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QI - A Divine Comedy.
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Oct 17, 2008
QI - A Divine Comedy.
pedro Posted Oct 17, 2008
D'you know Bracciaforte means 'strongarm'? Not quite as romantic in Anglo-Saxon, eh?
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Oct 17, 2008
Oh, I thought it meant "Strong Cabbage" 
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eloisa Posted Oct 17, 2008
That was an extremely cool one. I read with great interest, having no clue as to the answer.
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pedro Posted Oct 17, 2008
Mal, that *may* explain why more people learn Italian than German.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 11, 2008
QI - A Divine Comedy.
QI 
(+6)
Pedro (Tuscan Dialect)
Ben (St Lucia Day)
Rod (Parsee customs)
Taff (Hamlet)
Correct 
(+3)
Bob Stafford (Indoor Plumbing)
Bob Stafford (Air Raids)
Klaxons 
(-5)
Orcus (Florence)
Pedro (Venice)
Ben (Venie)
Elf 
(+1)
Clive
Net totals:
Pedro +1
Ben +1
Bob Stafford +6.
QI - A Divine Comedy.
thranjax Posted Nov 19, 2008
I guess the tangential link to bathrooms and indoor plumbing was the Jack in the Box episode of Jonathan Creek? The position of the plumbing of the toilet gives the clue to Creek that someone has been walled up in the cellar?
Thranjax
QI - A Divine Comedy.
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 21, 2008
I remember that episode: it's was one of my favourites of the 'how-dunnit' philosophy of that show before it disappeared up it's own Arsenal.
But the tale is all true and nothing whatsoever to do with Jonathan Creek.
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QI - A Divine Comedy.
- 101: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Oct 17, 2008)
- 102: pedro (Oct 17, 2008)
- 103: Malabarista - now with added pony (Oct 17, 2008)
- 104: eloisa (Oct 17, 2008)
- 105: pedro (Oct 17, 2008)
- 106: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Nov 11, 2008)
- 107: Rod (Nov 11, 2008)
- 108: thranjax (Nov 19, 2008)
- 109: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Nov 21, 2008)
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