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  • @SomeRandomJackAss
    @SomeRandomJackAss5 жыл бұрын

    "That's not my area of expertise" Best part.

  • @TulilaSalome

    @TulilaSalome

    5 жыл бұрын

    I am planning to start using that as a euphemism for it. 'The area that is not of Stephen's expertise' perhaps.

  • @zapfanzapfan

    @zapfanzapfan

    5 жыл бұрын

    That was a brilliant line :-)

  • @francaperotti5934

    @francaperotti5934

    4 жыл бұрын

    Stephen fry is just the best

  • @cassanateli

    @cassanateli

    4 жыл бұрын

    BadAssMutha006 🤫

  • @aoifependry1029

    @aoifependry1029

    4 жыл бұрын

    It is mine

  • @reeseboulton
    @reeseboulton5 жыл бұрын

    The cat injury from falling study is an interesting one. It was measured by how many cats were treated by a vet. Do you see the problem with their conclusion?

  • @crispymartyr

    @crispymartyr

    5 жыл бұрын

    I was hoping someone would notice that. Vets don't treat dead cats

  • @OstapKomaryanskyy

    @OstapKomaryanskyy

    5 жыл бұрын

    Classic Survivorship bias

  • @meikelwupp7044

    @meikelwupp7044

    4 жыл бұрын

    Weren‘t they counting injurys?

  • @murphy54000

    @murphy54000

    4 жыл бұрын

    You don't bring a dead cat to a vet.

  • @viddork

    @viddork

    4 жыл бұрын

    Still, the fact that there were ANY survivors from a 7+ storey fall is impressive.

  • @jocax188723
    @jocax1887234 жыл бұрын

    I should note that CC actually stood for both 'Copy Cat' and 'Carbon Copy'. CC also gave birth to kittens in 2006.

  • @mukeshcuster

    @mukeshcuster

    4 жыл бұрын

    were they all called copy copy then? or carbon cat? i prefer carbon cat....

  • @jocax188723

    @jocax188723

    3 жыл бұрын

    Cody Nemo tortoiseshell Cat fur expression is epigenetic and X-chromosome dependent, so the cloned cat expresses differently than the original due to external factors.

  • @jocax188723

    @jocax188723

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@nemo-x It's actually the academic go-to example of epigenetic X-chromosome inactivation. Weird, huh?

  • @jocax188723

    @jocax188723

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@nemo-x As a freshly graduated microbiologist, I wish you the best of luck! You're gonna have so much fun :)

  • @matthewiles5714

    @matthewiles5714

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mukeshcuster Carbon Cat sounds like a superhero

  • @epiendless1128
    @epiendless11284 жыл бұрын

    Room to swing a cat. "But only if it was a reasonably patient cat and didn't mind a few nasty cracks about the head." - Douglas Adams.

  • @alansmithee419
    @alansmithee4195 жыл бұрын

    "He launched cows through the air" *audience laughs* "Dead cows" *audience disgusted* So launching live ones is better?

  • @austenhead5303

    @austenhead5303

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well, it's funnier.

  • @E2O10

    @E2O10

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, the audience got a little Moo-dy. I'll see myself out.

  • @ordelian7795

    @ordelian7795

    4 жыл бұрын

    Suppose that the cow dies during launch and is then dead when flying. Is that launching live or dead cows?

  • @alansmithee419

    @alansmithee419

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ordelian7795 either way it's animal abuse.

  • @paws27

    @paws27

    4 жыл бұрын

    They were laughing at Alan.

  • @geoffroi-le-Hook
    @geoffroi-le-Hook3 жыл бұрын

    Felis catus, the scientific name for the house cat, translates to kitty cat

  • @Postoronniy

    @Postoronniy

    Жыл бұрын

    Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature, An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature. Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses...

  • @NerfHerdsman
    @NerfHerdsman5 жыл бұрын

    Thought he was going to say "cat" is derived from the Latin word "cat" for a second.

  • @the-chillian

    @the-chillian

    5 жыл бұрын

    Late Latin for cat is cattus, not catulus, which always meant puppy. The original etymology of "cat" is highly uncertain. The English word may in fact hark back to proto-Germanic, and it's possible the Romans got the word from the ancient Germanics rather than the other way around. All we really know is that this animal is called by similar names across a wide span of unrelated languages. No one really knows with whom the word originated.

