# 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:** 82
**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 3, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1621 "2023-11-03T14:30:56Z")
You’ve got a nice Army base here, Colonel. We wouldn’t want anything to happen to it. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1622 "2023-11-03T14:33:10Z")
If you really want a regiment of the line that is really saying something about interior decor, then you’ve got to go for the Durham Light Infantry. ---
**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 3, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1623 "2023-11-03T15:01:13Z")
Here comes that wacky Queen again. ---
**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 3, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1624 "2023-11-03T16:29:09Z")
Listen – strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. ---
**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 3, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1625 "2023-11-03T16:38:01Z")
_CAPTION:_ ‘IN THIS PERFORMANCE THE PART OF DAVID HEMMINGS WILL BE PLAYED BY A PIECE OF WOOD’ Yes, Discourse. That’s what I meant to post. ---
**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 4, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1626 "2023-11-04T13:10:39Z")
All right, Rutherford, I’ll take over. ---
**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 4, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1627 "2023-11-04T13:14:34Z")
Well that’s, er, very interesting, because, er, I am, in fact, made entirely of wood. ---
**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 4, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1628 "2023-11-04T19:37:54Z")
We’ve been mentioned on telly! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1629 "2023-11-05T04:50:47Z")
_Who_ leaps out? ---
**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 5, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1630 "2023-11-05T12:45:24Z")
And now it’s time for Rugby League, and highlights of this afternoon’s game between Keighley and Hull Kingston Rovers. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1631 "2023-11-05T19:29:22Z")
Oh, I thought you were rugged! 😭 ---
**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 5, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1632 "2023-11-05T20:43:32Z")
Maybe he was dictating. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1633 "2023-11-05T22:00:28Z")
Hellooooo, Polly! ---
**Author:** ![martyg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@martyg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/martyg)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1634 "2023-11-05T22:09:04Z")
We interrupt this programme to annoy you and make things generally irritating for you. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2023, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1635 "2023-11-05T23:23:31Z")
_Always look on the bright side of death Just before you draw your terminal breath._ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1636 "2023-11-06T02:57:03Z")
Well now, the result of last week’s competition when we asked you to find a derogatory term for the Belgians. Well, the response was enormous and we took quite a long time sorting out the winners. There were some very clever entries. Mrs. Hatred of Leicester Said ‘let’s not call them anything, let’s just ignore them’. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1637 "2023-11-06T04:54:45Z")
Once again, the year has come full circle, and for me there can be no greater privilege, and honor, than to that to which it is my lot to have befallen this evening… ---
**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 6, 2023, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1638 "2023-11-06T13:17:04Z")
Right! Off you go! Now, everybody else happy with my little plan… of marching up and down the square a bit? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1639 "2023-11-06T15:43:13Z")
I’m going to operate! ---
**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 6, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1640 "2023-11-06T15:55:26Z")
Shut up! This is a hold-up, not a botany lesson. Right, now my fine friends, no false moves please. I want you to hand over all the lupins you’ve got. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460.md?page=81) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460.md?page=83)