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Pirahna Brothers

2008-03-02T18:00:20Z

These might take a while to load but if you mute them they should run smoothly in the background while you do other stuff. So you can play them loud and proud later :)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8ZkWL-XvO0U&feature=related - part 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=C-FDW1shmqA&feature=related - part two

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New SF Theatre Space in the Throbbing Theatre District! Great for classes, film screenings, film/photo shoots/rehearsals/parties,auditions

2008-01-13T03:51:12Z

55 seat theatre with 20'x12' stage. Sound Proofed with Piano. Projector.

Great for classes, rehearsals, or productions, auditions, film/photo shoots, private parties.

5 blocks off Bart in the exciting theatre district.

Full theatre lighting system with 16 channel light board, 12 channel Mackie sound board and excellent sound system, 5 disc cd changer, dvd player, dual cassette player, projector, microphones, mic stands, piano, comfortable seats, dressing room with mirrors and lights, large stage with 3 possible entrances.

Email for booking and rates

Check out the website calendar for open booking dates and map of the area.
http://www.stagewerx.org

contact us at
heyyouguys@stagewerx.org
533 Sutter st. at Powell San Francisco California 94102

burners can own theatres too!

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It's almost that time!!!

2007-12-25T23:22:33Z

What with it being so close to xmas and all... I find it fitting to watch the Life of Brian whilst wrapping my gifts.

Next! Crucifixion?

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Social Sampler - a new social networking event (humor table for sharing wit and humor)

2007-09-01T07:28:20Z

Social Sampler

A new concept in social events: "Social Sampler". 28 activities in 7 rooms over 6 hours with 300 chairs using 50 tables. Conversation tables, dancing, games, sing-alongs, read-alongs costume club, toys, food sampler join, watch, or wander activities. several helpful hosts. waltz dancing, latin, swing dancing. 6pm to midnight

www.SocialSampler.com

All ages, Comfortable attire. No partner necessary. $12 general, $6 student with ID.

Oakland Veterans Hall, 200 Grand Avenue Oakland CA X Harrison.A beautiful dance hall, with 3,500 square foot hardwood floor, extra room for socializing and meeting new people, easy access, great parking.

CONVERSATION TABLES: Movies, Books, Relationships, Culture, Tech, Dining, Humor, Random Chat, Artists, Networking, Writers, Harry Potter, Pets, Weather, Vacations; DANCING: Waltz, Swing, Latin SOCIAL : Board games, Card games, Social games, Sing alongs, Script Read alouds, Costumers club, Toys, Food sampler

Conversation Tables
Each Conversation table has a different theme such as Movies, Books, Relationships, Culture, Tech, Dining, Humor, Random Chat, Artists, Networking, Writers, Harry Potter, Pets, Weather, and Vacations.

Each table has a deck of cards with a different topic on each card. Each card is turned over one at a time. People talk about the topic as they wish until everyone who wants to talk is finished. Then the next card is turned over. For example, for the Movie Table, topic cards include “Your favorite movie?” “Your favorite actor?” “Your worst movie experience?” “Your favorite theatre” “Your favorite movie snack?”. Similar topic cards decks are set on each conversation table. You may participate or just listen. You may join or leave any table at any time. There is a host at each table to answer questions.
Movies Table May 26 -a table each for Spiderman III, Shrek III, Pan's Labyrinth, movies in general.
Books Table Recent book discussion, writing, literature, business of authorship
Relationships Table Romance and Relationships discussion
Culture Table Symphony-dance-opera-ballet-theatre
Technology Table Technology, computers and science fiction
Dining Table cooking, fine dining, restaurant, food, cooking experiences
Humor Table Read Jokes, write cartoon captions
Random Chat Table There are 100 cards: "What was the oddest thing you have ever seen?""What is your worst hair day?" “What was your worst job experience?" "Most embarassing moment?"
Artists Exchange Table Exchange techniques, shows, art
Networking Table Business Networking: startups, marketing strategy, IPO, financing
The Writers Exchange Table mutual help for new writers and authors
Harry Potter Table movies, books and trivia
Pets Table cute pet stories, pet health
Vacations Table favorite vacations, budget vacations, dream vacations
Weather stories Table Everyone has interesting stories about weather. Blizzards, hurricanes, earthquakes, hail

