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This programme contains some strong language.

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APPLAUSE

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Goo-oo-oo-oo-ood evening, good evening,

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good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, and welcome,

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welcome to an episode of QI that is all about jeopardy.

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Joining me to fight crime, fear and disorder tonight,

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Wonder Woman, Julia Zemiro.

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Yes.

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A Super Girl, Sue Perkins.

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A Boy Wonder, Ross Noble.

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And our own Danger Mouse, Alan Davies.

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So, buzzers, please. Julia goes...

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PSYCHO STABBING THEME

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Oh, that's jeopardy.

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And Sue goes...

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JAWS THEME

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Ooh.

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SHE PRESSES IT AGAIN

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Yeah. Definitely worth doing twice. Ross goes...

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DRAMATIC SURPRISE MUSIC

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And Alan goes...

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VEHICLE REVERSE WARNING

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LAUGHTER

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Well, they are quite dangerous, vehicles, yeah, good choice.

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Yes, absolutely. Well, we must be vigilant, because danger stalks us

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from the moment we wake up to the moment we retire.

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How far can you go on a cup of Joe? Hmm?

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-Cup of Joe being an Americanism for?

-Java coffee?

-Coffee?

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-Coffee, a cup of coffee, yeah.

-I thought it was an insane cat.

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That you could actually ride on the back of Joe.

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-That is a caffeine-crazed cat, yes.

-That's a flat white too many

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-for that little kitty.

-It is rather, isn't it?

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How far you can actually go in terms of energy?

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-Is that what you...?

-It's actually it's more literal than that.

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If you're carrying a cup of coffee,

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how far can you go before you spill it?

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This is all down to a science. What is the science of

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-the movement of liquids called? Do you know?

-Wobble-ology.

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Fluid...

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-..dynamics.

-Yes.

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-It's a whole science.

-Of course.

-Oh, fluid dynamics!

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It's a whole science and a most important one

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and much has been discovered as a result of fluid dynamics.

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It is a very useful and fruitful area of discovery.

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One of the things they've discovered

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is that the average human stepping pace

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happens to cause an oscillation,

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which means that between seven and ten steps,

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you are going to spill the coffee.

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You will set up a series of wave movements that means

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the furthest you can go is probably about ten steps

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before you will definitely have spilled some coffee.

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This is the Mrs Overall effect.

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Yeah, exactly. Exactly. They suggest a flexible container

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as a sloshing absorber,

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with a series of annular ring baffles.

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So they're suggesting the...

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Annular ring baffles!

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That's a character in The Hobbit, surely. Mr Ring Baffles.

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That sounds like space.

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I'll tell you what, the amount of times my annular has been baffled.

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-Oh, dear. I'm always down the hospital.

-Baffle your ring sir?

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Yeah.

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-It's a bit of a tautology, because annular means ring-like anyway.

-Yes.

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-So it's a bit silly.

-Annular ring baffle?

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You used to take the baffle out of your exhaust pipe to make it

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-louder when I was a teenager.

-Baffling is sound muffling,

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but it's also absorbing waves and that's essentially the same thing.

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Because if you're muffling sound, you're absorbing the waves.

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So if you put a baffle in your anus, that'll make you have quiet farts.

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LAUGHTER

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An arse silencer.

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I suppose so. I suppose it would.

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Until pressure builds up to such a stage...

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-And then you're potentially lethal.

-You could have someone's eye out

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in the aisle at Waitrose, which you wouldn't want.

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-No.

-But there have been more obviously useful...

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Baffle your ring, sir?

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There have been more useful applications for this

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business of whole... this whole resonance business of building

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up frequencies that cause oscillations that can be dangerous.

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And have you seen Albert Bridge in London?

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There's a sign leading from Chelsea.

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There it is. It's a famous sign, it's a rather beautiful one,

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"All troops must break step when marching over this bridge."

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-Why would that be?

-Something to do with an oscillation.