  • @SeventhEve

    @SeventhEve

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@the-chillian It seems probable that it's Afro-Asiatic in origin (e.g., Nubian "kadis", Berber "kadiska", Arabic "qitt")

  • @the-chillian

    @the-chillian

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@SeventhEve That's a possibility, but no one really knows. Similarity alone isn't enough to establish a relationship, nor to indicate the direction of that relationship.

  • @smoothie9931

    @smoothie9931

    5 жыл бұрын

    Your profile picture is haunting o_o

  • @bingola45

    @bingola45

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@the-chillian Catullus was one of those boring old bastards that wrote loads of shit poetry in Latin. Or was that Virgil?

  • @charlieohalloran7452
    @charlieohalloran74525 жыл бұрын

    RIP Grumpy Cat

  • @stiimuli

    @stiimuli

    5 жыл бұрын

    Wait what? GC died????

  • @PhilBoswell

    @PhilBoswell

    5 жыл бұрын

    😿

  • @justincoleman3805

    @justincoleman3805

    4 жыл бұрын

    Good riddance.

  • @peterclarke7240

    @peterclarke7240

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bastard.

  • @michaellejeune7715
    @michaellejeune77155 жыл бұрын

    At first I thought QI somehow made a crossover with 8 out of 10 cats.

  • @nighthasfallen456
    @nighthasfallen4563 жыл бұрын

    "And they ate it." That had me dying 😂😂

  • @bruceevans3476
    @bruceevans34765 жыл бұрын

    The cat in front of Mao seems to be taking a Great Leap Forward.

  • @muskatDR

    @muskatDR

    4 жыл бұрын

    Itll need more than 9 lives

  • @tinastagg6258

    @tinastagg6258

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why does this not have a million likes? Genius.

  • @davidgustavsson4000
    @davidgustavsson40005 жыл бұрын

    Massive survivor's bias on the last factoid though. Obviously, if a cat falls short enough, you don't need to call the veterinary because it's not hurt, and if it falls from too high and gets hurt, you'd call a guy with a shovel.

  • @cassanateli

    @cassanateli

    4 жыл бұрын

    David Gustavsson 🤫

  • @nikolatovar9884

    @nikolatovar9884

    4 жыл бұрын

    David Gustavsson 🤫

  • @TallSilentGuy

    @TallSilentGuy

    4 жыл бұрын

    No, no, you misconstrued. The vets themselves were dropping cats from various heights and recording the results. ;-)

  • @Sigart

    @Sigart

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TallSilentGuy We have enough cats falling out of windows themselves; we don't have to.

  • @klandalfthewhite9859

    @klandalfthewhite9859

    3 жыл бұрын

    Though if you have the cats that survived, recording the floors that they fell from will produce a curve, the inverse of which will display probable lethality.

  • @chrysafisstamoudis9850
    @chrysafisstamoudis98503 жыл бұрын

    Now now ... it's my fault I watch your videos while drinking tea, I admit that, but it's YOUR fault I spit tea on the computer screen ! Hillarious! Well done !

  • @themadplotter
    @themadplotter5 жыл бұрын

    I've got £20, get me Beas agent ASAP!

  • @fisherking7798

    @fisherking7798

    4 жыл бұрын

    I've got £ 30,-

  • @cassanateli

    @cassanateli

    4 жыл бұрын

    themadplotter 🤫

  • @cassanateli

    @cassanateli

    4 жыл бұрын

    fisher king 🤫

  • @benjaminbrewer2569
    @benjaminbrewer25695 жыл бұрын

    I got twenty quid somewhere...

  • @salwaaj1356
    @salwaaj13563 жыл бұрын

    Alan's expression when stephen says ''seventh floor..and like a parachut''

  • @paulnewcombe3373
    @paulnewcombe33735 жыл бұрын

    Aisling Bea is so gorgeous !

  • @eolsunder

    @eolsunder

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes she is, a very hot woman with bedroom eyes. Even hotter when she's wearing glasses, showing off her eyes even more

  • @KIWIchix0r
    @KIWIchix0r3 жыл бұрын

    My sister’s cat fell off the roof of their house (four storeys) and broke lots of bones. It would be five storeys up, going off the sidewall. She lived into her 20s, but spent months living in a small cage, to heal.

  • @ditsycitykitty3841
    @ditsycitykitty38415 жыл бұрын

    Great compilation! :D And, yeah, RIP Grumpy Cat. :(

  • @stuff4physios550
    @stuff4physios5505 жыл бұрын

    Not true. The 'Mao' in 毛泽东 (Mao Ze Dong) is 2nd tone, while the Mandarin word for cat 'mao' (猫) is 1st tone. So while they may be the same when transliterated without tonality - which you would normally include with pin yin - they are definitely not the same in the original Mandarin, neither character- nor pronunciation-wise.

