I thought Douglas Corrigan was an experimental archaeologist who wanted to prove that Americans emigrated to Ireland by aircraft and then it appeared to be the other way.
Surely Kerrigan wasn't the would-be cheat in that story. They just used her because the name was similar to Corrigan. *Harding* & Corrigan were the cheats.
Get your facts straight. Tonya Harding did not hit Nancy Kerrigan with a bat. It was her husband's friend who did the deed. Tonya was barred from competition for inspiring them to do that.
IIRC, Lindberg's crossing was notable because it won a large prize for being the first to fly from New York to Paris, which was much further than the Atlantic flights that had been achieved thus far.
I find it really interesting that he just refers to Charles Lindbergh as "a man called Lindbergh". Living in St. Louis, where Lindbergh's from, he's a mythical figure. There's even a high school near here named after him. Does he not carry the same celebrity elsewhere?
He's one of the most famous names in aviation. Most Europeans of Stephen Fry's generation are familiar with him, and I expect he is as well. Stephen might have thought he was referencing a different Lindbergh, or simply phrased the sentence awkwardly.
Disappointed at important facts wrong about Tonya Harding‘s role with Nancy Kerrigan as she did not actually smash Karagen‘s knees, a friend of her husbands did it. Many people feel Tonya Harding was a victim of bad company, and of course ruined her career for the rest of her life. Usually QR is so precise with its fact-finding, do a better job QI!
Saw this clip in recommendations, noticed Sessions in the panel, thought "God, I don't want to watch this with that annoying man... Well, let me give it a try and hope he will be silent and not do an impersonation again." ... :( ... Is that all he does?!?! And what the hell was the connection anyway?
Holy crap those old episodes were excruciatingly unfunny. Armstrong isn't too bad, but Clarkson and Sessions are incessantly insufferable. Glad that nowadays the got much better panelists.
I suppose this is the inspiration for Richard Scarry's Wrong Way Roger. I'd hardly call pretending to be lost 'cheating'. Cheating would be pretending to fly across the Atlantic.
With that brilliant Edward Fox impersonation, John Sessions, you were a gem. RIP
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RIP John Sessions (January 11, 1953 - November 2, 2020), aged 67
You will be remembered as a legend.
'A fleet of berties'😂John Sessions was a comedy genius!
Not a genius - he is reckoned to have always wanted to know what the questions were beforehand when appearing on QI .
I often wondered what the collective noun for Berties was.
A fleet, indeed!
'A fleet of berties'😂John Sessions was a genius!
RIP John Sessions.
Damn he was funny lol.
They have both been the subject of a QI segment in Series C episode 4
Dear Johnny Sessions, you were a star x
I thought Douglas Corrigan was an experimental archaeologist who wanted to prove that Americans emigrated to Ireland by aircraft and then it appeared to be the other way.
No it was indeed because he flew supposedly the wrong way.
Surely Kerrigan wasn't the would-be cheat in that story. They just used her because the name was similar to Corrigan. *Harding* & Corrigan were the cheats.
I think the connection is cheating in general.
Yes lol the only way a person could misunderstand that would be if they didn't actually listen to anything they say in the video.
@@theKeshaWarrior What did they say in the video?
Also Harding was later shown to have no previous knowledge of the attack and definitely wasnt a cheat, but by then the myth had cemented itself
Wasn't it Harding's boyfriend?
The origin of Gilligan's Island character, Wrong-way Feldman.
I for one LOVE John Session's impersonations.
He does a very good Alan Rickman.
And he never fails to bring it up.
Me too.
Same here. Wish he was on panel shows more often.
* Sessions'
Both are known for skating on thin ice?
‘A fleet of Berties’ is the best description of gay men I’ve ever heard 😂
I was going to say that maybe their names were cognates from an old Irish lineage. So maybe they were related somewhere distantly.
That's an extremely tenuous connection...
Did Tonya cheat, or was it her associates? The film suggests Tonya Harding was a victim here. Not that a movie ever gets details wrong of course.