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Yeah, exactly. If you're marching in rhythm,

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"Chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk,"

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you might set up a resonance that would cause the bridge to collapse.

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That's why Michael Flatley can never get north of the Thames.

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LAUGHTER

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That's a true, it's a true reason. He's furious.

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He's always wanted to go to Madame Tussauds.

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Right now he's at the Elephant and Castle going, "I can't believe it, I want to go and see the Queen

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"and I just can't get over there."

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"It's a bleedin' nightmare..."

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Shocking state of affairs. And the fact that...

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Good, well, I think we've...

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LAUGHTER

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Now, what's smaller than the moon and keeps moving the sea around?

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Smaller than the moon.

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Is it a seal on caffeine?

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No.

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Is it one of our other moons?

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No, it's not a moon of any kind, it's not a celestial body.

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-It's a marine creature.

-Like a big whale?

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Yes?

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This better be the blue whale.

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It so is not the blue whale.

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Is it an animal that lives in the sea

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that moves the sea with its mass?

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Yes, ultimately, with its combined mass, not its individual mass.

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-Is it plankton?

-PSYCHO STABBING THEME

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Many many many fish, like a school of, a school of...

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Fish.

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No, it actually accounts for forty percent of the biomass of the ocean.

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Algae.

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-No, it's amazingly not.

-Cola tins.

-But it's not a fish.

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No. We call it a fish, but it isn't a fish. No.

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-Jellyfish.

-Jellyfish is the right answer.

-Ah, genius right here.

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It's quite extraordinary.

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Now, it used to be believed that a jellyfish propelled

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itself by squirting water out of the back, as it were,

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by jet propulsion, but it's been discovered by the scientists

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at Caltech that it's actually slightly more complex.

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And what these jellyfish do is,

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they essentially cause an enormous amount of the water at the top,

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which is oxygen rich, to go down to the bottom,

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and a lot of the water at the bottom,

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which is full of nutrients, to go to the top.

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And they keep the circulation of the water extremely healthy.

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And they might contribute a trillion watts of energy,

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which is easily as much as wind or tidal pull.

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And they also mix the cold with the deep warm water at the surface.

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I've got one I put in the bath

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-so I don't have to do that.

-Yeah, that would do it.

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Just chuck it in the end...

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Yeah. My God!

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"Up your end, get back up your end, I don't want stinging."

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So they're like the mixer tap of the ocean.

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It's a very good way of putting it.

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But they can be malign as well - it so happened in 1982

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that a ship had in its bilge water a particular one called

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the Mnemiopsis leidyi, which is a comb jelly, from North America,

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and they arrived and had no local predator.

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In less then a decade, the population had reached

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a biomass of one billion tonnes in the Black Sea,

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which is where they were.

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And one billion tonnes is ten times the weight of all the fish

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we catch every year around the world.

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And it destroyed everything.

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Fortunately, then an another carnivorous jellyfish arrived,

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and it only eats the Mnemiopsis and so it ate them all,

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and once it had eaten them all,

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the balance was restored and fish returned.

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Just one of these things turned up?

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-No, a few in the bilge water of a ship.

-And it ate the lot.

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No, enough to breed, but my God did they breed.

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Isn't that extraordinary, those just little jellyfish that look so kind

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of light and nothingness are forty percent of the biomass of the ocean.

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I think that's quite interesting. How many jellyfish are there here?

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-In that picture?

-Yeah.

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What, is it one with a very flamboyant hat on?

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KLAXON

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-Oh!

-Ah, dear.

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Sorry, where are the words "with a flamboyant hat on"?

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It was the one that was enough. But it is a flamboyant hat.

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The flamboyant hat gives it its name.

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Portuguese Conquistadors wore hats like that.

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They didn't have many in Croydon.

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They didn't, no. But...

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Is it a Man O' War?

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A Portuguese Man O' War is what it is, but it's not...

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I'll give you a clue that it's not a jellyfish.

