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I love the way the QI elves play games with us with [[:Category:John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin|these books]]. That's not to say it's a game of pulling the wool over our eyes, for every entrant in this series has had the equivalent online version for the sources, so every page is replicated with the due links you need to search for proof of their statements. No, the game is Six Degrees of Separation. And they're so good at it, they can do most things in three. So in just three standalone, but thematically linked, phrases, you can get from how to make the sound of an Orc army for ''Lord of the Rings'' films to record-breaking nipple hair. From illicit wartime barbers in Italy to American founding father bedroom arrangements, is only three steps – and the path carries on to reach that erstwhile novice stand-up, Ronald Reagan, in two more. It's only two jumps between Donald Trump and Charles Darwin, disconcertingly.
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|comment=Greetings folks! Sorry to be a nuisance, and it’s’ of course too late to do anything about the couple of glitches I spotted in my 2016 edition (ISBN 978-0-571-33246-5).
On page 74, you state that the first Nando’s in London opened in 1696! I don’t know if you were trying for numerical alliteration from the 2 preceding entries, but it’s wrong. The firsts Nando’ s EVER was opened in Johannesburg in 1996, and the first UK one in 2002, not in London; it was in London but not successful until the SAfricans took back the franchise. This info comes from their website, and I note it has already been remarked upon.
This one is a bit pedantic but. . . On p134 it states that Victorian gentry ordered their horses to be shot after their deaths. Why bother to shoot the horses: the way the sentence reads they were already dead!! This is just one of the quirks that makes the English language so tough for computers to understand – like “I drove down the High Street in my car”. I don’t HAVE a High street in my car! I believe IBM has made some progress in this respect with the Watson computer, which won the Jeopardy quiz show on American TV against the previous champions who each took away over $1-million each.
Not an error, but a comment. On p143 it says (probably correctly) that 75% of the world’s population has no postal (ie delivery)address. There’s a company and a website that has fixed that, but it still awaits widespread adoption by the world authorities. It’s called what3words - spelled exactly like that. It’s well worth looking into! My address appears below, and if you key it in you can get a look at a photo of my driveway gate and the house behind it!
Chris Graham 23 Charter Road, Kelland, Randburg South Africa 2194
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