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QI Fact of the Day

There have been 12 Greek popes.


QI Quote of the Day

"The shepherd, even when he becomes a gentleman, smells of lamb. "
GREEK PROVERB

some quite interesting things about Socrates

Socrates (469-399BC) started life training to be stonemason like his father. He also served as a hoplite or foot soldier in the war with the Spartans, receiving an award for bravery. The "Socratic method" of answering questions with questions began as arguments with himself: he would frequently be found on the streets of Athens listening to and debating with his dæmon or "inner voice". His wife, Xanthippe, is said to be the only person to have ever bested him in argument. Rather unfairly, her name is synonymous with a nag.

Oh, my God! That is one of the most poignant things I have ever read.

Proof! I always knew I wasn't human.

I just stumbled across these when trying to figure out how long ago I started watching QI. It's very good. Fry was quite handsome, and still is. He kinda looks like Janto from Torchwood, come to think of it.

It does say a whole lot about their intelligence and imaginations.

Most people think that the Hippie Movement started in 1966. It started in 1964.

i was wondering how much physiological energy (in "watts") it would take the average person to live their whole average lives. i am not thinking about auxiliary energy like lights and toasters. i am thinking about the homeostatic energy expenditure of an idle persons body during normal chore attendance..


for people that fit the criteria of my assessment i would say that it takes a total of approx 388 megawatts of energy to power an average humans biological lifetime.

of course that leads me to think of something similar which i am both intrigued and bamboozled by.

i think my intrigue will win over my bamboozlement. i just wonder where the mass goes between what i eat and what i excrete. if the equivalent mass of material inequity (between imbibement and waste) were converted to pure energy, then it should wipe out my surroundings for hundreds of miles.

how can i lose 2 pounds of weight in one week without exuding the energy that 2 pounds of matter liberates when converted purely to energy (to reduce the mass), and therefore create a catastrophic explosion in the nano blink of a very anxious eye ?.
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English is annoying! Why isn't there a single English word which unambiguously means a piece of music, without specification as to what kind of music, if any, it is? You would think such a word would be useful, and would therefore have been invented, or evolved, or at least borrowed from some other language. Does any other language do better, and if so, can't we just borrow their word for it?

(Was that a Quite Interesting question?)

She's gorgeous! I had quite a thing for Morticia. (A thing, bwahahahahah!) Photos on the Web don't seem to do her justice, making her seem to have a cruel mouth, but I don't remember her like that from the TV programmes (which I haven't seen for quite a while).

I might take a leaf out of their book! (Not the killing!)

That would be the word "music".

Off-topic, but what do you think of Kaki King?

(I don't usually like virtuoso guitarists' albums, but I do like hers - no ego, just music.)

The words "Its inside is bigger than its outside" - a well known cliché to Doctor Who fans - were in fact first used in Chapter 13 of C. S. Lewis' book The Last Battle, the last book of the Narnia series, referring to the stable which turns out to be the doorway to Aslan's Country. C. S. Lewis died on 22 November, 1963. The first episode of Doctor Who was broadcast on the following evening, 23 November 1963.

The name Gandalf first appeared in 1896 in The Well at the World's End by William Morris. Tolkien read William Morris' books and borrowed a few ideas.