"Hello, and welcome to QI, where fools rush in, and angels suddenly remember they have a prior engagement." "Tonight, I'm delighted to welcome four people who make the three wise monkeys look like they might have been a better bet, quite honestly." "They are:" "Rich Hall ..." "Julia Morris ..." "Peter Serafinowicz ..." "and Alan Davis." "And unlike the aforementioned monkeys, all our contestants are willing and able to make a noise." "Rich goes:" "Julia goes:" "Peter goes:" "And Alan goes:" "And I go like a belt-fed mortar." "Now, the rules are simple:" "Points are given, and points are taken away." "They're taken away for answers that are both obvious and wrong, and they're given not so much for being correct as for being interesting." "Their level of interestingness is impartially determined by a demographically-selected customer service focus consultancy, broken down by age and sex... . i.e.,me ." "Because there is no one more broken down by age and sex than me." "So. "Aviation", ladies and gentlemen." "In the words of John F. Kennedy," ""All men can fly, but sadly, in only one direction."" "For those of you who are nervous of flying, here's something quite interesting." "Nobody really understands why aircraft stay up in the air." "There are five leading rival theories of aerodynamics, none of which precisely agrees with any other." "Fortunately, it doesn't really matter." "Automatic control systems on modern airliners are so sophisticated, it's said that by the year 2010, today's flight deck crew of three will be replaced by a single human pilot and a dog." "The job of the pilot will be to feed the dog." "The dog is there to bite the pilot if he tries to touch anything." "So, fingers on the buzzers, please, to start this round on "air travel"." "So." "Who invented the aeroplane?" "It's ..." "OrvilleandWilburWright." "Oh, I'm sorry to say..." "I'm very sorry to say...that that is the wrong answer." "Is it the Wrong Brothers?" "It's not the Wrong Brothers." "Very good, Peter." "Thank you very much." "No..." "John Stringfellow of Chard, in Sommerset, successfully flew the first engine-powered aeroplane in 1848." "It was a model aeroplane, but it was an aeroplane." "It went quite a long way." "The Wright Brothers, from your lovely country of the United States of so on... they flew for less than 12 seconds, a journey that, actually, would have covered less than half the wingspan of of a Boeing jumbo jet, Orville and Wilbur." "What about the hot-air balloon?" "Hot-air balloon, I think, is usually ceded to the Montgolfier brothers, isn't it?" "I would think that that would have been before the plane." "It was, it was." "It was in the 18th century." "Yeah, but didn't the Chinese invent the hot-air balloon in, like, six..." "Stop harping on about the Wrong Brothers." "Well...the Chinese invented a lot of things." "We may, indeed... we may, indeed, come to some of the Chinese inventions later on in the programme." "Darts..." "Football." "And, of course, china." "It sounds" "Ceramics." "it sounds odd, but it's true." "What struck me about your statement was that he was from a place called "Chard"." "Chard"." "It's not-- That sounds like the kind of town you'd want to get away from in a plane. "Charred"." "Yes." "He did run away, and he moved to the village of "Badly Burned", in Dorset." "Well, I.." "Let's hear it for good old Stringfellow, then." "So, the next question is:" "Why would anyone have" ""mad, bad, fat, sad old git" on their luggage?" "Who wants to answer that?" "Yeah." "They would have a very dodgy travel agent." "A rude travel agent." "Who would have been trying to get them from Madrid- -via Baden-Baden" "Oh, we've got "MAD, BAD"..." "Well, you've..." "I'll have to give you five for that, there...for getting the, the thrust of it, because the answer is that they are all airport luggage codes, which means they would recently, in fact, have visited" "Madrid, which is "MAD"; "Bose-i-er" City, Louisiana, which is "BAD"" "You're from Louisiana, aren't you?" "It's called Bossier City." "Bossier!" "I beg its appalling and insignificant pardon" "[Cajun accent] They all talk like, "Yeah, dat's..." "Bossier City." "Bossier City." "They've got their own" ""Yeah, oh, yeah." "Dat right." "Get that right, boy."" "Cajun." "It's a very Cajun city." "It's hard to imagine someone from Bossier City becoming a professor of Fine Arts, isn't it?" "Oh, no, you wouldn't see that." "'Cause..." "It is an odd thing, but, I mean, if you wanted to talk about, you know, Watteau, or Corbiere, or something" ""Water?" "Yeah, dat... we