One day when the kids were young they were making a sand castle on St Helliera beach. Along came a man who stopped to admire it and said how it reminded him of my Everest. It was Ed Hillary. A good bloke.
I had the honour of meeting Sir Hillary when I was about 8 years old in the 1980s, in Nelson NewZealand. He, and a crowd of Nelsonians, including me, hiked up the hill known as "The Centre Of New Zealand". He pretty much had a permanent broad smile on his face If I remember correctly, he was in the army, and every morning he would wake before the other cadets, climb a nearby mountain and be back in time for breakfast!
I met him too. BOTH of them! At my highschool in Dunedin (1971 - I think). AND climbed the little hill you mentioned, when I lived in Nelson. But not on the same day, no. Also wrote a book - to which he added an introduction. Look for "Snow Cave Inn".
My favourite thing about Ed Hillary is when I am sitting on a bench in Wanaka, New Zealand one of his great friends is buried there and he has a bench facing the lake, the quote on this bench from Ed Hillary goes: "The man with the yak heart" which I think sums up the man.
I guess one could say it was the *peak* of his career. One may also say everything went downhill from there. Perhaps he developed a drinking problem that *snowballed* out of control.
I think it's quite unfair to call Bigfoot "the abominable snowman". They've never met him. How do they know if he's "abominable" or not? He might be quite a pleasant fellow, for all we know. Doing a lot of good work for Yeti charities and such.
KlaxonCow absolutely old chap, though I do think even “Bigfoot” is a bit on the nose, we don’t want to insult the poor fellow. Shall we call him George?
No, he was a Beekeeper before he climbed Everest, the question was what did he do after he climbed Everest. If you have any integrity you will delete your lies.
I thought they were going to mention his 1958 expedition to the south pole by (modified) tractor. It was the first to reach the pole overland since Scott. "He went to the south pole by tractor" would have been a good funny line!
At some point, in an interview (in the 1990's, I think) Sir Ed did relate the details of his arrival at the 'top of the world'. On the final ridge, as they advanced toward each apparent 'peak' ( but really only bumps on the final sawtooth ridge), they took turns on the rope at leading/following. By chance - Tenzing led up the final stretch, and only found enough width to step aside and wave Ed through, some 3 steps short of the very top. Anyway, his spiritual beliefs would not allow him to be first to 'defile' the sacred place. But because Ed never thought to teach Tenzing how to use the camera - that is why there are three photos of TENZING on the peak, and none of Ed. I have seen that camera. I adapted Ed's story into one of the sequences in my live-storytelling show. (& met them both, BTW. - I have a curious connect to that event!!)
Hillary was a guide for people on Antarctic sightseeing flights Air New Zealand ran in the 70s. He was nearly on the infamous ANZ 901 that crashed into Mount Erebus, but he had other commitments, so his friend took his place.
I noticed the same thing the one time I watched a Bigfoot Hunters tv show. They were loud and they swung heavy-duty lights all around. The worst hunter in the world knows better.
Hillary was a member of British Army team at Everest Mountan. The leader was a Rifleman in The Rifle Birgade, he was Dickie Bird not the famous crisket umpire,
Weren't Edmund Hilary's first words as he stepped onto the top of Everest - and to Tensing- "I thought You had the camera.......?" His second words were......."Isn't that Everest over there!? "
I mean, of course they summited it together...? They didn't split up and go by themselves, they literally did it together. How is there an argument on who was first when it was the same expedition?
Because one of the would have been a couple of seconds earlier. You can ask why anybody cares, but it’s essentially impossible for them to have both reached the summit at _exactly_ the same time.
Followed by 20 min of Michael Caine-esque impersonations. "When the yeti was young it used to sound loike this - 'Allo I'm Mr Yeti, not that many people know that' - but now he talk like this...
1:54 - Didn't realise Sandy Toksvig was so demeaning. Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was Ed Hillary's climbing partner - an equal. He wasn't there to "carry someone's luggage" for them.
New Zealanders derived their pronunciation of the letter 'i' from the English settlers so we say it virtually the same, it's Australians that don't differentiate between pronunciation of 'i' and 'e'. That is about the only obvious difference between the two accents.
