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# arf
Are worms hermaphrodites?


(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:50, archived)
# not sure...
possibly...
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:51, archived)
# and so are slugs
... although I think the thing about both bits living when you chop them in half is an incorrectness, I think they both ultimately die do death in a short space of time.
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:51, archived)
# *rolls eyes*
they don't call you Prof for nothing.
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:52, archived)
# they call me it because I tell them to
... and because I've yet to find a practical application for my intelligence.
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:53, archived)
# Yep.
They die. THey just have very long death throws(is that how you spell it?) according to one S. Fry.
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:53, archived)
# yes
I saw it on QI a while ago. They are essentially dead, it's the twitchy nerves that make them seem like they're still alive.
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:54, archived)
# death throes? *googles*
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:07, archived)
# Thank you, sir
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:11, archived)
# But you can slice a paramecium up the middle
and get two perfectly serviceable parameciums out of the deal.

If you're so inclined.
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:53, archived)
# You mean pelargoniums
Two plants for the price of one!
/Charlie "Norks" Dimmock
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:55, archived)
# Paramecia!
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:09, archived)
# Dammit!
I know you're right. Oops.
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:16, archived)
# I just wanted to know for sure so I could use the line
in that case they can go fuck themselves and mean it literally :)
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:54, archived)
# yes - very good
you get 10 QI points
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:55, archived)
# Which I shall probably lose during the next round
for stating the bleedin' obvious :)
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:56, archived)
# fingers on buzzers
what is Gil Scott Heron's father well know for?
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:00, archived)
# Length of his cock.
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:01, archived)
# actually - that might be correct
Gil actually released a track which described his father's propensity to womanise... they lyrics being

'he's a legend in his own mind and, God's gift to women, on a day God wasn't giving up a thing.'
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:12, archived)
# scottish footy
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:02, archived)
# This
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:04, archived)
# Yes -
well done... you both get 50 QI points
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:05, archived)
# *BIG SMILE*
that's right Debbil, he was the first black player to play for the Glagow Celtic's Soccer team
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:05, archived)
# I'd say it's possibly a misunderstanding of this
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:57, archived)
# Wikipedia is just one big misunderstanding
overseen by sex pests and deviants
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:00, archived)
# Haha
My friend complained that wikipedia listed The Pub Landlord as a "British Nationalist" when in reality he's a "Pub Landlord"

Needless to say, my friend is an idiot.
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:08, archived)
# wikitruth.org is a great webiste
and details how crap wikipedia really is:

www.wikitruth.info/
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:14, archived)
# as long as the first seven segments from the head are still in one piece, the front part lives on
...I think
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:57, archived)
# it's incredible to think
that worms can count to 7!
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 15:59, archived)