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QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Aug 1, 2009
3 inches, obscene, wood, put in mouth and chew
spanish root / liquorish root???
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Aug 1, 2009
nope, no and really no.
But you might need one after eating the eels.
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Aug 1, 2009
mouth wash
people were getting breathalised as possitive after using mouthwash???
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Aug 1, 2009
Older than listerine.
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Aug 1, 2009
edible underware
gotta go home
bye
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Aug 1, 2009
Bye Taff.
and no.
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Aug 1, 2009
Hmmm, those twigs (can't remember the name of the tree) that are chewed in parts of Africa and Asia in lieu of using a toothbrush?
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Aug 1, 2009
more primitive than a toothbrush
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Aug 1, 2009
Some kind of religious artefact?
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Aug 1, 2009
Really! What more basic than a toothbrush?
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Aug 1, 2009
Well, I do think they invented gods before they invented dentists 
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Aug 1, 2009
You might be right - but that's neither the answer nor the most efficient route to removing bits of food from between the teeth.
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
minichessemouse - Ahoy there me barnacle! Posted Aug 1, 2009
Toothpicks!
mini
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Aug 1, 2009
So we're moving on to toothpicks?
Actually, chimpanzees use the twig toothbrush method, so I'd call it pretty basic!
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Aug 1, 2009
YES!!
+3
He was charged and convicted of publishing an obscene toothpick. (the mind boggles)
Sadly my source is scant on details; it's actually an entry on another man, one Reginald Bacchus - however in describing his circle of friends (that included Oscar Wilde) it says:
"Another friend was Thomas Wrigham, who occupies a unique place in legal history as the only defendant ever convicted of 'publishing' an obscene toothpick [...] depicting the naked persons of a man and a woman in an indecent and filthy attitude and practice.'
The link to Alice? Bacchus was married to Isa Bowman, who was the first to play Alice on stage. She published the controversial book 'The Story of Lewis Carroll, by the Real Alice in Wonderland.'
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Aug 1, 2009
QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
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Correct 
(+3)
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Taff - 'publishing' (obscene)
Mini - 'toothpicks'
QI Bonus 
(+6)
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GT - 'regicide'
DGI Bonus 
(+1)
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jwf - 'Alice
Taff - 'wood cut not woodcut'
Klaxons 
(-5)
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GT - 'murder'
Elf 
(+1)
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Clive
Totals
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Taff +4
Mini +3
Clive +2
GT +1
jwf +1
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QI - In The Garden of Good and Evil
- 101: Taff Agent of kaos (Aug 1, 2009)
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- 103: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Aug 1, 2009)
- 104: Taff Agent of kaos (Aug 1, 2009)
- 105: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Aug 1, 2009)
- 106: Taff Agent of kaos (Aug 1, 2009)
- 107: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Aug 1, 2009)
- 108: Malabarista - now with added pony (Aug 1, 2009)
- 109: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Aug 1, 2009)
- 110: Malabarista - now with added pony (Aug 1, 2009)
- 111: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Aug 1, 2009)
- 112: Malabarista - now with added pony (Aug 1, 2009)
- 113: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Aug 1, 2009)
- 114: minichessemouse - Ahoy there me barnacle! (Aug 1, 2009)
- 115: Malabarista - now with added pony (Aug 1, 2009)
- 116: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Aug 1, 2009)
- 117: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Aug 1, 2009)
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