So what, what settlers do Australians come from if not English? Portuguese? Both our accents derive from English, and both have deviated away from the British short 'i' in different directions, linguistically speaking, kiwis have flattened it to a schwa (which gives foreigners this idea that it sounds like "fush", because schwa is halfway towards the actual phoneme in a word like "but"), while Australians have raised it to a high back open vowel, in IPA written as /i/. They definitely do distinguish between 'i' and 'e', get any Australian to pronounce bed and bid and it's clear.
The difference in pronunciation can be explained in part by the influence of the predominant non-English settlers (or transportees.). In Australia, the second most numerous were Irish, in New Zealand they were mainly Scots. You can also hear the Scots influence in the Canadian accent, if you have an ear for it.
Ms. Toksvig: "Only an expedition that was extraordinarily quiet might find it." Kowasi: "R'as Al Ghul's ninja school was based in that area, and yetis are basically wookies, and Qui-Gon-Jon played Mr. Liam Neeson in Episode I as well..."
Sandi saying 'does it count if the Sherpa carries all your stuff for you' is so hideously ignorant. That expedition would have ended in a failed ascent if it wasn't for Ed Hilary, and the same can be said for Tensing. They were a team, both absolutely crucial to the assault on the summit of Everest
There has been some ongoing speculation that Mallory and Irvine _may_ have reached the summit in 1924 and then died on the descent. They were last seen about 800 vertical feet from the summit. Mallory had said he would leave a photo of his wife on the summit, but when his body was found in 1999 the picture wasn't there. Irvine's body has never been found, but both he and Mallory were carrying cameras to document them reaching the top, but when Mallory was found, the camera wasn't. Unless and until one of the cameras is found, it's highly speculative.
The joke goes; at a time when there was a high population of kiwi immigrants living in the Sydney suburb of Bondi, a particularly disenchanted one had graffitied on a wall 'australia sux' and some aussie wag added 'New Zealand nil' under it.
Having befriended his son Peter through his business partner I feel I Should point out the abominable snowman was probably me. I was six foot nine upon leaving school and was addressed by associates as Sachquash. The American side of the family. Sir Edmond built a hundred schools, drove a jet boat from the highest valley to Bangladesh and built a hundred hospitals. Any who feel they can take the piss might first find a man who did better and gave more.
Smallish world. I met Ed in 1971. Some 3 decades later, Ed added a foreword to my book "Snow Cave Inn" Re Peter - a certain woman living in the same student flat as moi (mid 1970s) was apparently dating Peter!
Sorry, Sandi mocking the idea that you have to be quiet to find animals- does she think David Attenborough and his film crews stomp around the world blasting music while they're trying to film animals, of course you have to be quiet haha
He went up as Mr Hillary, he was knighted (KBE) almost immediately on his return from the summit. News reached Britain on the day of the Coronation of Elizabeth II and his knighthood was considered a coronation gift. Even though he was a New Zealander, he was considered a British Subject and would not have needed the recommendation of the NZ government (In fact, one of my earliest memories is of the newspaper headlines "British expedition conquers Everest." No mention was made of Hillary's actual nationality until many years later!). The later honour, bestowed in 1995 was Knight Companion of The Most Noble Order of the Garter (KG) .
I have never heard anyone imitating a NZ accent actually sound like a nzer. Kiwis can spot you a mile away! You all think they are saying"sucks "and" fush and chups" but they are actually saying "six" and "fish and chips" just with an NZ accent
I love Rob referring to Edmund Hillary's yeti sketch as "the chap in the drawing".
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One day when the kids were young they were making a sand castle on St Helliera beach. Along came a man who stopped to admire it and said how it reminded him of my Everest. It was Ed Hillary. A good bloke.
I had the honour of meeting Sir Hillary when I was about 8 years old in the 1980s, in Nelson NewZealand. He, and a crowd of Nelsonians, including me, hiked up the hill known as "The Centre Of New Zealand". He pretty much had a permanent broad smile on his face
If I remember correctly, he was in the army, and every morning he would wake before the other cadets, climb a nearby mountain and be back in time for breakfast!
I met him too. BOTH of them! At my highschool in Dunedin (1971 - I think). AND climbed the little hill you mentioned, when I lived in Nelson. But not on the same day, no.
Also wrote a book - to which he added an introduction. Look for "Snow Cave Inn".