talk 'bout water; they got a crab dere..."" "There are certain accents where you wouldn't believe someone, would you?" "Saying, you know...say [with American southern, but not particularly Cajun, accent], [with American southern, but not particularly Cajun, accent], "I think 'e was a fabulus paint'r;" "'is use of light was amazin'--" You just...wouldn't, sort-of, buy it, would you?" "No, no, you wouldn't." "It's hard to have any credibility in the South if you unless you do anything other than play a washboard with spoons." "Yeah." "Which is an art, in itself." "Yeah." "Absolutely." "Yeah." "So, we've got Fresno, California is "FAT", for some strange reason." "and Safford, Arizona is "SAD", S-A-D-- Aw." "Old Town, Maine, is "OLD"and Geita, Tanzania, is "GIT"." "There are almost 19,500 airports around the world, and every single one of them has one of these three-letter luggage, appellations." "So the short code for Butler, Missouri, for example, is "BUM"" "Sioux City is "SUX" and, I hesitate to mention, Fukuoka in Japan, but...well, I can mention it, because it's not what you think." "It's actually "FUK"." "Julia." "Julia." "What are Madonna's plans for the prettiest airport in the world?" "Oh, my God!" "..." "The story is, she goes to the airport, which is exciting in itself, and then, she meets a baggage handler, and so she's the wealthy one, he's the poor one; he thinks she's a bit cross, and she's just a bit grumpy the whole time." "And then, something happens, and the airport's sort-of closed, and they're just stranded together, like, in baggage section, and then, she falls in love with him and becomes his slave, and then she decides that she wants to redecorate the airport" "and make it the prettiest airport in the world..." "And then, it went straight to video, because Guy directed it, but... it's gonna be a lot of fun!" "Guy, who is..who can, in his own way, I suppose...can be called a baggage handler." "Very much so." "Well, no, I'll tell you the answer, then." "She's about to buy it, and shut it down." "Compton Abbas Airfield in Dorsett." "It's high on the rolling grasslands of" "Cramborne Chase, an area of outstanding natural beauty, and it's Madonna's weekend place." "Will it be disturbing her view of shooting all those birds and stuff that they shoot on the weekend?" "I think...yeah, it's the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows," "I think, is putting her off her stroke." "We know what her..." "We know what her airline would be called." ""Like a Virgin Airways", wouldn't it?" "Sorry about that." "It's just..." "I'm just showing off that I've heard of a pop song, and I'm very excited." "Good." "So." "Moving on." "The largest aircraft carrier in the world is the USS Abraham Lincoln." "It has a deck area of 4 1/2 acres, and is the world's largest vehicle of any kind." "What is the name of the world's smallest aircraft carrier?" "Oh, yes?" "Hi!" "Is it called the HMS?" "No, thank you...if you're...if you're trying to get your own back" "There's nothing clever about large aircraft carriers." "Nothing clever at all." "If you Americans make things that are very, very big;" "Which nation makes things that are very, very, very, very, very, very small?" "Japanese." "Right." "Japane-..." "Thank you, yes." "Japanese." "I apologize to everybody Japanese watching." "Any thoughts?" "It's..." "A bonsai carrier?" "It's ..." "Ifyoulike!" "Tiny, tiny little bonsai carrier..." "Sukoshi nihongo hanashimasu." "Watashi wa Julia-chan wa shigoto a Hokkaido desu ne." "Well, that's gotta be worth five points!" "Can you tell us what that means?" "Oh, I just said that my name is Julia, and I used to llive and work on the northern island of Japan called Hokkaido." "Very good, indeed!" "I know!" "Very good." "Good milk!" "I didn't..." "Really?" "They've got really good milk, because they've got really good grass up on the northern island of Japan." "The cows are getting no credit there, at all." "I know." ""We're doing all the work, here!" "No, it's the grass."" ""Oh, please..." "Really." "As if I'm not involved." There's a little bit more to it than that!" "But I always understood that the Japanese..." "One of the things they found most repulsive about us was that we smelt of dairy products." "We thought they smellt of fish, and they thought we smellt of sour milk and, sort-of things...'cause they...we don't smell it in each other because we're so used to the smell of" "fermented sort-of, curds, and things..." "Yeah." "Yeah, now I can see what you mean." "Yes, you see?" "The smallest aircraft