#57737
02/20/2002 12:21 AM
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Ok, CK started quoting Monty Python, and it's come up in another thread as well (origins of SPAM as a computer term), I figured we may as well be up front about our interest in all things Python. So, what's your favourite Monty Python line / sketch? Me? Oh I thought you'd never ask... So hard to say (because there were so many good ones) but here's a small selection:
The Black Knight from the Holy Grail.
Arthur: What are you going to do? Bleed on me?
http://www.graphicszone.net/monty_python/scripts/Holy_Grail/Scene4.htm
And the "We were poor" sketch:
Eric Idle: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."
Michael Palin: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
http://mzonline.com/python/we_poor.html
Come on, share the joy!  
Hev
Post edit: Crossing with the Haiku thread, here's a Monty Python Haiku and Limerick competition (closed to new entrants .. sorry). http://www.montypython.net/grailpoetryresults.php
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#57738
02/20/2002 12:30 AM
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My favorite. Hmmm. The Repression bit in Search for the Holy Grail.
I don't care how many times I hear ... "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away! Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
...I am bowled over. The Python crew had such a way with words. They flow and flip and dance and I love it all.
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#57739
02/20/2002 12:33 AM
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#57740
02/20/2002 12:42 AM
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#57741
02/20/2002 12:42 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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Every sperm is sacred!
Yeah, but, Helen, what's your favorite Monty Python line?
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#57742
02/20/2002 1:45 AM
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(are there any women here?)
<High pitched voice>No, no ... <Much deeper voice> Uh, No, No!
Of course, asking me to select favourites is grossly unfair.
Max, I *so know what you're saying ... How does one choose ONE favourite? There's "The Lumberjack Song", "I like Traffic Lights", "Ministry of Silly Walks" ... and the list goes on. However, I must limit myself, so that others can say their bit ... if they don't say their bit, however, I'll just keep reminding myself of more Python humour and end up hiring video of one or t'other on my way home...
Hev
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#57743
02/20/2002 3:58 AM
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I was going for "The Lumberjack Song," IMHO the absolute best, but hev beat me to it. A couple of others: "Hell's Grannies" and the one about the two women going to Paris to pay a housecall on Sartre and de Beauvoir. "Oh, mairde!"
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#57744
02/20/2002 4:10 AM
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Upper Class 'Twit of the Year'
I do so want to acquire the compleat 14-DVD set of MPFC
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#57745
02/20/2002 11:01 AM
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Bruce's Philosopher song (sung with an Oz accent).
Immanuel Kant was a real piss ant
Who was very rarely stable,
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table,
David Hume could out consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist,
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed...
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill,
Plato, they say, could stick it away,
Half a crate of whisky every day,
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart,
"I drink, therefore I am"...
Yes Socrates, himself, is particularly missed...
A lovely little thinker,
But a bugger when he's pissed.
The French in Holy Grail.
King Arthur: You're French? What are you doing in England?
Frenchman: Mind your own biziness! Now go away or I shall taunt you some more, you silly English types. Your mother was a 'amster and your father smelled of elderberries, and I fart in your general direction!!
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#57746
02/20/2002 11:03 AM
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I'm with most of you guys, at different moments! ~ but I guess the Spanish Inquisition comes back to haunt me most often. "We have two weapons...!"
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#57747
02/20/2002 11:13 AM
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"We have two weapons...!"
"No, we have three weapons!"
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#57748
02/20/2002 11:20 AM
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The Repression bit in Search for the Holy Grail.Funnier still in that scene is the fact that they're harvesting filth. That didn't strike me until I'd seen the movie a few times.
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02/20/2002 11:24 AM
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"No, we have three weapons!"
"I'll come in again, shall I?!"
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#57750
02/20/2002 11:27 AM
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"I'll come in again, shall I?!"
Yes, do that, Cardinal Biggles.
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02/20/2002 11:30 AM
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Cardinal Biggles
Are my Flies Undone?
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#57752
02/20/2002 1:39 PM
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I know it is mighty predictable but i still crack up every time i hear " I wish to complain about this parrot wot I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique"
I am also a huge fan of Fawlty Towers ( recently voted best sitcom of all time in the UK)
hotel guest "I dont like the view from this window"
John Cleese(basil Fawlty) "what exactly did madam expect to see out of a Torquay bedroom window ? the hanging gardens of Babylon?, herds of Wildebeeste sweeping majestically across the bleedin' plain ,I am sorry Krakatoa isn't erupting at the moment..........."
and who can forget the majesty of "don't mention the war" ?
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#57753
02/20/2002 1:55 PM
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and who can forget the majesty of "don't mention the war" ?
"Ees not a rat. Ees a hamster, Mr.Fawlty".
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#57754
02/20/2002 2:10 PM
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"Ees not a rat. Ees a hamster, Mr.Fawlty".
"He can't help it - he comes from Bar-ce-lona...!"
I'm with you too duncster - Farty Towels is the reduction of comic script writing to close to perfection, for me! Where would family life be without the convenient shorthand of "I'm fixing the sodding MOOSE HEAD darling...!"?
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#57755
02/20/2002 3:33 PM
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My mother's favourite and often quoted Fawlty Towers line is "Excuse me ma'am, is this a piece of your brain?" (Basil picks a piece of fluff off the floor and asks the pretending-to-be-deaf lady, to show that she can hear perfectly well.) (Not very a commonly known line but good when someone is being obtuse.)
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#57756
02/20/2002 3:41 PM
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german guest : "stop talking about the war"
Basil: "you started it"
german : "no I did not"
Basil: "yes you did , you invaded Poland"
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#57757
02/20/2002 3:46 PM
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It drove me mad - in days before I had a video tape recorder and could use the pause feature - that the opening a view of the hotel and its sign was so quick. Barely had time to read that episode's corruption of Fawlty Towers.
I'm going to run it through the anagram server right now!
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#57758
02/20/2002 3:51 PM
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Flowery twats was always my fave, not least because it upset my parents, and being a teenage nightmare at the time that was fine by me!!!!!
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#57759
02/20/2002 3:57 PM
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Mum? Have I got a big nose?
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#57760
02/20/2002 7:45 PM
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Oh, okay, I'll play. But this is the natural successor to MPFC, Blackadder: Peasant 1: 'Ere! 'Ave those two nobs got dung on their faces? Peasant 2: Arrr. Peasant 3: *Sigh* What style!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#57761
02/20/2002 8:27 PM
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#57762
02/22/2002 2:06 AM
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I'd have to mention the man that single-handedly scales the face of a certain street in central London or the Village Idiot and his place in contemporary rural society.
And a must for criket fans...
The Testmatch
Cleese:
He bowls to Cowdrey - and no shot at all, a superb display of inertia there... And that's the end of the over, and drinks.
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#57763
02/22/2002 2:19 AM
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Spam...what else?
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02/22/2002 10:11 AM
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The Testmatch
Cleese:
He bowls to Cowdrey - and no shot at all, a superb display of inertia there... And that's the end of the over,
and drinks.
Love it. Just sent it off to my cricket mailing list. A few of my team-mates will see themselves in that!
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