1. This programme contains some strong language.
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2. Very goooo-oo-ood evening, good evening,
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3. good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening,
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4. and welcome to QI.
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5. Now, a magpie's real name is a pie. It's a pie.
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6. Then where does the "mag" come from?
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7. - Margaret.
- Yeah, Margaret.
- Was it?
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8. - Yeah.
- Margaret pie?
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9. Where did that come from?
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10. Margaret pie.
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11. In medieval England, it was common to give birds
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12. a Christian name, sometimes,
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13. and the ones that have survived have included magpie.
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14. - Which other ones can you...?
- Robin.
- Robin.
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15. - Robin redbreast.
- Robin redbreast.
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16. Robin's the only one where the first name is the one that's kept...
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17. - Dave Starling.
- Sorry? LAUGHTER
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18. - Joseph Starling?
- No, big Dave Starling.
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19. Joseph would have been funny.
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20. Joseph Starling is good, yeah. I like that. I prefer that.
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21. - Not as funny as Dave, but it's better.
- Yeah.
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22. - Tomtit. Jenny Wren.
- Tomtit, yeah.
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23. Charlie Crow.
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24. - Jackdaw.
- Jackdaw.
- Oh, jackdaw.
- Yeah, yeah.
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25. - So, there are a few of them.
- Christopher Chaffinch.
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26. - We had an injured bird in the garden yesterday...
- Oh.
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27. .. and it looked like a magpie, and it couldn't take off,
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28. and I was watching it for ages. I didn't know what to do with it,
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29. so I opened the back gate and shooed it out.
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30. Oh, dear.
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31. - What do you think it was, then? What make?
- "The back gate."
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32. - I think it was a young crow...
- Yeah.
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33. .. that was having a bit of trouble with flight
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34. - cos it flew into a bush...
- Oh, dear.
- .. and I presume it's dead by now.
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35. - That's it? You...?
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36. - And that's the end of tonight's Springwatch.
- Yes.
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37. What could you have done with it?
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38. - I don't know. What are you going to do with a bird?
- Shoot it.
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39. - Take it out.
- Shoot the...
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40. - Sniper's rifle through the brain.
- I could have gone after it
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41. cos it was in the garden and couldn't get out.
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42. I could have easily got it with a tennis racket.
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43. - Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
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44. Just scoop it up with a tennis racket
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45. - and hit it with a frying pan...
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46. .. and chuck it over the wall. That's what I would do.
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47. Then its parents would have come and ate it, wouldn't they?
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48. - Yeah, that's right.
- Let's face it, it is the wild.
- Yeah.
- Exactly, yes.
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49. - Even if it is Hampstead.
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50. It's wild for them, though.
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51. They'd have had it in a coulis.
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52. A crow couscous.
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53. - With some quinoa.
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54. - I wonder what its name was.
- Clive, I expect.
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55. - No, I think it was Vel.
- Vel?
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56. - Vel-crow.
- Velcro.
- Oh!
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57. Oh, dear. Oh, dear.
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58. Now, what begins with M that you could shoot with one of these?
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59. - Those guys are tiny.
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60. - A mallard.
- Mallard is very good. Absolutely.
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61. You recognise what that is?
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62. - It's a punt gun.
- It is indeed a punt gun.
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63. There's a few punters in.
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64. You're good on guns, aren't you, Jeremy?
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65. Well, I shot one of those, but I shot a clay pigeon with it...
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66. - Oh!
- .. and proved that a man can actually fly.
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67. So, don't tell me you weren't on a punt?
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68. No, I wasn't on a punt, and there's a sort of momentum thing goes.
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69. You get it going and then you just can't stop it,
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70. - and I was airborne for 20 minutes.
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71. That's one of the reasons they have them on punts is...
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72. - I mean, the boat goes backwards.
- That's the point.
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73. You could fire that at Norfolk and you would wind up in Stavanger
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74. - three weeks later.
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75. More or less true. But also, more distressingly, perhaps,
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76. if you like the waterfowl, one shot can destroy up to 50 at a time.
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77. - So, you've got to have the...
- Is it shot like a shotgun?
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78. Yeah, it's just a huge amount of blast.
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79. No, but, I mean, I know you're a vegetableist,
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80. - which is fine, but...
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81. .. what I don't understand about these
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82. is that if you actually hit a duck,
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83. - it vaporised it.
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84. And apart from licking the lake or the grass...
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85. - .. there's no nutritional value
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86. - from an atomised...
- You're pretty much right.
