# 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:** 442
**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 15, 2021, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8832 "2021-12-15T14:10:45Z")
Our experts describe you as an appallingly dull fellow, unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humor, tedious company and irrepressibly drab and awful. ---
**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 15, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8833 "2021-12-15T16:28:29Z")
Michael Norman Randall, you have been found guilty of the murder of Arthur Reginald Webster, Charles Patrick Trumpington, Marcel Agnes Bernstein, Lewis Anona Rudd, John Malcolm Kerr, Nigel Sinclair Robinson, Norman Arthur Potter, Felicity Jayne Stone, Jean-Paul Reynard, Rachel Shirley Donaldson, Stephen Jay Greenblatt, Karl-Heinz Mullet, Belinda Anne Ventham, Juan-Carlos Fernandez, Thor Olaf Stensgaard, Lord Kimberley of Pretoria, Lady Kimberley of Pretoria, The Right Honourable Nigel Warmsly Kimberley, Robert Henry Noonan and Felix James Bennett, on or about the morning of the 19th December 1972. Have you anything to say before I pass sentence? ---
**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 17, 2021, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8834 "2021-12-17T15:23:28Z")
No, no, well, look, you can ask Mr. Maudling but I’m sure he’ll never agree. Not for fifty shillings… no… no. Bye-bye, Gordon. Bye-bye. Oh, dear. Bye-bye! _(He throws receiver at telephone but misses)._ ---
**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 17, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8835 "2021-12-17T15:51:31Z")
Yes, it’s Attila the Nun. ---
**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 17, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8836 "2021-12-17T18:27:40Z")
Oh, wicked, bad, naughty Zoot! She has been setting a light to our beacon, which, I’ve just remembered, is Grail shaped. ---
**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 17, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8837 "2021-12-17T20:57:18Z")
Mr. Chigger. So, you want to learn to fly? ---
**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 17, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8838 "2021-12-17T21:53:39Z")
And while that’s going on, here is the news for gibbons. ---
**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 19, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8839 "2021-12-19T21:01:29Z")
Splunge! ---
**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 20, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8840 "2021-12-20T17:23:21Z")
After three years of study these apprentice idiots receive a diploma of idiocy, a handful of mud and a kick on the head. ---
**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 20, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8841 "2021-12-20T19:17:06Z")
Right, well, up on the table, arms out, fingers together, knees bent… ---
**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 20, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8842 "2021-12-20T19:53:36Z")
It was a most elusive fish. ---
**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, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8843 "2021-12-21T14:24:51Z")
Up on the table! Arms out, fingers together, knees bent, now, head well forward. Now, flap your arms. Go on, flap, faster… faster… faster… faster, faster, faster, faster - now jump! Rotten. Rotten. You’re no bloody use at all. You’re an utter bloody wash-out. You make me sick, you weed! ---
**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 21, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8844 "2021-12-21T15:59:16Z")
And it followed me wherever… I… would… go! ---
**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, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8845 "2021-12-21T20:55:44Z")
Look, I came here to learn how to fly an _aeroplane_. ---
**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 22, 2021, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8846 "2021-12-22T12:48:32Z")
Look, I came in here for an argument. ---
**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 22, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8847 "2021-12-22T18:16:51Z")
Oh, ‘an _aeroplane_’. Oh, I say, we are _grahnd_, aren’t we? ‘Oh, oh, no more buttered scones for me, mater. I’m off to play the grand piano’. ‘Pardon me while I fly my _aeroplane_.’ Now get on the table! ---
**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 23, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8848 "2021-12-23T15:51:44Z")
Oh Bevis, are you going to _do_ anything or are you just going to show me films all evening? ---
**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 23, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8849 "2021-12-23T16:44:31Z")
Bloody Romans. ---
**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 23, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8850 "2021-12-23T18:21:26Z")
Mr. Nesbitt has learnt the first lesson of not being seen… not to stand up. However, he has chosen a very obvious piece of cover. ---
**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 25, 2021, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/8851 "2021-12-25T03:44:40Z")
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