# Monty Python non sequitur thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 23, 2022, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460 "2022-11-23T21:55:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 174
**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:** [November 11, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3461 "2024-11-11T19:52:41Z")
Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health … what have the Romans ever done for _us_? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3462 "2024-11-11T20:01:04Z")
After a few more of these remarks, I shall be appearing in a sketch, so stay tuned. ---
**Author:** ![kwintenstraler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kwintenstraler/32/10698_2.png) [@kwintenstraler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kwintenstraler)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3463 "2024-11-11T20:07:14Z")
Look, are you insinuating something? ---
**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 11, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3464 "2024-11-11T21:18:51Z")
Well, it’s a joke name, sir. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3465 "2024-11-12T04:59:35Z")
Tell me sir, have you confused your cat recently? ---
**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 12, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3466 "2024-11-12T15:52:07Z")
Two people have just fallen out of that window to their almost certain death. ---
**Author:** ![kwintenstraler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kwintenstraler/32/10698_2.png) [@kwintenstraler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kwintenstraler)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3467 "2024-11-12T16:08:35Z")
Oh how horrible… Will they stop at nothing? ---
**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 12, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3468 "2024-11-12T18:09:55Z")
Kiss me, Hardy! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3469 "2024-11-12T18:17:11Z")
This is the back of the house, with Uncle Ted coming round the side to the front. ---
**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 12, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3470 "2024-11-12T18:38:36Z")
Bicycle Repair Man! But… how? ---
**Author:** ![kwintenstraler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kwintenstraler/32/10698_2.png) [@kwintenstraler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kwintenstraler)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3471 "2024-11-12T19:29:01Z")
I meant that rhetorically. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3472 "2024-11-13T01:09:04Z")
Look! We can’t afford it! The BBC are short of money as it is. ---
**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 13, 2024, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3473 "2024-11-13T03:26:04Z")
Get on with it. Get _on_ with it! ---
**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:** [November 13, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3474 "2024-11-13T13:19:38Z")
Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do… except perhaps my wife and some of her friends… oh yes, and Captain Johnston. Come to think of it most people like a good laugh more than I do, but that’s beside the point. ---
**Author:** ![kwintenstraler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kwintenstraler/32/10698_2.png) [@kwintenstraler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kwintenstraler)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3475 "2024-11-13T14:45:02Z")
Good evening. Tonight ‘Spectrum’ looks at one of the major problems in the world today - that old vexed question of what is going on. Is there still time to confront it, let alone solve it, or is it too late? What are the figures, what are the facts, what do people mean when they talk about things? Alexander Hardacre of the Economic Affairs Bureau. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3476 "2024-11-13T14:56:07Z")
All brontosauruses are thin at one end; much, much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end. That is the theory that I have and which is mine and what it is, too. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3477 "2024-11-13T15:16:23Z")
Look, you’re a busy man— ---
**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:** [November 13, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3478 "2024-11-13T15:32:06Z")
I’d like to be a martyr. How do I go about being one? ---
**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 13, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3479 "2024-11-13T16:47:54Z")
Blessed are the cheesemakers. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3480 "2024-11-13T19:14:52Z")
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