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And it isn't even a single creature.

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A Portuguese Man O' War is not one animal. It's a colony of animals.

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-Oh, God.

-Aaah.

-That operate together as one, with incredible...

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-Like the Borg.

-Yes, we are Borg, exactly.

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We are Borg. We are jellyfish.

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Why isn't it called the Men O' War then?

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I know, because originally people didn't understand that

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and so they called it the Portuguese Man O' War,

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it looked like a Portuguese helmet on the top.

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The inflatable bladder along the top is one creature,

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which provides buoyancy, and works as a sail.

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The tentacles are separate and carry the coiled, spring-loaded

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harpoons, which have the most incredible speed.

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They explode in 700 billionths of a second,

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which is the fastest known animal mechanism on earth.

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And very painful.

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And there are other creatures that make part of this colony.

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Gastrozooids, which digest the food, and gonozooids,

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which are the gonads, the sexual reproduction part of it.

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-They're separate?

-They are.

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The stomach floats along and then you've got the gonads behind.

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-Yeah.

-So the stomach's looking for its bollocks, essentially.

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It's called a Siphonophore, that kind of a creature,

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and because they drift passively,

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they collect in vast herds of thousands or so.

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And that's why the appearance of one is enough to

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clear an Australian beach, as you probably know,

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because one tends to mean there are going to be lots.

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And the sting is very painful.

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Ten thousand Australians a year, on average,

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receive a Portuguese Man O' War sting. Not pleasant.

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-Toughens you up though.

-Exactly.

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I mean, that's life, isn't it?

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One day it'll toughen you up enough to win a test match against us.

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AUDIENCE GASPS AND APPLAUDS

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-Sorry. Come on.

-Yeah, that's it.

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How many times in history have I been in a position

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to be able to say that? Not many.

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-Oh, I know, and I enjoyed it, so much.

-Exactly.

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A Man O' War can hurt you, but not kill you.

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But what is Australia's deadliest creature, in fact?

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PSYCHO STABBING THEME

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Rupert Murdoch.

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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-After Rupert Murdoch.

-So sorry about that.

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And the fact he came here. Yeah, sorry.

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Yeah. Excluding a member of the human race,

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which I'm not sure whether that does or not, but anyway.

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Is it the spiders, the funnel web, the red back?

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KLAXON

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It's not that. Spiders.

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-It's going to be something on the road.

-It's the box jellyfish.

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-KLAXON

-It's not, that is a nasty creature.

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-But they stop your heart.

-Is it people?

-Is it rabbits?

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Is it rabbits running in front of utes,

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-or some sort of some sort of...

-You're right that most

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of the deaths caused by animals in Australia are caused on the road.

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-The animal that is most responsible...

-Crocodile?

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(DRAMATIC) Is it man?

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The most deadly of all the creatures?

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DRAMATIC SURPRISE MUSIC

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-Snakes.

-Shark.

-No.

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KLAXON

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-I was not born there.

-Is it the domestic cat?

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It's not the domestic cat, though in the year under,

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the sample year we're taking,

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one human being in Australia was killed by a cat that year.

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But 128...

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A cunning plan, executed skilfully and quietly.

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-Yeah.

-It's the road, the road's involved.

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-Often the road is involved.

-Are the people in a car at the time?

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-Sometimes yes, but...

-Oh, a kite, is it the...

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But sometimes they're on the animal involved.

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-They're on the animal.

-Horses?

-Oh, horse.

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It's a horse, yes.

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-A horse, more people are killed by horses than...

-Really?

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-Oh, ho!

-Oh, it's a very angry horse there.

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That is a very angry horse.

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-He needs a dental hygiene appointment ASAP.

-It does.

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Yeah, because they fall off and break their neck or

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indeed they cause car crashes, and so on.

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And horses kill three times more than the ones you've mentioned.

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We lived in Australia, my wife bought a horse

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and she was desperate to try and get me to ride, right.

