1. GOOD evening, good evening, good evening, good evening,
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2. good evening, good evening and welcome to QI,
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3. where this week I shall be messing with your minds.
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4. Joining me on the psychiatrist's couch,
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5. we have the open-minded Sarah Millican.
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6. The sharp-minded Josh Widdicombe.
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9. Oh, never mind, it's Alan Davies.
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10. So, let's be mindful of their buzzers.
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11. Sarah goes...
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12. You Were Always On My Mind by Elvis Presley
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13. Josh goes...
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14. I've Got My Mind Set On You by George Harrison
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16. Making Your Mind Up by Bucks Fizz
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17. And Alan goes...
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18. - TRAIN RATTLES
- 'Mind the gap. Mind the gap.'
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19. Good.
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20. So, it's time to get down to minding our own business.
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21. Alan, we've been working together now for 13 years,
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22. playing together, I like to think of it.
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23. - But of course.
- Quite wrongly.
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25. Was it love at first sight?
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26. Oh, yeah, absolutely, Stephen.
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27. Oh!
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28. That's such a shame.
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29. No. No, it wasn't.
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30. Well, it's about the mind and another capacity of the mind,
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31. one of its most important capacities, that begins with M.
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32. - Memory.
- Memory is right, yeah. Absolutely.
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34. 13 years ago, emotional states,
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36. Things like falling in love at first sight.
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37. But isn't there a difference between fact and truth?
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38. - Right.
- So...
- 13 years of QI saps us.
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- Keep going, we like this.
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43. - Yes.
- I have a memory, he would suggest that it never happened,
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- That the facts may not support.
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- Is your dad...?
- It's very profound and correct.
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- Yes, so that's the opposite of what happened to Tommy.
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- Yeah.
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66. a survey of 10,000 people in long-term relationships
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73. I fall in love with women 20 to 30 times a day.
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82. - There, see.
- Why has he got it facing away from him though?
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- That's what it is.
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97. "the trivial decisions, like what the children should wear and what they
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98. "should eat and how much we should spend on our household budget, and
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101. "there should be a United Nations presence in Bosnia for example."
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122. brain to check that you're sleeping shows that you are sleeping,
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123. but you're awake, and you remember where you are and what's going on.
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- How do they know they haven't slept?
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- They've slept, haven't they?
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138. - No, I have that too, I do definitely.
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- So is that the same kind of...
- It works very well.
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164. - Oh, clever.
- Very good.
- Clever.
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166. a machine which I hope you will see is able to print money.
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170. - At least if I print it well.
- Ah, very good.
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- There you go.
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173. - Blimey!
- What do you think?
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177. And then I'd go out onto the South Bank and make loads of money.
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180. if we can make more money later on.
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191. if you make crab apple jelly, say, or jam, in my case apricot jam,
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- Or treat them mean, keep them keen, would be another.
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- Oh, like, there's loads of alcohol ones,
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- Beer you'll be queer.
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- Yeah. I was talking to Richard Osman
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- He didn't have amnesia at all.
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- You've just ruined loads of films.
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- A very rudimentary psychiatric hospital in
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- Now that is good.
- That's good.
- That is so good.
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- I need an answer.
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- Just important to...
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- Yeah.
- Or just revise more.
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391. I just want to see what one of them looks like.
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392. OK. OK.
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393. Oh, oh, there we go.
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394. And, oh... Oh, it's a 50. It should be 100.
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395. Oh, it is 100. There you are!
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396. That's good.
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397. There we are.
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398. So, yeah, we've made a, made a proper amount of money today.
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399. Just shows, with a little application
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400. and a little skill, you can make money pretty easily.
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401. - That's amazing.
- Yes.
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402. But I feel guilty about it, so I'll probably give it away,
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403. to a bookmaker.
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404. Now, how would you swear like a pre-pubescent supercomputer?
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405. Bum, bum, wee.
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406. - Bum, bum, wee.
- And poo.
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407. - Pretty close.
- They're the main, they're the main ones?
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408. The big three.
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409. It's a supercomputer, we've called it pre-pubescent
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410. because it's about 11 years old now. And...
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411. And it swears?
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412. Well, it's called Watson
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413. and it is one of the smartest supercomputers around.
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414. It was first trained to win at the American quiz game Jeopardy,
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415. which you may have seen if you've ever been in the United States,
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416. it's on every single day.
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417. They give an answer and you say the question.
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418. Exactly. So this actor played Jonathan Creek.
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419. The answer is, on Jeopardy, Who is Alan Davies?
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420. - Yes.
- It's been going for 40 years or something on American TV.
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422. - "mother funster," or...
- Melon farmer!
- Yeah, exactly.
- Yeah.
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426. - Urban Dictionary, yes, which is a rather naughty dictionary.
- It is.
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433. put your head in between there and then do that...
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434. Oh, yes, that's right. "Brrr." It's rather sweet, that, isn't it?
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435. - Rather sweet?
- Well...
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437. Nicer than minger, or muffin top? Milkshake.
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440. - No. Is that what...?
- Is it like a den where you...
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445. It's Sarah Millican, Where's Your Man Cave!
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- I don't know.
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464. - Yeah.
- You're young.
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- Yes, because she had like a van that sold milkshakes.
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468. If that's what you want to think she meant, that's what she meant.
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470. but we won't go into that.
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471. It wasn't all like Enid Blyton, then, was it?
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477. Fingers on buzzers, if you would.
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480. Well, the thing's going to go off if I say in the dark,
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- Oh, bugger!
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486. Would you like the light on, or shall I leave it?
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489. difference, so why is it traditional to grow them in the dark?
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492. it's not something you tell everybody.
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494. It's simply cheaper. We don't have to turn the light on.
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495. So you just shove them in a cellar or a dark room,
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496. somewhere you've got and they'll grow.
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497. - It's that simple.
- Oh.
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501. - Good Lord!
- Is that, we're now seeing that?
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504. which is that you get a terrible tummy ache,
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- They'd make themselves sick, would they?
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507. Well, no, what they did is,
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508. they'd give the mushrooms to the village idiot.
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509. And he'd then have a pee and they'd drink the pee, which had all the...
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510. - No!
- .. had all the psycho-active properties.
- Wow.
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518. the whole town would gather round him there.
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- Are you trying to tell us something?
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528. There's a thing called the Amanita muscaria, which is the,
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529. it's the notion of using mushrooms as a means to transcendence.
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- And I don't know the rest of the story.
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531. Oh! You heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen.
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532. Yes, mushrooms are grown in the dark to save electricity.
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533. So, with that we stagger dazed and confused into the most
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534. mind-numbing and mind-bending subject of all, the QI scores.
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535. Oh, how interesting they are. My goodness me.
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536. In fourth place, with a very respectable -22,
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538. In third place, with a splendid -18 is Sarah Millican.
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539. He's achieved heights that may require oxygen,
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541. - Thank you very much.
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542. What a debut, Tommy Tiernan on 2!
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543. Plus 2!
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544. Thanks to Sarah, Josh, Tommy and Alan.
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545. Oh, I nearly forgot our memory test.
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546. Oh, how ironic. Can we turn the cameras onto the audience?
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547. Let's see by a show of hands which words you remembered me saying.
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549. Oh, most of you, that's pretty good.
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551. Pretty good.
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553. Oh, audience.
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554. No, I didn't say sleep,
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555. I said words so closely connected to it that it was easy to force
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556. yourself into the memory of thinking that I did say it.
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557. So you all encountered a sort of false memory planting there.
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