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:27,240
They said, "That's amazing. Is that
carbon dating? How can you tell so
precisely?"
689
00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:31,280
He said, "No. When I first
came here, they told me
it was 65 million years old
690
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,760
"and I've been here 14 years and
three months."
691
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,200
Thank you. Goodnight.