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87. - What are your monsters called?
- We've got... On Dartmoor?
- Yeah.
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88. We've got the Hairy Hand. Are you aware of the Hairy Hand?
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89. - Which is a...
- No.
- You get it when you're about 15.
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90. The Hairy Hand is a disembodied hand that would appear from nowhere
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91. - if you were driving along the B3021...
- Pissed.
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92. .. and it would steer you off the road.
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93. - But there's...
- "Officer!"
- "Officer!"
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94. It smelt of cider, didn't it?
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95. - It dropped its pint on me,
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96. - and then it drove me off the road.
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97. One of the people that claimed
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98. he'd been steered off the road by the Hairy Hand,
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99. he described it as invisible.
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100. Oh, bless him for trying.
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101. There are lots of places in the UK named after mammaries.
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102. - Can you name one?
- Boob Town.
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103. "Boob Town!" LAUGHTER
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104. - No, can you name some real ones?
- Great Tit-chfield.
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105. - The Mountains of Boob.
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106. - "The Mountains of Boob!"
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107. Press your buzzer.
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108. - 'Man United!'
- Manchester?
- Yes!
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109. - It was Mam-chester originally.
- No.
- As in mammary, yes.
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110. And it's got "chest" in it as well.
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111. - Yeah.
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112. - It's an incredibly rudely-named place.
- It's double.
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113. - Full breasts - the mammaries and the chest.
- Yeah.
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114. And there's Nippleton as well, isn't there?
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115. Yes, from the Celtic "mam",
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116. - you've got Mam Tor in Derbyshire.
- Jugsford.
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117. Racksbury.
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118. Memford.
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119. - Great Titi.
- Bazookaville. LAUGHTER
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120. Rackton.
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121. Oh, dear. Gracious.
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122. The Paps of Anu in Ireland are named after the breasts of...
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123. And there's a Pap of Glencoe and a Maiden Pap in Scotland.
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124. - There's Papworth.
- Papworth. Absolutely, yes.
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125. There's a hospital there.
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126. - And what about Titty Hill in West Sussex?
- What about it?
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127. It exists,
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128. - but it's not named after breasts.
- No, of course not.
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129. - What's it named after?
- Sir Malcolm Titty.
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130. It's so silly, it's funny.
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131. His assistant named it when they both discovered it.
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132. "What do you think we should call this?"
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133. - "I think we should name it after you, Titty."
- "Titty Hill?"
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134. - "You found it, Titty."
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135. "We're not going to name it after you, Big Dick."
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136. Silly Carry On lines. Oh, dear.
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137. I used to do a bit of stand-up about this thing that I found.
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138. - That sounds great.
- Sounds brilliant.
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139. What it was, we were doing a Secret Santa, right?
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140. And it was a £10 limit.
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141. And I went in...
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142. There was quite a good adult shop on the Essex Road,
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143. and for under £10, the only thing they offered was anal hoopla.
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144. - Anal hoopla consists of a stick...
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145. .. that goes... Guess where.
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146. And three hoops.
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147. - That's... that's the actual game.
- It's an icebreaker.
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148. - It's an icebreaker.
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149. If you think things have gone a bit flat in the bedroom area...
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150. - "Come on!"
- I mean, the tone of this show
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151. - is so difficult to get right.
- I'm sorry.
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152. I'm just... I'm recalibrating.
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153. - All this anal hoopla.
- Who would have predicted anal hoopla?
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154. On the front of it - on the front of the packet -
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155. is a cartoon drawing a bit like a saucy postcard
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156. of two people playing it,
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157. as if they couldn't get anyone to actually demo it.
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158. - I dare say it doesn't work.
- Where was this for sale?
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159. - At the Arsenal football ground?
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160. HE MAKES GUTTURAL SOUNDS
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161. - Thank you.
- That's Klingon for, "Anal hoopla?"
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162. HE MAKES GUTTURAL SOUNDS
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163. - "No, thanks."
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164. - "Let's play Scrabble."
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165. Now, on the subject of probability, you've got this...
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166. It's really interesting. It's a probability issue.
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167. You want a pack of cards each.
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168. - I can't catch.
- Oh, well caught. We've got some for you.
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169. So, I want you to take the cards out and give them a good shuffle.
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170. - Good shuffle. I'm going to do the same.
- Ooh.
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171. - Beautifully done.
- Sorry, boys.
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172. And Sandi has been... Look at her.
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173. She's like a croupier. Jesus!
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174. Very good. APPLAUSE
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175. - Very good.
