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@@crimesinspaaace _"Forty-seven ginger-headed saiiiiilors ..._ _Coming home, across the briney sea..._ _When the anchor's weighed_ _And the journey's made_ _They'll start the party with_ _A heave-ho, me-hearty...!"_ 🎶🎵
Not too big of a raise 'though. *Very* Duff steer on the baked beans thing. (Possibly microwaving them first wasn't a great idea admittedly but, well, cold's hardly going to do it is it?)
It's 'S' theme next year. You'd have to hope they get him in on an episode for that! Also, I was thinking about the show ending on 'Z'. Maybe follow on with a series themed on numbers!
@@lezlezman1843 that would be fun! an entire episode on "stephens". 'even stephens' they could call it. cos then stephen wouldve tried being a guest with sandi as a host the same way shes been a guest during his time in the middle
K. A. U. Yes but for most people that isn’t mummy and daddy. Most Poms will call their parents Mum and Dad, and some people will use their names. To my ears it sounds sort of infantile, a bit weird. But I also like it.
My favourite anecdote from QI is one Stephen told of Winston Churchill being woken by one of his staff one morning in the 1950s: "I'm afraid there's been a scandal, Prime Minister; one of our backbench MPs was found with a guardsman in St James's park in the bushes last night by the police and the papers got a hold of it." Churchill said: "Last night?!" "Yes" came the reply. "Very cold last night, wasn't it?" Responded Churchill. "Yes, Prime Minister, I believe it was one of the coldest February nights for thirty years". Churchill replied: "Makes ya proud to be British!!".
@@philipmonihan8222 Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. (Stephen voiced Cheshire Cat & Lee did Jabberwocky). They were also both in one of the Hobbit movies.
I disagree. He looks like the type of person that wouldn't harm a fly. That's why the Royal family invited him. You think he would have gotten invited had they known about the hamster incident?
Can I just give a shout out for a little known man called Tommy Flowers. He was a telephone engineer and the son of a bricklayer. He build the computer that Alan Turin used. His place in history is almost forgotten but his contribution was immense
@@jonatanrullman The computer Tommy Flowers built was the first modern proper electronic computer. But it was used to decode the later Lorenz codes, not the earlier Enigma codes. Those were decoded using what they called "bombes" that were electro-mechanical devices that essentially tried millions of possibilities until they found one that worked. So the Enigma code was broken by people like Turing, and first by a Polish team, but still involved a lot of time to work out the new code every day, in in war if you decoded a message a week later it would be useless. The bombes meant they could decode messages within hours. A fun fact is that the first commercial company in the world to own a computer, and also to use it to run their business (doing stock control, accounting etc) was a British bakery and tea shop chain called Lyons Tea Shops. Incredibly they effectively designed and built it themselves, and would let universities use it at night for research. They then started making them and selling them to other businesses and called it LEO, Lyons Electronic Office. That became part of ILC which is now owned by Fujitsu.
That's true now but if you read his autobiographies you'd see it could have gone a totally different way, very badly! He managed to turn his life around but if he hadn't, early death or a lifetime of prison loomed. He transformed himself from a cheat, liar and thief into one of the UK's most respectable and greatly admired gentlemen but it was a very rough road and I think that deserves the most admiration of all!
I'm pretty sure if it was simply a matter of it being in wingdings, it wouldn't have taken Stephen 7 hours to figure it out. More than likely it was encoded.
@@ripdbtpoo1441 It's a font table in Windows Character Map. (I'm sure Macs have a program akin to Character Map, but called something else.) Instead of letters, it gives you all these crazy symbols. Since most people rarely need such, they may not even know the font is there. (I only know from one of the early "Windows for Dummies" books.)
@@stevevastayeah bit she had a computer repair person working on it before Stephone did. You would hope a repair person would recognise actual windings quick enough rather than claiming not to be able to do anything.
0:12 Higson and Whitehouse, plasterers 0:55 The Mormon tour 2:32 Making an Oscar 3:27 Recovery of a screenplay 4:55 The hamster ball 5:32 Alan Turing and Apple Computers 6:22 The Owl and the AGA 7:26 A nudge from the Queen 8:17 Peter Cushing lives in Whitstable 9:05 A call to Christopher Lee 10:08 Vincent Price requests the mustard 10:40 A young man called Heinz
0:56 As a gay ex-Mormon from Utah, Stephen Fry's response to the eternal family in Mormon doctrine was already 100% relatable because there are tons--TONS--of family members I never want to see again, much less spend eternity with, but I found out this week that Stephen Fry is gay (I know, I know, I'm the last one to know, I have no idea how it took so long...) so now the relatability has shot up to 200-300% because he KNOWS, he really KNOWS how much of a hell eternity with certain family members would be!
