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Posted by willow on February 13, 2001, at 11:11:00
Mars I can remember watching "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" with my father and brothers (I can't remember if my mom watched it) as a child too. Perhaps we should do a scientific study to see if it has had an adverse affect on young viewers of our generation?
I still make references to it: I never say "uncle" instead I'll say "I can still bite you" (remember the guard on the little bridge) and I make those fake horse sounds and prance around like I'm really riding a horse (my husband will look at me like I've lost it, but the children enjoy it) plus "nit nit nit" (I don't recall what was in that forest, was it a riddle?)
Perhaps it is PTSD, every year I may get it because of the easter bunny or an everyready bunny could trigger it, because of the killer bunny?
Anyone's thoughts would be appreciated!
Someone made reference to Monty python earlier too, and I didn't get it, could have they been effected too?
Posted by mars on February 13, 2001, at 14:53:26
In reply to Monty Python ..., posted by willow on February 13, 2001, at 11:11:00
Willow, I actually think my dad did me a BIG favor with the enforced Python viewing ~ 3/4 of the friends I've had in the ensuing decades are Python-quoters (a *very* special breed). Also, I needed a warped sense o' humor to grow up with my father. Bullwinkle & Rocky were good priming ground (Fractured Fairytales, anyone?) but Python tied me into a network of lovely strange people. Any friend of mine named Tim is automatically "Tim The Enchanter", which makes my Tim-friends feel very special. BTW, I think you are thinking of the Knights who say "Neep". At least, I think it's "Neep".
We were living outside of Buffalo, NY and watched the Python show on Canadian TV. One of the funniest things happened when some friends of my dad's from New Zealand came to visit ~ they couldn't tell when Monty Python ended and the Canadian news began. (Honest!) Cam, care to comment?
I did notice that my little 10 month-old nephew really liked my imitation of the killer rabbit, even if he didn't know what he was seeing (yet).
Have you ever seen any of John Cleese's writings about mental health issues? Most of the depressed people I've known have great senses of humor (if somewhat black).
Neep!
mars
> Mars I can remember watching "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" with my father and brothers (I can't remember if my mom watched it) as a child too. Perhaps we should do a scientific study to see if it has had an adverse affect on young viewers of our generation?
>
> I still make references to it: I never say "uncle" instead I'll say "I can still bite you" (remember the guard on the little bridge) and I make those fake horse sounds and prance around like I'm really riding a horse (my husband will look at me like I've lost it, but the children enjoy it) plus "nit nit nit" (I don't recall what was in that forest, was it a riddle?)
>
> Perhaps it is PTSD, every year I may get it because of the easter bunny or an everyready bunny could trigger it, because of the killer bunny?
>
> Anyone's thoughts would be appreciated!
> Someone made reference to Monty python earlier too, and I didn't get it, could have they been effected too?
Posted by Cam W. on February 13, 2001, at 16:54:00
In reply to And now for something completely different!, posted by mars on February 13, 2001, at 14:53:26
Hey Mars - "Whot's on the telly?"
I have the scripts from all of the shows. Kinda scary to know that I was raised on Python, too, huh. - Cam
Posted by willow on February 13, 2001, at 19:21:45
In reply to And now for something completely different!, posted by mars on February 13, 2001, at 14:53:26
What was it with the "neet" trees? Why did they go "neet, neet, neet?"
What is black humour?
The only joke I'm sure to get is a pun!Simple-minded?
Don't americans watch monty python?
Posted by Todd on February 14, 2001, at 0:53:20
In reply to Neet! , posted by willow on February 13, 2001, at 19:21:45
We are the knights who say "wicky wicky wicky!"
Posted by allisonm on February 14, 2001, at 2:52:24
In reply to Re: We are no longer the knights who say neet, posted by Todd on February 14, 2001, at 0:53:20
> We are the knights who say "wicky wicky wicky!"
I thought it was "wicky, wicky, wicky, petang, petang!"
(Just bring me a shrubbery.)
Posted by allisonm on February 14, 2001, at 3:02:32
In reply to Re: We are no longer the knights who say neet, posted by allisonm on February 14, 2001, at 2:52:24
Or was it "icky, icky, icky, petang, petang!"?
Posted by ChrisK on February 14, 2001, at 5:47:30
In reply to Re: We are no longer the knights who say neet, posted by allisonm on February 14, 2001, at 3:02:32
We used to get the Python show on PBS when I was in the 7th grade. There were a few of us that would re-live the show almost every morning. Of course my favorites are still the classic Dead Parrot sketch and the High Class Twit of the Year.
"Bad Zeus. The punishment for lighting the grail shaped light is a spanking. And after you are done with her you must spank me too."
I also loved the band of singers following around "Brave" Sir Robin.
Posted by willow on February 14, 2001, at 7:32:11
In reply to Re: We are no longer the knights who say neet, posted by ChrisK on February 14, 2001, at 5:47:30
"There were a few of us that would re-live the show almost every morning."
I want to watch it again now, just to re-live it too!
"I also loved the band of singers following around "Brave" Sir Robin."Were these the guys making the horse sounds? I was about eight when I watched it. Funny how I can forget these important things!
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Posted by mars on February 14, 2001, at 10:46:21
In reply to Re: And now for something completely different! » mars, posted by Cam W. on February 13, 2001, at 16:54:00
Cam, I think that the fact that you were raised on Python too is part of your general appeal. I think there's a Sartre connection here too...or maybe it's Wittgenstein.
Happy VD, Pythoneers!
mars
> Hey Mars - "Whot's on the telly?"