  • @propername4830

    @propername4830

    5 жыл бұрын

    Cancelled

  • @gaevlebocken

    @gaevlebocken

    5 жыл бұрын

    Didnt understand a word you just wrote

  • @solomanyamin2876

    @solomanyamin2876

    4 жыл бұрын

    I dont think he actually thought that it meant both cat and hat at the same time.

  • @CashelOConnolly

    @CashelOConnolly

    4 жыл бұрын

    Stuff4Physios I wouldn’t want you at the Comedy Store!!!!

  • @stuff4physios550

    @stuff4physios550

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@solomanyamin2876 I'm pretty sure that he did :-) The thing about the phrase 帽子里的猫 (mao4zi li3 de mao1) is that 帽子 does mean hat, and 猫 does mean cat, so that 毛泽东的帽子里的猫 (mao2ze2dong1demao4zili3demao1) means the cat in Mao Zedongs hat; but the characters are not the same, and the pronunciations differ on tonality, which in Mandarin Chinese makes them very different words. For comparison, there are around 120 different words that in pinyin (phonetic transliteration method of written Chinese (meaning we write their pronunciation of Chinese characters with letters)) are spelled 'yi', if you leave out the difference in tones. For 'shi' there are about 60, if memory serves me right. It's the single hardest thing to understand when you first start acquainting yourself with Mandarin Chinese: That the tone with which a word is pronounced changes the semantics of that word, and that so many words sound exactly alike, but change meaning anyway when you change the character associated with it. Anywho, long story short: Yes he did, and no they don't.

  • @mikebaginy8731
    @mikebaginy87314 жыл бұрын

    I simply love QI!!!

  • @PiousMoltar
    @PiousMoltar4 жыл бұрын

    How the hell was Clive so right about the parachuting thing, and the exact heights too, wtf Also that's amazing that cats can survive any 7+ storey fall. And from planes even, as Stephen mentioned. That is truly amazing.

  • @gazzaclarkson2547

    @gazzaclarkson2547

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not if you shoot the little shites with a shotgun on the way down - that usually seals it for them....

  • @MadcapShambleton

    @MadcapShambleton

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gazzaclarkson2547 It would be so good to say something about your being first up for target practice...

  • @telectronix1368

    @telectronix1368

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure the message was that they can survive 'any' fall above that height, just that it is more likely.

  • @MrWombatty
    @MrWombatty5 жыл бұрын

    Surprised that Alan didn't suggest experimenting with a blue-whale instead of a cow!

  • @billybilodeau1991
    @billybilodeau19913 жыл бұрын

    Had a friend accidentally put his cat in the dryer. The cat had a habit of talking naps in there, he turned on the dryer to fluff some clothes and heard the thumping noise, wondered what it was and opened the door and the cat shot out like a bolt of lightning. The dryer wasn’t on for very long but he said it wasn’t the same after and didn’t live much longer unfortunately.

  • @UncannyXander

    @UncannyXander

    2 жыл бұрын

    :^(

  • @24flyingcats84

    @24flyingcats84

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's horrible, wish I hadn't read that. You do have to look out for cats hanging out in dangerous places. Cats get harmed by being inside cars for example.

  • @kstar1489

    @kstar1489

    Жыл бұрын

    that’s horrible

  • @robsemail
    @robsemail4 жыл бұрын

    I remember the first cat we ever had, a Siamese named Cleo. She was a kitten when she came to our home. I was 7 years old, the eldest of three kids; I had two younger sisters. So this cat was well accustomed to playing with children and was a near constant companion to us. One day, my sisters were walking their dolls in a baby stroller. When they got tired of the stroller and left it in the garage, me and my friends decided to take it out and see if we could use it as a catapult. We thought we could do this by releasing it at the top of a straightaway down a hill, and whatever we put in the carriage part would go flying out when the stroller crashed into the curb at the bottom of the hill. We were trying with things like basketballs or soccer balls and getting nowhere because the whole idea was silly. However, on one of the attempts Cleo suddenly appeared and jumped up on top of the stroller and rode it down the hill, and just at the moment it crashed into the curb she jumped as hard as she could, nearly crossing an entire yard at one leap. She loved it, and so did we! I can remember running in to tell our mother what we'd done, and she was almost ready to punish us for cruelty to the cat, because our description of it sounded horrible. But as soon as we started to move the stroller into position to show her, Cleo jumped right up onto it and did her thing! Cats are fucking weird! Oh and by the way, the new film version of their famous musical will be in cinemas before Christmas. It stars Judi Dench, Idris Elba, James Corden and Jennifer Hudson, et al. Should be fun.

