Deb Lewis

We watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail last night.
We found science!


"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."

"Look, you stupid bastard. You've got no arms left. "

"Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of silly persons! "

"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"

"Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent
earthquakes."

"What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"


We also found economics!

"Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable
economic stress in this period in history."


And politics!

"Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for
a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate
from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. "

"Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because
some watery tart threw a sword at you. "

"Come see the violence inherent in the system. Help, help, I'm being
repressed. "


Deb L

Nisha

--- In [email protected], Deb Lewis
<ddzimlew@j...> wrote:

> "What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
> \

Is it an African swallow or a European swallow?? (hopefully no one
beat me to that....)
I like Life of Brian better than grail. BUt I'm kind of irreverent.
LOL
Nisha

happymomnh

Deb, I just joined this group and the first message I read -- yours --
made me laugh out loud. I haven't seen that Python flick in years.
My favorite scene was the parade of chanting monks appearing over a
hill, smacking themselves in the foreheads with stone tablets. I
think that's an interesting statement about organized religion.
Thanks! - Gordon

--- In [email protected], Deb Lewis
<ddzimlew@j...> wrote:
> We watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail last night.
> We found science!
>
>
> "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
>
> "Look, you stupid bastard. You've got no arms left. "
>
> "Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of silly persons! "
>
> "Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"
>
> "Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent
> earthquakes."
>
> "What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
>
>
> We also found economics!
>
> "Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under
considerable
> economic stress in this period in history."
>
>
> And politics!
>
> "Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no
basis for
> a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a
mandate
> from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. "
>
> "Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just
because
> some watery tart threw a sword at you. "
>
> "Come see the violence inherent in the system. Help, help, I'm being
> repressed. "
>
>
> Deb L

Julie Bogart

--- In [email protected], "Nisha" <nishamartin@y...> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], Deb Lewis
> <ddzimlew@j...> wrote:
>
> > "What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
> > \
>
> Is it an African swallow or a European swallow?? (hopefully no one
> beat me to that....)
> I like Life of Brian better than grail. BUt I'm kind of irreverent.
> LOL
> Nisha

ROFLOL - just as I opened this email, the very scene you indicate here is playing on our
TV! Is that too ironic? I didn't even know the movie was being referenced here when I
checked it out the other night. Serendipity!

My favorite scene is the reading of the Book of Armaments!

Julie

[email protected]

In a message dated 1/11/2005 12:27:55 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
julie@... writes:

My favorite scene is the reading of the Book of Armaments!


-----

Oh my gosh. I love that scene.
"Lobbest thou the holy hand grenade at thine enemy who, being not in His
sight, shall snuff it."

I may be misquoting.
It may be close enough.

Sandra


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Julie Bogart

--- In [email protected], SandraDodd@a... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 1/11/2005 12:27:55 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
> julie@b... writes:
>
> My favorite scene is the reading of the Book of Armaments!
>
>
> -----
>
> Oh my gosh. I love that scene.
> "Lobbest thou the holy hand grenade at thine enemy who, being not in His
> sight, shall snuff it."
>
> I may be misquoting.
> It may be close enough.

"Bless this thy hand grenade, O Lord, that thou mayest blowest thine enemies to tiny bits,
in thy mercy...."

That's my favorite. Delicious irony. :)

The first time I saw this movie was for my thirteenth birthday. It was new and in the
theaters and a gaggle of my friends and I went to the movie and then back to my house
for cake and ice cream. We were positively sauced on laughter and couldn't stop the punch
drunk poking and teasing. One of the best birthday parties of my life. :)

So much fun to watch with the kids today. And after reading Chaucer and Middle Ages
books together, we laugh even harder.

And talk bout stimulating conversations! All those political gags lead to many a fruitful
conversation about the conditions of the worker, don't you know! ? <g>

Julie B~~who is not a witch, and that is not my real nose

[email protected]

In a message dated 1/11/2005 7:48:35 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
julie@... writes:

-=-All those political gags lead to many a fruitful
conversation about the conditions of the worker, don't you know! ? <g>-=-



Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of
government.

Sandra


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nellebelle

>>>>Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of
government.>>>

I don't know. It's probably just as reasonable as voting for the guy with the best hair <G>

Mary Ellen

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[email protected]

In a message dated 1/12/2005 9:51:59 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
nellebelle@... writes:

>>>>Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a
system of
government.>>>

I don't know. It's probably just as reasonable as voting for the guy with
the best hair <G>



=========

Equally as lame.

Just as UNreasonable. <g>

My mom told me when I was a kid that there was never much difference between
presidential candidates, so vote for the better looking one because you'd
have to look at him every day. HA! I know how to turn off the TV and not get
the newspaper. I don't get Newsweek anymore, I get People. I can look at
Brad Pitt and not George the Younger.

Sandra





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nellebelle

>>>I don't know. It's probably just as reasonable as voting for the guy with
the best hair <G>
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Equally as lame.
Just as UNreasonable. <g>
>>>>>

Thank you for clarifying that. I meant it as a joke, but you are right that it is UNreasonable.

Mary Ellen

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jwvastine

>
> Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a
system of
> government.
>
> Sandra

I just read this aloud without preface-Rick (the Dad) said*That made
absolutely no sense* Joe (12) *It's a Monty Python line* And we
thought they weren't paying attention.

Judy