# Monty Python non sequitur thread (Part 1)

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218
**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
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### Author: ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1501 "2012-09-15T14:03:52Z")

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Right, right, stop it. This film’s got silly. Started off with a nice little idea about grannies attacking young men, but now it’s got silly.

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### Author: ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1502 "2012-09-15T16:06:59Z")

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This is a frightened city. Over these houses, over these streets hangs a pall of fear. Fear of a new kind of violence which is terrorizing the city.

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### Author: ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1503 "2012-09-15T17:10:17Z")

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Look, I stopped your sketch five minutes ago. So get out of shot. Right, director! Close up. Zoom in on me. That’s better.

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### 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: [September 15, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1504 "2012-09-15T17:16:20Z")

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And now for something completely different…

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### Author: ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1505 "2012-09-15T17:20:25Z")

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Will Louis XVI get away with the Montgolfiers’ precious plans? Is sixteen years of work to be stolen by this suspect sovereign? Is France really in the grip of a Glaswegian monarch? Watch next week’s episode of “The Golden Age of Ballooning.”

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### Author: ![getitrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@getitrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/getitrite)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1506 "2012-09-15T17:33:33Z")

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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

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### Author: ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1507 "2012-09-15T18:59:03Z")

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Oh bugger.

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### Author: ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1508 "2012-09-15T20:57:42Z")

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No, just a minute - I must finish, you know. Anyway, I finished up with “the actions of these vicious men is a violent stain on the community and the full penalty of the law is scarcely sufficient to deal with their ghastly crimes,” and I waggled my wig! Just ever so slightly, but it was a stunning effect.

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### 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: [September 15, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1509 "2012-09-15T20:59:38Z")

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What’s brown and sounds like a bell? Dung!

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### Author: ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1510 "2012-09-15T21:01:40Z")

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Don’t I know it, love.

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### Author: ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1511 "2012-09-15T23:13:15Z")

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Venezuelan beaver cheese?

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### Author: ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1512 "2012-09-15T23:20:51Z")

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Pie Jesu Domine [THUNK!] Dona Aes Requiem[THUNK!]

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### Author: ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1513 "2012-09-15T23:31:26Z")

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Very small rocks.

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### Author: ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1514 "2012-09-16T00:00:14Z")

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**First take a bunch of flowers!**

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### Author: ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1515 "2012-09-16T00:08:49Z")

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For Ralph Melish, this was not to be the start of any trail of events which would not, in no time at all, involve him in neither a tangled knot of suspicion nor any web of lies, which would, had he been not uninvolved, surely have led to no other place than the central criminal court of the Old Bailey.

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### Author: ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1516 "2012-09-16T01:26:44Z")

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Shut up! I’m in charge of this court. Stand up! Sit down! Go moo! See? Right, now, on with the pixie hats! And order in the skating vicar!

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### Author: ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1517 "2012-09-16T02:09:17Z")

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Now, alduce me to introlow myslef.

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### Author: ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1518 "2012-09-16T03:30:25Z")

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Oh my God! We’re on film!

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### Author: ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1519 "2012-09-16T05:59:55Z")

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If this is the crew who were filming us … who’s filming us now?

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### 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: [September 16, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-1/537218/1520 "2012-09-16T16:34:26Z")

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The plumage don’t enter into it.

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