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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
I think that Hatrackers should celebrate Monty Python on every Friday the 13th because it is a silly day. As well as on April 1st. Monty Python were geniuses, and rarely get enough credit. So who is with me?
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
I'm on board. Personally I think every day should be MP Appreciation Day, but I'm willing to settle for this lesser honor.
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
Ok fine..........every Thursday? Thats a silly day. So we will celebrate Monty Python every Thursday. How does that sound?
 

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Posted by WheatPuppet (Member # 5142) on :
 
How about every second thursday of the month. MP is awesome and such, but hearing the "dead parrot" sketch every thursday would certainly wear on one's spirit.
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
Ok fine.........compromise.....every second Thursday of the month....we need an official sounding name for it though....any suggestions?
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
What'd you have in mind?

I think we should add a day just for Tim the Enchanter too. We could call it the Day of Enchantment.
 

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Posted by dread pirate romany (Member # 6869) on :
 
Count me in.
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
Maybe we could call it..........Festival of the Holy Grail ......or..........Enlightenment Day(Meaning of Life).............or............Celebrate Jesus Look-Alikes Day(Life of Brian)........pick one or supply other options

[ January 05, 2005, 06:53 PM: Message edited by: SteveRogers ]
 

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Posted by Vid (Member # 7172) on :
 
It could be called "What kind of snake is that?" Day, because the title would be just as silly and nonsensical as much of the subject matter
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
Sounds good.....so every second Thursday of the month we will celebrate.....What Kind of Snake is that? Day................on the said day we will quote Monty Python.......watch it......and wear Monty Python related clothing.....and anything else Pythonesque............
 

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Posted by DocCoyote (Member # 5612) on :
 
Are we starting tomorrow, even though it isn't the second Thursday? 'Cause it is the second Thursday after Christmas, and we don't have to be bound by such things as the calendar.
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
I think that is a better idea. Lets not set a specific day(other than Thursday). Lets all celebrate it in our own was on any Thursday we feel the need to. It just seem more Monty Pythonish to me. Don't you think? So lets do it!!
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
But I have no Python to watch; what will I do?
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
Talk about Spam........I love all those Spam sketches. They make me laugh just by thinking about them......
 

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Posted by Scythrop (Member # 5731) on :
 
I agree with everything above. But I think we should be able to declare any day of the week the "second thursday of the month" at will. Yesterday, for example, was a wednesday, but had a distinctly thursday-ish undercurrent.

I therefore plan to celebrate yesterday today by performing the fish slapping dance...
 

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Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
 

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But I have no Python to watch; what will I do?

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You could practice your silly walk, of course...
 

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Posted by DocCoyote (Member # 5612) on :
 
If you have a subscription to Netflix, they have the 30th (I think) Anniversary BBC Python special, which is outstanding. Get it into your queue, and stand by the mailbox.
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
So any day you choose can be What kind of snake is that? Day.......this is so Monty Pythonish......thats why it is awesome

[ January 05, 2005, 09:22 PM: Message edited by: SteveRogers ]
 

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Posted by Scythrop (Member # 5731) on :
 
I'm a lumberjack...
 

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Posted by Scythrop (Member # 5731) on :
 
...and I'm okay!
 

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Posted by Heffaji (Member # 3669) on :
 
Speaking of Monty Python, I got the chance to see Spamalot today.


 

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Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 
This is an EX-PARROT!
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
How is Spamalot? I really want to see it, but I thought it was only playing in Chicago.
 

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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 
I sleep all night and I work ALL DAY !
 

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Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
 
Hey Steve? Why are you using so many fullstops?
 

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Posted by WheatPuppet (Member # 5142) on :
 
Nice plumage on that one.
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 

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fullstops?

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WTH? I don't even know what that is?
 

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Posted by Scythrop (Member # 5731) on :
 
I Cut down trees, I skip and jump...
 

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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 
bla bla... "On Wednesdays I go shopping, and have butter scones for tea ! "
 

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Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
 
Ooh!

xnera gave me a Monty Python calendar, so I'll be ready!
 