carrier in the world is actually the Mitsubishi Shogun, as it's known in this country, although around the rest of the world, it's known as the Pajero, except in Spain, where "pajero" means one who" "...who fiddles with himself for sexual pleasure." "He looks like a pajero in the seat." "Even as we speak, he..." ""This joystick is incredibly close to my genitalia..."" "Oh, dear." "And.." "He'll never get out of there, will he?" "They'll have to get some butter in." "Then we'll have the last laugh." "He will smell of dairy products!" "It doesn't float, but it has a twin engine, it's a one-man, well, what they call a Cri-cri stunt aircraft, and it can take off from its specially-adapted roof by catapult." "It was first demonstrated by Tim Senior of the British-- thank you, AeroSuperBatics team in 1997." "Superbatics!" ""Superbatics" is better than any other "-batics"." "Than "Normalbatics"." "Oh, yeah." "Now, lastly:" "Was it a good idea for airlines to ban smoking?" "Yeah, probably was." "Why would you say that?" "Oh, you know." "It would...they stunk up the place." "No, that's not true." "Although I suppose if you looked at it on paper, no, they probably would be doing better financially if they hadn't banned smoking." "No...that's not true, neither." "Well, what the fuck do I know?" "!" "I don't even know who invented the plane!" "I don't even know why you're talking to me!" "I have nipples, Steve." "Can you milk me?" ""Was it bad idea?"" "Well, the question is..." "It was almost certainly a bad idea..." "It was a lousy idea, in fact, 'cause when smoking was allowed, the cabin air was completely replaced with fresh air every three minutes, and now, the airlines save money...they save up to 6% of their fuel bills" "by using a mixture of fresh and recycled air-- And SARS." "yeah...using under half the amount of fresh air needed for comfort;" "increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the cabin; causing dizziness, and nausea, and allowing viruses to thrive." "Passengers think that, because they can't smell smoke, the air is fresher." "This is not so." "Apart from anything else, it has dramatically increased the number of air rage incidents." "One of the earliest reported incidents of air rage involved a passenger in first class, probably trying to take his mind off cigarettes, by drinking too much, and he was refused another drink, and so he decided to lodge his displeasure," "and shat on top of the food trolley." "So this is why I was a little sharp with you, Rich, because on a financial level, they've actually made money-- Yeah." "and so, in that sense, you might say if you're a shareholder, it's a reasonably good idea..." "Right." "but it's a bad idea because the health of the passenger suffers enormously as a result of this." "Unless small fires..." "So, let people smoke; the air gets scrubbed much better;" "people are in a better mood all around, and everything is increased." "And then your taste buds are shot, so you can actually eat shit for food." "You can." "So, with all that in mind, I would urge you to follow this advice from" "Hermione Gingold on the subject of airline meals." ""Anything that's white is sweet; anything that's brown is meat;" "anything that's grey, don't eat." There we are." "QI makes the modest claim that even the dullest things can be quite interesting if looked at in the right way." "We take this challenge seriously enough to dedicate the next round to the apparently-tedious subject of "Alans"." "And not only dull, but quite possibly obsolete." "Alan was the eighth-most popular male name in England in 1944, but crashed..." "It crashed out of the top hundred four years ago; shows no sign of returning." "Is it because people have realised it's an anagram of "anal"?" "So, Alan." "I should ask you:" "Where do most of the world's Alans hang out?" "Live." "Where is "Alan" the most popular name?" "If you like, yes." ""Aland"!" "Yes!" "Very good." ""A land"" "That's gotta be worth five of somebody's points." "called "Alan"." "I bought a CD the other day by someone called Alana Davis." "Oh, really?" "Just because it looked a bit like my name." "Isn't that pathetic?" "Well, there's Alanis Morissette, isn't there?" "I bought that as well." "Did you buy that one as well?" ""Alan is Morris." "Ette."" "Morris-ette." "The tiny dancer." "Little hankies..." "I would think..." "Alan means "rock"." "In Celtic mythology." "Very good." "And I think it's somewhere...it'd be, like, Scotland." "Or Wales, or Ireland." "Or England." "No you would think that I'll give you..." "I'll give