# 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:** 430
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8592 "2021-08-02T17:00:37Z")
Of course I can talk, Mother. I’m the Minister of Overseas Development. ---
**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 2, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8593 "2021-08-02T17:27:47Z")
And now a short intermission during which Marcel Marceau will impersonate a man walking against the wind. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8594 "2021-08-03T13:46:27Z")
Well, I don’t care, I want to know what’s going on! I think you’re deliberately trying to humiliate people, and I’m going straight out of here and I’m going to tell the police exactly what you do to people and I’m going to make bloody sure that you _never_ do it again. There, what do you think of that? _What do you think of that?_ ---
**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:** [August 3, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8595 "2021-08-03T14:27:43Z")
Fine, sir, he said between clenched teeth knowing full well it was a most unrewarding part. ---
**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 3, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8596 "2021-08-03T14:36:43Z")
It’s probably pining for the fjords. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8597 "2021-08-03T15:37:18Z")
I know what literature is, you Dago dustbin. ---
**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 3, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8598 "2021-08-03T21:16:19Z")
Good evening, and welcome to the Arthur Ludlow Memorial Baths, Newport, for this year’s finals of the All-England Summarize Proust Competition. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8599 "2021-08-04T14:48:12Z")
All right, it’s a fair cop, but society is to blame ---
**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 4, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8600 "2021-08-04T20:39:12Z")
It’s an entirely new strain of sheep, a killer sheep that can not only hold a rifle but is also a first-class shot. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8601 "2021-08-06T13:18:29Z")
Aha - anti-Semitism! ---
**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 6, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8602 "2021-08-06T14:32:57Z")
I mean a lot of others say they unclog you, but I never had a single bowel movement with the ‘Recto-Puffs’. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8603 "2021-08-06T17:19:34Z")
All right, I confess I haven’t cut your hair. I hate cutting hair. I have this terrible un-un-uncontrollable fear whenever I see hair. When I was a kid I used to hate the sight of hair being cut. My mother said I was a fool. She said the only way to cure it was to become a barber. So I spent five ghastly years at the Hairdressers’ Training Centre at Totnes. Can you imagine what it’s like cutting the same head for five years? I didn’t want to be a barber anyway. I wanted to be a lumberjack. Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia… ---
**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 6, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8604 "2021-08-06T17:58:26Z")
No. 1. The Larch. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8605 "2021-08-06T18:20:55Z")
Stalin has always hated me. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8606 "2021-08-06T20:13:43Z")
O Lord! Ooh, you are so big! So absolutely huge. Gosh, we’re all really impressed down here, I can tell you. ---
**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 6, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8607 "2021-08-06T21:31:29Z")
We are the knights who say ‘Ni! ---
**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:** [August 7, 2021, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8608 "2021-08-07T05:02:50Z")
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science? ---
**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 7, 2021, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8609 "2021-08-07T13:16:18Z")
Well, you have to know these things when you’re a king, you know. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8610 "2021-08-07T15:10:43Z")
Flying Thompson’s Gazelle of the Yard! ---
**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:** [August 8, 2021, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8611 "2021-08-08T01:43:04Z")
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