Dancing
Waltz Dancing Dj music for Waltz, Polka, Congress of Vienna, Bohemian National Polka
Swing Dancing Dj music for Lindy, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Shag, Balboa, Blues dances
Latin Dancing Dj music for Salsa, cha cha, samba, mambo, bachata, cumbia dances

Games Room
Social games including charades, acronamatic, the question game, story time, WHAT IF? There are social board games in the room: pick up a social board game, select a table, and invite other to play with you. You may leave any game at any time. All games stop after 30 minutes so that everyone can try other games.

Board games including cranium, outburst, monopoly, Pictionary. There are social board games in the room: pick up a board game, select a table, and invite other to play with you. You may leave any game at any time. All games stop after 30 minutes so that everyone can try other games

Card games including Hearts, Holmes Card Game, Magic: Mamma Mia, other. There are many decks of cards and many specialty card decks. Pick out a game, select a table, invite others to join. You may leave any game at any time. All games stop after 30 minutes so that everyone can try other games.

Social Rooms

Toys
Legos, Tinker Toys, K’nex, Erector sets, modeling clay, group jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzle. You are welcome to play with the toys and invite others to join you.

Script read-alouds
reading aloud scripts from TV, plays, movies, such as the Simpsons, Seinfeld, Friends, Mash, All in the Family, Hamlet, Shakespeare in Love,Buffy, Coupling, American Beauty. There are many scripts on the table. Pick one that you would like to read aloud. Select a table, invite others to join in. Everyone selects a character, and start reading aloud.

Food Sampler There is a different food sampler each Social Sampler. Some food sampler themes are ice creams, chocolates, coffees, potato chips, cookies. Odd Ice Creams with be sampled for May 26: Avacado, Buko (Baby Coconut), Ginger, Green Tea, Halo Halo (Buko, Langka, Ube, Pineapple, Mongo &Sweet Beans), Langka (also known as Jackfruit, a relative of the Fig), Lychee, Mango, Thai Tea, Sweet Coconut, and Ube (purple Yam).

Costumers Club activities include swap or sell fabric, clothing, or costumes' sewing circle talk; or meet potential new clients about new costumes, tuxes, or gowns; or finish a costume in a 'stitch and bitch' session. This is a group for costumers and seamstresses who make costumes, gowns, wedding dresses, and clothing for such events as Renaissance Faire, Dickens Faire, Science Fiction costume masquerade balls, Halloween balls and events, Sea of Dreams NYE, Anon Salon events, Costume cons, Belly Dancers outfits, Greater Bay Area Costume Group events, Art Deco's Gatsby picnic, Newport Week, San Francisco Waltzing Society, Friday Night Waltz New Year's Eve formal Waltz Balls, Peers and Gaskells formal balls.

Sing alongs
Sea Shanteys are songs traditionally sung by sailors to accompany and set the rhythm for certain kinds of heavy, repetitive work on board ship—raising and trimming the sails, raising the anchor, and working the pumps.

Musicals are the songs from musical plays and movies, such as Sound of Music, Grease, Singing in the Rain, Brigadoon, Hair, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls.

Folk songs are just that: traditional folk songs.

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Assorted Information... Stuff it where you like...

2006-11-26T05:09:45Z

Terry Jones is hosting a program on History International, word is he has a ten show deal although it may not be... also The Rutles and The Rutles 2 has been playing on VH1 classic. Love it. Especialy Michael Palins cameo.

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hey guys

2006-11-22T00:01:51Z

I watched monty python&the holy grail last night, I haven't seen it in years, my brother Steve dropped of a video copy for me.