  • @lunaborea

    @lunaborea

    Жыл бұрын

    It was not fun :(

  • @robsemail

    @robsemail

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lunaborea indeed, it was a huge disappointment.

  • @blue.goldfish

    @blue.goldfish

    4 ай бұрын

    Well that didn't age quite so well... I loved reading your recollection of Cloe though!

  • @Shakes-Off-Fear
    @Shakes-Off-Fear Жыл бұрын

    I love Allen trying to pussyfoot around saying ‘Nine lives’ and the Klaxon isn’t having a word of it

  • @danadnauseam
    @danadnauseam4 жыл бұрын

    Actually, there's a slight error in the question about Chairman Mao. Mao, first tone, means cat, but Mao's name was pronounced with the second tone and means hair or fur.

  • @choughed3072
    @choughed30725 жыл бұрын

    Anyone know what Clive was about to say about rabbits?

  • @andrewgalloway7344

    @andrewgalloway7344

    4 жыл бұрын

    their young are known as kittens ..... all i can think he was going to say.

  • @defeqel6537

    @defeqel6537

    4 жыл бұрын

    that they are vicious bastards

  • @egggoboom

    @egggoboom

    3 жыл бұрын

    I thought young rabbits were called coneys.

  • @peterclarke7240

    @peterclarke7240

    3 жыл бұрын

    Only by hobbits.

  • @ellicooper2323

    @ellicooper2323

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@egggoboom no, coney is rabbit, hence Coney Island, island of rabbits. Don’t remember why, look it up.

  • @joshsfox6266
    @joshsfox62664 жыл бұрын

    Those Dogs and Cat look like they're posing for a gig poster for their Beastie Boys tribute act. The Beastie Pets.

  • @timix_au
    @timix_au5 жыл бұрын

    4:51 so what they're telling us is that there's more than one way to spin a cat?

  • @austenhead5303

    @austenhead5303

    5 жыл бұрын

    Man, if the idioms are any indication, humanity has historicaly been a dick to cats.

  • @justincoleman3805

    @justincoleman3805

    4 жыл бұрын

    They know what they did.

  • @zbr76

    @zbr76

    3 жыл бұрын

    If 2020-21 has taught us anything, there are many ways to spin cats - particularly dead ones.

  • @PtolemyJones
    @PtolemyJones5 жыл бұрын

    I was expecting more Jimmy Carr, Rachel Riley and Susie Dent.

  • @typacsk

    @typacsk

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think they tried that once, but it got out of hand...

  • @steve17bf2

    @steve17bf2

    4 жыл бұрын

    you're after 8 out of 10 cats does countdown :)

  • @jaxlaxsurprise

    @jaxlaxsurprise

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@steve17bf2 that's the joke :p. Hence, cats

  • @steve17bf2

    @steve17bf2

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jaxlaxsurprise "I was expecting more Jimmy Carr, Rachel Riley and Susie Dent." What joke?

  • @jaxlaxsurprise

    @jaxlaxsurprise

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@steve17bf2 PtolemyJones was expecting Jimmy, Rachel, and Susie because this video is about cats and they're on Cats Does Countdown.

  • @bakersmileyface
    @bakersmileyface5 жыл бұрын

    Shit I kinda wish I didn't spend that £20 now.

  • @censusgary
    @censusgary5 жыл бұрын

    That story about “cat” coming from the Latin for “dog” is amusing, but it’s wrong. The modern English word “cat” derives from Old English “catt” (male cat) and “catte” (female cat), which in turn come from a proto-Germanic root (*Katzus and *Katon have been hypothesized), which ultimately is probably from a proto-Indo-European root that is most likely also the ancestor of Latin “cattus.”

  • @CX103

    @CX103

    5 жыл бұрын

    Gary Cooper They had something about the half-life of QI facts ages ago, didn’t they? Alan got hundreds of points in compensation.

  • @suzesiviter6083

    @suzesiviter6083

    5 жыл бұрын

    Truth is its very difficult to pin point the origin of most words, therefore most is just educated guesses.