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She said, "I've bought a horse, it's docile, you'll be fine."

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-They never are.

-Well, no, actually the problem was it was too docile.

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What happened was it ended up being studied by Melbourne University

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because, yeah, because it was one of the few horses

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that was... medically got narcolepsy.

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So I swear to God, no...

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It's one of the rare cases of a narcoleptic horse.

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So she buys this horse and she says...

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She couldn't work out why every time,

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when she was grooming it, it would get heavier and it would just...

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LAUGHTER

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"Oh, oh, eh, woah!" Like that.

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And so she couldn't groom it, because it would fall on her.

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So she says to me, "It's fine, the horse is narcoleptic, get on it."

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And so I got on it, in full motorbike gear, because

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I wasn't taking any chances, and I sat on this horse and it started

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to just, and you know normally you kick a horse to make it go.

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This one, you kicked it and it would go, "What? Eh?"

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Like that, to wake it up.

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And sometimes it would fall asleep against the electric fence.

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So it would go, it would go like that, "Ha, hey, ha, ho, ho!"

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It's like Jack Douglas from the Carry On Films.

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Yeah. It was amazing, narcoleptic horse.

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-Oh, well, that's my kind of horse, frankly.

-Yeah.

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But it is the horse that turns out to be the deadliest animal,

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How would you defend yourself against this beast?

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-Oi!

-Oh.

-What the hell is that?

-Yeah.

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-What is it, Stephen? I can't...

-It's a dinosaur.

-Yeah.

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It's a dinosaur called Fruitadens haagororum.

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-It's a weird looking dinosaur.

-It is a weird looking one.

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It's a friendly looking one, strangely.

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Well, if you ignore the massive great spear it's got for a tail.

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-That is pretty big.

-It's got a lovely fringe though.

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-It's got a mohawk.

-It's actually feathered, in fact.

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-Oh, feathered fringe.

-And it has front fangs upwards, very unusual.

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-Front fangs and a feathered fringe?

-Front fangs and a feathered fringe.

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Are you Ronnie Barker?

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The surprising thing about it, I suppose, is that we have this

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view of dinosaurs, which is largely to do with their size.

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The way to deal with that would be

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just to squash it with your foot, because it's tiny.

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It's absolutely... it's basically about four inches tall.

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It's the smallest dinosaur we know about.

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Tiny-winy little dinosaur. Absolutely, four inches, that's it.

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-So was it a herbivore? An omnivore? Aaah.

-Aah.

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Paris Hilton would have that in a flash.

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Yeah, exactly. It's about the size of a Chihuahua. A tiny Chihuahua.

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It ate plants and worms and some people think frogs, possibly.

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It lived in the late Jurassic period,

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a hundred and fifty million years ago,

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dodging between the legs of all the Allosauruses and Brachiosauruses.

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It's called "Fruitadens"

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because the first fossilised remains of one were found in Fruita,

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which you may remember is a town in Colorado, which gave the world

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Mike the Headless Chicken, who was a hero of a QI episode some years ago.

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Oh yes, Mike the Headless Chicken.

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-Though it's a bit of a coincidence.

-He lived for years.

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So it's probably a scavenger.

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It was the dinosaur equivalent of a rat, probably.

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But no dinosaur was bigger than what?

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What is the biggest living creature that has ever existed on the planet?

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The T-Rex? Or that giant tall one there.

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No, I said no dinosaur was ever bigger than the biggest living...

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-Oh, I see.

-The whale.

-The blue whale,

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it was your chance with the blue whale, Alan!

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AUDIENCE SYMPATHISES

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The blue whale is bigger than any dinosaur. I know.

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Ooh. Bummeroony. I'm so sorry.

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But there still are very small reptiles,

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I've been to Madagascar and had one, a brookesia chameleon, a pygmy chameleon,

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and I've had one right on my finger and you can see that.

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They are absolutely, they are perfect, perfect chameleons.

