Who Sells Sea Shells By The Sea Shore? | QI

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    This clip is from QI Series N, Episode 1, 'Naming Names' with Sandi Toksvig, Alan Davies, Phill Jupitus, Cariad Lloyd and Romesh Ranganathan.
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Комментарии • 63

  • @LeornianCyng
    @LeornianCyng 4 месяца назад +25

    The facts on QI about Mary have always been a favourite of mine. Natural History Museum is my favourite place in the world. 🦖 🦕 🌋🌎🌍🌏

  • @Beruthiel45
    @Beruthiel45 4 месяца назад +33

    I love these videos but I'm deaf and need closed captioning. Please activate them on your videos. I miss most of the quick wiited responses. 😰

  • @jenniferkonstant5920
    @jenniferkonstant5920 4 месяца назад +8

    We went to Lyme Regis on our first trip to England in 1984 SPECIFICALLY because of her and her dinosaur discoveries. I am only just now learning that she is the inspiration to that tongue twister.
    All that to say, I love this show.

  • @zbr76
    @zbr76 4 месяца назад +87

    I'm a simple man. I see Cariad Lloyd in a thumbnail, I click. 🥰

  • @bekakhitiri5734
    @bekakhitiri5734 4 месяца назад +20

    At least Phil did not try to eat the Coprolith this time.

  • @LB-ge8ih
    @LB-ge8ih 4 месяца назад +12

    For those who didn’t catch the answer, her name was Mary Anning. There is loads of info about her online.

    • @lizardgirl413
      @lizardgirl413 4 месяца назад +2

      then why does the rhyme call her "sally"? wish they had addressed that point

    • @barneylaurance1865
      @barneylaurance1865 4 месяца назад

      @@lizardgirl413 Good question. The Wikiepdia page for Anning says "Stephen Winick of the American Folklife Center has shown that no evidence has been presented for any causal connection between Anning and the lyrics"

    • @just-tess
      @just-tess 4 месяца назад +5

      it doesn't?
      She sells seashells on the seashore
      The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure
      So if she sells seashells on the seashore
      Then I'm sure she sells seashore shells

    • @kbrown4ou
      @kbrown4ou 4 месяца назад +1

      ⁠@@just-tessIn the U.S. we grew up (eons ago) hearing the phrase starting with, “Sally sells seashells by the seashore…”

  • @geoffroi-le-Hook
    @geoffroi-le-Hook 4 месяца назад +9

    Mrs Milton Jones, according to what he said on Mock the Week

  • @macsnafu
    @macsnafu 4 месяца назад +9

    Note to self: sea shells bring out the best in the QI panelists!

  • @AdamBechtol
    @AdamBechtol 4 месяца назад +1

    Nice to hear the full rhyme, I'm trying to learn it now :p

  • @katiekitchen895
    @katiekitchen895 4 месяца назад +2

    I always thought it was:
    She sells sea shells on the sea shore, but the shells she sells she should sell for more.
    Sandys version was:
    She sells sea shells on the sea shore,
    But the shells she sells are sea shells I’m sure,
    For if she sells sea shells on the sea shore
    Then I’m sure she sells sea shore shells.
    (Last line the most difficult)
    Bless Mary Anning - I thought this was a corollary to Dublin’s fair Molly Malone! I grew up near Lyme Regis with John Fowles of The French Lieutenant’s Woman etc, a neighbour. You learn something new everyday!

    • @zapkvr
      @zapkvr 4 месяца назад

      You should learn something new every day

  • @nousironsaubois
    @nousironsaubois 4 месяца назад +1

    I advise her romantized biography by Tracy Chevalier :)

  • @phillwainewright4221
    @phillwainewright4221 4 месяца назад +1

    Very well known about in Lyme Regis, especially by the residents of Anning Road.

  • @Uatu-the-Watcher
    @Uatu-the-Watcher 4 месяца назад +1

    Mary Anning is today’s featured article on Wikipedia.

  • @infernalstan886
    @infernalstan886 4 месяца назад +1

    Isn't this a repost?

    • @hazy33
      @hazy33 2 месяца назад

      It was originally on that thing called broadcast television. Ask your parents 🙂

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 4 месяца назад +2

    You heard 'em. Freshwater shells are for chumps! Get some salt, blandos!

