# 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:** 167
**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, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3321 "2014-03-12T21:36:04Z")
It is the dawn of time. This earth we know so well is a smoldering, inhospitable place. No plants grow, no creature can survive. The hard, implacable rocks that form our mountain ranges are being crushed and folded by forces that will take millions of years to shape. These are the forces! This is the power that drives the hand that drinks ‘Treadmill’, the mighty lager, with the world’s first great taste of fish! ---
**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 12, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3322 "2014-03-12T22:11:30Z")
All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much, much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is the theory that I have, and which is mine, and what it is too. ---
**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, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3323 "2014-03-12T22:18:12Z")
It’s a bird, innit? It’s a bloody sea bird, it’s not any bloody flavour. Albatross! ---
**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 12, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3324 "2014-03-12T22:32:07Z")
Do you get wafers with it? ---
**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, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3325 "2014-03-12T22:39:39Z")
It’s only a tiny little thin one. ---
**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 12, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3326 "2014-03-12T22:47:03Z")
What? The curtains? ---
**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, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3327 "2014-03-12T23:09:07Z")
She’s beautiful. She’s rich. She’s got huge…tracts of land. ---
**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 13, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3328 "2014-03-13T02:41:09Z")
So Miss Johnson returned to her typing and dreamed her little dreamy dreams, unaware as she was of the cruel trick fate had in store for her. For Miss Johnson was about to fall victim of the dreaded international Chinese Communist Conspiracy. ---
**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 13, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3329 "2014-03-13T03:54:44Z")
We don’t need to do anything apart from just stop him entering the room. ---
**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 13, 2014, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3330 "2014-03-13T04:32:55Z")
Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you, amen! ---
**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 13, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3331 "2014-03-13T14:46:56Z")
Oh, but surely he simply shot himself and then hid the gun. ---
**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 13, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3332 "2014-03-13T16:39:51Z")
Message for you, sire! ---
**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 13, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3333 "2014-03-13T19:18:36Z")
(I think that was “sir”). An obit with a MPFC flair - written prehumously by the future decedent: [http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/p/walter-george-bruhl-jr-dupont-co-retiree/1139838](http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/p/walter-george-bruhl-jr-dupont-co-retiree/1139838) ---
**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 13, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3334 "2014-03-13T23:00:28Z")
You needn’t eat the leg, Thompson. Look at that arm; plenty of good meat there. ---
**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 13, 2014, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3335 "2014-03-13T23:25:35Z")
I will not buy this record, it is scratched. ---
**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 14, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3336 "2014-03-14T00:55:20Z")
Now, Frank…Fran…Frannie…little Frannie-poo… ---
**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 14, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3337 "2014-03-14T01:00:55Z")
What a lot of people don’t realize is that a mouse, once accepted, can fulfill a very useful role in society. Indeed there are examples throughout history of famous men now known to have been mice. ---
**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 14, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3338 "2014-03-14T01:07:41Z")
Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1959. What was the name of the song? … Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr’s song in the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest? Anybody? ---
**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 14, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3339 "2014-03-14T01:09:38Z")
A duck? ---
**Author:** ![Srsly\_Dad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Srsly\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Srsly_Dad)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3340 "2014-03-14T18:59:08Z")
You’re really interested in silly walks, aren’t you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218.md?page=166) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218.md?page=168)