BS: Monty python quotes

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Cluin
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 07:20 PM

Want to come back to my place?...

















































Alright.

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: kendall
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 09:30 PM

I'm invincible!

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Splott Man
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 02:31 AM

At least one of the above predates Python and is from At Last The 1948 Show.

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 04:21 AM

"No, it's not a pun, it's - what d' you call it - a palindrome!"
"A palindrome of Bolton would be Notlob"

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 04:49 AM

Shut that fucking bouzouki player up.

Albatross for christs sake.

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Stu
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 05:45 AM

Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Liam of the Ferry
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 08:22 AM

"Blue............. NO YELLOW.....AGHH"

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: GUEST,Vic at work
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 09:18 AM

Didn't Arthur Two Sheds have a friend called Keith Maniac of Guatamala?


A Pointed Stick (Its in the accent and pronunciation!)

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 09:32 AM

This is getting silly.

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Greyeyes
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 10:08 AM

Are there any women here?

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: GUEST,Dáithí Ó Geanainn
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 11:14 AM

...also from the Hungarian phrase book:

"My nipples explode with delight!"
"You wanna come back my place, bouncy-bouncy?"


and how come , in the week of its relaunch, has nobody mentioned....SPAM (spam, sppam, spam, spam, eggs and spam)

Trying to reach JeanPaul Sartre on the phone:
"Well, when will he be free?"
"He's been trying to work that out for sixty years"

D

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 11:18 AM

"We 'ave already got one. It'z veery niiice." [a grail]

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 11:35 AM

All we 'ad to eat was a 'andful of 'ot gravel.

'Ot gravel. LUXURY!

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Greyeyes
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 12:02 PM

Well, blessed is just about everyone with a vested interest in the status quo, as far as I can tell, Reg.

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 01:26 PM

Well, the word "spam" itself – used to refer to unwanted e-mail messages – originated out of references to the Spam Sketch, so any time you hear the word "spam" used in that way, it's a Python reference (although rarely a conscious one).

The following is not a recent sighting, but it's so good I have to share it: Punt & Dennis on their Radio 4 programme "The Now Show" were discussing the takeover of the Abbey National (a major chain of banks) by Spain's Banco Sant Andere, giving rise to the comment (all together now!) "Nobody expects the Spanish Acquisition!"

I laughed out loud. Those guys are brilliant!

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 02:10 PM

Okay... the Hungarian Phrase Book... been a while since I have seen it... what movie would that be a part of, "And Now for Something Completely Different!"?

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 02:22 PM

Somewhat related,

When my kids learned what spam actually stood for they began investigating other possibilities like:

Spiced Pork = SPORK
Spiced Chicken = SPICKEN
Spiced Broccoli = Sproccoli

It quickly degenerated into giggles and fell apart.

"Is that a European swallow or an African Swallow?
I don't know....Aaaaaaaggggghhhhhhhh!

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: annamill
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 02:28 PM

"..butI'm not dead yet!! "Yes you are!" Boing!

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: HuwG
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 03:22 PM

Yorkshire Yankee, the Spanish bank in question was actually the "Banco Santander", but this doesn't spoil the joke.

While serving behind a bar the Sunday after the show, I saw two of my friends being bored to tears as someone pontificated about the takeover. I copied the same line. My friends spat beer through their noses. The self-opinionated one later tried to tell me (unsuccessfully) to know my place.

If I have a favourite Python sketch (as opposed to single quote) it is John Cleese correcting Graham Chapman's latin graffiti in "Life of Brian". To appreciate the full humour of the sketch, one had to have had Latin inflicted on one as a subject at a Grammar or Public school, which I why I was rolling about on the floor of the cinema where I first saw the film, while everyone else stared at me and wondered what institution I had escaped from.

Python came out with many quotes which aren't funny in themselves, but remind many of the unforgettable sketches. Even the sketches sometimes were made memorable by Python's inspired continuity.

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 03:35 PM

Ah, I see you have machine that goes "Ping."

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: *Laura*
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 03:48 PM

"Inflamation of the foreskin reminds me of your smile...."

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: HuwG
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 03:59 PM

Ooops !

Could the thread monitors turn off the italics after "Banco Santander" in my last post ?

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: GUEST,dipwad
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 04:15 PM

Are there any women here?

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: *Laura*
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 04:29 PM

"Now we see the violence inherit in the system!
Come and see the violence inherit in the system!
Help! Help!
I'm. Being. Repressed!

Did you see him repressing me? You saw it din't you!?!?"

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall)
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 05:27 PM

I periodically catch myself using "so big, so big, so hugely big" from the Monty Python interlude at the "Concert for George"(Harrison), filmed at the Royal Albert Hall.

Rich

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Kim C
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 05:38 PM

And now, the man with three buttocks.

(or something like that...)

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: *Laura*
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 05:54 PM

A man with nine legs!

- He ran away!

Oh bloody hell

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: *Laura*
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 05:57 PM

(actor father to coal-mining son)

London not good enough for you!! You had to go poncing off to Barnsley!!!

- Coal mining is a wonderful thing father. But it's something you'll never understand! Your head is addled with novels and poems, and look at mother - she's tired out with meeting film stars and giving gala luncheons...