  • @padstowphantom
    @padstowphantom 4 месяца назад +1

    She sells sea shells by the sea shore, and she sells shells by the sea saw at half past four.

    • @zapkvr
      @zapkvr 4 месяца назад +1

      Seesaw

  • @Fcutdlady
    @Fcutdlady 4 месяца назад

    She did surely (i got the klaxon)

  • @JeremyKasperson
    @JeremyKasperson 4 месяца назад +1

    I disagree with the supply and demand argument. There are loads of people that skip cheaper options to have someone else do the dirty work. Grocery stores are loaded with light duty foods (pre-shucked corn, peeled oranges) sold far more expensive than natural foods.

  • @guyyst
    @guyyst 4 месяца назад +7

    The problem of supply and demand for sea shells has been addressed previously: ruclips.net/video/LnTTbL-4B_s/видео.html

    • @mej6519
      @mej6519 4 месяца назад

      Ren knows :)

  • @just-tess
    @just-tess 4 месяца назад +3

    Kate Winslet played her in the film Ammonite a few years ago with Saoirse Ronan

    • @zapkvr
      @zapkvr 4 месяца назад

      How on earth do you say that name?

    • @just-tess
      @just-tess 4 месяца назад

      She only has four Oscars and five BAFTAs... ruclips.net/video/Hwstj9FJHGg/видео.html

  • @colinhooper1933
    @colinhooper1933 4 месяца назад +2

    Surely the shells in the rhyme are a reference to fossilised Ammonites which are frequently found on Britains coastal cliff beach areas?

    • @professornuke7562
      @professornuke7562 4 месяца назад

      They're set into the pavement at Lyme Regis.

  • @78625amginE
    @78625amginE 4 месяца назад

    Ammonite with Kate Winslet as Mary.

  • @Junkdog247
    @Junkdog247 4 месяца назад +2

    My family visited Lyme-Regis, and it was recommended as a proper Jurassic Beach, A Statue and museum in honor of this Amazing young woman's achievements!❤

  • @cyrusaalborg
    @cyrusaalborg 4 месяца назад +1

    REN did in Money Game Part 2

  • @macgonzo
    @macgonzo 4 месяца назад +5

    Was it Mary Shelley?

    • @LB-ge8ih
      @LB-ge8ih 4 месяца назад +4

      Mary Anning.

  • @charlesb7019
    @charlesb7019 4 месяца назад +3

    Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore!!!

    • @thomthom6268
      @thomthom6268 4 месяца назад +1

      On this side of The Pond, I was taught a tongue twistier version. "Susie" was the sea shell seller by the sea shore. On Mondays Susie sold sea shells in West Sussex.

    • @JetsonDrums
      @JetsonDrums Месяц назад

      The name “Sasha” would only make things worse.

  • @76ToneCrome
    @76ToneCrome 4 месяца назад +9

    Covering old ground now. Stephen Fry talked about Anning on QI about 15 years ago.

    • @DeathlyTired
      @DeathlyTired 4 месяца назад +12

      Some subjects are interesting enough to be worth mentioning more than once.
      Or, if you prefer, they're: Quite, quite interesting!

    • @klaxoncow
      @klaxoncow 4 месяца назад +9

      Alan didn't remember it, so it's a good 'un for another outing.

    • @callumrobertson1081
      @callumrobertson1081 4 месяца назад +10

      ​@@klaxoncowI seem to remember one episode they checked how long people would remember facts they'd learned on the show and people managed to forget answers to questions earlier that show.

    • @Rathkryn
      @Rathkryn 4 месяца назад +3

      They find that data changes on the same topics so then they revisit the old ground.

    • @paulsengupta971
      @paulsengupta971 4 месяца назад +8

      @@klaxoncow It's funny sometimes when he does remember....
      Alan: "I heard somewhere that..."
      Stephen: "Yes, it was on this show."

  • @brx8r
    @brx8r 4 месяца назад

    😂 it's not just a tongue twister. It's a riddle. She doesn't actually sell sea shells. I'm not going to explain it.

    • @brx8r
      @brx8r 4 месяца назад

      (Flubbing the tongue twister, and a lot of lateral thinking helps.)

    • @brx8r
      @brx8r 4 месяца назад

      There are 2 solutions; one dirty and one esoteric. You can probably get the dirty one.
      Solving this also solves a related puzzle from a famous movie.