# BBC thought Python was "sadistic" and "disgusting" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527 "2006-12-10T02:58:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/61 "2006-12-14T17:41:45Z")
[QUOTE=Eonwe] I just came in here to buy a . . . . . . mattress! [/QUOTE] Oh great! :rolleyes: **Elendil’s Heir** , just put a bag on his head. :mad: Thanks a lot! Now I’ll have to stand in the tea chest. _“…and did those feet, in ancient times, walk upon England’s mountain green…”_ ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/62 "2006-12-14T17:59:38Z")
It is now time for this Cafe Society thread to _explode_. BOOM! ---
**Author:** ![rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/63 "2006-12-14T20:01:48Z")
can I just say that this is in fact the first time I’ve been on this thread? ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/64 "2006-12-14T20:17:05Z")
Oh look, this isn’t even a _proper_ thread! A thread is a meaningful series of posts intended to elucidate the question raised in the OP, or to debate the point at issue. It’s not just a load of people quoting old bits of sketches from a TV show. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/65 "2006-12-14T20:21:26Z")
[QUOTE=ianzin] A thread is a meaningful series of posts intended to elucidate the question raised in the OP, or to debate the point at issue. It’s not just a load of people quoting old bits of sketches from a TV show. [/QUOTE] Tis Si ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/66 "2006-12-14T20:25:23Z")
No it _isn’t_. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/67 "2006-12-14T20:33:05Z")
[QUOTE=ianzin] Oh look, this isn’t even a _proper_ thread! A thread is a meaningful series of posts intended to elucidate the question raised in the OP, or to debate the point at issue. It’s not just a load of people quoting old bits of sketches from a TV show. [/QUOTE] yes— but we are fighting ignorance! Some people may have forgotten some of the quotes. And, rememberl, it is impossible to kill this thread. Because this thread cannot die–it can only go pining for the fjords, pushing up daisies, join the choir invisible,pushing up daisies, etc,etc etc… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/68 "2006-12-14T20:35:20Z")
[QUOTE=rabbit] can I just say that this is in fact the first time I’ve been on this thread? [/QUOTE] No, I’m sorry, there’s no time. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/69 "2006-12-14T20:41:45Z")
Well, I for one wish to thank the BBB for having the bourage to broadbast “Monty Pythons Flying Birbus”, even if it was _sadistib_ and _disgusting_. If they hadn’t, I wouldn’t apprebiate this thread. Naturally, they did show the program on the Siamese Bat (an altogether more dangerous breature) , and left me in this state, talking like a silly bunt. Si ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/70 "2006-12-14T20:44:09Z")
_I’m sadistic & disgusting and I’m OK/ I work all night and I sleep all day…_ ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/71 "2006-12-14T20:47:26Z")
Defeat in the “Airplane on a Treadmill” column seems to have utterly disheartened Cecil Adams. The ferocity of the taunting by the uneducated took him completely by surprise, and Adams became convinced that a new strategy was required if the quest to Eradicate Ignorance were to be brought to a successful conclusion. Adams, having consulted his closest SDSABs, decided that they should separate, and produce columns individually. Now, this is what they did: C K Dexter Hav-- Aaaah! _:: dies ::_ ---
**Author:** ![Subterraneanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Subterraneanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subterraneanus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/72 "2006-12-14T21:26:53Z")
On second thought, let’s not get online. 'Tis a silly place. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_A_Tame_Lion)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/73 "2006-12-14T21:46:59Z")
Can you lend us a tenner so I can get the _Telegraph_ and read about Python with my morning scone? I can pay you back next Thursday when I’m expectin’ a postal order. Hope all is well with your sciatica. Love, Ewen ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/74 "2006-12-14T22:04:12Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] > [@](#): > > _Originally Posted by **Eonwe** _ > I just came in here to buy a . . . > > . . . > > mattress! Oh great! :rolleyes: **Elendil’s Heir** , just put a bag on his head. :mad: Thanks a lot! Now I’ll have to stand in the tea chest. _“…and did those feet, in ancient times, walk upon England’s mountain green…”_ [/QUOTE] But it’s her ONLY LINE! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/75 "2006-12-14T22:22:17Z")
The Straight Dope Message Board, Forbidding, Aloof, Terrifying. the message board with the biggest tits. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/76 "2006-12-15T03:59:13Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] Anti-Semite! [/QUOTE] Not at all. It’s not even a proper post. ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/77 "2006-12-17T09:58:49Z")
Dinsdale? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/78 "2006-12-18T16:14:55Z")
**Dinsdale** might be around here somewhere. I never thought of Spiny Norman as a canary, though… :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/79 "2006-12-18T18:18:31Z")
Lemon curry? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527/80 "2006-12-18T18:51:07Z")
[QUOTE=Carl Corey] Lemon curry? [/QUOTE] No, spam! Spam, spam, spam, spam. Spam, spam, spam, spam. Spam, SPAM! SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAAAAM! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-thought-python-was-sadistic-and-disgusting/383527.md?page=5)