He was a navigator in the Air Force, serving on Catalina's in the Pacific campaign.
I love that Rob was so wrapped up in his bit about cellphones that he was caught off guard by the drawing
He climbed back down again! *klaxons*
...after secretly pocketing a picture of Mallory's mother.
He skied down, or even para-skied down.
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I THOUGHT THE EXACT SAME THING!!!
"Have you found one?"
"Not yeti"
stahp it, get some help
That joke was abominable.
Klaxon.
My favourite thing about Ed Hillary is when I am sitting on a bench in Wanaka, New Zealand one of his great friends is buried there and he has a bench facing the lake, the quote on this bench from Ed Hillary goes:
"The man with the yak heart" which I think sums up the man.
Besides a mountaineer & explorer, New Zealander Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) was a Bee keeper
Sir Ed was a great Kiwi... Very modest and a damn fine bloke...
RB's resemblance to EH is uncanny.
I'm surprised no one said "Did he everest?"
No you're not.😐
Karl Pilkington did.
No one else is
@@bfg3890 I am.
@@DrWhoFanJ no you aren't, you are a liar
Rob Bryson had a noble attempt at a Kiwi accent, started Aussie and ended up South African. You can do better than that, Rob!
Dunno,there's a shit load of yarpies in NZ now.
It's hard to do a Kiwi accent. Even us Kiwis struggle.
He apologised
Stephen's reaction when Rob did the Hillary smile.
ozzie accent into afrikans accent
Diplomatic immunity.
Agreed.
@@Paleos1000 yes and then the sux and seevan was way off too. Although some of the poorer communities do sound a lot like sux when they say it.
Better than sex, I suppose.
I mean the "have" was pretty spot on for a new zealand accent
Alan Davies seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge of everything related to Mount Everest.
Vaylon Kenadell ... And blue whales. 🐋
Because he knew the name of Tenzing Norgay?
@@samshorto5433 he also knew the two exact historical heights of it in a previous video
They sure kept that expedition quiet. Lived in NZ my whole life and never heard about it
I guess one could say it was the *peak* of his career.
One may also say everything went downhill from there.
Perhaps he developed a drinking problem that *snowballed* out of control.
YET-HE was unable to SIR-MOUNT his previous HEIGHTS!
You guys are hillaryous
Some of those jokes were a bit rocky, to be honest.
@@paulallen579 the heights you guys will go to for a decent joke are enough to cause an avalanche of likes
Yeesh With each bad pun I feel a mountain tension in my gut.
"Did he find the Abominable Snowman?"
"No- Not Yeti."
On the commentary track with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens on the LOTR DVDs, it’s hard to tell the difference when they talk about Arwen and Eowyn.
I think it's quite unfair to call Bigfoot "the abominable snowman".
They've never met him. How do they know if he's "abominable" or not?
He might be quite a pleasant fellow, for all we know. Doing a lot of good work for Yeti charities and such.
KlaxonCow absolutely old chap, though I do think even “Bigfoot” is a bit on the nose, we don’t want to insult the poor fellow. Shall we call him George?
You sound like Karl Pilkington.
All we do know is that the abdominal snowman has a large belly.
Hear, hear.
Bigfoot is North American. The abominable snowman is the (Asian) Yeti. Sorry to be *that* guy...
He did a spot of product endorsements for Sears camping equipment. I own a "Sir Edmund Hillary Tent".
Also went overland by tractor to the South Pole, and if you were asking what did he do as in what was his job, he was a beekeeper.
No, he was a Beekeeper before he climbed Everest, the question was what did he do after he climbed Everest. If you have any integrity you will delete your lies.
Newspaper headline in 1953:
"Apiarist Conquers Everest".
First to both walk the North Pole and South Pole ...
4:17
Rob: Ooh good God, what’s that?
Me: Isn’t that Brian Blessed?
The joke about Kiwis and the word "six" elicited an immediate and powerful laugh from me. So well done!
There was a youth choir movement in Norway in the 70’s called «Ten-sing Norge». That one doesn’t travel well either really.
On the contrary, if there were ten members of the choir, then it's most amusing.
He also drove a tractor to the South Pole.
And flew to the North Pole with Neil Armstrong.
Yes! HULLO! He drove a Massey Ferguson to the South Pole.
I'm shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED that Stephen Fry doesn't know this.
