# Monty Python non sequitur thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 24, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218 "2010-04-24T16:36:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 137
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2721 "2013-09-01T23:52:21Z")
Quite right - you don’t want to come back from Sorrento to a dead cat. It’d be so anticlimactic. Yes, kill it now, that’s what I say. We’re going to have to have our budgie put down. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2722 "2013-09-02T04:21:16Z")
You see, if you’re five miles out over the English Channel, with nothing but sea underneath you, er, there is a very great impetus to stay in the air. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2723 "2013-09-03T14:32:33Z")
Your life or your lupins, my lord. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2724 "2013-09-03T19:55:05Z")
Oh, oh. I see. I thought, I thought you were the, er… I like the police a lot, I’ve got a lot of time for them. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2725 "2013-09-03T20:17:22Z")
All right, all right! It’s bloody albatross flavor! It’s bleedin’ seabird, bleedin’ flavor! Albatross! ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2726 "2013-09-03T21:10:53Z")
It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. King of all Britons, defeater of the Saxons, sovereign of all England! ---
**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:** [September 3, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2727 "2013-09-03T21:47:03Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Or banking, yes, yes, banking that’s a man’s life, isn’t it? Banking, travel, excitement, adventure, thrills, decisions affecting people’s lives. Apropos of this: Just had a call from a customer-service person at our local bank, asking if my wife and I would like to come in “for a half-hour or so” to discuss recent changes in the kinds of accounts they’re offering. I promptly but politely declined. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2728 "2013-09-04T00:28:15Z")
And now for something completely different. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2729 "2013-09-04T01:29:48Z")
Hello, good evening and welcome to the Ronald Reagan Memorial Bowl, here in the pretty little L.A. suburb of Hollywood. Well, we’re about to go in all for wrestling, brought to you tonight, ladies and gentlemen, by the makers of Scum, the world’s first ever combined hair oil, foot ointment, and salad dressing. And the makers of Titan, the novelty nuclear missile! You never know when it’ll go off! Surprise your friends, amuse your enemies, start the party with a bang! ---
**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:** [September 4, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2730 "2013-09-04T01:48:15Z")
\*Interviewer: \*And who is the sponsor? _Mr. Vercotti:_ The Chippenham Brick Company. Ah, they, er, pay all the bills, er, in return for which Ron will be carrying half a hundredweight of their bricks. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2731 "2013-09-04T03:01:17Z")
Uh, well sir, I have got a silly walk and I’d like to obtain government backing to help me develope it. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2732 "2013-09-04T12:23:44Z")
We’ve done that! ---
**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:** [September 4, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2733 "2013-09-04T14:02:51Z")
Well, er, it looks as if Ron is ready now. He’s got the bricks. He’s had his passport checked and he’s all set to go. And he’s off on the first ever cross-Channel jump. _(Ron runs down the beach and jumps; he lands about four feet into the water)._ ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2734 "2013-09-04T14:44:08Z")
This new housing development in Bristol is one of the most interesting in the country. It’s using a variety of new techniques: shock-proof curtain-walling, a central high voltage, self-generated electricity source, and extruded acrylic fiberglass fitments. It’s also the first major housing project in Britain to be built entirely by characters from nineteenth-century English literature. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2735 "2013-09-04T18:59:34Z")
Well, there he goes, Ron Obvious of Neepsend, in an attempt which could make him the first man ever to eat an entire Anglican cathedral. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2736 "2013-09-04T19:05:42Z")
Did you say “ex-leper”? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2737 "2013-09-05T00:42:06Z")
Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2738 "2013-09-05T01:07:00Z")
My brain hurts! ---
**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:** [September 5, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2739 "2013-09-05T01:29:51Z")
David, this is something which Ron and myself are really keen on. Ron is going to tunnel from Godalming, here, to Java, here _(indicates inaccurately on map)_. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/2740 "2013-09-05T07:09:42Z")
The tenants arrive at the entrance here and are carried on a conveyor belt down the corridor in extreme comfort past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes to the rotating knives. The last 50 feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218.md?page=136) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218.md?page=138)