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Was it tasty?

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Aaah.

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Here's a question, if you ate a chameleon...

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It was just the most beautiful thing.

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Went for a night walk in the woods and came across it.

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Obviously incredibly easy to miss.

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And they sit there quite happily on your finger.

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They are perfect chameleons, their eyes do the thing of swivelling in all directions.

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Now, which fairground ride is most dangerous - the Wall of Death,

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the Wheel of Death, the Death Slide

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or the Euthanasia Coaster?

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Well, I'd go for the latter, but that's just,

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-I've been on a Wall of Death.

-Yes, what is a Wall of Death?

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That's the bike where you go up and there's a...

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-What keeps you, what keeps you from falling?

-Sticky tape.

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LAUGHTER

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It's a lot of fun, my dad detached his retina.

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-Woah, seriously?

-Yeah.

-No!

-Yeah, on the...

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What, before he got on, he went, "Right, here we go, hey!"

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My sister went on one of those, right,

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at the Cramlington Carnival and as it was going around,

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there was a kid next to her with a goldfish in a bag and it exploded.

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-Ah.

-Oh, no!

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But the trouble is, he couldn't do anything about it,

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she couldn't do anything about it, so they're on there like that,

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"Wey hey!" and it went, "Boof!" like that.

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And the two of them just sort of go, "Woah!" like that.

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As it slowed down, "Blurgh," and then, yeah.

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Poor little goldfish.

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The Wall of Death was first seen in Coney Island in 1915.

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There have been a few reported accidents but no fatalities,

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-and we can add to that list, two detached retinae.

-Yeah.

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The Wheel of Death is slightly

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harder to describe, a circus apparatus double rotation thing.

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The Death Slide is really better known as a zip wire.

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But you are right that in theory the most deadly of them

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all is the Euthanasia Coaster.

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It's a project of an art student in London called

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Julijonas Urbonas, a Lithuanian PHD student.

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It exists as a 1:500 scale model, and you can see there,

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the idea is that the ride would last three minutes.

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A two minute ascent to the very, very top, it's 1,600 foot.

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-Oh, God!

-So very, very high.

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You then have a minute's 223mph plunge

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down into those rolls like that, during which you're

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pulling ten G's, and that would kill the rider through what's called

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cerebral hypoxia, in other words, deprivation of oxygen to the brain.

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-Have Chessington World of Adventure bought it?

-No, they haven't.

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He believes his design offers a humane and meaningful death.

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I don't know quite why it's meaningful.

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-Die like a screaming clown.

-That would be amazing,

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-because you could actually build a chapel at the end.

-Yes.

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-And the family could just sit there.

-Absolutely.

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And then the best thing of all is, after the funeral,

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you get a picture of your loved one, like that.

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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-On a handy key ring.

-Have it on mugs, anything you want.

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Well, he believes that the ascent offers the chance for reflection

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and the riders can still pull out once they've reached the top.

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If not, death is painless, quick and apparently euphoric.

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Though how they know, I don't know.

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There's one in Auckland, one of those ball things that you

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sit in and you have the bungee straps and they fire you up the top.

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-Oh, my goodness.

-But they make you wear like

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one of those surgical mask things.

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And I said, why are they wearing the surgical masks?

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And apparently, because it's right next to an office building,

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people are trying to work and you hear, "Arrrgh!"

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Like this. And it was putting them off. So now it's kind of, "Wargh."

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So some bloke's going, "Well, our predicted sales over the next..."

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"Waaargh!"

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Vomit on the windows.

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I'm always fascinated why people love that feeling.

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I mean, roller coasters when I was a kid,

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it was like, "Argh," and that was it. But now they're so extreme.

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-Yeah. They really are.

-I don't get the kind of exhilaration of it.

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No. I've bungee jumped and that was so exciting,

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I immediately had to do it again, I absolutely loved it.

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What about the guy who made his own bungee jump?

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That was stupid.

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-I think he won a Darwin Award.