And he brought a statue of Lenin with him
Would have been more impressive if he drove a tractor to the top of Everest
They also took jet boats from the mouth of the Ganges up to the source.
I thought they were going to mention his 1958 expedition to the south pole by (modified) tractor. It was the first to reach the pole overland since Scott. "He went to the south pole by tractor" would have been a good funny line!
In his later years, he walked past our house in Portland Rd, every day. I would sit there and wait for him to pass ^_^
Wow. Really ?
Yep, I waited for him and the man with two dogs that carried their own tennis balls.
Creepy you are
At some point, in an interview (in the 1990's, I think) Sir Ed did relate the details of his arrival at the 'top of the world'. On the final ridge, as they advanced toward each apparent 'peak' ( but really only bumps on the final sawtooth ridge), they took turns on the rope at leading/following. By chance - Tenzing led up the final stretch, and only found enough width to step aside and wave Ed through, some 3 steps short of the very top.
Anyway, his spiritual beliefs would not allow him to be first to 'defile' the sacred place.
But because Ed never thought to teach Tenzing how to use the camera - that is why there are three photos of TENZING on the peak, and none of Ed. I have seen that camera.
I adapted Ed's story into one of the sequences in my live-storytelling show. (& met them both, BTW. - I have a curious connect to that event!!)
Another thing he did was get a terrace house in Melbourne. Appropriately a remarkably tall and thin one.
As a kiwi, this is hilarious 😂
3:03 Colin Meads
He was a beekeeper.
His first wife and his daughter died in a plane crash in the Himalayas.
Hillary was a guide for people on Antarctic sightseeing flights Air New Zealand ran in the 70s. He was nearly on the infamous ANZ 901 that crashed into Mount Erebus, but he had other commitments, so his friend took his place.
He actually said "We knocked the bugger off"
Kloyd0306 bastard off
Bastard is correct! Didn't realise he was going live..ish to BBC world radio..
I noticed the same thing the one time I watched a Bigfoot Hunters tv show. They were loud and they swung heavy-duty lights all around. The worst hunter in the world knows better.
Imagine they used the "Yeti hunt” as a diaguise for the spying mission against the chinese and they ACTUALLY FIND the Yeti.
But they had to cover it up so they could continue the mission
Now I want to write a novel on that premise lol
@@jmcc4566 Is the novel finished yet-i?
@@IndigoIndustrial bro I've got "novels" I started years ago that I haven't finished
Imagine if the Yeti had been working for the Chinese.
You know who Sir Hillary looks like in the Yeti pic? Mark Harmon. (Gibbs in NCIS.)
Hillary was a member of British Army team at Everest Mountan. The leader was a Rifleman in The Rifle Birgade, he was Dickie Bird not the famous crisket umpire,
Imagine if they actually were on a spy mission and accidentally came across the Abominable Snowman.
Pretty much how the Titanic was discovered
His attempt sounds like a South African lol
Weren't Edmund Hilary's first words as he stepped onto the top of Everest - and to Tensing- "I thought You had the camera.......?"
His second words were......."Isn't that Everest over there!? "
I’m a New Zealander!
There's Rob ding impressions again 😂😂
ah yes, Rob ding
The graffiti actually read "Australia Sux" and someone in response wrote underneath "New Zealand Nil"
True, but Australia still sux.
I mean, of course they summited it together...? They didn't split up and go by themselves, they literally did it together. How is there an argument on who was first when it was the same expedition?
Because one of the would have been a couple of seconds earlier. You can ask why anybody cares, but it’s essentially impossible for them to have both reached the summit at _exactly_ the same time.
Did he... 'ave a rest?
Bart Geerts aw, I thought I had thought of that first. Haha.
@MichaelKingsfordGray did he ever rest?
@MichaelKingsfordGray though type "pilkington 'ave a rest" in RUclips to see the reference lol
Himalaya down
I just realized something, tenzin in uncharted 2 was based on the guide next to Edmund in the picture.
Surely he walked down the mountain before anything else?
I believe his next challenge was squeezing into Subaru Sherpa for a TV commercial
Delete his emails?
The only thing missing from this clip is Steve Coogan telling Rob he doesn't look at all like Edmund Hillary.
Followed by 20 min of Michael Caine-esque impersonations.
