5 lessons Monty Python taught you

[Zkribbler]

5. A witch weighs more than a duck.

4. Dung is brown and sounds like a bell.

3. Molluscs are horny little critters.

2. Marry a woman with huuuuuge tracks of land.

1. There is no one named Monty Python.

[Spec]

1- The're boring and not funny

2- Never watch them again

3- Find something better to do

4- British humor is lame

5- Anybody can make money on TV

Spec.

[Arrian]

Spec, your sense of humor may be entirely hopeless.

Monty Python in the specific and British humour in the general ROCK.

-Arrian

[Dauphin]

Arrian.

Arrian spelling humour correctly.

[Arrian]

My father is a Brit. I had some... disagreements with teachers in elementary school.

-Arrian

[Dauphin]

I went to elementary school in Connecticut for 3 years. I feel your pain.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Arrian
British humour in the general ROCK.

QFMFT!

Case in point: 'Allo 'Allo. Pure genius. FACT!

[Arrian]

Actually, overall it was a positive experience. My hometown has a very good school system. My "disagreements" were actually rather tame and as I recall it ended up with a sort of "ok, they're both right" conclusion.

Where in CT?

-Arrian

[alva]

Arrian.

Arrian spelling humour correctly.

I guess one out of two isn't all too bad for an American.

[Arrian]

Originally posted by LordShiva


QFMFT!

Case in point: 'Allo 'Allo. Pure genius. FACT!

And now I will display my true geekiness:

Few things approach the greatness that is Yes! Minister/Yes! Prime Minister. ****ing brilliant stuff.

-Arrian

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Arrian


Actually, overall it was a positive experience. My hometown has a very good school system. My "disagreements" were actually rather tame and as I recall it ended up with a sort of "ok, they're both right" conclusion.

Where in CT?

-Arrian

Riverside near Greenwich. My dad worked for BP, based in New York in the mid-80s.

[alva]

What's geeky about knowing the Prime Minister series?

And yes, they are brilliant.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Arrian


And now I will display my true geekiness:

Few things approach the greatness that is Yes! Minister/Yes! Prime Minister. ****ing brilliant stuff.

-Arrian

Obligatory....

Sir Humphrey: "Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now when it's worked so well?"

Jim Hacker: "That's all ancient history, surely."

Sir Humphrey: "Yes, and current policy. We had to break the whole thing [the EEC] up, so we had to get inside. We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing: set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch. The Foreign Office is terribly pleased, it's just like old times."

As true today as 25 years ago.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Arrian
And now I will display my true geekiness:

Few things approach the greatness that is Yes! Minister/Yes! Prime Minister. ****ing brilliant stuff.

It's funny. But I prefer 'Allo 'Allo, Black Adder, and It Ain't Half Hot Mum.

[Arrian]

Originally posted by Dauphin



Obligatory....

Sir Humphrey: "Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now when it's worked so well?"

Jim Hacker: "That's all ancient history, surely."

Sir Humphrey: "Yes, and current policy. We had to break the whole thing [the EEC] up, so we had to get inside. We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing: set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch. The Foreign Office is terribly pleased, it's just like old times."

As true today as 25 years ago.

Ah, I grew up about 1/2 hour north up the Merritt Parkway in Easton. Dunno what Riverside's schools are like, but ours were solid. At least by American standards

-Arrian