Python, Monty

[karlhenning]

You might find this Hungarian-English Phrasebook of service, Paul . . . .

[springrite]

You might find this Hungarian-English Phrasebook of service, Paul . . . .

Yes, very useful as my buttocks know.

[karlhenning]

It's useful at GMG, too:

I will not buy this record, it is scratched.

[karlhenning]

The point is taken, the beast is moulting, the fluff gets up your nose.

[karlhenning]

Michael Palin advising Eric Idle to feed his ant blancmange . . . Lord, but these lads are funny!

[Brian]

Lend us a couple bob till Thursday.

[karlhenning]

You may have meant to search for python minty

[karlhenning]

Interviewer  Ah, Ring Kichard, yes... but surely that's not an anagram, that's a spoonerism.

Man  If you're going to split hairs, I'm going to piss off.

Mr Man  Yes. Are there any regiments which are more effeminate than others?

RSM  Well, no sir. I mean, apart from the Marines, they're all dead butch.

Mr Man  You see, what I really wanted was a regiment where I could be really quiet and have more time to myself to work with fabrics, and creating new concepts in interior design.

RSM  Working with fabrics and experimenting with interior design!

Mr Man  Yes.

RSM  Oh well you want the Durham Light Infantry then, sir.

Mr Man  Oh.

RSM  Oh yes. That's the only regiment that's really doing something new with interior design, with colour, texture, line and that.

Mr Roland Penrose, the Under-Secretary for making deep growling noises grrr, launched a bitter personal attack on the ex-Minister for delving deep into a black satin bag and producing a tube of Euthymol toothpaste.

There's no lake here, mate. This is Runcorn Avenue. What's the camera doing?

. . . and finally among the lamellibranch bivalves, that most depraved of the whole sub-species - the whelk. The whelk is nothing but a homosexual of the worst kind. This gay boy of the gastropods, this queer crustacean, this mincing mollusc, this screaming, prancing, limp-wristed queen of the deep makes me sick.

The Magna Carta - was it a document signed at Runnymede in 1215 by King John pledging independence to the English barons, or was it a piece of chewing gum on a bedspread in Dorset?

[karlhenning]

The Golden Age of Colonic Irrigation

[springrite]

Karl really should re-compose some of the Monty Python songs. I'd love to hear an art song for barbershop quartet and chamber orchestra titled "Sit on My Face". That would be a hoot!

[Kullervo]

Or In His First Book Proust Wrote About for chamber choir.

[lukeottevanger]

Seriously, that sounds like the title of many pieces by Gavin Bryars. I can hear it now...

[Kullervo]

Seriously, that sounds like the title of many pieces by Gavin Bryars. I can hear it now...

No, it isn't mundane enough. He would rather go for something like a dental assistant's handbook.

EDIT: I was actually thinking of Michael Nyman, not Bryars.

[lukeottevanger]

I'm thinking of a piece like Bryars' And So Ended Kant's Travelling In This World

[Kullervo]

THE BISHOP!

[karlhenning]

Still, never mind - could be worse. How's the nude lady?

[Brian]

I'm a little bit sad and lonely
Now my baby's gone away...
I'm feeling kinda blue
Don't know just what to do
I feel a little sad today.

When I smile
The sun comes flooding in
But when I'm sad
It goes behind the clouds again.

[karlhenning]

♫ . . . but God loves those who treat their semen with more care.

[karlhenning]

Has anyone else noted similarities between two of the Eric Idle songs in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, the "Accountancy Shanty" and "The Galaxy Song"? Harmonically and in melodic contour/gesture . . . .

[karlhenning]

Terry Gilliam misspells "Toulouse," but no matter . . . no time Toulouse!