- Yes, I've shuffled.
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176. - I've riffled, shuffled.
- Yeah.
- Not a gambler?
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177. So, can you shove your cards in here?
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178. - Oh. All right, then.
- All right, thank you.
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179. I'll give them a really good shake.
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180. Is this going to be one of those Derren Brown ones
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181. - where we all can't eat for a week or something?
- No, no, no.
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182. Anyway, there you go. All right.
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183. It's just about probability. It's not a big deal.
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184. Is there anything you can't turn your hand to, Stephen?
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185. - Now it's magic.
- You haven't seen me turn my hand to anything yet.
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186. OK, and I'll put my cards in as well. There we go.
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187. All right, give them all a good shake.
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188. All right, so, you take one card out. Don't look.
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189. And if you can put it close to your chest, but not...
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190. - No, no, don't look.
- I've looked. I know what it is.
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191. Well, it doesn't matter.
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192. The point is to shove it close to your chest so that that's...
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193. - That's not your chest, darling.
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194. The reason to shove it close to your chest
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195. - is so that when you reveal it, it's camera height.
- Oh, right.
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196. That's all it is, all right? So, take one out. Feel it.
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197. Yeah, very good. Very good. All right, I'll do the same.
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198. All right, all right, I'll do the same.
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199. OK, so, there is a possibility, but a very unlikely possibility,
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200. - that two of the cards will be the same.
- OK.
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201. So, Sandi, you'll reveal your card. LAUGHTER
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202. Yours is the six of clubs. All right. OK.
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203. And you'll reveal your... Oh, my God.
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204. - Oh!
- Alan?
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205. - Oh!
- Oh, no.
- You reveal yours.
- Surely not.
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206. No. Oh, my God.
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207. And mine as well. Oh, there you go. Funny.
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208. How can that happen?
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209. There it is.
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210. - Burn him.
- He's a witch.
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211. - There you are. OK.
- He's a witch.
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212. - That's a very good trick.
- Thank you very much.
- Very good.
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213. - Very good at cards.
- Thank you.
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214. Now, what kind of bird does the Goliath bird-eating spider consume?
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215. - Oh, God. Whoa!
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216. That should have had a warning. Whoa.
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217. That is... fucking horrible, sorry.
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218. - Whoa!
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219. - He's a little furry animal.
- Still there.
- OK.
- Still there.
- OK.
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220. - Still there.
- Oh. Ah!
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221. Oh, my God.
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222. - OK, now there's a still image of one.
- Yeah.
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223. - It's not moving any more.
- Oh! I'm just going to look at Phil.
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224. - Eyes on me. Eyes on me. Eyes on me.
- It's all right, Phil. It's OK.
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225. - OK, I'm...
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226. That was naughty.
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227. - Sorry.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- What a pathetic reaction. That's...
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228. No, please. I'd be the same, if not for all the therapy.
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229. We should have asked.
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230. We should have asked if you had a problem.
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231. - It's not moving, so that's OK. It's not moving.
- No. They're big.
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232. It must be said they are very big
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233. and they're called Goliath bird-eating spiders.
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234. But it's never eaten a bird in its life.
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235. Well, that one may not have done
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236. because it's very, very rare for them to eat birds.
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237. It just so happens the person who discovered it
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238. happened upon one eating a hummingbird
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239. and so called it a bird-eating spider.
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240. That's like, in your family, when you do something once.
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241. Yeah, exactly. LAUGHTER
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242. It's like, "Oh, Cariad always gets sick on holiday."
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243. - And you're like, "It was one time."
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244. Oh, Poland-invading Adolf.
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245. "Once, I invade Poland!"
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246. Now, here's an interesting effect. Listen to this.
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247. DISTORTED RECORDING OF SPEECH
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248. - What was being said?
- Is that the Devil?
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249. It was the Devil, but do you know what he was saying?
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250. "I'm going to be late. Put the dinner on."
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251. Have another listen.
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252. DISTORTED RECORDING OF SPEECH
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253. Now, the chances are you just didn't understand what he was saying,
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254. but if you heard it said, clearly,
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255. then listen again to that distorted sound.
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256. And so this is what was being said.
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257. - 'Try saying "blue whale".
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258. 'That's bound to come up eventually.'
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259. DISTORTED RECORDING OF SAME SPEECH
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260. - LAUGHTER Isn't it extraordinary?
- Wow!
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261. - Hear that again.
- 'Try saying "blue whale".
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262. 'That's bound to come up eventually.'