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Any word about Terry Jone's condition ?

2006-11-14T01:44:19Z

You probably read it all a little while ago, eventhough it wasn't mentioned here - the news read that Terry Jones undergoes surgery for bowel cancer to remove and also determine if it's good or bad one ....I'm checking out the news regularly, even just the yahoo.co.uk ones but haven't found any follow up on that .....any latest information ?

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Eric Idle and George Harrison

2006-11-13T23:32:37Z

It's International Talk Like A Pirate Day. I hope you all get a kick out of this link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSIjlUMV6Is&eurl=

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Help Stop Haggis Crimes!

2006-09-26T18:29:37Z

See Marfouffe Mania!, a tribe that I founded and now moderate, for all sorts of discussions not related in any way to haggis. See pictures of haggis in its natural habitat. Stop in for a visit or I shall taunt you a second time.

Too Silly to be Taken Seriously,

George Tirebiter

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Where can I get a copy of...

2006-09-18T21:49:54Z

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the script for the three wealthy welch men trying to outdo the others by telling how bad they had it as a youth?
PD

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Life of Brian 25th Anniversary DVD???

2006-06-14T07:00:33Z

Are they going to be coming out with a "Life of Brian" 25th Anniversary DVD???

I've been holding off on buying the current copy until one is released..

Any idea?

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MontyLego :)

2006-06-14T06:47:54Z

This is a MUST SEE if you love your legos... and ur Holy Grail !

http://www.break.com/index/montylego.html

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Question about music in Holy Grail

2006-04-23T05:46:59Z

Okay...this is about a non-humorous song. What is the name of the song that is played when Arthur is "galloping" around the countryside? It is some sort of fanfare.

I played that song for a band festival and have forgotten the name of it. Can anyone help me? Thanks.

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silly voice for answering machine

2006-03-15T04:19:26Z

while surfing for some funny samples i found that one on a page for anwering machines

http://mushroom-files.de/liese/xxxfiles/MontyPython-Sillyvoice.mp3

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This tribe is DEAD

2005-12-01T01:18:47Z

Just in case others haven't seen the recent postings we're moving to a new tribe because the moderator here does not exist.

http://pythonorama.tribe.net/

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New Python on PBS?

2005-11-04T09:08:51Z

I have heard rumors that there is going to be NEW Python episodes on PBS. Anyone know what is up with that?
Are they just trying to repackage and fake us out, or are the lads (minus Graham RIP) actually going to do something?
I loved the Enron school of business Cleese sketch on the Meaning of Life double disc, so I always have hope.
Hope and some nice cheese..... and a limpet.
CUIDADO LA LLAMA!!!!!!!

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misleading headline

2005-10-14T12:44:39Z

"Python Bursts After Trying to Eat Gator"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051005/ap_on_fe_st/gator_python

Turns out it has nothing to do with Mr. Creosote. Nor was it about Michael Palin having some distressing culinary adventure abroad. Completely different sort of Python altogether. Don't be fooled the way I was.

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A search.

2005-09-27T01:19:57Z

I am searching for a copy on DVD of the movie "Yellowbeard".
This had the members of Monty Python in it and is histerical.

It was also Mr Chapman's last film.
Any help at all would be appreciated.

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Great Gilliam Article

2005-09-20T19:57:57Z

In a town filled with echoes, his is a solitary voice. Long after the similarly innovative styles of his contemporaries have been watered down for mass consumption, he continues to sidestep opportunities to sell out in the name of megaplex

acceptance. No matter how many times it has come back to nearly destroy his career, Hollywood's greatest dreamer continues to believe in a tenet too many consider naive: Tell a good story, and the audience will come.

"There are so many stories of people coming out of my films [in a daze]," laughed Terry Gilliam, his receding hairline and wrinkled visage contrasting with a brightly colored Hawaiian shirt and sneakers with pink smiley faces. "There was a girl in New York after seeing 'Fisher King' who walked 20 blocks home, got there and realized she had walked 20 blocks in the wrong direction. She'd just been entranced. When I hear things like that I think 'OK, I've actually been successful.'