you some points for knowing that "Alan" is a Breton Celtic word for a pebble or rock, 'cause that is generally assumed to" ""Rock!" Not a pebble!" "Well..." "Possibly a boulder!" "In my book of-- But not a pebble!" "In my book of meanings of dull Christian names, it says" ""Alan"...and it says "Stephen" means "a garland"." "Well, I think you'll find that when they invented the name "Alan", it was a boulder, and over time..." "It's just got-- It might have got worn down- -worn down to a pebble..." "...Perhaps, now, it's a little pebble but a beautiful pebble that would skim really well across a flat surface." "Well, I'll tell you the answer." "You do get your points, though," "I think, for knowing that Alan means "rock" or "pebble"." "You'll actually find most of them not in any Celtic country, but on the Russian border in the northern Caucuses Mountains, where the Alan tribe have lived since being driven there by the Huns in the 4th century." "The Alans" "That was a bad weekend." "We still talk about that." "You, and Alan Coren, and Alan Bennett, and Alan Parsons..." "We get together." "We conference call." "And if someone mentions the Huns, quite often there's a lull in the conversation, and we have to gather ourselves." "'Cause the Alans were master horsemen, who introduced the idea of chivalry to Europe, and may have inspired the stories of King Arthur and his knights." "The great Pliny the Elder, however takes..." "Pliny the Elder, who I know i- is a source of constant mental nourishment to you, Alan..." "He takes a view a very different view, firmly telling us that Alans are a race of bastard degenerates." "He doesn't know anything at all." "No." "But I" "Is he the Roman one who was on the other day?" "I have to come clean, myself." "I mean, if Alans are going to be attacked, I will be there in the queue being herded onto the trains, too, because my father is an Alan." "Is he?" "You see?" "There." "So I" "There's a little bit of Alan in me." "Is there any of Alan in you?" "No." "No." "Do you want some?" "My name means..." "It's Rich." "Richard." "It means "wealthy". "Opulent". "With money". "Plutocratic"." "No." ""Rich"?" "Doesn't "rich" mean that?" "No." "No, it doesn't at all, Steve!" "Okay!" "It means "aquarium gravel"." "My name, Peter, means "rock"." "It certainly does. "The rock upon which the Church of our Lord and Saviour was built."" "How can all these names mean "rock"?" "Humans..." "When human beings first arose-- There was nothing back- -there wasn't much to name things after!" "There was big rock, little rock" ""You were named after that rock." --middle rock, pebble, grit..." "So, but..." "This is quite interesting, I think." "And I think this is right." "But you know you said that Alan means "rock" or "pebble"?" "And there are two other words I can think of that mean that." "That mean "pebble"." ""Calculus"--Yes." "I think, means, literally, "pebble", and "pessary", as well, I think, means "pebble"." "Who are you that you know that?" "Well, calculus is because..." "Calculus is adding with pebbles." "Yes, they used pebbles on abacuses, and in ways of counting as owing and back and forth black, white pebbles and white pebbles..." "The Greeks." "So we're only 200 years old, my country; we never...we missed out on a lot of that stuff." "I think, I did mention that they were also described by Pliny as as a race of bastard degenerates, and Edgar Allan Poe, well, he's an example really." "He married his 13-year-old cousin; he indulged in drinking sprees that make," "Liam Gallager look like Ned Flanders, and he died, literally, in a gutter, in Baltimore, in 1849." "Yet he was also, of course, like so many Alans, a truly prophetic genius." "Two years before he died, he wrote a long prose poem called "Eureka", which anticipated one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century by 80 years." "What was it?" "He married his 13-year-old cousin, and he lived a life of drinking." "So...he predicted..." "Jerry Lee Lewis's career." "That's-- He foresaw it in a prose poem!" "He foresaw it in a prose poem." "Called "Great Balls of Fire". "Goodness, gracious.."" "Stick to "great balls of fire," because that's what his-- A meteor!" "his theory...no, his-- Cigarettes!" "What's the theory?" "The theory?" "Relativity!" "The Big Bang!" "The Big Bang!" "Thank you." "I'll give you a point." "Well done." "Edgar Allan Poe believed that all matter had once been concentrated into a single particle which then expanded to fill space, a theory not accepted by science until 1931." ""Eureka", his prose