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263. DISTORTED RECORDING OF SAME SPEECH
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264. - Yeah!
- You really can hear it, can't you?
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265. - It just sounds like he's saying it with a cold.
- That's right.
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266. It's amazing what the human brain can process.
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267. But it needs a little bit of information.
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268. From that apparently random sound
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269. that you thought you could never, ever understand,
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270. once you're told what it is,
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271. you can instantly imprint the structure of it.
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272. It's amazing, I think.
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273. Now, who has the best teeth in the world?
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274. - I really like this question and the answer.
- The Bee Gees.
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275. The Bee Gees. They had good teeth.
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276. - John Bishop.
- I'm looking for a nation.
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277. - I'm looking for a people.
- Americans.
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278. Did you say Americans?
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279. No, I didn't say it.
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280. - Is it Scandinavians? It must be the Scandinavians.
- No.
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281. - Oh, no, it'd be...
- The English.
- Yes, the British!
- Yeah!
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282. The British have the best teeth in the world.
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283. It's true.
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284. - We win again!
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285. Yeah, according to the OECD -
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286. the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development,
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287. - the international body...
- Well remembered.
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288. .. they looked at all the different nations
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289. and they found that, according to fillings and decay
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290. and so on, that British children had the best teeth on planet Earth.
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291. Did they just go to one particular school in Nottingham?
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292. LAUGHTER I don't think so.
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293. Yeah, but they said that's cos we've got less fillings.
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294. Maybe it's cos we don't go to the dentist at all.
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295. Fewer fillings. Fewer fillings.
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296. No... AUDIENCE GROANS
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297. - I'm just being silly.
- Stephen, knock, knock.
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298. - Yeah, who's there?
- To.
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299. - To who?
- No, it's "to whom".
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300. - Yes! Touche! Tou-bloody-che!
- Yes.
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301. - Alan.
- Hello.
- Let's bring this to a beautiful, beautiful conclusion.
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302. Cariad has been bitten by a snake. SHE LAUGHS
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303. What's happening to me? This is not I'm A Celebrity...
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304. What should you do?
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305. - Suck her.
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306. In every sense, no.
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307. - You can't afford it, love.
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308. Even when you've been bitten by a cobra,
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309. - you're going to haggle prices.
- Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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310. You'd soon drop your prices once you've tried it.
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311. Oh, dear. All right.
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312. - You tourniquet it. You...
- No.
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313. KLAXON BLARES
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314. Nor even a tourniquet.
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315. Guys, I'm dying. You haven't told me. What's happened?
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316. - I've been bitten by a snake.
- Stay still.
- The spider's coming.
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317. If you stay still so it doesn't go round your blood.
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318. - Is that in there?
- Well, if you're not near a car.
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319. But drive her to a hospital. LAUGHTER
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320. - Where are you taking me?
- Take the snake if you can.
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321. Yeah, exactly. Or a photograph of it.
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322. No, I didn't say a selfie.
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323. Is this when...? You know when you HAVE to be awake at ten to five?
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324. - Oh, yeah.
- No matter what happens, you HAVE to be awake at ten to five.
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325. And miraculously, you are awake at ten to five.
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326. - That's an alarm clock, love.
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327. No, I have that too. I do, definitely. It's extraordinary.
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328. - So, is that the same kind of...?
- Works very well.
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329. At school, if we were going on a, you know, little dawn raid
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330. - or something like that, you know, they'd say...
- Sorry?
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331. Do a raid on the kitchens and steal jelly and things.
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332. I forgot you grew up in an Enid Blyton novel.
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333. To get your catapult back from the teacher?
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334. You would do this onto the pillow.
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335. You'd go, "One, two, three, four," like that,
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336. and you'd wake up at four in the morning.
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337. - It always seemed to work.
- No!
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338. - I can't remember a time when it didn't work.
- That is bullshit.
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339. OK. LAUGHTER
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340. - I totally agree, Sarah.
- HE CHUCKLES
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341. It may be a false memory I've got, but it's a very clear one.
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342. If it's so true,
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343. - I want you to give us your phone and alarm clock...
- Mm-hm.
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344. .. and never use it again to wake yourself up...
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345. - HE CHUCKLES
- .. and just use the head hitting.
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346. It all changes when you get an enlarged prostate.
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347. And do you still hit it four times on the pillow?
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348. - Something that Blyton didn't cover much.
- She didn't, did she?
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349. - Not lashings of enlarged prostate.
- No.
- Oh, dear.
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350. Marsh warblers just make it up as they go along.
