# 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:** 166
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3301 "2014-03-06T15:24:58Z")
Congratulations, both of you. Well, er, what are your names? Arthur Wilson? Right well look, I’ll call \*you \*Arthur Wilson One, and \*you \*Arthur Wilson Two, just to avoid confusion. Yes, we are leading this expedition to Africa. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3302 "2014-03-06T15:27:43Z")
“Yes, yes! One final question Karl and the beautiful lounge suite will be yours… Are you going to have a go? You’re a brave man. Karl Marx, your final question, who won the Cup Final in 1949?” “The workers’ control of the means of production? The struggle of the urban proletariat?” “No. It was in fact, Wolverhampton Wanderers who beat Leicester 3-1.” ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3303 "2014-03-06T16:11:58Z")
(Just one person speaking, even if it’s several sentences, in each post, please, **Knorf** ). Nigel is third in this fine and most exciting Upperclass Twit of the Year Show I’ve ever seen. Nigel’s clubbed himself into fourth place. And so the final result: The Upperclass Twit of the Year - Gervaise Brook-Hampster. Runner up - Vivian Smith-Smythe-Smith Third - Nigel Incubator-Jones Well, there’ll certainly be some car door slamming in the streets of Kensington tonight! ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3304 "2014-03-06T17:03:28Z")
Well, we’ll be leaving on January 22nd and taking the following routes – the A23s through Purleys down on the main roads near Purbrights avoiding Leatherheads and then taking the A231s entering Rottingdeans from the North. From Rottingdeans we go through Africa to Nairobis. We take the South road out of Nairobis for about twelve miles, and then ask. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3305 "2014-03-06T23:50:57Z")
I think all right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not! And I’m sick and tired of being told that I am. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2014, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3306 "2014-03-07T01:43:47Z")
Dawn Pailthorpe, the lady show-jumper, had a clam called Stafford, after the late Chancellor; Allan Bullock has two pikes, both called Chris; and Marcel Proust had an haddock! So, if you’re calling the author of _A la recherche du temps perdu_ a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside! ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3307 "2014-03-07T01:50:21Z")
Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb, you know – most of it’s up, until you reach the very very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply. But Jimmy’s put his heads together and worked out a way up. Jimmy? I don’t believe you’ve met. Jimmy Blenkinsop - Arthur Wilson, Arthur Wilson - Jimmy Blenkinsop… Arthur Wilson two - James Blenkinsop one, James Blenkinsop one - Arthur Wilson two. Carry on, Jimmies. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3308 "2014-03-07T01:52:41Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > (Just one person speaking, even if it’s several sentences, in each post, please, **Knorf** ). Seriously? :rolleyes: > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > _Reg:_ But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, viniculture, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? > _PFJ Member:_ Brought peace? > _Reg:_ Oh, peace? Shut up! [Back on topic] Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type really makes me puke, you vacuous, coffee-nosed, maloderous pervert! ---
**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:** [March 7, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3309 "2014-03-07T21:10:18Z")
(_Mea culpa_. I certainly try to post only one person’s dialogue). So, Mrs. Teal…if you send us £15 by return post, please, and your husband Trevor, and your lovely children, Diane, Janice and Juliet need never know the name of your lover in Bolton. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3310 "2014-03-08T06:39:17Z")
Well, I’m afraid I shan’t be coming on your expedition sir, as I’ve absolutely no confidence in anyone involved in it! ---
**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:** [March 8, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3311 "2014-03-08T18:54:32Z")
Come the year 1991, given the present rate of increase in the world’s population, the Chinese will be three deep. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3312 "2014-03-09T01:57:46Z")
Snap snap, grin grin, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3313 "2014-03-11T23:43:17Z")
Anybody else feel like a little… giggle… when I mention my fwiend… Biggus… Dickus? ---
**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:** [March 12, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3314 "2014-03-12T00:45:22Z")
We’ll have none of your imperialist tidbits. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3315 "2014-03-12T01:07:31Z")
No no, I mean, because we are members of the Protestant Reformed Church which successfully challenged the autocratic power of the Papacy in the mid-sixteenth century, we can wear little rubber devices to prevent issue. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3316 "2014-03-12T04:02:29Z")
And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2014, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3317 "2014-03-12T04:08:59Z")
Well, that’s about it for tonight ladies and gentlemen, but remember if you’ve enjoyed watching the show just half as much as we’ve enjoyed doing it, then we’ve enjoyed it twice as much as you. Ha, ha, ha. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3318 "2014-03-12T14:37:49Z")
But our sales would plummet! ---
**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:** [March 12, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3319 "2014-03-12T19:02:59Z")
_Oh it’s written in the Village rolls that if one plough team wants an oxen and that oxen is lent Then the villeins and the ploughman have got to have the lord’s consent Then the villeins and the ploughman have got to have the lord’s consent_Nahnah Naah Naah_Then the villeins and the ploughman have got to have the lord’s consent_Nahnah Naah Naah_Then the villeins and the ploughman_Nahnah Naah Naah_have got to have the lord’s consent_Nahnah Naah Naah_Then the villeins and the ploughman_Nahnah Naah Naah_have got to have the lord’s consent_Nahnah Naah Naah_Then the villeins and the ploughman Nahnah Naah Naahhave got to have the lord’s consent_Nahnah Naah Naah ---
**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:** [March 12, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3320 "2014-03-12T19:10:39Z")
“It’s hotter than a monkey’s bum in here, Your Majesty,” he said, and the Queen smiled quietly to herself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218.md?page=165) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218.md?page=167)