- THERES NOWT WRONG WI' GALA LUNCHEONS!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: LilyFestre
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 05:58 PM

We are no longer the knights who say, "Nee"
We are now the knights who say, "Icky, icky, icky......PA-TANG!"

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 06:34 PM

One I used frequently at work..... 'larks tongues, otter noses, get 'em while they're hot'.... usually when handing out the post. I'm very misunderstood at work....

I'm also frequently seen being a 'Gumby'.... but without the headgear...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 06:37 PM

For some reason, I keep coming across opportunities to sing 'sit on my face and tell me that you love me'....

Must resist urge,, must resist urge....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 04:38 AM

Oh Mrs Niggerbaiters exploded.

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 04:42 AM

Is she dead???

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 05:21 AM

What a silly bunt! — and the rest of the preamble to the travel-agency monologue.

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Greyeyes
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 11:53 AM

Thank you, Karl.

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 12:31 PM

"bring out your dead"

"I don't WAN'T to go on the cart"

"I'm getting better!"

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: clueless don
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 01:11 PM

Warning! Lark's vomit!

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: *Laura*
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 04:27 PM

- Larks vomit! It should put that on the box!

- Don't be ridiculous - our sales would plummet!

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Raedwulf
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 05:19 PM

Trouble at mill!

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: *Laura*
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 05:29 PM

So, logically, if she weighs the same as a duck - she's made of wood! And therefore...
A WITCH! A WITCH!

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 06:20 PM

that's not nearly silly enough

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: moonglow
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 07:46 PM

there's one I get many opportunities to say-: "oh, you're no fun anymore"

I also have a few of the quotes with actual sound links to them set as sounds on my computer. For example, when I log in, it says "this is an ex-parrot!". When a warning comes up (something finishes downloading), it either says "oh bloody hell," or "(twang) message for you, sir." Finally, when I log off, it says "how shall we fuck off, O Lord?"

Surprisingly, many of my friends are Python/ Tom Lehrer fans.

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 07:51 PM

Does Yorkshire Yankee or anyone else know the date of the joke by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis about the Spanish Acquisition (ie of the Abbey National Building Society by the Bank of Santander)?

I am interested because I thought of the exact same joke on 26th July 2004 after seeing a TV program that evening about the takeover; I mentioned this joke in a private E-mail on 27th July and another one to a different person on 2nd September 2004 (in the latter I said "Remember you heard it here first").

Honestly folks, this isn't a boast about what a great originator of jokes I am (HE SAID MODESTLY!), but am genuinely curious as to how quickly different people think of something like this and how quickly it circulates. I remember thinking at the time that it would probably be a very short time before a headline like "Nobody expects the Spanish Acquisition" appeared in a newspaper. I did an Internet search for "Spanish Acquisition at that time" and though I got some "hits" I didn't get in the above form.

If you are aware of one of Monty Pythons most famous sketches then this is a very obvious pun.

Strangely, no individual "Monty Python" quote seems to be all that common, although "Don't mention the war" by ex Python John Cleese in the Fawlty Towers Episode about the Germans is certainly heard quite often. I also like Basil Fawlty's phrase "I'm so sorry, he's from Barcelona" and (Basil Fawlty to Manuel) "(Do?)You have rats in Spain, or did Franco have them all shot?"

One of my own genuine Python favourites is "The Polar Bear's escaped", delivered in a high pitch voice, though I haven't actually heard anyone else use it. There was also a Pythonesque interview featuring the late Graham Chapman as a Government Minister":

Interviewer (possibly Eric Idle or Michael Palin): "Minister, in your manisfesto, you promised to build over 10 million houses(or some preposterous figure) in the Greater London area alone; you have in fact built only three. How do you answer this?"
Minister: "I'd like to answer this question, if I may, in 2 ways. First of all in my normal voice, and secondly, using a kind of silly high-pitched squeak".

John Cleese's father was originally called John Cheese, but changed it to Cleese in the Army in 1915 to avoid being teased (I would have thought being teased in the Army in 1915 was the least of your worries as this was in the middle of World War One. Pity though he changed it, this would have made his son John a "big Cheese" (geddit?)

Cleese himself regrets the name change and thinks it would be good to be called Jack Cheese (his wife calls him Jack). He has also traced the surname Cheese to Norwich in 1273, though Cleese himself came from Weston Super Mare in Somerset at the other end of England.

HERE ENDETH THE HISTORY LESSON

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: HuwG
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 12:05 AM

Dear Guest, I believe that the "Spanish Acquisistion" line came in the last episode of the Punt and Dennis series before the currect series of the "News Quiz" (which itself has just finished).

If I am right, it was therefore broadcast on October 7th. (Friday) I may be out by a week or so, but I doubt whether it was broadcast before October 1st.

I shall now break one of my earlier rules ...


"I never wanted to do this job anyway. I always wanted to be ... a Lumberjack !"

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Cluin
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 03:46 AM

What ho, Squiffy!

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 09:13 AM

Your mother was a hampster and your father smells of elderberries. You king artur and you sill engish keniggets, I vave my private parts at your aunty.

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: GUEST,Garydon
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 09:59 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: GUEST,Gary
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 10:00 AM

The Larch

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From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 10:13 AM

99

Subject: RE: BS: Monty python quotes
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 10:13 AM

100. I thank you!