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Posted by Heffaji (Member # 3669) on :
 
For the moment, Spamalot is only playing in Chicago. Once it gets through its trial run here, it heads off to Broadway.

As for the actual play, basically any sketch that was in the movie is reproduced ad verbatim in the play. However, Idle added plenty more to the show that makes it worthwhile. The fact that the search for the grail is nearly dropped and replaced with some great new material is more then enough reason to see it.
 

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Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
 
Here's a systematic celebration, for Rowan Atkinson's jubilee.

1) On every odd month of the year, the second Sunday will be celebrated with the purchasing of Norwegian Blues, and on the third Monday they will be nailed to the cage.

2) On even months of the year, during weekends, every person will walk a Silly Walk; preferably in public.

3) During Christmas, each shall say the "J" name of Lord God, and throw stones at priests.

4) On Thursday the 12th, each shall celebrate The Penultimate Supper. Friends, guests and waiters are all welcome; marsupials are to be sitting in the back. Three people are to have golden rings on their head; two skinny, one fat. Judas must look Jewish.

5) On Friday the 13th, groups of 4 will join for a reunion in Yorkshire, discussing their fathers' methods of murder.

6) On the 1st of April, all students are to change their names; two shall be named Nibble and Orifice, respectively. If there is a Plectrum, he or she must be tweakable. Undermanagers welcome.
 

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Posted by dread pirate romany (Member # 6869) on :
 
You know what's pathetic?

I don't know any real lullabies, so I have sung all my kids to sleep with "The Lumberjack Song".
 

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Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
 
Oh dear, that's a transsexual soup you're preparing. I suggest a Billy Connolly song!

[ January 06, 2005, 04:42 PM: Message edited by: Jonathan Howard ]
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
Well.......I celebrated What Kind of Snake is that? Day.....today.......by watching Holy Grail.......while eating Monty Python's Chocolate Dead Parrots......mmmm mmmm good!

[ January 06, 2005, 07:58 PM: Message edited by: SteveRogers ]
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
SteveRogers, fullstops are the English, and presumably from Kama's usage of them, the European translation way of saying "period" as in at the end of a sentance. <-- like that
 

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Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
 
"fine..........every" is a variation on the ellipsis, meaning
"fine [extended pause while thinking] every"

[ January 06, 2005, 09:12 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]
 

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Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 

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Speaking of Monty Python, I got the chance to see Spamalot today.

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4) On Thursday the 12th, each shall celebrate The Penultimate Supper. Friends, guests and waiters are all welcome; marsupials are to be sitting in the back. Three people are to have golden rings on their head; two skinny, one fat. Judas must look Jewish.

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And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high,
saying, 'Oh, Lord, bless this thy hand grenade that with it thou
mayest blow thy enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord
did grin, and people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and
carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and
fruit bats, and large--

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
We'll not risk another frontal assault that rabbit's dynamite.

(skip a little bit)

Brother Maynard bring down the Holy Hand Grenade!

(Monks descend while chanting)

Chapter 22 from Arnaments.....

Brother Rupert(Not the real name I can't remember it)held up the Hand Grenade to the Lord and said,"Dear Lord, Bless this thou Hand Grenade so that we may blow your enemies to pieces in your mercy!"

And the Lord did grin....and granted his wish.

The people feasted on numerous things: ham, brocoli, turkey, breakfast cereals, oraungutauns....

(Brother Maynard interrupts)Skip a little bit there brother....

(Resuming his reading)To use this thou Holy Hand Grenade....first you must remove the pin...and then count to three...not four...nor two unless so proceeding to three....five is right out...

Thank you brother.

(King Arthur pulls out the pin)1,2,5

(Lancelot interrupts) 3, Lord!

(King Arthur corrects himself) 3!!!

Kabooooooooooooooooooom!!!!!!!!!!

(This is not word for word....this is the best I could remember.)
 

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Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
 

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"fine..........every" is a variation on the ellipsis, meaning
"fine [extended pause while thinking] every"

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ellipsis has 3 dots, not 20.