-Oh, dear.

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He made his own bungee jump with a rope.

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LAUGHTER AND DISBELIEF

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So, just hung himself.

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Well, no, it took his foot off.

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AUDIENCE GASPS

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When the rope went taut, his foot came off.

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-That's just horrific.

-That's what the Darwin Awards are all about.

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Yeah, it certainly is. What isn't a blue whale,

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but floats around in the sea and weighs as much as a blue whale?

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Is it an elephant on holiday?

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An elephant doesn't weigh as much as a blue whale.

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-No, it's really...

-A ship?

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-No.

-Submarine.

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No, it's something that the blue whale consumes.

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-A massive lilo.

-Plankton.

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The blue whale can consume its own weight in?

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-Plankton.

-Well, actually in water. It dives all the way down

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and then dives up again with its mouth open

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and it swells, and swells, and swells.

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And it literally can take on 90 tonnes of water.

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Quite a staggering sum.

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Got to love a blue whale.

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-That's right, we do love them.

-That's one thirsty mother.

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They can actually take in something their size.

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Not to swallow, as you know, because,

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-as we've discussed...

-The grapefruit issue.

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A grapefruit is the biggest thing they can get down their gullet.

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But they get this gigantic amount of water inside them. Really amazing.

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And they go really deep and no one's been able to go

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deep enough to find out what they do until very recently.

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-Just gossiping.

-Just gossiping. That's right.

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"Ooh, kaa." "Really?"

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Having quizzes in which people say, "Is the answer Alan Davies?"

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Yeah.

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The water in a blue whale's mouth weighs as much as a blue whale does.

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Why shouldn't you mess with the maxillofacial death pyramid?

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Is it cos it's got the word "death" in it?

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That is a hint, the maxillofacial death pyramid.

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-Call it the fun pyramid.

-Maxillofacial means?

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Maxillofacial is who you go to see when you get a broken cheekbone.

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-Yeah, exactly. it is the maxillary area, the jaw.

-It's the top jaw.

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But it's, the maxillary, the pyramid is actually sort of there,

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from the bridge of the nose down through...

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It's like a facial Bermuda Triangle.

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There it is, yeah, yeah.

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And it's basically about blood flow from the brain down,

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if you've got little infections and things, it goes down through

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there and then gets sorted out by the immune system.

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What can happen if you pick your nose and your spots

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and things, is you can get bacteria in it that sort of block it

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and force it all the way back up into the brain.

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Meningitis is an example of that, and syphilis indeed is.

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-From picking your nose?!

-Not from picking your nose...

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-Good God!!

-Yeah, that's how you get syphilis.

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It does, it slightly depends on what you're picking it with!

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LAUGHTER

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That's how you explain it to the wife.

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"No, I was just picking my nose, love. Must have spread."

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Yeah. That's something to tell the children.

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Well, there you are.

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Now, making hydrogen with nails

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and drain cleaner would be a very jolly jape indeed, don't you think?

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-Yes, I think so.

-So, let's try it.

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To prove that it's hydrogen, I'm going to have to set fire it.

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And I'm going to set fire to it on my own hand,

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first of all I'm going to have

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a basin of water, I'm going to put here,

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to dip my hand in, to wet it so I don't burn myself too badly.

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And then I have my really...

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Oh, hello.

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Made a mistake, sorry, man in my ear furious with me.

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"What are you fucking doing?! Put the water down!

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"Do this properly or you will die, do you understand?!"

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-No...

-"Start again, for fuck's sake!"

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LAUGHTER

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He was much gentler, very sweet. So, anyway.

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I've been told to tell you not to try this at home.

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-Try it in someone else's home.

-Yeah.

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The fire exits are there, and there.

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What I've got here is I've got some ordinary

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green coloured washing-up liquid.

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We're not allowed to mention it's Fairy. Its name.

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And I've got a little chemical lab, I don't know what you call

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-this little...