"I love to do that to people," the legendary writer/director continued. "To get them to look at the world in a different way. Open your eyes, see it, imagine something other. I think life — if we just only look at the facts — is a pretty boring existence."

Boredom is the last word that comes to mind for the enlightened fans of such Gilliam eye candy as "Twelve Monkeys," "Time Bandits" and "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen." Now, as the 65-year-old prepares to return to theaters for the first time in seven years, he's looking back on a career as bizarre as the images he's brought to the big screen.

"It's interesting; I mean, 'Brothers Grimm' is kind of like 'Time Bandits' again for me in a way," Gilliam said. "I got to create a lot of different worlds in 'Time Bandits,' and in this one, I create one world, but I have more time to do it in-depth."

In 1981, when "Time Bandits" hit theaters, the Minnesota-born Gilliam was still largely believed to be British due to his longtime association with the legendary comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus. After writing for and creating the Pythons, as well as contributing the fantastical animation sequences that became their trademark, he co-directed their classic film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) before making waves with "Bandits," the original tale of a band of time-traveling dwarves pillaging from history's most sacred moments.

It wasn't until 1985's "Brazil," however, that film fans realized they had a Stanley Kubrick-esque auteur within their ranks; naturally, Gilliam's studio originally considered the film an incomprehensible disaster.

"So many people in the studios, they are not creative people," Gilliam said, shaking his head. "They are executives, bureaucrats; they're people that work in a very big, complex system and there are often times, because they work so closely with creative people ... that they begin to lose the ability to distinguish between creativity and what they do."

Wanting to add a happy ending to Gilliam's gleefully pessimistic vision of the future, Universal Pictures took possession of the film, essentially holding it hostage and causing the writer/director to take out a full-page ad in Variety which read: "Dear [then Universal CEO] Sid Sheinberg: When are you going to release my film 'Brazil'?" Eventually cut from 142 minutes to the Hollywoodized-"Love Conquers All" version at 97 minutes, the edited version opened and closed quickly in theaters. After Gilliam broke the law and risked his career by screening a banned print for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, they named it their best picture of the year. Now, with both versions on DVD, "Brazil" has come to be regarded as one the greatest science-fiction films ever made.

"That's the line they cross, and it's always a disaster when they get their hands on things," Gilliam reflected. "I've always fought really hard to create a little barrier around my films, so the creative people all get to play in that safety [zone]. If I have to go to war with the studios, I'll go to war with the studios to protect that."

Gilliam added that he took particular interest in the recent story of Paul Schrader, whose "Exorcist" prequel was similarly butchered and then resurrected: "I've never met Paul Schrader, but I have a great sympathy for people who have to go through the nightmare of dealing with a studio that has a different 'vision' of what the film is. I always side with the creative people, because their mistakes are usually more interesting."

Turning down films like "Forrest Gump," "Braveheart" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" to pursue the unique fantasy-reality blurring of "Fisher," "Monkeys" and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," Gilliam crafted a rebellious career that earned him nearly as many admirers as it did enemies. In 2000, those enemies appeared to have gotten the last laugh.

While shooting his dream project "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" in Madrid, Spain, Gilliam and star Johnny Depp were besieged by freakish storms, low-flying airplanes, and a wide array of on-set disasters, including a back injury that prevented the actor portraying Quixote from riding a horse. After the production collapsed in expensive failure, however, the world's first 'un-making of' documentary, "Lost in La Mancha," used behind-the-scenes footage to bring the Gilliam legend to new heights.

According to "The Brothers Grimm" star Matt Damon, actors are instilled with an intense desire to get Gilliam's visions onscreen: "I would have done anything — moved heaven and earth — to make sure that Terry was happy."

"We wanted it to just be perfect, for him," agreed co-star Heath Ledger.

