# 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:** 97
**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 24, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1921 "2023-12-24T16:31:50Z")
No it isn’t! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2023, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1922 "2023-12-24T21:24:32Z")
It’s f\*\*king Christmas time again! ---
**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 24, 2023, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1923 "2023-12-24T23:59:35Z")
There’s a _multitude_ out there! ---
**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 25, 2023, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1924 "2023-12-25T13:16:00Z")
We wish to praise the infant. ---
**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 25, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1925 "2023-12-25T14:29:58Z")
He’s not the Messiah! ---
**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 25, 2023, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1926 "2023-12-25T20:22:05Z")
He has given us _food_! ---
**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 26, 2023, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1927 "2023-12-26T14:07:19Z")
Do you mind? I can’t hear a word he’s saying. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1928 "2023-12-26T14:13:05Z")
Oh, you’re no fun anymore! ---
**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 26, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1929 "2023-12-26T16:52:26Z")
We’ve every facility here for dealing with people who are rich. We can deal with a blocked purse, we can drain private accounts and in the worst cases we can perform a total cashectomy, which is total removal of all moneys from the patient. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1930 "2023-12-26T20:09:27Z")
Last week the Royal Festival Hall saw the first performance of a new symphony by one of the world’s leading modern composers, Arthur ‘Two Sheds’ Jackson. ---
**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 26, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1931 "2023-12-26T20:16:37Z")
Mr. Notlob, there’s nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can’t prolong. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1932 "2023-12-26T20:19:29Z")
So, Mrs. Teal, send us 15 pounds, by return of post please, and your husband Trevor, and your lovely children Diane, Janice, and Juliet, need never know the name… of your LOVER IN BOLTON! ---
**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 26, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1933 "2023-12-26T20:35:59Z")
Bloody Romans. ---
**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 26, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1934 "2023-12-26T20:38:13Z")
What you’ve got a hold of there is an anteater. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1935 "2023-12-26T20:44:41Z")
Hey! Mrs. McWong’s been on the phone! The polar bear’s been in her garden 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:** [December 27, 2023, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1936 "2023-12-27T14:20:48Z")
There is only me, sir. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1937 "2023-12-27T14:26:29Z")
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? ---
**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 27, 2023, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1938 "2023-12-27T14:42:13Z")
Conjugate 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:** [December 27, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1939 "2023-12-27T14:53:09Z")
**Centurion.** What’s this then? _Romanes eunt domus_ ? ‘People called Romanes they go the house’? **Brian.** It – it says ’Romans go home!’ **Centurion.** No it doesn’t. What’s Latin for ‘Roman’? Come on, come on! **Brian.** Ahh! _Romanus_ ? **Centurion.** Goes like? **Brian.** _annus_ ? **Centurion.** Vocative plural of _annus_ is …? **Brian.** _anni_ ? **Centurion.** _Ro … ma … ni_ . _eunt_ ? What is _eunt_ ? **Brian.** ‘Go’! **Centurion.** Conjugate the verb ‘to go’. **Brian.** Uh, _ire_ . Uhh, _eo, is it, imus, itis, eunt_ . **Centurion.** So _eunt_ is … **Brian.** Uh, uh, third person plural, present indicative! ‘They go’. **Centurion.** But ‘Romans go home’ is an order, so you must use the … **Brian.** Aaaaahh, the imperative! **Centurion.** Which is … **Brian.** Uuumm, oh! um, _i, i_ ! **Centurion.** How many Romans? **Brian.** Aaahh plural, plural, _ite, ite_ ! **Centurion.** _i … te_ . _domus_ ? Nominative? ‘Go home’, this is motion towards, isn’t it boy? **Brian.** Uh, uh, dative! [_Centurion draws sword and holds it to Brian’s throat._] **Brian.** Oooohh, not dative, not the dative sir! No, ah, oh, the accusative, accusative! Uh, _domum_ , sir! _ad domum_ ! **Centurion.** Except that _domus_ takes the … **Brian.** The locative, sir! **Centurion.** Which is? **Brian.** _domum_ ! **Centurion.** _domum_ . _dom … um_ . Understand? **Brian.** Yes sir! **Centurion.** Now write it out a hundred times. **Brian.** Yes sir! Thank you sir, hail Caesar sir! **Centurion.** Hail Caesar. And if it’s not done by sunrise, I’ll cut your balls off. **Brian.** Oh, thank you sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar and everything sir! ---
**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 27, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-non-sequitur-thread-part-2/975460/1940 "2023-12-27T15:17:30Z")
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