  • @Bhalforii

    @Bhalforii

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tbf your theory is no more valid than theirs

  • @censusgary

    @censusgary

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ghelma : Sure, all my theory (not really mine; I’m just citing it) has going for it is a mountain of documentary evidence and the consensus of thousands of etymologists and lexicographers. Other than that, it’s no better than the cutesy line on the TV show.

  • @bruhmoment1835

    @bruhmoment1835

    4 жыл бұрын

    Katon: Gokakyuu no Jutsu

  • @dashwhatchamakalit
    @dashwhatchamakalit3 жыл бұрын

    Not gonna lie... but when they started about the cloned cat, and the kitten's name CC standing for 'Copy Cat', I legit thought it was CC, like for Email, where it stands for 'Carbon Copy'.

  • @becauseimafan

    @becauseimafan

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol! And it works, as cats are carbon-based life forms! 😆

  • @ohnoitschris
    @ohnoitschris5 жыл бұрын

    4:19 I really like that color combination Stephen's wearing

  • @zooobaaa9314

    @zooobaaa9314

    5 жыл бұрын

    Its ok dude no shame of being colour blind

  • @ohnoitschris

    @ohnoitschris

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@zooobaaa9314 I actually am, hahahahahaha

  • @potmki6601

    @potmki6601

    4 жыл бұрын

    Really?) May I ask, how does is look to you considering it looks good? Like, he is wearing either-blue-or-green with fuxia with bright yellow? Or maybe blue with smth bright with smth light?

  • @dandy-lions5788
    @dandy-lions57884 жыл бұрын

    The Latin for cat is felis. Like feline. "Cat" comes from Proto-Germanic. "Catulus" does mean puppy though, and Roman poet Catullus' name is from there.

  • @blackletter2591
    @blackletter25912 жыл бұрын

    Stephen would prefer that explanation about swinging cats because he doesn't like cats. Neither does Sandy. There's a theme there.

  • @jonntischnabel
    @jonntischnabel2 жыл бұрын

    My cat fell from the 3rd floor, came back 2 days later, uninjured but pregnant 😂

  • @kevinw712

    @kevinw712

    Жыл бұрын

    thank god she landed on that tom cat's dick

  • @lilymarinovic1644

    @lilymarinovic1644

    5 ай бұрын

    Fell on to an obliging male cat perhaps?

  • @Tmanaz480
    @Tmanaz4803 жыл бұрын

    Since the falling cat study was done in the USA, British cats need to subtract one floor.

  • @lostcolonyofkekkoslovakia9451
    @lostcolonyofkekkoslovakia94513 жыл бұрын

    ”And they are it.” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @akamiguelsanchez9985
    @akamiguelsanchez99852 жыл бұрын

    Cats + QI = my internet safe space

  • @Gerry1of1
    @Gerry1of15 жыл бұрын

    "Cattus" means "cat" not "Cattulus" which means "cub" in english. Don't know where the QiElves got "cattulus = dog"

  • @LynxSouth

    @LynxSouth

    5 жыл бұрын

    Stephen said that the Romans used 'cattulus' for puppies, then for dogs.

  • @AtomicWadey27

    @AtomicWadey27

    5 жыл бұрын

    I also thought terminal velocity was generally around 120mph, not 60mph.

  • @Gerry1of1

    @Gerry1of1

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@AtomicWadey27 Terminal Velocity is the maximum velocity an object will achieve without assistance under 1 G. A feather will never reach 120mph on Earth. A cat has a different weight/mass/profile than humans so a different maximum velocity

  • @AtomicWadey27

    @AtomicWadey27

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Gerry1of1 ahhhh OK. That makes sense, thankyou!

  • @falkeps1920

    @falkeps1920

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Gerry1of1 for a human yes its about 120. But terminal velocity differs from object to object due to difference in buoyancy and drag. Now i dont know what the terminal velocity of a cat is so i cant say if they are right when they say its 60 mph but its very likely that it is much different than that of a human

  • @markorollo.
    @markorollo.4 жыл бұрын

    I think my cat (see profile pic) might have channelled the richest cat

  • @meteorrejector
    @meteorrejector4 жыл бұрын

    “a lovely mahogany” i adore him

  • @Brinta3
    @Brinta32 жыл бұрын

    4:28 Hey look it’s Martin Freeman!

  • @slikshot6
    @slikshot64 жыл бұрын

    Chairman Mao isnt the same word for cat. Its a homophone. (猫) is the character for cat, while (毛) is the surname for Mao Zedong, but the latter (毛) is a root word for hair (毛发), or feather (羽毛), and even a unit of money (一毛钱). The two characters are pronounced with different tones.

