# 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:** 193
**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:** [January 25, 2025, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3841 "2025-01-25T18:57:59Z")
Hello, last week on ‘Party Hints’ I showed you how to make a small plate of goulash go round twenty-six people, how to get the best out of your canapés, and how to unblock your loo. This week I’m going to tell you what to do if there is an armed communist uprising near your home when you’re having a party. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3842 "2025-01-25T19:21:26Z")
The pond! Throw her into the pond! ---
**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:** [January 26, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3843 "2025-01-26T01:16:40Z")
A newt?!? ---
**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:** [January 26, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3844 "2025-01-26T15:42:13Z")
Are you referring to me? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3845 "2025-01-26T16:11:24Z")
Right, Audrey. When did you first start thinking you were a cow? ---
**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:** [January 26, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3846 "2025-01-26T16:48:16Z")
You bloody fool, Morgan, that’s the metope. The abacus is between the architrave and the aechinus in the capital. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3847 "2025-01-26T16:53:36Z")
To be blunt, your cat is in a rut. It’s the old stockbroker syndrome, the suburban fin de sičcle ennui, angst, weltschmertz, call it what you will. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3848 "2025-01-27T02:41:04Z")
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! ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3849 "2025-01-27T02:59:51Z")
The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3850 "2025-01-27T03:49:04Z")
Right, well, up on the table, arms out, fingers together, knees bent… ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3851 "2025-01-27T03:52:38Z")
French persons! (_Jeering_) Today the blood of many a valiant knight shall be avenged. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3852 "2025-01-27T11:59:10Z")
But if you can find a piano stool you can appear later on in the show on film. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3853 "2025-01-27T14:27:09Z")
Oh I’m awfully sorry, my suit seems to keep catching fire. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3854 "2025-01-27T14:46:11Z")
Say no more! ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3855 "2025-01-27T20:55:56Z")
Quite agree. Quite agree. Silly. Silly…silly. Right get on with it. Get on with it. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3856 "2025-01-28T02:12:25Z")
Take this to Marketing, would you? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3857 "2025-01-28T02:25:31Z")
What a plucky fighter this Champ is. He’s fighting as well as I’ve ever seen him. Must be losing blood at a rate of a pint a second now. It’s everywhere. Certainly those who paid one and a half million dollars for those ringside seats are really getting their money’s worth. They’re covered in it. And his head’s off! ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3858 "2025-01-28T13:49:22Z")
That gives you just some idea of what’s going on out there. Today saw the long-awaited publication of the Portman Committee’s Report on Industrial Reorganization… ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3859 "2025-01-28T19:13:13Z")
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/3860 "2025-01-28T20:16:52Z")
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