[on why the columns of the Parthenon look straight]
They look straight cause they are straight.
That's not a question! Why does this man look thin? Because he is. That is taking me on whole circle. My train of thought was: They look like this because they are. This is why I struggled in school.
It's the Q in QI...
If a train travels at forty miles an hour and leaves at nine o'clock and arrives in Glasgow in twelve o'clock, how did it get there? And you're goin': 'Cause it did.
It's sort of that...
It's not sort of that, its very confusing!
It's the Q in QI. Its going round in a circle but with a little wriggly bit at the end.
Why does that look straight [holds up his notebook with a wriggly line drawn on.] Because it's not. That would have been a question. [Draws a straight line next to it] Why does that look straight? Because it is!
Sometimes...
Because it is!
Sometimes things look...
It’s straight!
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