Get your facts straight. Tonya Harding did not hit Nancy Kerrigan with a bat. It was her husband's friend who did the deed. Tonya was barred from competition for inspiring them to do that.
Wasn’t Harding.
Just for the record, and especially Americans, there were 27 Atlantic non-stop crossings before Lindberg.
That's one hell of a bad case of indecisiveness.
IIRC, Lindberg's crossing was notable because it won a large prize for being the first to fly from New York to Paris, which was much further than the Atlantic flights that had been achieved thus far.
While I knew there were other flights, I thought his was famous because it was the first solo flight.
A great many people crossed the Atlantic before Lindbergh did. His ancestors came from Europe.
He was just the first one to cross alone, by air.
Either way he would have crossed. The answer is in where he landed.
So, what is the connection? Nancy didn't cheat. Corrigan didn't break a leg. I don't get it.
What made Wrong-Way Corrigan a cheater? That implies he broke some sort of sporting rule, when he didn't seem to here.
I missed the punchline, anyone care to explain?
Fleet of Berties means a bunch of homosexuals.
Ok, thanks, now it makes sense.
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I find it really interesting that he just refers to Charles Lindbergh as "a man called Lindbergh". Living in St. Louis, where Lindbergh's from, he's a mythical figure. There's even a high school near here named after him. Does he not carry the same celebrity elsewhere?
He's one of the most famous names in aviation. Most Europeans of Stephen Fry's generation are familiar with him, and I expect he is as well. Stephen might have thought he was referencing a different Lindbergh, or simply phrased the sentence awkwardly.
I believe he was making a bit of a comical understatement, like when one says " a certain bloke named Jackson" when referring to Michael.
Or you might say, "There was this woman in Britain a while ago named Diana . . . "
San Diego International Airport is called Lindbergh Field. I believe thew Spirit of St Louis was made there...
Lindbergh is most famous in the UK for being a racist anti Semite who was chummy with Hitler in the 30s... why would you name a school after the guy?
Disappointed at important facts wrong about Tonya Harding‘s role with Nancy Kerrigan as she did not actually smash Karagen‘s knees, a friend of her husbands did it. Many people feel Tonya Harding was a victim of bad company, and of course ruined her career for the rest of her life. Usually QR is so precise with its fact-finding, do a better job QI!
lgwest411 this was over 10 years ago at least
QR? Oh the irony.
@@tomwithey711 QR=Question Researchers
@@nayrecitsuj7426nice try but in that case it would have read ‘the QR are’ so you can pick your cock up on the abbreviation or the grammar.
no wonder there are no comments
sometimes the English accents make me go "what?"
what?
Then that's nothing to do with any accent. Would've been worse if they spoke with really noticeable accents, wouldn't it.
you have never been to Glasgow, have you ?
I fail to understand the connection. If the connection was cheating, they should have put Tonya Harding's pic over there.
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Tonya Harding did not smash her legs in. At worst she was adjacent to the plan to do it. Feel like QI should probably get it's facts straight.
Lesha "adjacent to the plan to do it."
so you were there? you saw and heard all the details first hand?
It's 15 years old
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Saw this clip in recommendations, noticed Sessions in the panel, thought "God, I don't want to watch this with that annoying man... Well, let me give it a try and hope he will be silent and not do an impersonation again."
... :( ...
Is that all he does?!?!
And what the hell was the connection anyway?
Sessions is thought to be the panellist who always wanted to know what the questions were in advance so he could 'know' the answer.
Holy crap those old episodes were excruciatingly unfunny. Armstrong isn't too bad, but Clarkson and Sessions are incessantly insufferable. Glad that nowadays the got much better panelists.
Seriously man. And thank god they did away with all-male panels for these things. It was such a boys club. Early QI has not aged well.
Lighten the fuck up dudes
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I suppose this is the inspiration for Richard Scarry's Wrong Way Roger.
I'd hardly call pretending to be lost 'cheating'. Cheating would be pretending to fly across the Atlantic.