Monty Python...

[Cia]

My DH taught our DD the Lumberjack song - boy did we get strange looks from her Kindergarten and 1st grade teachers.

As my sig says - everything I know about England I learned from Monty Python.

[DesignFox]

Actually- the philosopher's drinking song... eh hem... *singing voice*

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant,
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy begger,
Who could think you under the table!
David Hume, could out consume,
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beer-y swine,
who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Neitzche couldn't teach ya,
Bout the raisin' of the wrist,
Socrates himself, was permanently pissed!!!!

John Stuart Mill of his own free will,
After half a crate of shandy, was particularly ill,
Plato they say, could stick it away,
Half a crate of whiskey 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!

[iradney]

*ahem*
iiiiiiiiiiiiiii've got ninety thousand pounds in my pajamas!
i've got forty thousand french francs in my fridge!
i've got lots of lovely lire now the deutschmark's getting dearer and my dollar bills could buy the brooklyn bridge!

therrrrrrrrrrre is nothing quite as wonderful as money!
There's nothing quite as wonderful as cash
some people say it's folly but i'd rather have the lolly!
with money you can maaaaaaaaaaake a splash!

[Kiwi]

The best part of 2005 was taking my family to see john cleese for christmas

he showed clips of his favourite acting parts and my fav monty python moment was included.... cleese and michael palian are on the side of a river, cleese being slapped with two fish on either side of his face....until he brings out a mighty fish and WHAM palain goes into the river.

that and the department of silly walks....and he showed that to!!!and yes I got the silly walk t shirt

[Lace Neil Singer]

For me, and a few others, the favoured song was Sir Robin's song. XD

Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from Camelot.
He was not afraid to die, O brave Sir Robin!
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways,
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin!
He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp,
Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken;
To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away;
And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin!

His head smashed in and his heart cut out
And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged
And his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off
And his pen-- (Robin cuts them off here)

Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin!

He is packing it in and packing it up
And sneaking away and buggering up
And chickening out and pissing off home,
Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge...


To be repeated until non fans object too loudly.

[Phoenix79]

My all time favorite is The Holy Grail. Here's a nice list of good quotes from that one, allthough it doesn't go into detail on King Arthur Vs. The Black Knight. That's my favorite scene in the universe!!

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Phoenix

[Rahmota]

The Grail is my all time most favorite python as well. My friends and I used to wander around doing bits from the movie, at least we could get through the mall quickly.

And my high school history teacher showed us the arthur/black knight fight in class as an example of how the middle age fights wheren't. (actually he showed the first fight between bubba redshirt and the black knight then showed the rest of the battles)

[Der Cute]

Sit on my face, and tell me that you love me..

*whistles*

cutenoob

[Caveat Emptor]

My mom, brother and I went to NYC in Dec '05 and saw THG on Broadway. Eric Idle came out before the play because apparently a cast member was stuck in traffic due to the #$%@ transit strike at the time.

[Caveat Emptor]

My high school social studies teacher showed us the discussion between Dennis (I didn't know you were called 'Dennis!') and King Arthur (I really forget why, something to do with the caste system) and because we pestered enough, he let us watch the Black Knight, too.

He was a cool teacher.

They didn't have a King, they were part of autonomous collective / anarcho-syndicalist commune:

ARTHUR:
Old woman!
DENNIS:
Man!
ARTHUR:
Man. Sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?
DENNIS:
I'm thirty-seven.
ARTHUR:
I-- what?
DENNIS:
I'm thirty-seven. I'm not old.
ARTHUR:
Well, I can't just call you 'Man'.
DENNIS:
Well, you could say 'Dennis'.
ARTHUR:
Well, I didn't know you were called 'Dennis'.
DENNIS:
Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?
ARTHUR:
I did say 'sorry' about the 'old woman', but from the behind you looked--
DENNIS:
What I object to is that you automatically treat me like an inferior!
ARTHUR:
Well, I am King!
DENNIS:
Oh, King, eh, very nice. And how d'you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers! By 'anging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress with the--
WOMAN:
Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh! How d'you do?

ARTHUR:
How do you do, good lady? I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that?
WOMAN:
King of the who?
ARTHUR:
The Britons.
WOMAN:
Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR:
Well, we all are. We are all Britons, and I am your king.
WOMAN:
I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
DENNIS:
You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship: a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN:
Oh, there you go bringing class into it again.
DENNIS:
That's what it's all about. If only people would hear of--
ARTHUR:
Please! Please, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
WOMAN:
No one lives there.
ARTHUR:
Then who is your lord?
WOMAN:
We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR:
What?
DENNIS:
I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week,...
ARTHUR:
Yes.
DENNIS:
...but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting...
ARTHUR:
Yes, I see.
DENNIS:
...by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,...
ARTHUR:
Be quiet!
DENNIS:
...but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major--
ARTHUR:
Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN:
Order, eh? Who does he think he is? Heh.
ARTHUR:
I am your king!
WOMAN:
Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR:
You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN:
Well, how did you become King, then?
ARTHUR:
The Lady of the Lake,...
[angels sing]
...her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur.
[singing stops]
That is why I am your king!
DENNIS:
Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR:
Be quiet!
DENNIS:
Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR:
Shut up!
DENNIS:
I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
ARTHUR:
Shut up, will you? Shut up!

DENNIS:
Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR:
Shut up!
DENNIS:
Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
ARTHUR:
Bloody peasant!
DENNIS:
Oh, what a give-away. Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about. Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?

[ThePhoneGoddess]

WHAT HAVE I DONE?!!!!!

[iradney]

you've unleashed a monster of bunny rabbit proportions!

[DarthRetard]

Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

Of course, Im french! Why do you think I have this Outrrrrageous accent!

They call me.......Tim...

and others:

This is my wife audrey, she smells bit but has a heart of gold!

It's spam, spam it's wonderful spam!

"What are you doin goin around scarin people at two in the mornin???!?!!?"

[iradney]

NO-ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!

*strikes a dramatic pose*

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Better prepare...THE COMFY CHAIR!!!!!