Now, Gilliam has readied the 1-2 punch of "Grimm" and the upcoming "Tideland," with the hopes that people will continue to leave their inhibitions — and their differentiation between fantasy and reality — in the theater lobby.

"I wish people would learn to look at life like that, where you mix the two things. We seem to be so conditioned into saying, 'OK, your dreams belong out there in that world, and then there is reality.' To me, the two things have to mix together. I suppose I do that in all my films, trying to find that borderline between where reality ends and fantasy takes over. Basically, I want both of those — in my life and in my films."

As the interview wound down, Gilliam reverted once again to his impish grin and offered one last insistence that "Quixote" will get made. "I certainly hope so. We're trying to unravel this gory and legal knot that it's tied up in, but there's a bit of light at the end of the tunnel."

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trouble at the mill

2005-08-19T14:58:53Z

one of the flayrods has gone hisku on treddle

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axis of evil

2005-08-14T23:14:22Z

Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil", Libya, China and Syria today announced that they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil", which they said would be more evil than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of in his State of the Union address. Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new Axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name.

"Right. They are just as evil? In their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. "Everybody knows we're the best evils? best at being evil? we're the best." Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded, although they conceded they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil. "They told us it was full," said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "An axis can't have more than three countries", explained Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "This is not my rule, its tradition. In World War II you had Germany, Italy, and Japan in the evil Axis. So, you can only have three, and a secret handshake. Ours is wickedly cool."

International reaction to Bush's Axis of Evil declaration was swift, as within minutes, France surrendered. Elsewhere, peer-conscious nations rushed to gain triumvirate status in what has become a game of geopolitical chairs. Cuba, Sudan and Serbia announced that they had formed the "Axis of Somewhat Evil", forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the "Axis of Occasionally Evil", while Bulgaria, Indonesia and Russia established the "Axis of Not So Much Evil Really as Just Generally Disagreeable".

With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the "Axis of Countries That Aren't the Worst But Certainly Won't Be Asked to Host the Olympics". Canada, Mexico and Australia formed the "Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Some Nasty Thoughts About America", while Scotland, New Zealand and Spain established the "Axis of Countries That Want Sheep to Wear Lipstick". "That's not a threat, really, just something we like to do", said Scottish Executive First Minister Jack McConnell. While wondering if the other nations of the world weren't perhaps making fun of him, a cautious Bush granted approval for most axis, although he rejected the establishment of the "Axis of Countries Whose Names End in 'Guay", accusing one of its members of filing a false application.

Officials from Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chadguay denied the charges. Israel, meanwhile, insisted it didn't want to join any Axis, but privately world leaders said that's only because no one asked them.

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'New' Python on PBS

2005-07-31T20:06:26Z

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050714/en_nm/television_pbs_dc_1

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Fold down the center...

2005-07-17T18:14:09Z

until the name "Maudling" is almost entirely obscured

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New Bonzo Dog band tribe

2005-07-12T17:12:41Z

Shirts. Do really think that they're necessary?

tribes.tribe.net/gingergeezerlives

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better late?

2005-07-07T04:45:58Z

BBC America was playing a ton o' MP this past weekend, including specials like "20 Years of MP"

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(standing in water)

2005-07-06T01:10:25Z

"I WOULD TAX PEOPLE STANDING IN WATER"

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Python goodies to buy

2005-07-03T19:24:24Z

I just came across this site by accident.

THEY HAVE KILLER RABBIT SLIPPERS! And a Cow Catapault, and a vomiting Mr. Creosote...........

hide yer credit cards folks..........

www.wickedcoolstuff.com/montypython.html

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Spot the Looney

2005-06-29T23:53:53Z

And now it's your turn to spot the looney...

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Looking down upon Australians

2005-06-27T21:39:58Z

Only because they all seem to be named Bruce. Halo Bruce

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Favorite Holy Grail line?

2005-06-20T04:31:19Z

Do tell your favorite scene or line...make us relaugh the lovely creations of monty python.

