# You might be a Monty Python fan if.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 1, 2000, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711 "2000-09-01T23:22:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/101 "2000-09-09T17:50:28Z")
A moose once bit my sister… :eek: Moose bites are preti nasti. ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/102 "2000-09-09T18:22:17Z")
…you think the Teletubbies are kewl when Tinky Winky yells, “RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!” ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/103 "2000-09-10T00:15:14Z")
…you’ve got a ferret sticking up your nose (extra points if it’s the exploding kind.) …you have to push the pram alot. …you’ve ever dreamed wistfully of inventing the file-cabinet cannon. …you know why American beer is like making love in a canoe. [Lotsa Lyrics](http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/4656/lyrics/30montypython.htm) -David ---
**Author:** ![Mike30](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@Mike30](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike30)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/104 "2000-09-13T19:21:17Z")
You know there are more varieties of cheese than there are available at the local Safeway You can name British Prime Ministers chronologically You know that you can build a bridge out of a witch You know that very small rocks can float You know what a pantomine horse really is You know that penguins do NOT come from Burma You have a t-shirt with the lyrics to the Lumberjack Song on it (I really do) You can name some cricket players You feed your goldfish sausages You attempt the Silly Walk in public 😃 The best of all is that people mutter to themselves and shake their heads after they finish a conversation with you!!! 😕 * * * “You screw up just this much and you’ll find yourself flying a cargo plane full of rubber dogshit outta Hong Kong!” ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/105 "2000-09-13T20:01:31Z")
I say, anyone for giving the cat influenza? ---
**Author:** ![dzray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@dzray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzray)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/106 "2000-09-13T21:07:31Z")
You’ve ever painted your lawn with Wintrex®. You’ve ever acted in a trench. You’ve ever acted on boxes. You can’t tell the difference between Whizzo butter and a dead crab. ---
**Author:** ![Fillet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@Fillet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fillet)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/107 "2000-09-13T21:35:38Z")
You talk about a friend’s property as encompassing HUGE…tracts of land. Oh, btw, what’s brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG! ---
**Author:** ![Brunetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Brunetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brunetter)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/108 "2000-09-13T21:38:48Z")
This is my post. It is my post. It is a post… and it is mine, which is to say, it is my post. (pause) Alright, the next thing I’m going to say, IS my post. Ready? Ahem. Ahem. Cough. Cough, cough. Cough. Hack. Hack. Scrape. Cough. Ahem. My post says that you might be a Monty Python fan IF… You are embarassed easily, and recite the words “grunties” and “wankle rotary engine” to combat it. If you get beaten verbally or physically you shout: “Hey! You saw it didn’t you? You saw 'im opressing me?” When people use the word “enough” you immediately respond “Enough for what PURPOSE?” When someone asks you a question you say, “That’s a rather personal question, isn’t it sir?” And that is my post. Which is mine. Great thread. ---
**Author:** ![Mike30](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@Mike30](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike30)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/109 "2000-09-13T21:45:14Z")
After further intellectual review… ah, screw it, I went and cut the lawn, OK? I have composed the following, with half-hearted apoplogies to D. Letterman et al, the Top-10 list for this thread’s topic: 1. You know more kinds of cheese than anyone else 2. You assume that anyone you meet named Dennis is a muck-gathering anarchist 3. When your wife accuses you of picking your nose, you angrily reply"I wasn’t picking it, I was just scratching!" 4. The Silly Party is the only true political alternative 5. money really does make the world go 'round 6. You’ve never read Chekhov, Shakespeare, Hardy, nor Dickens, but you can name many of their works 7. You’re the only person in the room that laughs when either llamas, penguins, sheep, or albatrosses are mentioned 8. the “Sit on my face” song is legitimate foreplay 9. Half a bee, philosophically, could, ipso facto, half not be 10. Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Leicester 3-1 to win the 1949 FA Cup 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skaill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Skaill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skaill)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/110 "2000-09-14T00:38:42Z")
you have to exclaim to your wife after eating hallibut that it was good enough for Jehova. Blessed are the cheesemakers. ---
**Author:** ![lovelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@lovelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelee)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/111 "2000-09-14T05:25:12Z")
You use “Crealm” toothpaste. When someone smiles widely, you think of Conrad Poohs and his dancing teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/112 "2000-09-14T05:27:40Z")
I’ve run out of BEANS!!! ---
**Author:** ![Joachim\_Pieper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Joachim\_Pieper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joachim_Pieper)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/113 "2000-09-14T11:10:36Z")
“And they were forced to eat Sir Robin’s Minstrels. And there was much rejoicing…” “Now go away, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper!!!” And finally, something that I have actually been known to say: “I told 'im we already got one…” ---
**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/114 "2000-09-14T18:09:39Z")
You know the benefits of being the village idiot. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/115 "2000-09-14T18:33:57Z")
…you believe that every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great, and if a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate. …you get your head nailed to a table by Dinsdale Piranha …you win first prize in the All-England Summarize Proust competition …you apply for a grant from the Ministry of Silly Walks …you believe the whelk is a randy little rapist who’s always on the job …you believe supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/116 "2000-10-11T23:33:11Z")
If someone asks you, “How are you feeling today?”, and you answer, “Better…better get the bucket”. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/117 "2000-10-11T23:47:32Z")
at least once a day you repeat to yourself… I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats oer the vail on high When beneath I saw a crowd A host of golden worker ants. Or… I met a traveller in an antique land Who said six vast and trunkless legs Stand in the desert. And on the pedestal these words appear I am Ozymandius, King of Ants. As big an ant as you’ll ever see. Look on my works, ye termites, and despair! ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/118 "2000-10-12T04:12:38Z")
We often tell the kids when they come in from playing and have a bump or a scratch that it tis only a flesh wound. The other day I went to Wal-Mart and got the giggles because they had shrubs on sale. My husband thought I lost my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/119 "2000-10-17T18:10:14Z")
you buy “Kenya AA” coffee in a coffee house, and tell the clerk you want “Kenya AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!” ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711/120 "2000-10-17T18:22:05Z")
…when surprised, you’ve been known to yell, “My lack of God, it’s Trotsky!” …you know the directions to the local Young Men’s Anti-Christian Association. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-monty-python-fan-if/31711.md?page=7)