poem, goes on to predict the general theory of relativity, parallel universes, and the structure of the atom." "Pretty good going for a poem that doesn't even rhyme." "You know the word "rhyme"?" "There's no word that actually rhymes with the word "rhyme"." "Lime." "Time." "Apart from ... apartfromthosetwo." "Slime." "Three." "Grime." "Orange!" "Hey!" "Oh, you know, if I was a Cajun man, I'd say "orange" and "dorringe"." "What would they mean by "dorringe"?" "Door hinge." ""Door hinge"!" "Definitely two points for you" "Now." "Young girls and the expanding universe are also famous obsessions of Allen Stewart Konigsberg, or better known, of course-- Woody Allen!" "as Woody Allen." "Yes." "Woody Allen." "Well done." "Half a point for knowing Woody Allen's real name was Allen Stewart Konigsberg." "Tiny fragment of a point." "Yeah, a fragment." "Little pebble." "An Alan of a point." "But Woody Allen is by no means the "Alan"" "with the worst reputation in Hollywood." "Who is, Rich, would you say?" "The Alan with the worst reputation in Hollywood." "It's Alan "Big Al" Allenson, who was so taken by his Celtic Breton background that he killed a lot of people with rocks." "Yeah?" "In Hollywood." "Would it help if I told you his name?" "Oh, I think I know what it is." "Yeah?" "Is it Alan Smithee?" "Yes!" "Oh, 10 points to you!" "Well done." "Absolutely right." "Very good." "What's he done?" "Now, well..." "Peter, explain." "Well, I think this is what it is." "When a director directs a film, and, like, say, if the studio interfere and they re-edit it, and the director disowns a film, they can choose to put Alan Smithee instead of their real name, to sort-of" "Absolutely right." "Absolutely right." "Yes." "Alan Smithee is the name used when directors disown a film, either because they've lost control of the final cut, or because it's simply too awful to admit to." "Smithee's oeuvre include such classics as Hobgoblins II, Boggy Creek III," "Hellraiser IV, and most famously, Dune, where he co-directed with David Lynch." "So, very well done." "How did you know about that?" "You just knew." "Tony Kaye did that." "Did try to do that." "Ah." "With American History X." "Yeah." "I was..." "And I never saw American History X because I didn't see any of the first nine, you know, so," "Oh, you literate fellow!" "Now." "The Boy on a Dolphin isn't a Smithee film, but it did star the very short matinee idol..." "Alan Ladd." "Yes." "Another half point to take you to a full one point, for your two splendid intrusions." "And I'll-- --Sophia Loren was in it." "Very good." "What can you tell me about-- --I've actually seen it." "And what can you tell me about the making of the film that's quite interesting?" "There's no actual dolphins." "Or boys." "No, it's something" "He is really short." "That's quite...well done" "Standing on a box while she...they dug a trench for her." "Five to you." "She had to stand and walk about in a trench." "You know, the interesting thing about Alan Ladd was, he was only, like, four foot three, but it was all his legs that were short." "Like, his trunk was normal." "So when he sat down, he was actually taller than most other people." "Is that true?" "Yeah." "When he stood, yeah." "They had to put him on a little apple crate." "I never know with you; that's what's so worrying." "No, it's absolutely true." "Alan Ladd was to recall working with Sophia Loren in Boy on a Dolphin"" "that working with her was "like being bombarded by watermelons"." "Thank you!" "For the sake of our audience, who hadn't quite got that image thank you for it." "Woody Allen, Mr Konigsberg, once pointed out," ""Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you get between the right man and the right woman."" "Now, lastly, on the subject of Alans: what would you do with a pair of Alans?" "An Australian should know this, in a way, because it's one of the particular ways of speaking Australia shares with Britain, or particularly, with London." ""Alan Wickers"!" ""Alan Wickers"." "Knickers." "There you are." "Aw, we haven't heard that one!" "'Cause we call them "Reg Grundies"-undies." "Oh, there you are, you see?" "Perfect!" "Here's a quite interesting thing about rhyming slang." "I heard, someone in a London market talking, and saying, "I'm not Listerine..."" "And I said to him, "What do you mean 'Listerine'?"" "And "Listerine" is an example of a, sort-of, a rhyming slang that's moved on one." "Because an American in rhyming slang is often called a "septic"." "Which is short for "septic tank"-- Yeah." "Yank." "Yank, which you've