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Kamakazi Scotsman

2005-06-17T21:43:41Z

What's all this then ?

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lumberjack song

2005-05-13T16:38:17Z

Does anybody have this song on hardrive? I would like to download it onto my tower. Plz help!

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Wake up, Polly!

2005-05-02T10:04:12Z

I figured the tribe needed a little something. I have nothing profound, so thought I'd post a skit. (Let me know if this is not cool.)
Mike

The Dead Parrot Sketch
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Praline: Hello, I wish to register a complaint . . . Hello? Miss?

Shopkeeper: What do you mean, miss?

Praline: Oh, I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint.

Shopkeeper: Sorry, we're closing for lunch.

Praline: Never mind that my lad, I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.

Shopkeeper: Oh yes, the Norwegian Blue. What's wrong with it?

Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it.

Shopkeeper: No, no it's resting, look!

Praline: Look my lad, I know a dead parrot when I see one and I'm looking at one right now.

Shopkeeper: No, no sir, it's not dead. It's resting.

Praline: Resting?

Shopkeeper: Yeah, remarkable bird the Norwegian Blue, beautiful plumage, innit?

Praline: The plumage don't enter into it -- it's stone dead.

Shopkeeper: No, no -- it's just resting.

Praline: All right then, if it's resting I'll wake it up. (shouts into cage) Hello Polly! I've got a nice cuttlefish for you when you wake up, Polly Parrot!

Shopkeeper: (jogging cage) There it moved.

Praline: No he didn't. That was you pushing the cage.

Shopkeeper: I did not.

Praline: Yes, you did. (takes parrot out of cage, shouts) Hello Polly, Polly (bangs it against counter) Polly Parrot, wake up. Polly. (throws it in the air and lets it fall to the floor) Now that's what I call a dead parrot.

Shopkeeper: No, no it's stunned.

Praline: Look my lad, I've had just about enough of this. That parrot is definitely deceased. And when I bought it not half an hour ago, you assured me that its lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk.

Shopkeeper: It's probably pining for the fjords.

Praline: Pining for the fjords, what kind of talk is that? Look, why did it fall flat on its back the moment I got it home?

Shopkeeper: The Norwegian Blue prefers kipping on its back. Beautiful bird, lovely plumage.

Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot, and I discovered that the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been nailed there.

Shopkeeper: Well of course it was nailed there. Otherwise it would muscle up to those bars and voom.

Praline: Look matey (picks up parrot) this parrot wouldn't voom if I put four thousand volts through it. It's bleeding demised.

Shopkeeper: It's not, it's pining.

Praline: It's not pining, it's passed on. This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

Shopkeeper: Well, I'd better replace it then.

Praline: (to camera) If you want to get anything done in this country you've got to complain till you're blue in the mouth.

Shopkeeper: Sorry guv, we're right out of parrots.

Praline: I see. I see. I get the picture.

Shopkeeper: I've got a slug.

Praline: Does it talk?

Shopkeeper: Not really, no.

Praline: Well, it's scarcely a replacement, then is it?

Shopkeeper: Listen, I'll tell you what, (handing over a card) tell you what, if you go to my brother's pet shop in Bolton he'll replace your parrot for you.

Praline: Bolton eh?

Shopkeeper: Yeah.

Praline: All right. He leaves, holding the parrot.

CAPTION: A SIMILAR PET SHOP IN BOLTON, LANCS

Close-up of sign on door reading: 'Similar Pet Shops Ltd'. Pull back from sign to see same pet shop. Shopkeeper now has moustache. Praline walks into shop. He looks around with interest, noticing the empty parrot cage still on the floor.

Praline: Er, excuse me. This is Bolton, is it?

Shopkeeper: No, no it's, er, Ipswich.

Praline: (to camera) That's Inter-City Rail for you. (leaves)

Man in porter's outfit standing at complaints desk for railways. Praline approaches.

Praline: I wish to make a complaint.

