RE: Red Telephones On the TV show Stargate SG-1, General Hammond has a red phone on his desk, and in one episode uses it to try and reach the President, but obviously a lackey is fielding the calls and is reticent to put the call through, and General Hammond bellows at them _"Son do you know what colour this telephone is?"_ Which i think is both brilliant and funny
They didn't speak Navajo they used Navajo words to encode messages. So even if you understood Navajo it would be gibberish it was just an extra layer of security.
Not to forget Beatrice Shilling who invented an easily installed orifice device that allowed Spitfires to perform negative G dives, without the carburetted engines cutting out. Lifesaver!!
An old bank in St Augustine, FL closed down and was turned into an event venue - the vault safe was made into a small bar, which is pretty cool, but I got a good chuckle out of the way they explained that the wine glass wrack above the bartop is held up by very strong magnets, because their first attempt of drilling up into the vault ceiling to install mounting hardware completely failed... 😅😅
The story of the women who delivered planes during the war is fascinating. They could fly anything - Lancasters, mosquitoes, hurricanes, you name it. And often without the navigation and radio equipment installed. Too secret or something. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transport_Auxiliary
@18min I know it was war rather than spying, but it's kind of a travesty they didn't mention the Navajo code talkers. The military recruited a bunch of Navajo tribe members to translate the messages into their language because there was absolutely zero chance of the Japanese figuring it out.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH JAMES GOT THE LAST LAUGH. That head nod at the end.
RE: Red Telephones
On the TV show Stargate SG-1, General Hammond has a red phone on his desk, and in one episode uses it to try and reach the President, but obviously a lackey is fielding the calls and is reticent to put the call through, and General Hammond bellows at them _"Son do you know what colour this telephone is?"_
Which i think is both brilliant and funny
James Acaster
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All show and topped off with "props to who ever is on sound duties"❤❤❤
Daliso has only had a few appearances yet, but he really feels like a regular already
I love chaliso ❤
I want to see him go anecdote-for-anecdote with Gyles Brandreth.
@@Mare416They'll turn out to be cousins
I really wish I could watch/listen to these with the klaxons removed. I like to listen going to sleep and it’s like an alarm every few minutes
The man they met at Weatherspoon's was a shepherd's spy.
18:03 the US used "code talkers" in WW2. Native Americans who spoke Navajo over the radio to each other.
They didn't speak Navajo they used Navajo words to encode messages. So even if you understood Navajo it would be gibberish it was just an extra layer of security.
@@kylekinsey2624Also Navajo is one of the few languages without any analogues, so you either know it or you don't, there's no guessing
Not to forget Beatrice Shilling who invented an easily installed orifice device that allowed Spitfires
to perform negative G dives, without the carburetted engines cutting out. Lifesaver!!
Feedback: could you please include the episode title on your QI vid listings, in preference to eg. Season S, ep 1?
They truly we astonishing women ❤❤❤❤
I love how over qualified Daliso is about spying and secrets😂😂
An old bank in St Augustine, FL closed down and was turned into an event venue - the vault safe was made into a small bar, which is pretty cool, but I got a good chuckle out of the way they explained that the wine glass wrack above the bartop is held up by very strong magnets, because their first attempt of drilling up into the vault ceiling to install mounting hardware completely failed... 😅😅
We named this plane after our son, “Adopted”.
I read a theory that Bond ordered his martinis shaken to dilute the alcohol but still give the appearance he was drinking on pace with others.
The story of the women who delivered planes during the war is fascinating. They could fly anything - Lancasters, mosquitoes, hurricanes, you name it. And often without the navigation and radio equipment installed. Too secret or something.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transport_Auxiliary
Hardest thing about hiding your secret message in a musical score is writing it only using letters from a to g
You can triple the letters by simply adding a sharp or a flat.
Depends on the code.
But you can write CABBAGE which has always amused me
This actually gave the Germans an advantage during the war, because they were able to go all the way up to H.
@@headlessnotahorseman there's all sorts of notation and such on sheet music and the code wouldn't be as simple as just transposing the notes.
Small correction. It was in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, not the state of Delaware.
Why did Sandi put gloves on to open James’ briefcase?
Covid times probably
@18min I know it was war rather than spying, but it's kind of a travesty they didn't mention the Navajo code talkers. The military recruited a bunch of Navajo tribe members to translate the messages into their language because there was absolutely zero chance of the Japanese figuring it out.
It is indeed outrageous that a British show omits this tidbit of historic information from the US military.
Ninja's never existed.
Ninjas... ninja's is possessive, is it that one ninja that owns a never existed?😂
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Cariad Lloyd is so irritating and all her comments neither witty nor funny
Oh I'm glad I'm not the only one.
So there's two of you. Big whoop,@@butterflydiva72 !
Yep
I find her both annoying and sometimes she is interesting.. but she "is high maintenance" on the panel. 😂