# 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:** 375
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7481 "2018-10-16T16:15:19Z")
Look here, if I call up the circus and say that I’ve got a 48 year old chartered accountant with no experience who wants to become a lion tamer, their first question is not going to be “has he got his own hat?” Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7482 "2018-10-16T17:01:30Z")
I can’t buy that! It’s torn! ---
**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:** [October 16, 2018, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7483 "2018-10-16T17:41:48Z")
Oh, yes, Kipling Road was a typical East End street. People were in and out of each other’s houses with each other’s property all day. They were a cheery lot. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7484 "2018-10-18T15:42:36Z")
Therefore we devised tests to be given to the penguins in the fourth set … I do beg your pardon, in their own environment. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7485 "2018-10-18T17:47:52Z")
He has, however, chosen a rather obvious piece of cover. :: BOOM :: ---
**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:** [October 20, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7486 "2018-10-20T15:33:58Z")
_See_ how he uses a _spanner_ to _tighten, that, nut!_ ---
**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:** [October 21, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7487 "2018-10-21T02:59:48Z")
Now, when I’ve got these antlers on - when I’ve got these antlers on I am dictating and when I take them off I am not dictating. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2018, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7488 "2018-11-09T21:03:53Z")
I want that man fighting wild dogs by the end of the day! ---
**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:** [November 17, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7489 "2018-11-17T05:48:20Z")
What is your name, Jew? ---
**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:** [November 17, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7490 "2018-11-17T18:26:00Z")
That’s better, now I’m Inspector Tiger and I must ask that nobody leave 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:** [November 18, 2018, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7491 "2018-11-18T05:03:04Z")
No, _Brian_. :: smack :: ---
**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:** [November 30, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7492 "2018-11-30T15:50:59Z")
This is Howard Katzenberg from Philadelphia…and his wife, Debbie,…and these are the Portland-Smythes, Jeremy and Fiona. ---
**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 5, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7493 "2018-12-05T16:48:35Z")
We _are_ struggling together! ---
**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 9, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7494 "2018-12-09T00:04:33Z")
Sh! That’s forty thousand acres of virgin forest. By 1980 this will have risen to two hundred thousand acres of soft woods. In commercial terms, a coniferous cornucopia… an evergreen El Dorado… a tree-lined treasure trove … No … a fat fir-coned future for the financiers … but what of the cost … ---
**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 12, 2018, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7495 "2018-12-12T23:23:36Z")
And next the men of the Second Armoured Division regale us with their famous close order swanning about. ---
**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 21, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7496 "2018-12-21T03:05:56Z")
Oh no, that’s so embarrassing. I won’t hear of it. Give me six…please. ---
**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 21, 2018, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7497 "2018-12-21T05:35:09Z")
Your cat is suffering from what we vets haven’t found a word for. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7498 "2018-12-21T13:34:24Z")
It’s only a wafer thin mint ---
**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 21, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7499 "2018-12-21T15:43:28Z")
Thank God for that. For one ghastly moment I thought I was… too late. If only more people would call in the nick of time. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7500 "2018-12-24T18:57:24Z")
Where’s the fetus going to gestate, in a box? Regards, Shodan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218.md?page=374) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218.md?page=376)