# Monty Python - THE PETITION **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 28, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-the-petition/515512 "2009-10-28T21:46:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Piranha\_Brothers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Piranha\_Brothers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Piranha_Brothers)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-the-petition/515512/1 "2009-10-28T21:46:35Z")
Monty Python has been available on DVD for some time, but some things are missing! Please read the story, and sign the petition below: [http://www.petitiononline.com/topython/petition.html](http://www.petitiononline.com/topython/petition.html) Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-the-petition/515512/2 "2009-10-29T02:55:41Z")
Doug? Dinsdale? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Piranha\_Brothers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Piranha\_Brothers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Piranha_Brothers)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-the-petition/515512/3 "2009-10-29T14:35:24Z")
Both. Spiny Norman was already taken. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-the-petition/515512/4 "2009-10-29T15:23:45Z")
Online petitions are a waste of time. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Piranha\_Brothers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Piranha\_Brothers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Piranha_Brothers)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-the-petition/515512/5 "2009-10-30T08:41:41Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Online petitions are a waste of time. So are online message boards. In this case there is a reasonable chance the target group will actually read it. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-the-petition/515512/6 "2009-10-30T14:13:56Z")
> [@Registration Agreement](#): > > Do not post spam, including but not limited to advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, solicitations, offers to trade or barter, charitable appeals, or other messages primarily intended to promote a cause, venture, organization, event (except Straight Dope-related events), website, or other entity or activity, whether or not money is involved. … We allow exceptions for worthy causes (in our sole opinion) if you obtain prior permission from a moderator or administrator. **The Piranha Brothers** : we normally do NOT allow solicitation of signatures on petitions on these Message Boards without prior approval from the mods. I’m going to leave this one because I share your outrage that the “complete” Python isn’t complete, but please ask in advance next time, OK? And, the disclaimer: just because it’s posted here, we staff have no idea whether it’s actually a relevant petition, or even real. “Click here to sign my petition” is often a ruse used by unspeakably nasty persons to spread viruses, etc. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Piranha\_Brothers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Piranha\_Brothers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Piranha_Brothers)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-the-petition/515512/7 "2009-10-30T14:49:20Z")
Oh, OK. Sorry. Just got carried away. Alas, this is not a petition to get rickrolled or anything. It would have been strangely fitting if it had just been spam, but it isn’t.