[ January 07, 2005, 09:11 AM: Message edited by: Kama ]
 

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Posted by Hermocrates of Syracuse (Member # 7233) on :
 
(Monks Chant)

"My Father can beat your father at Dooooominoooooosssss"

*whump*

"My Father can beat your father at Doooooominoooooossss"

*whump*

etc...
 

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Posted by WheatPuppet (Member # 5142) on :
 
Is that what that translates as?
"Pies lesthu domine, dona [something] requiem." I think that's what they're saying.

From my vauge rememberances of Latin, Domine is God, Dona is gift, and Requiem is question.
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
"Pie Jesu Domine. Dona eis requiem."

SMACK!

EDIT: Or that's the traditional. Is it not that?

[ January 07, 2005, 12:22 PM: Message edited by: Teshi ]
 

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Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 
Teshi, the captions on my DVD won't tell me what they're really saying, but that is what it sounds like to me.

SMACK!!!

And one of my favorites....
"I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food-trough wiper! I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"
 

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Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
 
KNIGHT: "NONE SHALL PASS!"

ARTHUR: "What?"

KNIGHT: "NONE SHALL PASS!"

ARTHUR: "I have no quarrel with you sir Knight, but I must cross this bridge."

KNIGHT: "THEN YOU SHALL DIE!"

ARTHUR: "I command you, as King of the Britains, to stand aside!"

KNIGHT: "I move for no man."

ARTHUR: "So be it!"

*They fight, Arthur cuts off knights arm.*

ARTHUR: "Now stand aside, worthy adversary."

KNIGHT: "'Tis but a scratch."

ARTHUR: "A scratch? You're arms off!"

KNIGHT: "No it isn't!"

ARTHUR: "Well whats that then?"

KNIGHT: "...I've had worse!"

ARTHUR: "You lair!!"

KNIGHT: "Come on you pansy!"

*they fight again, Arthur cuts off his other arm*

ARTHUR: "Victory is mine!"

*Arthur begins praying, Knight kicks him*

KNIGHT: "Come on then."

ARTHUR: "What?"

KNIGHT: "Have at you!"

ARTHUR: "You are indeed brave sir Knight, but the fight is mine."

KNIGHT: "Oooh, had enough eh?"

ARTHUR: "Look you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left!"

KNIGHT: "Yes I have."

ARTHUR: "LOOK!"

KNIGHT: "Its just a flesh wound."

*Knight continues to kick Arthur*

ARTHUR: "Look, stop that."

KNIGHT: "Chicken, chicken!"

ARTHUR: "Look, I'll have your leg... Right!"

*cuts off knights leg*

KNIGHT: "Right, I'll do you for that!"

ARTHUR: "You'll what?!"

KNIGHT: "Come 'ere!"

ARTHUR: "What are you gonna do, bleed on me?"

KNIGHT: "I'm invincible!"

ARTHUR: "You're a looney."

KNIGHT: "The Black Knight always triumphs! Have at you! Come on then."

*Arthur cuts off Knights final limb*

ARTHUR: "All right, we'll call it a draw. Come Patsy!"

KNIGHT: "Ooohoh, I see. Runnin' away are eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take whats comin' to ya! I'll bite yer legs off!!!"



That king of the Britains stuff never seemed to get him very far, did it?
 

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Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
 
"You know what's pathetic?

I don't know any real lullabies, so I have sung all my kids to sleep with "The Lumberjack Song". "

Ha ha ha!!! Do you sing it slowly and lullabyishly?
 

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Posted by Saint_11 (Member # 7232) on :
 
I am absolutely with you! they are some of the best comidians of all! and IM a lumberjack and im ok i sleep all night and i work all day. Great song...
 

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Posted by Heffaji (Member # 3669) on :
 

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Heffaji, did you get a can of Spamalot Honey Spam?? My brother called me tonight to tell me that his coworker went and got two cans for bro and me. =) Bro says he found them on EBay for 50 bucks and up!

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First Old Women (Graham Chapman):
We'll have to watch the telly then.

Second Old Women (John Cleese):
Yes.

First Old Women:
Well, what's on the television then?

Second Old Women:
It looks like a penguin.

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