"Blimey I've Got One Testicle"

One of these days that phone thing will happen to somebody traveling to Australia: "I've arrived down under, IS very hot here, but not as bad as I'd thought".

I would watch an entire show of Bill making up what some random acronyms mean

For some reason Bill Bailey saying "I'm going out tomorrow" is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I can't stop rewinding to that point.

"Blimey, I've got owls turned!" 😂

That phone thing did happen, there was a woman who would text her Grandma every Sunday and kept doing it after she died, to remember her. Eventually the phone company recycled the number and the new owner of it messaged her back saying something along the lines of 'please stop messaging me', and she understandably got the shock of her life.

Beware! I've got one trouser!

My great-grandfather was on the BIGOT list. He had soldiers stationed outside his room, as he was scared he might talk about it in his sleep...

A neighbour of mine passed away a few months back, a couple of days before te funeral I got a call and the caller ID said it was her. Bravely I answered and it was her daughter going through her contacts telling people of her passing.

Tim Minchin should do QI more. He's always good value on a panel show.

I can one up that. I was in a supermarket once and thought I saw my mate Rob. I said "Heya Rob. Long time no see!" He said "Heya Matt, Yeah its been about 5 years" The plot twist is we had never met until this point. However we both had friends called the same names who looked at least vaguely similar to each other. I did a lottery ticket that day, didn't win a thing!! Thus disproving luck and and glitches as conformational bias.

Halfway through the clip I caught myself thinking "that colour combo Stephen is sporting is brilliant". Couldn't take my eyes off his suit for the rest of it. :D

Operation Mincemeat "The Man Who Never Was" related to the 1943 invasion of Sicily and had nothing to do with Normandy

Bigot was also the code name of an obscure weapon used by the OSS, essentially a silent m1911 pistol firing a large dart with deploying fins instead of a bullet.

Eddie Chapman, Agent Zigzag, was an interesting guy. A conman, member of a bank robbing crew, and double agent. He played both sides until it was obvious who would win.

What Part Did BIGOTS Play In WWII? They bloody started it. That's what.

That thing with a dead relative calling happened in Sweden. A girl had her "grandma" answer her texts.

I cannot delete my great-grandmother's phone number and she's been gone since 2013. Every now and then her name will pop up while I'm searching my contacts and it's bittersweet moment. I miss her and it's nice to see her name.

Did Stephen sit in that position at 3:25 so we could appreciate how he has color coordinated his outfit with the watch matching the tie. Beautiful colour combination tho.

My great-grandmother had two SIM cards, and whenever we used to visit the country they lived in, my mum would borrow the spare SIM card and use it in her own phone. We visited about 2 months after my great-grandmother died and whilst out, naturally with the spare SIM card, my mum decided to phone my grandfather. He nearly had a heart attack, when his Caller ID told him his late mother is calling!

Love that norm got this far, “the more I hear about him...” (it was clearly an homage)

Tim and Bill are like "before" and "after".

That tweet business just reminded me of Black Mirror.

Some people have added a few times a number has been recycled but I'll add another I read: A woman's son died in Afghanistan. Every now and then she'd text his number saying she loved him and missed him. One day she got a call back from another soldier who got the number when it was recycled. If I recall correctly he treats her like another mom now and they stay in contact.

The dead person ringing/texting back has happen a couple times now due to numbers being reused. I read online a woman who kept texting her brothers number after he’d died as if he was still there, and after a while someone replied. Luckily If I remember right, the person on the other end thought it was sweet and said they’d leave them to it. Correct me if I’m wrong, it’s just an article I half remember.

Jesus, that's one part of getting old I hadn't thought about

I have a Welsh friend from Llanberis who was absolutely baffled when I mentioned a "flannel" to him one day. Turns out, there is no Welsh word for flannel, and he had never heard the English of it either lol. Whenever I hear the word now I can still hear his voice - "Flan-Nell? What the Fyuck is Flan-Nell?"

The AC/DC song "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" has the line "just ring three six two four three six, I lead a life of crime" with hilarious results.

No joke, that happened to my mom. Mind you, my dad probably hadn't used his cell in years so it could have been long recycled before he died, but about a year after he passed, 'bert cell' comes up on the caller id and scares the ghost out of my mom. She called me and my brother right after it happened.

Keeping the details of departed friends in my (computer) address book brings nice memories when I encounter them. Their names, not bodies.

