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QI · Season 1, Episode 15

Stephen Fry and Sandi Toksvig in “Unfinished Business”

What use is a goose?

[dead serious] Is it toilet paper? [general laughter] No, seriously. Is it - [more laughter]

Sandi, that is bizarre. Why do you say that?

Well, because I once read this book by Rabelais, I think it was called Gargantua. And he recommended that the best thing for toilet paper was a live goose. And I have yet to check in to a five-star hotel without a sense of disappointment.

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