# The British Muse
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-muse/734362
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 11, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-muse/734362 "2015-10-11T22:04:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-muse/734362/1 "2015-10-11T22:04:32Z")
The muse…that paranormal _something_ which inspires and fuels the artist to produce Work.
When the 60s became the 70s, it was said that whatever carried along the Beatles was now propping up Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
I claim also for the past 15 years TOP GEAR.
In Your opinion, this muse inspired _who and when?_
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### Author:  [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-muse/734362/2 "2015-10-11T22:05:55Z")
Rain. It keeps you indoors and gives you lots of time to think.
In terms of who, there have been countless legendary British writers - Shakespeare, Locke, Dickens, Austen, the Brontes, Orwell, etc. I’m not sure I’d put them all in the same category as Top Gear, though . . . 😉
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### Author:  [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-muse/734362/3 "2015-10-11T23:35:47Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#):
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> When the 60s became the 70s, it was said that whatever carried along the Beatles was now propping up Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
By whom? And what did they mean by it? Spike Milligan?
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-muse/734362/4 "2015-10-12T00:07:09Z")
The Clash. And after maybe… U2.
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### Author:  [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-muse/734362/5 "2015-10-12T01:32:05Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#):
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> The Clash. And after maybe… U2.
The “British Muse” outsourcing to U2 in Ireland? 😃
> [@Enola\_Straight](#):
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> The muse…that paranormal _something_ which inspires and fuels the artist to produce Work.
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> When the 60s became the 70s, it was said that whatever carried along the Beatles was now propping up Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
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> I claim also for the past 15 years TOP GEAR…\*
Eek! I’m horrified at the idea of having “Top Gear” in the same universe as Python. :eek: Long-running telly programme about cars can’t really be in the same field as MPFC, surely? Sacrilege!