  • @snowprinceintardis
    @snowprinceintardis3 жыл бұрын

    "...Turkish and arabic it's 6..." well I am Turkish, living in Turkey and I've only ever heard of it as 9.

  • @eyedeasneverdie3348
    @eyedeasneverdie33483 жыл бұрын

    8:26 fuck me, what an unexpected blast of nostalgia!

  • @icturner23
    @icturner233 жыл бұрын

    I wanted to hear Cliive's point about the word 'rabbit'!

  • @slipperyh8390
    @slipperyh83905 жыл бұрын

    01:52 - Because if you pet it right you can really get her purring.

  • @AllonsyRapunzel
    @AllonsyRapunzel5 жыл бұрын

    RIP Grumpy cat. You will live on through the Internet

  • @kpcraftster6580
    @kpcraftster65805 жыл бұрын

    What is the terminal air speed velocity of a tabby cat?

  • @CorvusCorone68

    @CorvusCorone68

    5 жыл бұрын

    i feel like that's something some wizened bridgekeeper would ask a buncha knights, one of whom has a crown on his helmet

  • @kpcraftster6580

    @kpcraftster6580

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@CorvusCorone68 pass!

  • @gamleskalle1

    @gamleskalle1

    5 жыл бұрын

    European or African?

  • @TallSilentGuy

    @TallSilentGuy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Depends what you mean by "terminal".

  • @peterclarke7240

    @peterclarke7240

    3 жыл бұрын

    Blue. No. Pink!

  • @annuvynarawn392
    @annuvynarawn3923 жыл бұрын

    people like cats cats like houses

  • @bjarnenilsson80
    @bjarnenilsson804 жыл бұрын

    The cat was thinking “ well this jub realy went to the dogs, I’ve got to get out of here”

  • @samuelmcgowan2565
    @samuelmcgowan25655 жыл бұрын

    I thought CC would mean Carbon Copy.

  • @JackDManheim
    @JackDManheim5 жыл бұрын

    "The Whole Nine Yards" = an idiom of unknown origin meaning a status of total commitment, or covering all matters related. Apparently it is "The most prominent etymological riddle of our time", and if Wikipedia doesn't hold the answer than there isn't one.

  • @SvenTviking

    @SvenTviking

    5 жыл бұрын

    The best I’ve heard is that the ammunition belts for the .50 machine guns in a P51 Mustang fighter was 9 yards long.

  • @zapkvr

    @zapkvr

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@SvenTviking if that isn't true it should be

  • @TheDatastalker

    @TheDatastalker

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@SvenTviking Damn beat me to it. Pilots that went the Whole Nine Yards literally shot every last round they had before landing.

  • @KenworthW900HG

    @KenworthW900HG

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@SvenTviking The first recorded use of the phrase is from about 30 years before the P51 went into production so a highly unlikely origin unfortunately

  • @mattkennedy9308

    @mattkennedy9308

    5 жыл бұрын

    I thought it was WW1 machine gun belts.

  • @LucSchots
    @LucSchots2 жыл бұрын

    Echoes from Monty Python & the Holy Grail there....

  • @VincentGonzalezVeg
    @VincentGonzalezVeg4 жыл бұрын

    cats like those who give the best scratchies

  • @insaincaldo
    @insaincaldo2 жыл бұрын

    I would have assumed cat calling had something to do with the use of puss, but it started as a term of endearment between friends and family, more akin to calling a little girl kitten. Then later on purse/pocket slang came around for lady parts, then that was twisted back to the pour cat, something warm soft and furry.

  • @samfisher6606
    @samfisher66062 жыл бұрын

    If they do a second compilation, they have to do Alan's cat bit from Series S

  • @user-yv2cz8oj1k
    @user-yv2cz8oj1k4 жыл бұрын

    Now they didn't make it clear if that's a UK or American seventh floor, as in the USA they tend to start with floor one as the ground floor whereas in the UK it would be counted as floor zero.

  • @etrisb

    @etrisb

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good point.

  • @MK-we9sw
    @MK-we9sw2 жыл бұрын

    Cats were called dogulus in Rome 😂

  • @danteeightsix9069
    @danteeightsix90693 жыл бұрын

    Cat's just in the dryer constantly falling landing on the dryer paddles. It's Schrodinger's dryer.

  • @trustjah
    @trustjah5 жыл бұрын

    "Cows. I'd like to see cows"

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage5 жыл бұрын

    For a second there, I was scared to death that a Broadway fan channel has snuck into my subs...

