Python, Monty

[Dr. Dread]

#1: The Larch

[karlhenning]

#1: The Larch

That episode closes with "Nudge Nudge," doesn't it!?

[Dr. Dread]

That episode closes with "Nudge Nudge," doesn't it!?

Oh, god. I don't know. I'm not THAT much of a geek. 

[karlhenning]

Oh, god. I don't know. I'm not THAT much of a geek. 

You're a disgrace to geekdom! Your license is hereby yanked! 

[Dr. Dread]

You're a disgrace to geekdom! Your license is hereby yanked! 

You can't do that. I have plenty of embarrassingly geeky things I'm into, as you well know.

[karlhenning]

(* sigh *) Can't take a man's livelihood from him, can we? 

[drogulus]

Oh, god. I don't know. I'm not THAT much of a geek. 

     I almost never know which skit comes next in an episode, and I've seen every one of them 723 times.

     8 times.

     More than once.

     I've seen all of them.

[Cato]

     I almost never know which skit comes next in an episode, and I've seen every one of them 723 times.

     8 times.

     More than once.

     I've seen all of them.

Or at least some of them!

You remind me of Hank Kimball, County Agent of Green Acres fame, who at the beginning of a sentence would claim something was true, and by the end of the sentence was claiming just the opposite!





Professor David Marc is quoted on this website:  http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/G/htmlG/greenacres/greenacres.htm

"County Agent Hank Kimball's (Alvy Moore) "discourses on plant and animal husbandry rival those of a semiotics professor" (according to Marc, and personifies a kind of infinite regress, where every empirical statement branches into multiple statements that in turn preclude it, spiraling each new observation back and away from itself like an inductive Escherism."

See also:  http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1385457-hank-kimball

An excerpt:

Hank Kimball was the quintessential everyman in his role as "county agent" in the absurd world of Hooterville circa 1967; in his timeless existential quest for clarity of meaning, all divisions melt, all rivalries cease. Well, not exactly "cease," as Kimball might say, but perhaps more accurately find a peace in their disharmony. Well, not exactly "peace," and not exactly "disharmony"...Kimball as Seeker always points to a quest that is at once internal and external, microcosmic and macrocosmic, entirely personal and wholly universal. For who is Hank Kimball if not a man in search of the truth? And who is Hank Kimball if not a man who knows the truth -- well, not exactly "knows" – behind this ancient saying of the wise ones? "Before enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water."Kimball, in his undiluted Hootervillian form, is nothing less than the pure Seeker within all of us, struggling against the limitations of physicality and language in every moment, just as all who walk this Earth must struggle. Say what you will, but words can never be precise enough for Kimball; he knows that he doesn't know. And that is all there is to know. Unless, of course, he knows something you do not know or you know something he needs to know. For while a rose may still be a rose by any other name, it is the essence of that rose, its roseness, if you will, that continues to elude. It dances not only beyond Kimball's reach, but even escapes the grasp of those who would make their living selling flowers."

[DavidRoss]

Gosh, Cato, now I regret having turned off that show after about five minutes of Ms Gabor and the pig.  Hank Kimball sounds like the spiritual father of Larry, brother of Darrell and Darrell, William Sanderson's character on The Bob Newhart Show.

Do they have larches in Vermont?

[Cato]

Gosh, Cato, now I regret having turned off that show after about five minutes of Ms Gabor and the pig.  Hank Kimball sounds like the spiritual father of Larry, brother of Darrell and Darrell, William Sanderson's character on The Bob Newhart Show.

Do they have larches in Vermont?

The show took after the first season and got "betterer and betterer" every year!   0:)

The Eddie Albert character became a Kafkaesque figure comically battered by bureaucrats and bumpkins.

[Dr. Dread]

[karlhenning]

http://www.youtube.com/v/QWWPk9jrvqk

[DavidRoss]

(* sigh *) Can't take a man's livelihood from him, can we? 

[karlhenning]

http://www.youtube.com/v/Vkw2DdoskPY

[karlhenning]

Eminent musicologist Rob Newman explains how to play the flute:

http://www.youtube.com/v/tNfGyIW7aHM

[Chosen Barley]

Could eminent composer Henning explain how to play the clarinet?  My niece handed me her clarinet and told me to blow into it, but I couldn't get a sound to come out of it.   

[karlhenning]

Oh, that's tough without someone there to demonstrate what to do and/or correct what the novice is doing amiss.

[Josquin des Prez]

Could eminent composer Henning explain how to play the clarinet?  My niece handed me her clarinet and told me to blow into it, but I couldn't get a sound to come out of it.  

Assuming the clarinet works like a sax, you are supposed to choke the head piece with your mouth while pressing on the reed with an hardened lower lip. The trick is to make the thin part of the reed "flap" with vibrations, so your lower lip should press on the reed somewhere before the wood becomes too thick to vibrate, which is usually referred to as the "heart" of the vamp:

[Joe Barron]

No, you blow in this end and run your fingers up and down the outside.

[karlhenning]

The heart of the vamp . . . you give the clarinet a bad name . . . .