probably heard." "So if you don't like Americans, you are "antiseptic", and if you're "antiseptic", you're "Listerine"!" "See?" "Oh, I get it!" "So Listerine...yeah." "There you are." "So... in the same way, while we're on the subject, you can have a "rubber Gregory"." "Oh, I love it." "Do you know what a "rubber Gregory" is?" "No." "A "peck"." "It's a--Gregory Peck?" "So..." ""Rubber neck"?" "No...that would...it would work as a "rubber neck"; it's actually a cheque that bounces." "'Cause a "Gregory Peck" is a cheque, and so, if your cheque bounces in other words, returned by the bank it's a rubber Greg" "I mean a "rubber--rubber Gregory"." "Did't you like my earthy, street London accent?" "He sounds like such an idiot!" "Yeah." "So, there we are, ladies and gentlemen." "In the right hands, even a meaningless, two-syllable name can be made as frisky as a gay ferret in a pink blender." "I leave you with one last Alan:" "Alan Bennett, who, when asked if he was gay, replied wearily," ""That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water."" "Our final round, ladies and gentlemen, as ever, is a dazzlingly-dispiriting display of General Ignorance." "Fingers hovering over your mushroomoid-style buzzers now, please, and let's see if we can give Alan a run for his money." "So." "Question 1:" "Who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe?" "Magellan." "Magellan!" "Oh, dear!" "Oh!" "What have I done?" ""Magellan" is the howler, I'm afraid." "I'm sorry." "What do you mean "no"?" "Ring him!" "No, he wasn't." "He wasn't the first." "Magellan was killed in the Philippines halfway around." "He never finished." "His ship was the first to." "The laurels actually go to his second-in-command, the almost completely unknown" "J. S. Elcano, a.k.a. Juan Sebastian del Cano." "I don't suppose they'll rename the "Magellan Straits" the "Del Cano Straits", but nonetheless, it's good to help out, isn't it," "people who have been deprived by history." "So." "What was the nationality of the inventor of the helicopter?" "British." "British, do you think?" "No, not correct." "Italian?" "Oh, "Italian", he said!" "Oh, we thought you might say that." "No." "Oh, Leonardo da Vinci." "You were thinking of Leonardo da Vinci, weren't you?" "Well, no, you see." "The answer is this: actually, it was Chinese." "The first known helicopter was a popular toy called a bamboo dragonfly-- which could fly 25 feet vertically up into the air, and dates back to at least the 4th century A.D.; therefore, more than 1,000 years before the idea occurred to Leonard da Vinci in 1480." "But who actually did make a helicopter first?" "Not a silly little bamboo thing; a proper helicopter, you know, going" "Helicopter----running across...pilot going Helicopter just means--Like that." "It just means spiral- or screw-winged." "Helix-opter." "A real one with an engine that takes off, on tyres..." "I think the nation that really lays claim to inventing the first modern helicopter in the sense we would use it is, in fact, the French." "Now." "Next question." "What do you get if you suck your pencil for a long time?" "Lead poisoning!" "Oh, she's done it!" "Can you believe it?" "Can you believe these people!" "No, there is no chance on God's, or any other Earth that we know of, of getting lead poisoning" "You mean Sir was lying?" "No, there is no lead in a pencil." "It's called "lead"; it has no "Pb" in it; no element of lead whatsoever." "It's pure graphite." "Ever since the first invention of the pencil, they've been made of graphite, which is the pure, crystalline form of carbon, and will do you no harm whatsoever." "Then why the lead thing?" "It's not lead?" "It's not lead." "It never has been; it never will be." "It's graphite." "That's why they're not very heavy when you pick 'em up." "Exactly." "You might say that they're more "HB" than "Pb"." "It's time for the final scores." "Let me give them to you." "Oh, dear." "I'm afraid, in fourth place, it's Peter, with minus five." "Minus five!" "Oh, lordy Lord." "In third place, it's Rich, with three points." "In second place, Julia, with nine, but way out in front, it's Alan, with twenty-three quite interesting points." "Well, that about knocks it on the head for QI." "It only remains for me to thank our four wise monkeys:" "Rich, Julia, Peter, and Alan, and to close with this thoroughly positive and quite interesting thought from yet another great British Alan:" "the boxer Alan Minter, who reassures us, "Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing, but none of them serious." Good night."