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351. And now for a question about metamor...
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352. What happened?
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353. What happened while I was reading the...?
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354. I had my back turned to you when I was looking at the blackboard.
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355. - What...?
- Nothing, sir.
- I don't know, sir.
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356. Sir, David showed me a picture of a penis, sir.
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357. - And then he showed me that, sir.
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358. - Not that one.
- That is not a penis.
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359. - Look at Bailey's drawing of a penis, sir.
- I never did that.
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360. That is nothing like a penis.
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361. What's wrong with his penis if he draws one like that?
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362. - He drew a penis on the world.
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363. That's got to be... That's illegal, isn't it?
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364. Oh, Lord.
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365. I'm going to get a glass of water
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366. and I'll get a teaspoon.
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367. - Right.
- Oh, I'll just... To prove that it is water, I'll drink it.
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368. - That just proves it might be vodka.
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369. - It proves at least that it's not sulphuric acid or something...
- Yeah.
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370. .. because what I'm going to do
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371. is try and make this teaspoon disappear.
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372. It may not work.
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373. I'm not a good magician.
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374. I'm a great magician.
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375. And so we stir it here and I...
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376. Oh, don't... Oh, no...
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377. Oh, it might not work, it might work, I don't know.
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378. I'm, oh...
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379. Yeah, it seems to have worked.
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380. - Ooh.
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381. - Wow!
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382. There you are. Thank you.
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383. - That's rather good, isn't it?
- Rather good.
- That's good.
- That is.
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384. In fact, on this occasion, it wasn't a magic trick
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385. and it's something you can do.
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386. I'll give you your water and you'll notice the water is rather warm.
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387. - Ooh, it's warm.
- It's warm water.
- Warm water.
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388. And I'll give you a couple of spoons.
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389. They are metal, they're metal spoons, but the metal...
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390. - Are they made out of Alka-Seltzer?
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391. They might as well be. They're made out of gallium.
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392. And gallium is a metal...
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393. - A very useful metal.
- Let's have a look.
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394. .. but it has the quality that it melts,
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395. - as Alan is showing, in water.
- Good Lord.
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396. Oh, you wouldn't want that of your teaspoon, would you?
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397. No, it wouldn't make a practical teaspoon.
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398. - That's lasting less time than a biscuit.
- Yeah.
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399. - That's it.
- Look at that.
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400. Now, if you stir it, it'll happen more quickly.
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401. - Oh, good Lord, look at that.
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402. That would be the most annoying teaspoon in the world.
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403. - It really would, wouldn't it?
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404. But it's, like, Terminator's teaspoon.
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405. Yeah, exactly. Terminator 2, it should be said.
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406. Yes. Terminator two-spoon.
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407. Hey!
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408. - Scuba diving. When they go caving with scuba diving...
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409. .. they take tanks with them
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410. because you can't get all the way in in one tank.
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411. - Scary.
- So, you do this incredibly dangerous thing
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412. where you lug down some tanks and you leave a tank.
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413. - You've got to remember where you've left them.
- Exactly.
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414. If you can't find it on the way back, you'll die.
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415. So, very important that you remember...
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416. - "Just once..."
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417. "You were supposed to remember where the tank was.
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418. - "That was your only job."
- "Well, what's the worst that could happen?"
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419. LAUGHTER "Cooee! I moved it. Guess where."
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420. "Hilarious. I'm moving his tank. This'll be funny. Watch this."
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421. "I tell you what, then he died.
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422. "You should have seen the look on his dead face."
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424. Oh, yeah. That bird. He does your tax returns.
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425. It's called a brown-headed cowbird, rather unimaginatively.
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426. It's got a brown head and it's on a cow.
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427. I just don't want to know how it got the brown head.
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428. - I don't want to think about how it got the brown head.
- Oh, stop it.
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429. - "That's as far as I can go!"
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430. "All right, that'll do. Now flap your wings."
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432. You haven't seen the cow's legs. They're blue.
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433. We have to forget the cow in this instance,
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434. other than the fact that it's in its name.
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435. It is a parasitic bird in a sense. A brood parasite.
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436. As I say, it's parasitic in the way
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437. - that it occupies a host's birthing place.
- A womb.
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438. Not womb in this case cos they don't have wombs exactly, do they, birds?
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439. - Oh, I thought it was in the cow.
- Oh, no, no, it's the bird.
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440. - It's the bird that's the parasite.
- Oh, OK.
- It's a brood parasite.
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441. It lays its eggs in someone else's nest.
