# Monty Python fans in here!

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**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\
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**Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/81 "2001-01-08T16:28:58Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Tygr \*  
> \*\*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.
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> \*\*

In honour of the noble fight you put up, you can be the best man…

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**Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/82 "2001-01-08T16:33:53Z")

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> \*Originally posted by screech-owl \*  
> \*\***Aristotle, Aristotle  
> Was a bugger for his bottle;  
> Hobbes was fond of his dram…**

**…and Rene Descartes was a drunken fartes (:))  
 _I drink, therefore I am_**

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> **Tygr** - you are NOT giving up. I forbid it. 😉 \*\*

Can’t quit the ego boost of two wild animals fighting over you? or is he the front-runner? :o

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**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, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/83 "2001-01-08T16:34:49Z")

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> \*Originally posted by screech-owl \*  
> \*\***Aristotle, Aristotle  
> Was a bugger for his bottle;  
> Hobbes was fond of his dram…**  
> **Tygr** - you are NOT giving up. I forbid it. 😉 \*\*

Yes, ma’am! (Stands up, uses sleeve to wipe sniffles off his prodigious honker. Cheese-graters his shnoz before he realizes he’s still got his armor on.)

Ow…

ahem…

And Rene Descartes [sub] I DO TOO know how to spell it![/sub] was a drunken fart,  
I drink therefore I am!

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**Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/84 "2001-01-08T16:39:17Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Tygr \*  
> \*\*Yes, ma’am! (Stands up, uses sleeve to wipe sniffles off his prodigious honker. Cheese-graters his shnoz before he realizes he’s still got his armor on.)  
> \*\*

“this is **not** my nose, it’s a false one!”

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**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, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/85 "2001-01-08T16:49:21Z")

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“…and that isn’t a real nose, it’s made of polystyrene.”

“Ahhh, anti-semitism!”

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**Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/86 "2001-01-08T16:57:23Z")

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**Yes, Socrates himself is particularly miiissssseeeddd…  
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he’s pissed.**

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> \*Originally posted by Tygr \*  
> \*\*"…and that isn’t a real nose, it’s made of polystyrene."
> 
> “Ahhh, anti-semitism!”
> 
> \*\*

Okay, for bonus points: what was that character’s name?

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**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, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/87 "2001-01-08T17:17:39Z")

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> \*Originally posted by blessedwolf \*  
> \*\*
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> > [@](#):
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> > \*Originally posted by Tygr \*  
> > \*\*"…and that isn’t a real nose, it’s made of polystyrene."
> > 
> > “Ahhh, anti-semitism!”
> > 
> > \*\*
> 
> Okay, for bonus points: what was that character’s name? \*\*

“It’s SPELT (Raymond) Luxury-Yacht, but it’s PRONOUNCED ‘Throatwobbler-Mangrove’.”

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**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, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/88 "2001-01-08T17:18:08Z")

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Where you from, Tygr? Nose City?

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**Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/89 "2001-01-08T17:23:24Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Aglarond \*  
> \*\*Where you from, Tygr? Nose City? \*\*

You’re not so bad yourself, Conch-face!

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**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, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/90 "2001-01-08T17:32:33Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Aglarond \*  
> \*\*Where you from, Tygr? Nose City? \*\*

Actually, we live on the outskirts, in a charming little hamlet called “Snoot Town”.

\<Paraphrases “NewsRadio”\> The official farewell was changed from “Goodbye” to “Smell you later!” \</“NewsRadio”\>

I spend every Saturday morning mowing the nose-hairs.

Smell you later!

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**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, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/91 "2001-01-08T17:48:07Z")

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The larch.

(And yes, I enjoy having two ferocious carnivores fighting over me (as long as it’s not my dead body they’re fighting over…).

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**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, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/92 "2001-01-08T18:57:16Z")

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> \*Originally posted by screech-owl \*  
> **The larch.**

Number One…

And now…

Number One…

And now…

Number Three… The Horse Chestnut.

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> \*Originally posted by screech-owl \*  
> **And yes, I enjoy having two ferocious carnivores fighting over me.**

RRR! Grrrrowff!

(Momentarily lets go of **that wolf guy’s** neck-scruff.)

Anything for you, my Lady! 😃

(Sinks teeth into **blessedwolf’s** ear.)

Heh. Call THAT “just a flesh wound”.

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**Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/93 "2001-01-08T19:07:26Z")

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Spam, eggs, sausage and spam . . . that’s not got much spam in it.

I DON’T LIKE SPAM!

and 16 ton weights and pointed sticks

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**Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/94 "2001-01-08T19:28:45Z")

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I love it … in fact I’m having Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Baked Beans, Eggs, and Spam.

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**Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/95 "2001-01-08T19:33:33Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Tygr \*  
> \*\*  
> RRR! Grrrrowff!
> 
> (Momentarily lets go of **that wolf guy’s** neck-scruff.)
> 
> Anything for you, my Lady! 😃
> 
> (Sinks teeth into **blessedwolf’s** ear.)
> 
> Heh. Call THAT “just a flesh wound”.
> 
> \*\*

'Tis but a scratch…

:::clouts **Tygr** across the snout:::

Have at you!

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**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, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/96 "2001-01-08T19:35:09Z")

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The leg.  
The knee.  
The naughty bits.

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**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, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/97 "2001-01-08T19:37:55Z")

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> \*Originally posted by elshpen \*  
> \*\*and 16 ton weights and pointed sticks \*\*

Yes, and don’t fergit! If you don’t have either of the above and yer bein’ stalked by a Banana-Fiend then you [sub](wait for it…)[/sub]

Release the Tygr! 😃

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**Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/98 "2001-01-08T19:40:02Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Tygr \*  
> \*\*  
> Yes, and don’t fergit! If you don’t have either of the above and yer bein’ stalked by a Banana-Fiend then you [sub](wait for it…)[/sub]
> 
> Release the Tygr! 😃
> 
> \*\*

ROFLMFAO!

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**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, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/99 "2001-01-08T19:48:00Z")

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::puts corner-knotted handkerchief on head::  
Doc-tor! Doc-tor! My brain hurts!"  
We now return you to “Monty Python’s Wild Kingdom” and  
today’s fight between the **blessedwolf** and the **Tygr**.  
“And Colin ‘Bomber’ Harris has knocked himself out!!!”

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**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, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-fans-in-here/48497/100 "2001-01-08T19:53:15Z")

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**Moderator Notes:**  
Look, how many times do I have to explain this? No quoting entire scenes on the SDMB. Links to legitimate sites preferably included.

As can already be seen on page one of this very thread. You’d think people would get the hint.

Coldfire

[Edited by Coldfire on 01-08-2001 at 06:39 PM]

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