-Flask.

-Flask, I think is the word.

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Oh, this is like going on a picnic with Heston Blumenthal.

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-LAUGHTER

-It's got some nails in it and I'm going to add a few more,

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a little bit of zinc.

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And I've got here, this is the hydrochloric acid, very strong.

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When are you going to put on the safety goggles, Stephen?

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Now, cos I'm about to open the bottle of acid.

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"Put the fucking safety goggles on!"

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Not only that, but I've also got, I've also got a...

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-I've also got a mask. Here we go.

-What about us?!

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Sorry, can I just ask, you're putting on safety goggles?

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-Yeah!

-You're putting on a mask.

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What's the story here?

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Yeah, you're fine, you're expendable.

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I may have the mask upside down.

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"Got the fucking mask upside down!"

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Right, OK. I've got the goggles, I've got this.

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Now what I'm going to do, all right, is I'm going to pour this acid.

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Jesus, onto some nails?!

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-Into the nails, that's right.

-Why?

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The zinc and the hydrochloric acid will react.

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-Has he been drinking?

-Yeah. He's been drinking that.

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Oh, there we go. And that's, that's going to produce quite a lot.

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-It's going towards me!

-It's blowing our way!

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I now have to put this, I have to put this cork in it.

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-Geez!

-If I put the cork in it tight enough,

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it will come out of here, and I put this in here and it will bubble up.

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Right, that's important.

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-If you say so.

-The bubbles are made of hydrogen.

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And the only way to prove it is to grasp the bubbles,

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I'm going to wet my hand now, to be safer. And grasp these bubbles.

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What the hell is that? It looks like a sex cactus.

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And I'm going to go...

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Oh, God!

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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Really exciting. Really exciting.

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We can try that again.

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Oh, yeah.

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-Let's get even more bubbles.

-That is great.

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Stephen's goggles are so steamed up, he's completely blind!

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-Oh, come on, oh, work, lighter.

-Anyone got a light?

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-Oh the lighter's stopped working.

-APPLAUSE

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Let's try it again, one more.

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Wet your hand again, you didn't wet it.

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-You didn't wet the hand.

-Come on. Bloody lighter!

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-Expelliarmus!

-Oh. Oh there we go.

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-We'll take that off now.

-Wow!

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-I've made hydrogen, ladies and gentlemen.

-Wow.

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APPLAUSE

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-Wow.

-How very exciting.

-Pretty exciting. Let's cover that.

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"Put the lid on the acid!"

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There we are. We can let all the hydrogen disappear.

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And our wonderful science elf said, he said, he's so scientific,

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he said, "And don't touch that because it's exothermic."

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-It just means it's hot.

-Hot, it's hot.

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-Had to say "exothermic."

-That's a smell, that's quite the...

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-Can you smell?

-Pretty whiffy.

-Yes.

-Pretty eggy whiffy.

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Well, a bit of hydrogen sulphide probably in there,

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that might kill you, of course. But let's hope not.

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Let's hope at least you survive until we get to the scores.

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Well, I have to say, sadly, in last place...

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Is it that bad?

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It's down wind.

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Well, especially now I know it's potentially fatal. Yes, it is!

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No, it's not hydrogen sulphide. It's just hydrogen.

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So, I'm afraid in last place, but it's a very creditable last place,

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and only just, with minus 16, is Julia Zemiro. Oh!

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-APPLAUSE

-Thank you.

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And through some extraordinary good fortune, avoiding final place,

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third place with minus 14, Alan Davies.

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-Thank you very much.

-Highly respectable.

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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And, my goodness, it's tight at the top,

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with minus seven, in second place, Ross Noble.

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APPLAUSE

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So, that can only mean that our winner,

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with a magnificent minus six, is Sue Perkins.

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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So, it's goodnight from Sue, Ross, Julia, Alan and me.

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Now, you come back soon now, you hear?

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Do that thing and be lovely to each other. Goodnight.

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