# 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:** 183
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3641 "2014-06-19T18:41:38Z")
A path! A path! ---
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3642 "2014-06-19T18:51:20Z")
He has given us a sign! He has given us…his shoe! ---
**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:** [June 20, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3643 "2014-06-20T01:46:12Z")
Shut your festering gob, you tit! ---
**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:** [June 20, 2014, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3644 "2014-06-20T03:38:41Z")
You’re in luck; here’s the Lord Mayor. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2014, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3645 "2014-06-20T04:23:16Z")
Cardboard box? You were lucky. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3646 "2014-06-21T02:54:35Z")
Luxury. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2014, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3647 "2014-06-21T04:58:52Z")
Blessed are the _cheesemakers?_ ---
**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:** [June 22, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3648 "2014-06-22T03:35:10Z")
Oh! I thought you were talking to me, sir. Mister Wensleydale, that’s my name. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3649 "2014-06-27T14:26:03Z")
Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Panties…I’m sorry…Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Bach. Names that will live for ever. But there is one composer whose name is never included with the greats. Why is it that the world never remembered the name of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm? To do justice to this man, thought by many to be the greatest name in German Baroque music, we present a profile of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm. We start with an interview with his only surviving relative Karl Gambolputty de von Ausfern… ---
**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:** [June 27, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3650 "2014-06-27T16:52:55Z")
Well, I didn’t vote for him. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3651 "2014-06-27T19:05:23Z")
Hang on a tick, this redistribution of wealth’s trickier than I thought. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2014, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3652 "2014-06-28T04:44:01Z")
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, he’s not in this bit. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3653 "2014-06-28T15:10:05Z")
I must warn you, sir, that outside I have police dog Josephine, who is not only armed, and trained to sniff out certain substances, but is also a junkie. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3654 "2014-06-28T20:59:02Z")
“My dog has no nose.” “How does it smell?” “Awful!” ---
**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:** [June 30, 2014, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3655 "2014-06-30T06:23:43Z")
But soon the killer sheep began to infect other animals with its startling intelligence. Pussy cats began to arrange mortgages, cocker spaniels began to design supermarkets… and parrots started to announce television programmes. It’s 8 o’clock and time for the news. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3656 "2014-06-30T16:53:03Z")
Now if anybody else pinches my phrase I’ll throw them under a camel. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3657 "2014-07-01T03:40:55Z")
About one, call it none. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3658 "2014-07-01T03:52:35Z")
Oh I know, you don’t like the kangaroo. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3659 "2014-07-01T17:03:08Z")
It’s British sir. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/3660 "2014-07-01T20:50:43Z")
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