  • @emmad4308

    @emmad4308

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have bad news from the future the Broadway musical is superior to the movie version. The movie version is cursed.

  • @minxythemerciless
    @minxythemerciless2 жыл бұрын

    The Arabic word for Cat is Kat. I suspect the word has deeper origins than suggested as it's unlikely Arabic picked up Kat from Greek or Latin.

  • @trooperdgb9722

    @trooperdgb9722

    5 ай бұрын

    There are a few "common words" in many of the worlds languages...(spelling and pronunciation varies as you would expect) or at least those in Europe and "nearby".... these apparently help philologists to theorise on very early languages of the regions... "Proto-Indo-European" being the wonderful name for one...

  • @earthplusplastics
    @earthplusplastics3 жыл бұрын

    Felis Catus is your taxonomic nomenclature An endothermic quadruped carniverous by nature Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses. I find myself intrigued by your sub-vocal oscillations A singular development of cat communications That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection. A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion Oh Spot, e complex levels of behavior you display Denote a fairly well developed cognitive array And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

  • @legneil
    @legneil4 жыл бұрын

    Cats are better than dogs.

  • @carlfranz6805
    @carlfranz68054 жыл бұрын

    Wait. Alan hasn't met "Grumpy Cat"?

  • @christopherdean1326
    @christopherdean1326 Жыл бұрын

    Is it just me, or is Aisling even MORE gorgeous in glasses? 3:24. I'm an old man, and there's a space at the end of my bed, I'll even make it £30! PM me Aisling!

  • @susannam3923
    @susannam39235 жыл бұрын

    But dog is "canis", isn't it?? That was one of the first things I ever learned in my Latin lessons. "Quintus tacet. Sol ardet. Canis tacet." Quintus is silent, the sun is burning, the dog is silent, I don't remember much else of those six years lol Edit: ohh wait okay they say it means puppy, that's made the world right again

  • @grahamhume5953
    @grahamhume59533 жыл бұрын

    At 4.58, Stephen Fry starts talking about a cat that was cloned and shows a picture of the kitten and the original cat behind him. If clones are supposed to be identical to the original animal, why does the kitten have different markings?

  • @njones420

    @njones420

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's down to the X chromosome carrying the info for the black/orange markings, in female cats you have two (X-X), but only one chromosome of those gets used in each cell...so the fur patterns will always be kind of random. I'm sure epigenetics plays a part too, but that was after I left uni. Pretty sure if it was a male cat (X-Y) it would look identical to the clone.

  • @Frorten
    @FrortenАй бұрын

    I stilll want to know where "the whole nine yards" comes from

  • @Maya_Pinion
    @Maya_Pinion2 жыл бұрын

    " where's your mom?" " Upstairs watching too many hours of that British Jeopardy show,but they can talk dirty and use the F word".....replies the kid. ******* EXACTLY******😁

  • @iceguy9723
    @iceguy97234 жыл бұрын

    The cat falling thing from higher floors is probably survivorship bias.

  • @samfisher6606
    @samfisher66062 жыл бұрын

    Also, doesn't "whole nine yards" come from the nine yards of fabric it takes for a tailor to make a full suit?

  • @brianjones8899

    @brianjones8899

    2 жыл бұрын

    I heard it was from machine gunners in American WW2 bombers. The ammo belt was 9 yards in length.

  • @francaperotti5934
    @francaperotti59344 жыл бұрын

    That cat is like seriously what the fuck people.

  • @atri-us
    @atri-us2 жыл бұрын

    In Turkey cats are said to have nine lives too. Never heard anyone saying six.

  • @prjndigo
    @prjndigo3 жыл бұрын

    Fallacy of the New York study on "floors". Buildings in NYC vary in floor-to-floor height by up to 3 feet, some have "ground" floors, some have first-floors over half-buried basements, some have their "first" floor 16 feet in the air... garbage-in-garbage-out

  • @TheOneWhoMightBe
    @TheOneWhoMightBe5 жыл бұрын

    If Aisling was serious about that I'll make it fourty.

  • @manticorephoenix

    @manticorephoenix

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hell I'd make it fifty five for her to purr every now and then

  • @opheliaismyname9180

    @opheliaismyname9180

    4 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact, I can purr and my friends are obsessed with it

  • @DutchZippy
    @DutchZippy4 жыл бұрын

    7:25 why the hell did we need that apostrophe?

  • @gazzaclarkson2547

    @gazzaclarkson2547

    4 жыл бұрын

    Singular possessive noun. The lap of a cat hater. If you had wanted to say the laps of many cat haters, it would be cat haters'. You're welcome.