Hell I love my family and have a great relationship with them and I couldn’t stand eternity with them, too much arguing lol. Then again we’re all atheists and me and my sister are distinctly non heterosexual so it’s off to Mormon hell for me. Im excited, frankly
My mind is imploding at the thought of even having a conversation with PETER CUSHING, CHRISTOPHER LEE, AND VINCENT PRICE and have it not be the best achievement of your life
The image i have in my head is a of said hamster, bored, sadly looking at all the lovely grass, when suddenly "here comes Fry, for Oxford!" and then the hamster's in slow motion, gleefully tumbling through space while the chorus to "space oddity" blazes away through the speakers, before zooming through open french windows and splatting, unharmed, onto a child's spaghetti on toast. I need to get out more...
@@PastaBakeMilkShake Thank you, that's very kind of you. I should certainly do more with my life... I have a weird imagination that surely someone will pay me to turn into stories. 🤣
Shame they ruined it with the censoring, if I recall all Stephen says is nob and masturbating but they both get censored, if the original didn't censor it why should it be in this video?
hesky10 - youtube algorithm is real touchy with those sorta things. I don’t have personal experience with this sorta thing, but if memory serves, I think it has to do with their advertisers and how it works. So like, you might get a Pepsi commercial for example, but Pepsi might not want their brand associated with certain kinds of “adult content” or something, and they tell youtube their stipulations for advertising on their platform, but since youtube ads are targeted/algorithm based, they don’t have have truly discrete control over every ad that every person sees or when they see it, so they expect channels to “police themselves” and will potentially demonetize videos if they find out that they’re doing things advertisers don’t want them to do. There was a push a few years back that some RU-vidrs I follow had addressed, where ever creator got an email and were pretty much told to stop swearing or risk demonetization, essentially. Many stopped, many others just went to the patreon model so that they could make whatever content they wanted 🤷🏻♂️
Nicknames can be funny like that, i know a grown man who has had the nickname Bambi since the age of 7 or 8. The poor kid cried when he was watching the Bambi movie and everyone called him Bambi after that. He totally owned up to the name, by now he'll be in his 40s and he's still known all around as Bambi. I must admit i even forgot his real name!
1:30 -- If it's any comfort to the Mormons, the largest organ in the world with over 33,000 pipes is not owned by a religious organization, but by the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ. It was, astonishingly, boarded up for decades, and many visitors to Atlantic City didn't even know it was there. Now in poor repair, it's in the process of being restored. The Wikipedia article on this organ has a picture of the console. It would be a daunting instrument to play. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boardwalk_Hall_Auditorium_Organ
By golly, I hope they keep it securely locked at night. Can you just imagine the drunks making their way home, breaking into it and firing it up, pretending to be Mozart?
So there's a taxi driver somewhere in the UK telling all his mates: "You won't believe who got into my cab once at three in the morning, in her dressing gown no less!"
Jonas Pahlberg Phill's talent for mimicry is extremely underrated. And unlike most, he can bring his impressions into the conversation in a very natural way.
Wellllllll If you're prepared to take the risk of eternity with your family ............. Actually that would be kind of interesting because, as ever, that lot haven't really thought this through but that would take you *all* the way down the line to great great grandpa the Amoeba.
Definitely true. I listened to The Inimitable Jeeves narrated by him, which was a very addictive book. If you haven't read the PG Wodehouse 'Jeeves' books or watched Jeeves and Wooster, I strongly recommend them.
I'd be ok with myself if I could be 1/20th the person Stephen is. What a legend. A reminder that true beauty has nothing to do with what we are but who we are. If im ever ashamed of a soul you'll know where ill be.
@@clockworkkirlia7475 it means when I'm down about me and people I'll be here watching this video, pretending that everyone is just like Stephen, rather than the kind of spud that can't help themselves throw their anger of falling short in life at others ☝️ like spud here.
Because they were trying to convince the tour group to join their cult and his joke undermined them and made that much less likely to happen. Hope that clears things up for you.
I've just realised, there is an episode I haven't seen, don't remember the one with the Mormon anecdote. I'll check it out for sure. Stephens anecdotes have me in stitches every time.
Christopher Lee not scary? When told by a director "Imagine the sound when a knife is being pushed into a mans ribs" answered "I don't have to imagine it." He was in WWII as a special operative.
Yes - I think he corrected the director by pointing out if you stab someone between the ribs you usually hit a lung so they can't really scream or cry out properly ...dude really knew his stuff!
My favourite story about Christopher Lee is one where he was driving at night and had a car accident in Sicily Italy, that left him cut and bleeding, so he found the nearest home to ask to use their telephone to get help. Apparently the door was answered by a little old Italian lady, who then promptly freaked out at the sight of the bloodied figure of Christopher Lee aka Dracula at her door.
There hasn't been a day of my life since seeing this the first time that I haven't sung the Peter Cushing Lives in Whitstable song to myself at least once
Osmond family moved to Tennessee. They said a new zip code had to be added to accommodate them. "What kind of culinary accident had to happen for him to discover, ah, the joy of beans??"😂