# 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:** 208
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4141 "2025-04-14T14:51:47Z")
I like Chinese. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2025, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4142 "2025-04-15T03:57:45Z")
I remember Doug was very keen on boxing, but when he learned to walk he took up putting the boot in the groin. He was very interested in that. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4143 "2025-04-15T12:47:43Z")
I’ve told you once. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4144 "2025-04-15T14:28:42Z")
Oh yes, well, I mean, there were some people who said my film _2001: A Space Odyssey_, was similar to Stanley Kubrick’s. I mean, that’s the sort of petty critical niggling that’s dogged my career. It makes me sick. I mean, as soon as I’d made _Midnight Cowboy_ with the vicar as Ratso Rizzo, John Schlesinger rushes out his version, and gets it premiered while mine’s still at the chemist’s. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4145 "2025-04-16T12:14:50Z")
You can keep your fastidious continental bidets Mrs Foreigner - Mrs Britain knows how to keep her feet clean … but she’ll baffle like bingo boys when it comes to keeping the television screen clean… ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4146 "2025-04-16T15:04:18Z")
But there is still nothing to match the huge sweep … the majestic power of what is surely his greatest work: “Can I Have Fifty Pounds to Mend the Shed?” ---
**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:** [April 16, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4147 "2025-04-16T23:28:16Z")
No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition! ---
**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:** [April 17, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4148 "2025-04-17T02:58:53Z")
Oh, bugger. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4149 "2025-04-17T04:03:50Z")
And don’t forget the Hercules Hold-'em-in, the all-purpose concrete truss for the man with the family hernia. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4150 "2025-04-17T12:15:22Z")
Well it’s funny you should ask that, but I’ve just been reading a great big book about how to put your budgie down, and apparently you can either hit them with the book, or, you can shoot them just there, just above the beak. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4151 "2025-04-17T15:13:27Z")
I mean, if I went around saying some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4152 "2025-04-17T19:09:36Z")
It all falls into place. More wine? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4153 "2025-04-17T23:28:26Z")
I don’t like spam! ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4154 "2025-04-18T02:57:11Z")
But our sales would plummet! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4155 "2025-04-18T05:05:50Z")
I will not buy this record, it is scratched. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4156 "2025-04-18T12:45:04Z")
You sound vewwy sure … have you checked? ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4157 "2025-04-18T14:38:32Z")
He has a wife, you know… ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4158 "2025-04-18T14:42:27Z")
It’s an entirely new strain of sheep, a killer sheep that can not only hold a rifle but is also a first-class shot. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4159 "2025-04-18T15:03:04Z")
Hello, officer. There seems to have been an accident. Well, several accidents actually. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/4160 "2025-04-18T18:02:07Z")
No, no, no! My fish’s name is Eric. Eric fish. He’s an halibut. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460.md?page=207) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460.md?page=209)