# 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:** 293
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5841 "2016-12-04T03:45:40Z")
No, no. It’s spelt Raymond Luxury-Yacht but it’s pronounced Throat-Wobbler Mangrove! ---
**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:** [December 4, 2016, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5842 "2016-12-04T05:26:52Z")
My husband, like many men his age, is fifty. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5843 "2016-12-04T11:16:27Z")
Well you’d better cut down a little then. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5844 "2016-12-04T11:33:03Z")
No you didn’t, you came here for an _argument._ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5845 "2016-12-04T13:42:40Z")
What a senseless waste of human life. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5846 "2016-12-04T13:56:10Z")
Tell me, sir, have you confused your cat recently? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5847 "2016-12-04T14:16:59Z")
You look like a milkman to me. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5848 "2016-12-04T21:02:42Z")
Believe it or not, our Board of Directors questioned the need to employ a pantomime horse at all! ---
**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:** [December 4, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5849 "2016-12-04T22:29:09Z")
Ah - good evening everyone, and welcome to the second of our Italian language classes, in which we’ll be helping you brush up your Italian. Last week we started at the beginning, and we learnt the Italian for a ‘spoon’. Now, I wonder how many of you can remember what it was? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5850 "2016-12-04T22:42:49Z")
Let me have it as a souvenir of our hopeless, flawless love. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5851 "2016-12-05T02:32:11Z")
Oh, I thought you were complaining about the bouzouki player. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2016, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5852 "2016-12-05T04:08:42Z")
I can’t tell the difference between Whizzo butter and this dead crab. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5853 "2016-12-05T07:50:41Z")
I want you kids to get ahead. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5854 "2016-12-05T13:35:01Z")
No, you may not give urine instead of blood. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5855 "2016-12-06T03:09:29Z")
I’m worrying about what you have got against birds. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2016, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5856 "2016-12-06T04:57:45Z")
Well, never mind. I’ll just take the _Lord Lieutenant in Nylons_, then, and these two copies of _Piggie Parade_. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5857 "2016-12-06T08:05:05Z")
::Sponsored by Heart Attacko Margarine:: ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5858 "2016-12-06T11:19:20Z")
Don’t be silly! How can you find someone _not_ Esther Williams? ---
**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:** [December 6, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5859 "2016-12-06T14:25:20Z")
\*Beautiful girl: \*(turning to Gaskell with bated breath) You are Sir Philip Sidney? _Gaskell:_ (warily) Possibly… but I may be Superintendent Gaskell of the Vice Squad. ---
**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:** [December 7, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/5860 "2016-12-07T03:24:15Z")
Penguins, yes, penguins. What relevance do penguins have to the furtherance of medical science? Well, strangely enough quite a lot, a major breakthrough, maybe. It was from such an unlikely beginning as an unwanted fungus accidentally growing on a sterile plate that Sir Alexander Fleming gave the world penicillin. James Watt watched an ordinary household kettle boiling and conceived the potentiality of steam power. Would Albert Einstein ever have hit upon the theory of relativity if he hadn’t been clever? All these tremendous leaps forward have been taken in the dark. Would Rutherford ever have split the atom if he hadn’t tried? Could Marconi have invented the radio if he hadn’t by pure chance spent years working at the problem? Are these amazing breakthroughs ever achieved except by years and years of unremitting study? Of course not. What I said earlier about accidental discoveries must have been wrong. Nevertheless scientists believe that these penguins, these comic flightless web-footed little bastards may finally unwittingly help man to fathom the uncharted depths of the human mind. Professor Rosewall of the Laver Institute. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218.md?page=292) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218.md?page=294)