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QI - "Run for your life!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 15, 2010
Yes. Let's just share that with the good boys and girls. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCyr1ugzxXM
But no nothing like that.
QI - "Run for your life!"
pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Feb 15, 2010
The link to the silly olympics
http://www.youtube.com/user/MontyPython#p/c/CDFEA6D52E5CC0EC/8/dmyz_f8Sx14
QI - "Run for your life!"
pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Feb 15, 2010
QI - "Run for your life!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 15, 2010
Great minds think alike.
or is it just coincidence?
QI - "Run for your life!"
pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Feb 15, 2010
My link doesn't work (gets truncated) but is different:
maybe this will do it if you copy it into the browser.
http:/
/www.
youtube.com/user/MontyPython#p
/c/CDFEA6D52E5CC0EC/8/dmyz_f8Sx14
QI - "Run for your life!"
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Feb 15, 2010
Has the 'it's fictional' been covered? I mean, I know it wasn't on film, but in a song, a book, a poem maybe...
QI - "Run for your life!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 15, 2010
Nope. (it's not been covered)
and
Nope. It's really real. Promise.
QI - "Run for your life!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 15, 2010
Robyn where's your BR? I didn't recognise you!
QI - "Run for your life!"
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Feb 15, 2010
Woo! No Klaxon!
Unfortunately it also means there's no connection to my instant reaction on seeing the title line which was 'Ooh! A QI on Iron Maiden!'
QI - "Run for your life!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 15, 2010
>it also means there's no connection to my instant reaction on seeing the title line which was 'Ooh! A QI on Iron Maiden!'<
Correct. No connection at all.
QI - "Run for your life!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 15, 2010
Pebbles DGI notwithstanding, I think the last truly relevant post was #27.
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hygienicdispenser Posted Feb 15, 2010
Did someone just accuse me of being an elephant? Oh, relevant, sorry.
QI - "Run for your life!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 15, 2010
Well you were drawing attention to the runners and riders, I take it?
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hygienicdispenser Posted Feb 15, 2010
I was indeed. Not that it really helped me any.
"Runners and riders"?
QI - "Run for your life!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 15, 2010
Horse racing metaphor - 'those taking part'
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hygienicdispenser Posted Feb 15, 2010
I had a mental image of a bunch of murderers taking part in a piggy-back race.
QI - "Run for your life!"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 15, 2010
Hmm would you care to sum up what we know so far - that usually helps.
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hygienicdispenser Posted Feb 15, 2010
Not a lot. 1923, San Quentin, 50 yard dash.
Competitors were prisoners and only prisoners, but we don't know anything more about them - which I guess is the next step.
Was it only one type of prisoner? Or maybe included someone famous? How many took part?
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hygienicdispenser Posted Feb 15, 2010
Also, "events outside the prison" are relevant. I assume you meant the wider world, and not next door. I realise I know nothing at all about 1923. I am willing to concede that it existed, but I don't know of anything that happened then.
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hygienicdispenser Posted Feb 15, 2010
Was there something about this particular race that had been going on for some years, which was put a stop to because of what happened in 1923?
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