>
> I have the scripts from all of the shows. Kinda scary to know that I was raised on Python, too, huh. - Cam
Posted by Noa on February 14, 2001, at 12:04:23
In reply to Re: And now for something exactly the same! » Cam W., posted by mars on February 14, 2001, at 10:46:21
I loved the Flying Circus shows, watched them a lot as a teen and young adult. Don't get them in this town. But I never liked the movies much.
Posted by Noa on February 14, 2001, at 12:06:48
In reply to Re: And now for something exactly the same! » Cam W., posted by mars on February 14, 2001, at 10:46:21
One of my favorite sketches was the one where the doorbell rings and when the lady of the house asks who it is, the guys says, "Burglar, Maam", and then she drills him about whether he is really an encyclopedia salesman just trying to trick her!--this made me laugh so hard all the time.
Now there is a dated joke!
Posted by jackster on March 11, 2001, at 2:01:00
In reply to Re: We are no longer the knights who say neet, posted by ChrisK on February 14, 2001, at 5:47:30
> We used to get the Python show on PBS when I was in the 7th grade. There were a few of us that would re-live the show almost every morning. Of course my favorites are still the classic Dead Parrot sketch and the High Class Twit of the Year.
>
Actually it was Upper Class Twit of the year. Sorry, I guess nobody expects a Spanish Inquisition!Jackie
Posted by Miss Amy on March 11, 2001, at 10:27:43
In reply to Nobody expects a Spanish Inquisition! » ChrisK, posted by jackster on March 11, 2001, at 2:01:00
Intercourse the Penguin.
Tonight on "It's the Mind"......
Posted by Noa on March 13, 2001, at 12:22:37
In reply to Re: Nobody expects a Spanish Inquisition!, posted by Miss Amy on March 11, 2001, at 10:27:43
Sometimes I have to deal with people who remind me of the sketches about the ministry of arguments, etc. No matter what you say.......
Posted by Cam W. on March 13, 2001, at 23:05:03
In reply to Re: Nobody expects a Spanish Inquisition!, posted by Noa on March 13, 2001, at 12:22:37
> Sometimes I have to deal with people who remind me of the sketches about the ministry of arguments, etc. No matter what you say.......
Noa - No, you don't. - Cam
Posted by Adam on March 16, 2001, at 17:18:31
In reply to Re: We are no longer the knights who say neet, posted by ChrisK on February 14, 2001, at 5:47:30
> "Bad Zeus.I bleive it was "Bad Zut!" I always thought this was so hilarious, because Zut (with the little hat thing over the U) is like "darn" or "drat" in French, and will get you about as much respect among French speakers as saying "Ai, caramba!" in Tijuana or "Golly-gee willikers" in South Boston with all earnestness.
Sir Robin's minstrels were absolutely classic. "He's not afraid to have...his nostrils raped," etc., is just, well, too perfect for words.
(Requisite disclaimer: I don't normally find the idea of rape funny...the key here is irony. Thanks to all for understanding.)
Posted by Adam on March 16, 2001, at 17:37:54
In reply to Re: And now for something exactly the same! » Cam W., posted by mars on February 14, 2001, at 10:46:21
Did someone mention philosphers? Why, I feel a song coming on...
Ohhhhhh!
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stableHeidegger Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could drink you under the tableDavid Hume could outconsume
Wilhelm Freidrich HegelAnd Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as SchlegelThere's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya'
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates himself was per-man-ent-ly pissed!John Stuar Mill of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly illPlato they say could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every dayAristotle Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dramAnd Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am!"Socrates himself is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed!
Brought to you courtesy of the Three Bruces.(Obligatory disclaimer: I do not normally find the abuse of alcohol, crude idioms, or the careless hurling of homophobic epithet's to be amusing or edifying (well, I do like the odd crude idiom), but this is satire. Thank you for your patience.)
> Cam, I think that the fact that you were raised on Python too is part of your general appeal. I think there's a Sartre connection here too...or maybe it's Wittgenstein.
>
> Happy VD, Pythoneers!
>
> mars
>
> > Hey Mars - "Whot's on the telly?"
> >
> > I have the scripts from all of the shows. Kinda scary to know that I was raised on Python, too, huh. - Cam
Posted by willow on March 17, 2001, at 18:42:18
In reply to Re: And now for something exactly the same!, posted by Adam on March 16, 2001, at 17:37:54
> Did someone mention philosphers? Why, I feel a song coming on...
>
> Ohhhhhh!
>
> Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
> Who was very rarely stable
>
> Heidegger Heidegger was a boozy beggar
> Who could drink you under the table
>
> David Hume could outconsume
> Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel
>
> And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
> Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel
>
> There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya'
> 'Bout the raising of the wrist
> Socrates himself was per-man-ent-ly pissed!
>
> John Stuar 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 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!"
>
> Socrates himself is particularly missed
> A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed!
>
>
> Brought to you courtesy of the Three Bruces.
>
> (Obligatory disclaimer: I do not normally find the abuse of alcohol, crude idioms, or the careless hurling of homophobic epithet's to be amusing or edifying (well, I do like the odd crude idiom), but this is satire. Thank you for your patience.)
>
>
> > Cam, I think that the fact that you were raised on Python too is part of your general appeal. I think there's a Sartre connection here too...or maybe it's Wittgenstein.
> >
> > Happy VD, Pythoneers!
> >
> > mars
> >
> > > Hey Mars - "Whot's on the telly?"
> > >
> > > I have the scripts from all of the shows. Kinda scary to know that I was raised on Python, too, huh. - Cam
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