We could burn her, bury her - or eat her!
AUUGH!! I’m a geek!
Monty Python had its first run on Canadian TV when I was in junior high school. Those are the prime geeking years, and I had all my favorite sketches memorized. I and my geeky friends would act them out, with the accurate accents and voices, or as close as we could manage.
Yep
What I like is how you can learn to mindlessly um… parrot… the sketches as a yoot and yet still not get all the subtle bits until you’re well out of school.
Well, here’s Elvis’ VCR, with his 1974 copies of Holy Grail and Godfather.
http://weeklywire.com/ww/08-16-99/memphis_cvr.html
Ah. Interview with Elvis’ Stepbrother.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/talking_point/forum/2193305.stm
David Sillito:
Chris in the UK asks: Elvis had a bit of a sense of humour didn’t he?
David Stanley:
Absolutely. If you couldn’t laugh, you couldn’t work for Elvis - it just wouldn’t happen. His favourite movie was the Holy Grail, Monty Python. We sat in a theatre many, many a night and watch that movie - we only had about 12 people in the theatre because it was just us. He loved the Holy Grail - he would watch it time and time again and he’d just laugh and laugh.
He was a practical joker - he was always pulling jokes on the guys who worked for him. We were always wrestling in the hallways, always in the backyard playing football - always upbeat and fun and laughing. He always said - when it ceases to be fun, then quit. All the guys around Elvis sometimes would say - hey this is a tough tour, I’m tired etc. and he’d always say, it could be worse - you could have nothing. He said, we’re so blessed we have so much and we’d sit down and just start laughing - telling jokes etc. or watching Monty Python. The guy loved Monty Python.
I see your point. Actually, I have heard of that but, where I live we don’t have that kind of showings, AFAIK. They must be fun though. All I have seen is the movie on DVD and I liked it a lot.
About Elvis, having a good sense of humor and liking Monty Python just made him even cooler in my book. (I’m thinking of becoming a fan now).
I would like to say that I find sports-geeks far more annoying than Sci-Fi or other geeks. At least Monty Python and HHGG are supposed to be entertaining, but quoting incessantly game averages and hits, and whatever is just dull. YMMV
Sports-statistics geeks approach trainspotting levels of geekdom.