"When the yeti was young it used to sound loike this - 'Allo I'm Mr Yeti, not that many people know that' - but now he talk like this...
@@IndigoIndustrial All the cigars and brandy at the back of the Yeti’s throat
1:54 - Didn't realise Sandy Toksvig was so demeaning. Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was Ed Hillary's climbing partner - an equal. He wasn't there to "carry someone's luggage" for them.
Is this Sheldon Cooper? Or just another troll who doesn't understand sarcasm?
One of the things he did was meet me, near Everest. :-]
New Zealanders derived their pronunciation of the letter 'i' from the English settlers so we say it virtually the same, it's Australians that don't differentiate between pronunciation of 'i' and 'e'. That is about the only obvious difference between the two accents.
So what, what settlers do Australians come from if not English? Portuguese? Both our accents derive from English, and both have deviated away from the British short 'i' in different directions, linguistically speaking, kiwis have flattened it to a schwa (which gives foreigners this idea that it sounds like "fush", because schwa is halfway towards the actual phoneme in a word like "but"), while Australians have raised it to a high back open vowel, in IPA written as /i/.
They definitely do distinguish between 'i' and 'e', get any Australian to pronounce bed and bid and it's clear.
@@SamuelKristopher - Thank you for cutting through some of the ignorance about Oz and Kiwi accents.
The difference in pronunciation can be explained in part by the influence of the predominant non-English settlers (or transportees.). In Australia, the second most numerous were Irish, in New Zealand they were mainly Scots.
You can also hear the Scots influence in the Canadian accent, if you have an ear for it.
@@allenjenkins7947 "Scots influence in the Canadian accent, "
I'm from New Zealand and everyone I know says six. It annoys me when they say New Zealand then do an Australian accent
After scaling the heights of Everest Hillary had a stroke of genius, he discovered climbing back down.
Edmund Hillary did climb mountains after Everest, and he went to the South Pole. Oh, and he flew to the North Pole with Neil Armstrong. True fact.
Ms. Toksvig: "Only an expedition that was extraordinarily quiet might find it."
Kowasi: "R'as Al Ghul's ninja school was based in that area, and yetis are basically wookies, and Qui-Gon-Jon played Mr. Liam Neeson in Episode I as well..."
Hillary also went up the Ganges From the delta to its source.
Edmund Hillary also became the first person to reach both the North Pole and the South Pole.
Sandi saying 'does it count if the Sherpa carries all your stuff for you' is so hideously ignorant. That expedition would have ended in a failed ascent if it wasn't for Ed Hilary, and the same can be said for Tensing. They were a team, both absolutely crucial to the assault on the summit of Everest
It's a joke.
Lets get this clear, New Zealanders pronounce 6 as 'sucks' and Australians say 'seeks'.
Actually Australians say 'sicks' ...
Mark Copsey well it does kinda sound like "sex". Also Aussies say it "sicks"
Well to a Kiwi like myself it sounds like Aussies are saying "seeks". All relative I guess.
Does it sound like we are saying 'sick' or 'seek' when we aren't feeling well ?
Christopher Burke səck
Hey, what happened to Alan saying "See‽ No hat!"
'Ave-a-rest.
Mixture of Courtois and Mason Mount 😂
Why do people put Tensing's job title in front of his name, they never say "mountaineer Edmund Hillary"
Sherpa isn't a job title, it's an ethnicity. It's like calling someone "Italian Joe".
Which is actually a bit more awkward, if you think about it.
@@SavageGreywolf Thank you, I have learned something new today - so should we say Sherpa Tensing and Kiwi Edmund now ?
@@who9387 I think your motivation is really looking for racism where there is nothing but respect.
@@Jin-Ro What has my post got to do with racism ? It's about a job title. Nobody mentioned racism .....until you just did !!
@@SavageGreywolf It's not quite the same, being a Sherpa is something to be proud of.
Did he ‘ave a rest?
There was probably someone before them who reached the summit.
There has been some ongoing speculation that Mallory and Irvine _may_ have reached the summit in 1924 and then died on the descent. They were last seen about 800 vertical feet from the summit. Mallory had said he would leave a photo of his wife on the summit, but when his body was found in 1999 the picture wasn't there. Irvine's body has never been found, but both he and Mallory were carrying cameras to document them reaching the top, but when Mallory was found, the camera wasn't.