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442. I'd love if it was the cow that was the parasite.
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443. Living off the bird.
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444. That would be such a flaw
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445. for a parasite to have to wait for the bird to land on you.
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446. Just running around getting underneath birds.
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447. Yeah, it's a brood parasite.
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448. - It lays its egg like that, as does, more famously, our...
- Cuckoo.
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449. - Cuckoo.
- Cuckoo, yes. Cuckoo's the great British brood parasite.
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450. - That nest wasn't on the back of that cow, was it?
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452. but I knew that wouldn't be a helpful remark.
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453. I couldn't forget the cow, Stephen.
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454. It's a question of why the birds put up with it.
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455. Why does the one that lays the blue eggs, in this instance,
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457. Why didn't they just get rid of the egg?
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458. The answer is it does... once.
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459. If it tries it, the bird that's laid that egg will come back
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460. - and absolutely destroy the nest and everything in it.
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461. And the mother bird learns this
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462. and next time laboriously builds a new nest,
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463. laboriously lays her own eggs.
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464. Next time a brown-headed cowbird comes along to lay their egg,
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465. they go, "You can have it. Honestly, I'll look after it.
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466. "No problem." It's basically a protection racket.
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467. They're gangster birds, hence the phrase,
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468. - "Make you an offer you can't refuse."
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469. - But it works.
- So, which one...?
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470. Was it the one with the blue eggs or the other one?
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471. The blue eggs is, like, the nice guy who runs the Italian delicatessen...
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472. - Exactly.
- .. with his family all these years,
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473. and then the other egg is the guy who comes round going...
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474. - "You gonna look after my egg?"
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475. "You'll find a job for my boy."
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476. "You see this egg? You know what I'm gonna do to this egg?
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477. "If you don't look after the other egg..."
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478. And then he throws it out.
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479. Eventually, cos it's evolution,
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480. they'll start spraying their own blue egg that brown colour.
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481. "Hey, someone's already done me. Leave it."
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483. Why haven't they evolved just to lay enough eggs so there's no gap?
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484. - That's what I would do.
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486. - So, pay attention now. It's time for a magical, money-making moment.
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487. Yes. I've got a proper, proper printing press here. It's very...
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488. It's a rather exciting one, and as you can see,
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489. it's got all the bells and whistles.
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490. And it's even got a little calibration here. Can you see?
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491. It's on ten. I'm going to move it up to 20. So, I've got a 20...
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492. .. sized one here. I hope this works.
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493. It takes a long time to fill it with ink,
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494. so if it doesn't work, I'm not going to do it twice.
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495. - Oh, yes. That works. Oh, good. There you are.
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496. There you are. APPLAUSE
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497. Oh, there we go.
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498. Stephen, one of the options is a 100.
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499. - I just want to see what one of them looks like.
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502. Oh. Oh, it's a 50. It should be 100.
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503. - Oh, it is 100.
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- There you are. 100.
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505. or "Goch," or "Gough," or "Go"...
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506. How many did he sell while he was alive?
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507. Don't say none.
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508. - TURNTABLE BUZZER
- None! I'm going to say none.
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509. KLAXON BLARES
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510. - D'oh!
- D'oh!
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511. Really, I'm afraid...
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512. - One.
- A few, maybe?
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514. "A few."
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515. It was lots. He sold hundreds of paintings.
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516. - Hundreds?
- Yeah, when he was 15, he used to work in an art gallery.
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519. This is the closest I've come to walking out of this show.
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520. I'd like a recount on those two.
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522. but the fact is he did sell hundreds.
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523. They just weren't his own. BILL GROANS
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525. Oh, the chairman of the Pedantic Association.
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526. "It's actually the Society of Pedantics,
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527. - "but I'll let that go."
- Yes, exactly. In fact.
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528. I've never had, in 14 years,
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529. people eating sweets in the front row.
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530. - What the hell?
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532. - Thanks.
- You can have them back at the end of the lesson.
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535. you're just sat there watching an episode of QI
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536. and then, suddenly, the telly gets up...
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537. - .. and nicks your sweets.
- It should happen more often!
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538. "I didn't press the red button. What's going on?"
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540. the popular musical The Bathrooms Are Coming.
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541. - How about...?
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542. Bill, can you do me Cisterns Are Doing It For Themselves?
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543. Oh, there we go.
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544. - No, I can't.
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545. Water may be very hot.
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546. Do country and western.
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547. If you're going to do country and western, it's got to be...
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548. HE PLAYS A BROKEN CHORD
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