Has anyone else noticed that Afghanistan always gets out to a quick start at the top of the Olympics medal count list?
…And Batman almost got destroyed by one Penguin.
An accurate and more interesting description:
Each person, on average, would have to fight off slightly more than π penguins.
That post about penguins was taken from the Monty Python Facebook thread. That helps explain the, um, offbeat arithmetic.
Which brings back memories. Back in 1976, which is probably before some of you were born, I went with some friends to watch Monty Python And The holy Grail. I didn’t know anything then about Monty Python, but I vividly remember that before the opening credits were done, I was laughing in tears.
The same thing often happened when I watched various episodes of Fawlty Towers, which some of you may also remember.
Well, that explains the shrubbery.
That movie is full of quality work.
Castle Anthrax - Michael Palin - “I suppose I could stay a bit longer”
“Ok, I have another plan - what if we construct a large wooden badger?”
“Can’t we all let bygones be bygones, and not be consumed with who killed who?”
As long as we can avoid the farcical aquatic ceremony that could be looming…
“We are French!!! You can tell by our outrageous accents, now go away before we taunt you a second time.”
Just a flesh wound
“I got better.”
If I went ‘round sayin’ I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!.
I never realized until recently that the “silly English cunnigits” insult was him pronouncing “knights” phonetically (kuh-nig-its).
Made it that much funnier.
I never really got into Monty Python, but I sure do enjoy Red Dwarf. Here’s one of my favorite scenes.
The most underrated exchange in the movie:
“One day, lad, all of this will be yours!”
“What? The curtains?”