# The reply is a Python Quote

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 7, 2010, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621 "2010-05-07T11:34:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/61 "2010-05-10T12:12:06Z")

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Do you get wafers with it?

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**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/62 "2010-05-10T12:51:48Z")

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Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam . . .

. . . spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam . . .

. . . or Lobster Thermidor au Crevettes with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.

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**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/63 "2010-05-10T13:05:54Z")

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I’m the head waiter. This is a vegetarian restaurant only, we serve no animal flesh of any kind. We’re not only proud of that, we’re smug about it. So if you were to come in here asking me to rip open a small defenseless chicken, so you could chew its skin and eat its intestines, then I’m afraid I’d have to ask you to leave.

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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/64 "2010-05-10T14:26:47Z")

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But I wanted to give the impression of a real Last Supper, not just any old last supper. Not like a “last meal,” or a “final snack.”

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/65 "2010-05-10T14:32:13Z")

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Look, tell you what - we’ll eat her, if you feel a bit guilty about it after, we can dig a grave and you can throw up in it.

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/66 "2010-05-10T15:08:29Z")

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Bring out your dead!

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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/67 "2010-05-10T15:14:42Z")

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And finally monsieur, a wafer thin mint.

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**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/68 "2010-05-10T20:18:46Z")

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We dine well here in Camelot, we eat ham and jam and spamalot.

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/69 "2010-05-10T21:37:14Z")

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Well, it’s certainly uncontaminated by cheese.

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**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/70 "2010-05-10T21:54:55Z")

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Fetchez la vache!

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**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/71 "2010-05-12T07:30:50Z")

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Bonsoir - ici nous avons les diagrammes modernes d’un mouton anglo-français … maintenant … baa-aa, baa-aa… nous avons, dans la tête, le cabinc. Ici, on se trouve le petit capitaine Anglais, Monsieur Trubshawe.

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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/72 "2010-05-12T10:41:45Z")

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Second Bruce: I’d like to welcome the pommey bastard to God’s own Earth, and remind him that we don’t like stuck-up sticky-beaks here.

Everybruce: Hear, hear! Well spoken, Bruce!

Fourth Bruce: Bruce here teaches classical philosophy, Bruce there teaches Haegelian philosophy, and Bruce here teaches logical positivism. And is also in charge of the sheep dip.

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/73 "2010-05-12T11:08:11Z")

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Think of the many things they’ve done to impress - there’s Maoism, Taoism, I Ching and chess.

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/74 "2010-05-12T15:24:57Z")

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“Sing Little Birdie?”

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**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/75 "2010-05-12T16:53:42Z")

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A 5 ounce bird cannot carry a 1 pound coconut.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/76 "2010-05-12T17:15:39Z")

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Robs from the poor and gives to the rich,  
Stupid bitch.

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**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/77 "2010-05-12T17:17:59Z")

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Stand and Deliver!

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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/78 "2010-05-12T17:36:48Z")

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All right! All right! This is your captain speaking. Do not rush for the lifeboats. Women, children, Red Indians, spacemen and a sort of idealized version of complete Renaissance Men first!

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**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/79 "2010-05-12T19:01:29Z")

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My hovercraft is full of eels.

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**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-python-quote/538621/80 "2010-05-12T20:26:44Z")

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It was a fantastic success. Over 60 000 times more powerful than Britain’s great pre-war joke, and one which Hitler just couldn’t match.

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