# Monty Python non sequitur thread (Part 1)

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**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")\
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Number thirteen. The naughty bits of a horse,

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Number 1. The larch. The… larch.

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7743 "2019-08-21T12:52:56Z")

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Gone… a nice woody sound… gone…

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**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:** [August 21, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7744 "2019-08-21T14:05:21Z")

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Oh, _SHOVE_ the abattoir, that’s not important.

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7745 "2019-08-21T14:06:44Z")

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He said knowingly

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7746 "2019-08-21T14:14:51Z")

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Say no more.

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**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7747 "2019-08-21T14:28:59Z")

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There is only me. sir.

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7748 "2019-08-21T15:13:08Z")

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Do you want to come upstairs…?

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7749 "2019-08-21T15:23:39Z")

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What an eccentric performance.

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7750 "2019-08-21T15:31:24Z")

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It is a silly place.

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**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:** [August 21, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7751 "2019-08-21T15:43:09Z")

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Sorry about this… pom pom pom… Normally we try to avoid these little … pauses … longeurs… only dramatically he’s gone down to the basement, you see. 'Course, there isn’t really a basement but he just goes off and we pretend… Actually what happens is he goes off there, off camera, and just waits there so it looks as though he’s gone down … to the basement. Actually I think he’s rather overdoing it. Ah!

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7752 "2019-08-21T15:50:49Z")

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Bart-lett

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7753 "2019-08-21T15:51:37Z")

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\*Interviewer: \*And who is the sponsor?

_Mr. Vercotti:_ The Chippenham Brick Company. Ah, they, er, pay all the bills, er, in return for which Ron will be carrying half a hundredweight of their bricks.

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**Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7754 "2019-08-23T17:03:08Z")

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Llamas are larger than frogs.

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**Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7755 "2019-08-23T17:32:29Z")

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It’s not proper banter if it’s said slowly!

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7756 "2019-08-24T10:29:29Z")

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He takes bits of string, wood, dead budgerigars, sparrows, anything, but it does make the cashier’s job very difficult; but of course they’re fools to themselves because the rate of interest over ten years on a piece of moss or a dead vole is almost negligible.

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7757 "2019-08-24T12:33:36Z")

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Now this is for £15 and it’s to stop us revealing the name of your lover in Bolton.

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7758 "2019-08-24T13:03:36Z")

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But why Bolton?

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7759 "2019-08-24T14:32:17Z")

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The palindrome of “Bolton” would be “Notlob”!! It don’t work!!

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**Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/7760 "2019-08-28T04:57:21Z")

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Well, you’ve… slept… with a lady.

Yes…?

What’s it like?

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