My understanding of Bigot, from reading various memoirs of people who worked on Enigma and the other codes, was that it refers to people who had access to the Ultra decodes. These were the highest level of security and involved the Lorenz encryption for which the Colossus computers were used. The Lorenz system was used by the German High Command, so was mainly between Hitler and the senior command in Berlin, and the Theatre Commanders. The very highest level stuff, so handled with extreme care. One of the memoirs said that the reason this was chosen was simple but fiendishly clever. You could ask someone, "Are you Bigoted?" If they knew what you meant they could safely say yes. If not they would get angry!

Dobby!

Glad to see that someone (binaway) has already pointed out that Stephen Fry was talking compete twaddle re. The Man Who Never Was. Not for the first time!

That service the lady was describing, they made a Black Mirror episode out of it didn; they?

I still have the number of a friend who worked in the parish office on my phone for that exact reason. Sure enough someone called me from the parish office on that number about 3 years after they passed away. It was a little startling...

I totally understand being sentimental and not having the heart to remove people who have passed away from your address book. My mum has been gone 4 years and her number is still in my cell phone. And a friend as well. Also there are many people who are still in my paper address book that have long since passed.

Baby I've Got Outrageous Testies

I honestly thought this was the 1911 handgun dart modification. Also entitled Bigot. How interesting

the dobster! leaving mark was good for her, she looks great

Tim is the only Australian comic who works well on QI...

I keep old contacts for the more practical reason that I may want their old address at some point to label family photos, or similar.

The phone thing actually happened to my daughter after her mom died. A couple of years later on October 31st, she received a phone call from her mom's phone number.

George Carlin once raised the subject of "When is the right time to delete a dead friend from your contact list?" in one of his stand up shows. He concluded that one month after death was the appropriate time window.

Tim Minchin is awesome

Anyone know what the name was of that service she described?

On the last bit about recycled phone numbers. Recently a story on Reddit surfaced and gained popularity. A man bought a new phone and got a new phone number, after a few months he got a phone call from a unknown number and when he answered he asked who was calling him. A man replied: "...oh excuse me, this was my wife's number when she was alive and I make a call to her number on her birthday every year. I guess they recycled her number now, I apologize and I won't call again. Have a blessed life." How sad is that?

Op Mincemeat was in connection with the 1943 invasion of Sicily, not Normandy 1944.

Isy Suttie is a very funny person. Not to mention so very cute ^_^

Did anyone else think that Churchill looked like captain birdseye in that photo.

Shouldn't there be periods between the letters

who were the other 2 panelists apart from bill bailey and allan

QI Please could you give the date of transmission -- your followers are often the type of people who NEED TO KNOW such things -- rather than the appropriate letter of the alphabet. The latter leaves us (I speak for multitudes) to work out the likely year, when often we're trying to wind down before hitting the hay. If there's a BBC policy banning such disclosures, please let us know and we can apply under FOI provisions. Not that we're over-concerned with trivia...

It's Dobby!

I actually got missed call on my phone a few months ago from the number of a guy I went to school with but he died 15 years ago

Mincemeat which might have been the idea of one Lt. Commander I. Fleming

Happenned to me - got texts twice from a flatmate i'd been at the funeral of asking me to get in touch --- pretty sure it was a phone glitch but....

Speaking of odd coincidences with the phone... I worked at a barber shop and had a co-worker named "Victory" who was married to one of the other barbers in our shop. One day, when she was off, I got a phone call on my cellphone from a phone number nearly identical to my own off by one or two numbers and a different area code (and this turned out to not be a spoofed number, as I'll explain). The person on the other end asked for "Victory". I, very confusedly explained that she wasn't here today, but I could take a message. I then asked if they wanted to speak to Victory's husband, who was present... and that's when the person on the other end of the phone became confused and told me... "But Victory isn't married." Victory's husband then asked why someone was calling me on my cellphone asking for his wife? It was odd, to say the least. As it turned out, the person had called my number by mistake and had in fact been trying to call a third number, which was exactly identical to my own, except with a different area code. They were trying to reach a person named Victory, who worked as a baker in a bakery in another part of the state. Only to prove this wasn't part of some bizarre practical joke, I asked for the area code to the bakery, which I then called... a very confused woman named Victory answered, perplexed that my phone number was identical to her own except for the area code. And so I explained to her what had just happened and the reason for my interest in contacting her. It was one of the wildest coincidences I've ever experienced in that, someone trying to call a woman with a very uncommon name, managed to reach a different person at that person's exact 7 digit phone number, but who also worked with a different woman with the same uncommon name as the person they were trying to reach.

Does anyone know the name/website/etc. of the service Isy mentioned? Very curious. My family disowned me years ago, so it might be smart to have a trusted friend have access and control over public things like that. (Not a suicide risk, just chronically ill and live alone-no worries just yet.)

