# 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:** 152
**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:** [January 24, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3021 "2014-01-24T16:27:59Z")
It’s like those miserable psalms. They’re _so_ depressing. Now knock it off. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3022 "2014-01-24T16:53:34Z")
I got three cheeks. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3023 "2014-01-24T17:12:52Z")
What? The curtains? ---
**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:** [January 25, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3024 "2014-01-25T03:08:36Z")
I _command_ you to shut up! ---
**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:** [January 25, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3025 "2014-01-25T17:47:30Z")
You will be playing the part of Montague the forceful yet bitter disillusioned and zany Marxist tycoon in this new play by a very good bearded playwright. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3026 "2014-01-25T18:13:38Z")
In this treatment the patient is rewarded for the correct response and punished for the wrong one. Let us begin. Would you like to give up being a mason? Think carefully. Think. Think. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3027 "2014-01-26T01:20:08Z")
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3028 "2014-01-26T02:30:06Z")
You’re using coconuts! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3029 "2014-01-26T06:43:25Z")
Farcical aquatic ceremonies involving watery bints tossing scimitars about are no basis for deciding who wields executive power! ---
**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:** [January 26, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3030 "2014-01-26T17:15:44Z")
Oh, oh, yes…yeah well, unfortunately, guv, that offer’s no longer valid. You see, it turned out not to be commercially viable, so we now have a totally new offer… a nude lady. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3031 "2014-01-26T17:40:16Z")
Oh, I see - have we got a moving brick? Yes, we’ve got a moving brick, Keith, it’s coming over now. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3032 "2014-01-26T19:48:12Z")
What’s brown and sounds like a bell? Dung! ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3033 "2014-01-26T21:25:25Z")
Uh, well, I … I got … uh, _a_ note. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3034 "2014-01-26T22:46:22Z")
I got better! ---
**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:** [January 26, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3035 "2014-01-26T23:49:04Z")
**Padre** : _Sorry, I’m late, Headmaster - I’ve been wrestling with Plato._ **Headmaster** : _What you do in your own time, Padre, is written on the wall in the vestry._ ---
**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:** [January 27, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3036 "2014-01-27T01:58:35Z")
Isn’t it exciting? German television is making an award-winning documentary about me. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3037 "2014-01-27T14:34:49Z")
Yes. Janet … a quiet, shy girl. An honours graduate from Harvard University, American junior sprint record holder, ex-world skating champion, Nobel Prize winner, architect, novelist and surgeon. The girl who helped crack the Oppenheimer spy ring in 1947. She gave vital evidence to the Senate Narcotics Commission in 1958. She also helped to convict the woman at the chemist’s in 1961, and a year latershe gave police information which led to the arrest of her postman. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3038 "2014-01-27T15:17:16Z")
Ah, yes. Well, I think I should point out first, Brian, in all fairness, that we are not in fact the rescue committee. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3039 "2014-01-27T16:00:17Z")
They mean to win Wimbledon! ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3040 "2014-01-27T16:13:53Z")
When Chief Yellow Snake was leader, and Mighty Eagle was in land of forefather, we fight Pawnee at Oxbow Crossing. When Pawnee steal our rehearsal copies of ‘Reluctant Debutante’ we kill fifty Pawnee - houses heap full every night. Heap good publicity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218.md?page=151) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218.md?page=153)