  • @bakersmileyface
    @bakersmileyface5 жыл бұрын

    Surprised nobody said "It's raining cats and dogs" with that last one.

  • @robertbruce7686
    @robertbruce76862 жыл бұрын

    Bastet is watching you with malevolence in her heart ("mad f88k ing cat lover").

  • @pseudonayme7717
    @pseudonayme77174 жыл бұрын

    RIP the cameraman, killed by a very cross cat just after that photo was taken 😄

  • @narayana8249
    @narayana82492 жыл бұрын

    As much as I hate to be a pedant… Mao’s name was written 毛澤東, is surname being 毛, which is pronounced máo, with a rising inflection. Mao written this way means “hair” or “fur”. On the other hand, the word for cat is 貓, which is pronounced, as Stephen rightly said, with a high, flat inflection. So really they’re two completely separate words.

  • @jyazman
    @jyazman5 жыл бұрын

    Where did I put that twenty miaow

  • @Steamzombie1838
    @Steamzombie18385 жыл бұрын

    "The whole 9 yards" if I remember correctly comes from anti aircraft guns. They had 9 yards of shells on a belt so if you used of them you gave it the whole 9 yards. I could be wrong, Someone Google it !

  • @CanadaMatt

    @CanadaMatt

    5 жыл бұрын

    Close!...Not ANTI-aircraft guns, but rather the ammo belts in the aircraft guns themselves. A pilot might (for example) say "I gave him the whole 9 yards but he still got away!"

  • @Tmanaz480

    @Tmanaz480

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sigh... google it and you'll find out where is not definitive origin for this phrase, just lots of made up stories.

  • @gazzaclarkson2547

    @gazzaclarkson2547

    4 жыл бұрын

    Somebody posts a comment and suggests people google it? Why not take the time to google it first, then post a comment? And try a book, not google, which is just full of the worthless opinions of plebs.

  • @kashgarinn
    @kashgarinn5 жыл бұрын

    In regards to the 7th floor, the study is a failure in one way, it probably doesn’t account for the fact more cats after the 7th die. This is a study where ‘injured cats’ are treated, i.e. The cat can be saved. Less injurues after the 7th floor means the cats are more likely to die rather than survive with an injury. I have a vague recollection that this was covered either by QI or another youtube video based on hidden statistics.

  • @thomasdevine867
    @thomasdevine8674 жыл бұрын

    I had heard that nine yards was the traditional measure of a shroud.

  • @ljdellar
    @ljdellar3 жыл бұрын

    Why is there a butcher's apostrophe in the klaxon caption "Cat-Hater's"?

  • @ArmitageShanksMC
    @ArmitageShanksMC5 жыл бұрын

    RIP Tardar Sauce

  • @petergaskin1811
    @petergaskin1811 Жыл бұрын

    Does your cat scratch people. No, worse. She judges you.

  • @pillettadoinswartsh4974
    @pillettadoinswartsh49744 жыл бұрын

    People who say they don't like cats, have never had one of their own. So, they should be saying "I don't like other peoples' cats." Once you have one of your own, you will change your mind. Cat #1 - Trafalgar Cat #2 - Maxine Cat #3 - Buster

  • @trueaussie9230
    @trueaussie92302 жыл бұрын

    Aisling, I accept your offer. I've got the 20 quid, cash.

  • @oddpoppetesq.3467
    @oddpoppetesq.34674 жыл бұрын

    4:27 Fry looks like a proper plebian, whats happenin with his hair 😯

  • @petegrimwood8160
    @petegrimwood81602 жыл бұрын

    I wanna know what the rabbit fact was gonna be!

  • @lonnwy
    @lonnwy5 жыл бұрын

    I reckon that the cat looks cross because it is behind Alan Davies's head who likes dogs and not cats, lmao, xxxx

  • @downundanow5569

    @downundanow5569

    3 жыл бұрын

    In an episode of QI Alan talks about taking his 2 cats to the vet. :)

  • @bangbangduck388
    @bangbangduck3882 жыл бұрын

    The first ever air raid siren

  • @charlespeterwatson9051
    @charlespeterwatson90513 жыл бұрын

    4:10 Swinging a dead cat was a superstitious folk remedy that was believed to cure warts.

  • @RetractedandRedacted
    @RetractedandRedacted3 жыл бұрын

    Surely the best floor to throw a cat from to ensure survival is the ground floor.

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