# 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:** 182
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3621 "2024-12-15T03:04:01Z")
_The salmon mousse!_ ---
**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 15, 2024, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3622 "2024-12-15T04:09:09Z")
Oh, shit, it’s Mr. Creosote! ---
**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:** [December 15, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3623 "2024-12-15T13:41:20Z")
Some people have made the mistake of seeing Shunt’s work as a load of rubbish about railway timetables, but clever people like me, who talk loudly in restaurants, see this as a deliberate ambiguity, a plea for understanding in a mechanized world. The points are frozen, the beast is dead. What is the difference? What indeed is the point? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3624 "2024-12-15T19:01:46Z")
We are no longer the Knights Who Say Ni. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3625 "2024-12-15T19:11:39Z")
After a few moments I perceived a line of gentlemen with rifles. They were looking in my direction… I looked around but could not see the target. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3626 "2024-12-15T19:14:59Z")
“You don’t cook a piston engine.” “Well, you can’t eat it raw.” ---
**Author:** ![Ferris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ferris/32/11573_2.png) [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3627 "2024-12-15T22:42:03Z")
Don’t you ‘shhhh’ me. Eighteen years of total silence, and you ‘shhhh’ me! ---
**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 16, 2024, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3628 "2024-12-16T02:21:57Z")
O Knights who… until recently said Ni! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3629 "2024-12-16T02:27:28Z")
Yes take my word for it, Marge. Kevin’s eaten most of the early nineteenth-century British landscape artists, and I’ve learnt not to worry. As a matter of fact, I feel a bit peckish myself. ---
**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 16, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3630 "2024-12-16T02:28:36Z")
And so you shall! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3631 "2024-12-16T02:46:56Z")
Hello, good evening and welcome to another edition of Blood Devastation Death War and Horror, and later on we’ll be meeting a man who does gardening. ---
**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 16, 2024, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3632 "2024-12-16T02:53:24Z")
Contempt of court. However, I’m not going to punish you, because we’re so short of judges at the moment, what with all of them emigrating to South Africa. ---
**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 16, 2024, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3633 "2024-12-16T03:51:47Z")
If I now call Mr. Chipperfield and say to him, “Look here, I’ve got a forty-five-year-old chartered accountant with me who wants to become a lion tamer,” his first question is not going to be, “Does he have his own hat?” ---
**Author:** ![Ferris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ferris/32/11573_2.png) [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3634 "2024-12-16T04:45:37Z")
Yes, yes, as a matter of fact you can, actually I was interested in the possibility… of purchasing one of your … can I ask who you thought I was? ---
**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:** [December 16, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3635 "2024-12-16T12:57:49Z")
Give him another twenty seconds. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3636 "2024-12-16T15:08:45Z")
Are you going to be in there all night? ---
**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:** [December 16, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3637 "2024-12-16T19:16:38Z")
Do you mind if I sit down for a minute and collect my wits? ---
**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:** [December 17, 2024, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3638 "2024-12-17T19:02:20Z")
There is much danger … for beyond the cave lies the Gorge of Eternal Peril which no man has ever crossed. ---
**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, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3639 "2024-12-17T19:05:50Z")
Albatross! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3640 "2024-12-17T19:49:41Z")
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