Unless and until one of the cameras is found, it's highly speculative.
Both men kept the secret of who topped mt Everest first to themselves until death.
He climbed down?
Rob's Kiwi ecksint got away from him. He ended up sounding more like an Efrikawnuh.
Went to snowdonia and signed a pub ceiling
The joke goes; at a time when there was a high population of kiwi immigrants living in the Sydney suburb of Bondi, a particularly disenchanted one had graffitied on a wall 'australia sux' and some aussie wag added 'New Zealand nil' under it.
What the hell this was posted yesterday?
Zolerox Unreal - I watch a lot of old qi clips but usually they have been posted for years, this one not even 1day old!
Zolerox the official channel posts every few days. could be Hillary's birthday or something.
edit.: it's the anniversary of them reaching the top.
He climbed back down. Obviously.
Yeah, Rob Brydon and Sir Edmund Hillary are twins but for that slight 11" difference in height!
Having befriended his son Peter through his business partner I feel I Should point out the abominable snowman was probably me. I was six foot nine upon leaving school and was addressed by associates as Sachquash. The American side of the family. Sir Edmond built a hundred schools, drove a jet boat from the highest valley to Bangladesh and built a hundred hospitals. Any who feel they can take the piss might first find a man who did better and gave more.
Smallish world. I met Ed in 1971. Some 3 decades later, Ed added a foreword to my book "Snow Cave Inn" Re Peter - a certain woman living in the same student flat as moi (mid 1970s) was apparently dating Peter!
I'm more inclined to believe the spying story using the yeti as misdirection.
Fred McCauley at his best.
The title question has been answereed by the guy who looks so much like him. I guess mountains aren't the only thing he climbed. .
um, Aussies say Elvis. i think you are cross-beaming the Saffer, Kiwi, Aussie, and it's quite hilarious.
I'm pretty bloody sure when mountaineers "share a rope" up to a 29000 foot summit the ropes length is irrelevant and negligible.
Sorry, Sandi mocking the idea that you have to be quiet to find animals- does she think David Attenborough and his film crews stomp around the world blasting music while they're trying to film animals, of course you have to be quiet haha
Show some respect It’s Sir Edmund
Sir Ed actually.......
Not Edmund Hillary, but SIR Edmund Hillary.
Wasn't enobled until many years later. John Hunt, as the conqueror of Everest was knighted immediately after the event!
As a New Zealander, it would have been up to the NZ govt to nominate Hillary for a knighthood. Can't blame the delay on the Brits.
He went up as Mr Hillary, he was knighted (KBE) almost immediately on his return from the summit. News reached Britain on the day of the Coronation of Elizabeth II and his knighthood was considered a coronation gift. Even though he was a New Zealander, he was considered a British Subject and would not have needed the recommendation of the NZ government (In fact, one of my earliest memories is of the newspaper headlines "British expedition conquers Everest." No mention was made of Hillary's actual nationality until many years later!). The later honour, bestowed in 1995 was Knight Companion of The Most Noble Order of the Garter (KG) .
Surprisingly good Kiwi accent from Rob Brydon considering
Sorry but it was terrible. It was Australian for 90% then he trailed off into South African at which point I think he realised he lost it
Then he went and drove a Ferguson tractor to the south pole
I reckon he would ‘ave a rest. >KLAXON
Bill
Goodness, Hillary looks like he has a raging clue.
He went to Illinois to let the Rodham's know they could give their 5 year-old daughter a name!
I have never heard anyone imitating a NZ accent actually sound like a nzer. Kiwis can spot you a mile away!
You all think they are saying"sucks "and" fush and chups" but they are actually saying "six" and "fish and chips" just with an NZ accent
Slumberdown
Dalas
I mean, if we have Sasquatch, aka Bigfoot, here in North America, why can't the Himalayas have the Yeti?
Looking for a Yeti? It's not rocket science.
Mrs Hillary
that's the answer to the question in the thumbnail also its Australia sux Kiwis nil
Surely after conquering Everest he climbed back down?
It's not conquered till you make it back down again. Congratulations you tried to be a smartass and showed yourself for the fool you are.
'Kiss me, Tensing'. How many points for that?
Only the one that you use as a head.