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. - Zábava
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. 😰
The facts on QI about Mary have always been a favourite of mine. Natural History Museum is my favourite place in the world. 🦖 🦕 🌋🌎🌍🌏
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.
I'm a simple man. I see Cariad Lloyd in a thumbnail, I click. 🥰
That makes two of us 😊
I always get her confused with Lucy Porter.
She's gorgeous being a LOTR need just makes her awesome as well
Me too!
She is adorable
At least Phil did not try to eat the Coprolith this time.
Note to self: sea shells bring out the best in the QI panelists!
For those who didn’t catch the answer, her name was Mary Anning. There is loads of info about her online.
then why does the rhyme call her "sally"? wish they had addressed that point
@@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"
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
@@just-tessIn the U.S. we grew up (eons ago) hearing the phrase starting with, “Sally sells seashells by the seashore…”
Mrs Milton Jones, according to what he said on Mock the Week
Nice to hear the full rhyme, I'm trying to learn it now :p
Kate Winslet played her in the film Ammonite a few years ago with Saoirse Ronan
How on earth do you say that name?
She only has four Oscars and five BAFTAs... czcams.com/video/Hwstj9FJHGg/video.html
Mary Anning is today’s featured article on Wikipedia.
I advise her romantized biography by Tracy Chevalier :)
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!
You should learn something new every day
Very well known about in Lyme Regis, especially by the residents of Anning Road.
Surely the shells in the rhyme are a reference to fossilised Ammonites which are frequently found on Britains coastal cliff beach areas?
They're set into the pavement at Lyme Regis.
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!❤
Ammonite with Kate Winslet as Mary.
The problem of supply and demand for sea shells has been addressed previously: czcams.com/video/LnTTbL-4B_s/video.html
Ren knows :)
REN did in Money Game Part 2
Isn't this a repost?
She sells sea shells by the sea shore, and she sells shells by the sea saw at half past four.
Seesaw
Was it Mary Shelley?
Mary Anning.
You heard 'em. Freshwater shells are for chumps! Get some salt, blandos!
Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore!!!
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.
She did surely (i got the klaxon)
Covering old ground now. Stephen Fry talked about Anning on QI about 15 years ago.
Some subjects are interesting enough to be worth mentioning more than once.
Or, if you prefer, they're: Quite, quite interesting!
Alan didn't remember it, so it's a good 'un for another outing.
@@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.
They find that data changes on the same topics so then they revisit the old ground.
@@klaxoncow It's funny sometimes when he does remember....
Alan: "I heard somewhere that..."
Stephen: "Yes, it was on this show."
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.
😂 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.
(Flubbing the tongue twister, and a lot of lateral thinking helps.)
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.