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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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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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Yeah, but, Helen, what's your favorite Monty Python line?
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<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...
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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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I do so want to acquire the compleat 14-DVD set of MPFC
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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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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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