# Monty Python fans in here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 5, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497 "2001-01-05T01:23:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/21 "2001-01-05T13:19:33Z")
On second thoughts, Camelot sounds like rather a silly place… ---
**Author:** ![NaughtyMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@NaughtyMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NaughtyMe)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/22 "2001-01-05T13:39:17Z")
A witch! A witch! A witch! Yes you must spank us all! ---
**Author:** ![Boomfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@Boomfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boomfly)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/23 "2001-01-05T13:43:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fierra \* > \*\*Now for something completely different… > Boomfly - talk to dpr - you could be made his minister of silly posts. \*\* Fierra, Thanks for the honour, but should a newbie perform such an IMPORTANT job around here? I mean… shouldt a minister be elected? I’d like to apply for the job of secretary to the ministy of Silly posts… (nice and secure civil-servant job…) 🙂 ::walks off and starts nie-ing the swallows in his shrubbery:: ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/24 "2001-01-05T13:54:57Z")
Mr Pudey, the very real problem is one of money. I’m afraid that the Ministry of Silly Posts is no longer getting the kind of support it needs. You see there’s Defense, Social Security, Health, Housing, Education, Silly Posts… they’re all supposed to get the same. But last year, the Government spent less on the Ministry of Silly Posts than it did on National Defence. Now we get £348,000,000 a year, which is supposed to be spent on all our available products. Coffee? ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/25 "2001-01-05T16:10:52Z")
I gotta brag just a wee bit 'coz I hit pay-dirt this Dec 25[sup]th[/sup]. I got TWO [sub]legs from my hips to the ground…[/sub], that is, TWO boxed sets of “The Flying Circus” (A&E’s versions), one from my wife and one from my brother. _AND_ a dear friend gave me a T-shirt - on the back, all great big like, is John Cleese with briefcase and bowler hat, in mid high-kick and the words “The Ministry of Silly Walks”. Watched a few episodes off the tapes with the family. Wife, of course, loved them. Brother laughed in some of the right places. But my mother sat there with a big **WHOOSH** going over her head every few minutes. That is, until she fell asleep. P’raps my dad would get the jokes. I haven’t racked up so well, Python-wise, since the year I got BOTH volumes of “All The Words” AND “Mynot Phonty’s Bongosok”. (Sings) “It’s Christmas, it’s Christmas in heavennn…” …and I hate to nitpick, **Mercutio** … > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mercutio \* > \*\*Guard: Halt! Who goes there? > Arthur: It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. > King of the Britons, defeater of the Saxons, sovereign of all England! > Guard: Who’s the other one? \*\* It’s actually “ **Pull** the other one!” As in ‘pull the other leg’… as in “Yer pulling my leg!”. It’s a British thing, I guess. I STILL haven’t got a decent explanation of what “It’s a fair cop” means. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/26 "2001-01-05T16:43:24Z")
“She turned me into a newt!” “A _newt?_” “Got better…” ---
**Author:** ![KP235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@KP235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP235)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/27 "2001-01-05T16:51:16Z")
Hello! Well, it’s just before 12 o’clock and time for the penguin on top of your monitor to explode. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/28 "2001-01-05T16:59:55Z")
Beatiful plumage. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/29 "2001-01-05T17:01:56Z")
(might be a double post…) Clerk: Look how beautifully it sits on the perch. Customer: It’s fucking nailed to the perch! Clerk: Beautiful plummage… ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/30 "2001-01-05T17:10:40Z")
I interrupt this thread to annoy you and make things generally irritating. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/31 "2001-01-05T17:17:35Z")
…lemon curry? ---
**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/32 "2001-01-05T18:02:07Z")
It’s… ---
**Author:** ![King\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@King\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/33 "2001-01-05T18:35:15Z")
Is this the right thread for an argument? I told you once. Did not. Albatross! Is that a penguin on your monitor? NOT THE COMFY CHAIR!!! A minute passed. Then another. I looked at my watch. Twas a minute past. Then a minute, which seemed like an hour but was only a minute, past. Know what I mean wink wink nudge nudge ---
**Author:** ![idiotboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@idiotboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idiotboy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/34 "2001-01-05T18:51:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blessedwolf \* > \*\*…lemon curry? \*\* Cyril Connolly? No, semi-caaaaarnally! Oh! Cyril Connolly… _Whistles as he walks away_ ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/35 "2001-01-05T19:21:42Z")
Spam spam spam spam… ---
**Author:** ![andyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@andyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andyman)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/36 "2001-01-05T19:43:02Z")
My nipples explode in delight! ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/37 "2001-01-05T20:29:12Z")
In the computer game “Worms Armageddon” the Holy Hand Grenade is used as a weapon, I saw it and cracked up. Also, the Simpsons makes a few refrences to Monty Python. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/38 "2001-01-05T20:35:20Z")
**And Now For Something Completely Different…** [Monty Python and the Holy Legos](http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood/9060/holye.html) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/39 "2001-01-05T20:57:26Z")
Thank you **screech-owl!** I lost the link last month, and feared I’d never get it again. You are my saviour. Marry me. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/40 "2001-01-05T21:04:36Z")
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