# Is the Monty Python "Galaxy Song" scientifically accurate?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 21, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-monty-python-galaxy-song-scientifically-accurate/434380 "2008-01-21T15:49:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-monty-python-galaxy-song-scientifically-accurate/434380/41 "2013-01-02T12:16:47Z")

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> [@njtt](#):
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> No, Michael Palin may be alright, but he is not a lumberjack.

Quite correct. He was a hairdresser who had a phobia against cutting hair, which is why he had always dreamt about being a lumberjack.

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-monty-python-galaxy-song-scientifically-accurate/434380/42 "2013-01-02T18:41:54Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Socrates himself was most definitely _not_ “permanently pissed,” or he’d never have said or written anything we’d still remember!

Jim Morrison, Warren Zevon, Stevie Ray Vaughan …

People remember their idols, even the drunken idols.

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**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:** [January 2, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-monty-python-galaxy-song-scientifically-accurate/434380/43 "2013-01-02T18:57:16Z")

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> [@njtt](#):
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> No, Michael Palin may be alright, but he is not a lumberjack.
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> I have no knowledge as to whether he has ever put on women’s clothing, and hung around in bars.

Well, as far as the first, [there ya go.](http://blevkog.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/michael-palin-as-middle-aged-woman.jpg)

Still searching for evidence that he hangs around in bars. Will update as progress dictates.

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