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Wikipedia has pages on everything. There's almost nothing... Well, there was one thing I looked up and I couldn't find, but I cant remember what it is, so it probably doesn't matter. Everything is in Wikipedia. Run by Mr and Mrs Wikipedia, who live in a toilet somewhere. They have no money, you know. I have... This is an image I have with... They do everything with torches, old-fashioned torches, which are only used in treasure films now. Treasures down here, sir. You need one of these. Oh, yeah. Yes, yes, so the Wikipedia people. And its stuff on everything. And you used to have arguments. How do you make... How do you make spoons, Jim, Jack, Kenny, Rogers? 2 people. How do you make them? And if no one knew, you'd go, Ah, fuck it. And you wouldn't go, I'll join a library. I'll join a library and I'll get a library card after 6 months. And then I'll look up spoons. No, you wouldn't You'd just... You'd just give up then. But now we've got Wikipedia, we look up spoons. And you'd probably get bored within three lines, if you notice. It goes, Spoons were made from... Within 3 lines, you're going, Helicopters, helicopters... They took over the world... Chickens... Chickens drive helicopters. Alligators... You know. And you can just keep going until you get to one and you click on it and it says, There is no page for this person. And you think, Why did you put them in blue? Dont put them in blue and have no page. Just dont put them in blue. We have been trained, like Pavlov and his dogs.
Eddie Izzard, 2009
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