Bugger, I've Got One Testicle

I once had an instance where a person I knew got a new phone number and the old phone number accidentally called me randomly. Different phone and everything, and I still had the number in my contacts. So it was confusing.

When I was in university I had a job selling season ticket subscriptions for a Toronto theatre company, phoning people up from a list. I remember calling this one number and the sweet old lady who answered said, "oh, no dear, he (her husband) died a few months ago." I gave my sympathies and apologized for bothering her. She asked why I was calling and so I explained. She said that it was her and her friends who always went to the theatre and that she had just put her previous purchase on her late husband's credit card. She went ahead and bought a new subscription. Geez, now that I think about it, I hope I let somebody know so that the next year somebody didn't call again, asking for the dead guy.

There was a dart gun made by the OSS during ww2 called the BIGOT. Thought that was what they meant lmao.

Yesterday. It's wednesday in Australia

Tim!! 😊❤️❤️

Be In Greece On Time Bears, In Greenery, Open Teeth Beat It, George Or Tim Brandy Is Great Over Time

My very best friend in the whole world, even my wife acknowledged her as my 'Very Besty', passed away a few years ago wayyyy too young, I am still so upset I haven't been to her grave. I got a phone call from a delivery driver (I work in Warehousing) saying ('Caroline first other Wife') she's on the phone. Honestly, I will a) never forget it, b) Treasure the feeling I got for a split second, c) Be one of the first normal folk on the planet to own a Quantum computer and get wayyyy ahead of those odds. I think the odds in this case would have taken a really good current computer about 18 years to work out. A Quantum Computer can predict it in 6 minutes.

THEY STARTED IT!!

I actually had that happen to me (passed friend's phone number got recycled) except it was in snapchat. They did years before snapchat and I still had their phone number. When I first got snapchat, I added them because fuck it why not. It was fucking weird when I got a notification saying they'd added me and even weirder the first time the phone number's new owner sent me snapchats.

It’s been said before, obviously, but QI was so much better with Stephen Fry. It’s why I watched.

I like the way in which Bill Bailey laughs off general public opinion.... Even if he talks about Hitler. He's like: people will repeat whatever, because it's currently popular...

The day before my nan's funeral, my cousins sent me a text message from my nans mobile phone, "See you tomorrow"

Two weeks after my mom died, I got a text message from her that said, "How you been?" I about crapped myself. Ended up that my brother had started using her phone. I changed the name for that number super quick.

Beware I've got one testicle!!

is that dobby?

Beauty, I've Got Over Tuberculosis.

Tweet: I qlways sayed I am dead on the inside....now I am on the outside aswell. 😂

Why is dobby on Qi?

Who is she? She reminds me of professor Brian Cox, the way she talks and smiles.

B.I.G.O.T.'S= British Invasion of German Occupied Territories in WW2. Very very interesting as usual.

Bruv, Is Garry On Tv?

It would be pronunced 'Bye-Got' since there is only one 'G' in it. With a short vowel the 'G' gets doubled.

I thought he was the guy from korn.. 😂

Anyone else notice the dead twitter accounts are like headmasters portraits in Harry Potter?

Weird story. That's how I got my flatmate. She called me and it came up as my father's telephone number. She is the best flatmate I have ever had.

I know a couple of people whose email addresses still start with the name of their spouse who has passed away. Always gives me a real start when they email me.

Pity operation mincemeat had nothing to do with the invasion of Normandy in 44, it about invading Sicily in 43. Supposedly according to the Film the man that never was he was given Welsh citizenship, he was supposedly Scottish.

To be fair it would be a difficult task to give the PM a bollocking.

Isy Suttie is gorgeous.

Wouldn't want to attack a machine gun nest without my stick!

Surely when someone dies, a close friend or relative will just use his phone as he will no longer need it.

Sure enough, there was a woman who texted her dead son as a grief coping mechanism and received a message back. The number had been reallocated.

The man who never was deception was for the Sicily landings, not Normandy.

They annexed the Sudetenland?

Are my eyes going weird or is movement in this video liney and strange?

So to recap, if anyone calls you a bigot you reply "ah yes I was part of the British Invasion of German Occupied Territory, thanks for noticing"

There is a facebook page which gives daily updates on Michael Jackson's health. Bill Bailey predicting the future here.

After my Mother died, I had the old family phone number transferred to my mobile, so now whenever I call my brother, his caller ID says "It's Mom".

Or you get a phone, phone someone you know, but the new number you have, is the old number of a contact that died of the person you're calling.

Oh I thought BIGOTS meant Big Illusive Girls Only Translate Swedish.

That woman looks like Gary Lineker's little sister.