# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/61 "2001-01-08T04:52:21Z")
Okay, you didn’t waste your money, Ankh. But I highly recommend that anyone who wants to get Python films on DVD, get or wait for the Criterion version(s). ---
**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 8, 2001, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/62 "2001-01-08T12:47:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blessedwolf \* > **…Okay, who wants to see a Tygr and a Wolf fight for the attentions of an owl? (It’s a veritable freakin’ menagerie in here, ain’t it!)…** Aw, how sweet! They both want to marry me. :o Guess I’ll have to call… **THE BISHOP!** (cue: cheesy 60s spy show theme) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/63 "2001-01-08T14:41:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by screech-owl \* > \*\* > > **THE BISHOP!** > > (cue: cheesy 60s spy show theme) > > \*\* Where’s 'e from? \ what _diocese!?_ * * * FTR, if it helps my case, I my next tattoo is going to be a nice Gothic-Script “Leicester” on the back of the neck… Seriously! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/64 "2001-01-08T14:43:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blessedwolf \* > \*\* I my next tattoo is going to be… > \*\* er, that is, I **think** my next tattoo yaddah yaddah yaddah. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/65 "2001-01-08T15:02:21Z")
Newbie here. I once had a wife who could never remember the line: “WHAT’S the air speed velocity of a laden swallow?” I had to divorce her. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/66 "2001-01-08T15:06:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBill \* > \*\*Newbie here. I once had a wife who could never remember the line: > > “WHAT’S the air speed velocity of a laden swallow?” > > I had to divorce her. \*\* **UncleBill,** I’d like to welcome this gommy bastard to God’s Green Earth, and remind 'im that we don’t like stuck-up sticky-beaks here. ---
**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 8, 2001, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/67 "2001-01-08T15:09:37Z")
You tell’im, Bruce. Everybody, sing along! **Immmmmmmm-manual Kant was a Real pissant Who was very rarely stable…** ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/68 "2001-01-08T15:17:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by screech-owl \* > \*\* > **Immmmmmmm-manual Kant was a > Real pissant > Who was very rarely stable…** > \*\* \*\* Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy begger 'oo could drink you under the table…\*\* ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/69 "2001-01-08T15:18:53Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by blessedwolf \* > \*\* > \*\* Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy begger > 'oo could drink you under the table…_\* \*\* _…think_, that is. (guess I need more coffee…) ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/70 "2001-01-08T15:24:21Z")
Schopenauer and Hegel… * * * > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blessedwolf \* > \*\*I’ll fight ya for 'er! \*\* But… but _ **I** _ called dibs! [Here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=980035#post980035) …and [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1024170#post1024170) [sub](my first and best Virtual Proposal.)[/sub] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blessedwolf \* > **(BTW: I’m geographically closer than you are, so if you’d like to race…)** Sure, just let me finish this case of Twinkies, this six-pack of Schlitz, and this carton of cigarettes. I’ve gotta handicap myself, just to make it fair. 😛 😃 ---
**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 8, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/71 "2001-01-08T15:25:39Z")
**…David Hume Could outconsume Schopenhauer ‘n’ Hegel…** ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/72 "2001-01-08T15:31:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by screech-owl \* > \*\***…David Hume > Could outconsume > Schopenhauer ‘n’ Hegel…** \*\* And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel (why do I always get the German ones?) Oh, and **Tygr,** I’ve got another advantage…one of their movies was named after me (and when I was living in Jerusalem, I’d attend midnight showings with friends following me into the theatre, all holding our sandals aloft…). ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/73 "2001-01-08T15:55:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blessedwolf \* > **And Wittgenstein was a beery swine > who was just as sloshed as Schlegel** There’s nothing Nietszche couldn’t teach ya 'Bout the raising of the wrist Socrates himself was permanantly pissed ---
**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 8, 2001, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/74 "2001-01-08T16:10:41Z")
**Jeeeeeeee-ohn Stuart Mill Of ‘is own free will On half-a-pint o’ shandy Was particularly ill.** \<\*\*\*\> …What’n the heck is ‘shandy’? ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/75 "2001-01-08T16:15:18Z")
John Stuart Mill of his own free will On half-a-pint o’ shandy Was particularly ill. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blessedwolf \* > \*\*…one of their movies was named after me \*\* Yer parents named you Grail? Poor bastard… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/76 "2001-01-08T16:21:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tygr \* > \*\*John Stuart Mill > of his own free will > On half-a-pint o’ shandy > Was particularly ill. > \*\* \*\*Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day… \*\* **screech,** shandy is 1/2 lager, 1/2 lemonade or (in the Colonies) Sprite or Ginger ale. quite tasty. ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/77 "2001-01-08T16:21:14Z")
Half a crate o’ whisky every day.[sub]Gotta learn to type faster…[/sub] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by screech-owl \* > \*\*…What’n the heck is ‘shandy’? \*\* Oooh, oooh! I KNOW this one! Shandy is, IIRC, British slang for ale. Looks like J.S. Mill couldn’t hold his drink very well. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/78 "2001-01-08T16:23:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tygr \* > > Oooh, oooh! I KNOW this one! > > Shandy is, IIRC, British slang for ale. > > Looks like J.S. Mill couldn’t hold his drink very well. Ha! one more point for me…😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/79 "2001-01-08T16:24:08Z")
I give up. My connection is too slow. And I can’t type worth a dam’. ☹ Enjoy yerselves. I’m sure you’ll be very happy together. ---
**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 8, 2001, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/80 "2001-01-08T16:27:23Z")
**Aristotle, Aristotle Was a bugger for his bottle; Hobbes was fond of his dram…** **Tygr** - you are NOT giving up. I forbid it. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497.md?page=5)