{"id":11967,"date":"2007-12-20T06:18:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/12\/20\/timing-is-everything-10.html"},"modified":"2007-12-20T06:18:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T13:18:08","slug":"timing_is_everything_10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/20\/timing_is_everything_10.html","title":{"rendered":"Timing is everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re going to flub a line … twice … best not to do it with a panel of merciless comedians, as happened here on the British series QI<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

I have never seen Stephen Fry begging for mercy before … as he spends nearly two minutes trying to finish one line — “They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is …”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re going to flub a line … twice … best not to do it with a panel of merciless comedians, as happened here on the British series QI. 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