Porter: I don't have to do this, you know.

Praline: I beg your pardon?

Porter: I'm a qualified brain surgeon. I only do this because I like being my own boss.

Praline: Er, excuse me, this is irrelevant, isn't it?

Porter: Oh yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to thirty minutes.

Praline: Well I wish to make a complaint. I got on the Bolton train and found myself deposited here in Ipswich.

Porter: No, this is Bolton.

Praline: (to camera) The pet shop owner's brother was lying.

Porter: Well you can't blame British Rail for that.

Praline: If this is Bolton, I shall return to the pet shop.

CAPTION: 'A LITTLE LATER LTD.'

Praline walks into the shop again.

Praline: I understand that this is Bolton.

Shopkeeper: Yes.

Praline: Well, you told me it was Ipswich.

Shopkeeper: It was a pun.

Praline: A pun?

Shopkeeper: No, no, not a pun, no. What's the other thing which reads the same backwards as forwards?

Praline: A palindrome?

Shopkeeper: Yes, yes.

Praline: It's not a palindrome. The palindrome of Bolton would be Notlob. It don't work.

Shopkeeper: Look, what do you want?

Praline: No I'm sorry, I'm not prepared to pursue my line of enquiry any further as I think this is getting too silly.

Colonel: (coming in) Quite agree. Quite agree. Silly. Silly . . . silly. Right get on with it. Get on with it.

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Spamalot on Broadway: NYT reviewed

2005-03-21T22:59:56Z

March 18, 2005
THEATER REVIEW | 'MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT'

A Quest Beyond the Grail
By BEN BRANTLEY

THE meeting of the Broadway chapter of the Monty Python fan club officially came to order - or to be exact, came to disorder - last night at the Shubert Theater with the opening of "Monty Python's Spamalot," a resplendently silly new musical.

Favorite routines first created by that surreal British comedy team for the 1975 movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" were performed with an attention to detail found among obsessive history buffs who re-enact Civil War battles on weekends. Python songs were sung with the giggly glee of naughty Boy Scouts around a campfire. And festive decorations were provided in the form of medieval cartoon costumes and scenery helpfully described in the show as "very expensive."

It seems safe to say that such a good time is being had by so many people (including the cast) at the Shubert Theater that this fitful, eager celebration of inanity will find a large and lucrative audience among those who value the virtues of shrewd idiocy, artful tackiness and wide-eyed impiety. That includes most school-age children as well as grown-ups who feel they are never more themselves than when they are in touch with the nerdy, nose-thumbing 12-year-olds who reside within.

"Spamalot," which is directed (improbably enough) by that venerable master of slickness Mike Nichols, is the latest entry in the expanding Broadway genre of scrapbook musical theater. Such ventures, which include flesh-and-blood versions of Disney cartoons and jukebox karaoke shows like "Mamma Mia!," reconstruct elements from much-loved cultural phenomena with wide fan bases. Only rarely do these productions match, much less surpass, the appeal of what inspired them. Generally, they simply serve as colorful aides-mémoire for the pop group, television show or movie to which they pay tribute. Within this category, "Spamalot" ranks high, right up there with (try not to wince, Pythonites) the sweetly moronic "Mamma Mia!," which repackages the disco hits of Abba into a comfy singalong frolic.

This means it is possible for theatergoers who are not Python devotees to enjoy themselves at "Spamalot," which has a book and lyrics by Eric Idle (an original Python) and music by John Du Prez and Mr. Idle. It would seem unchivalrous not to share in at least some of the pleasure that is being experienced by a cast that includes Tim Curry, Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce and a toothsome devourer of scenery named Sara Ramirez.

Still, the uninitiated may be bewildered when laughs arrive even before a scene gets under way. The mere appearance of a figure in a certain costume (say, a headpiece with ram's horns) or the utterance of a single word (i.e., "ni") is enough to provoke anticipatory guffaws among the cognoscenti. Punch lines come to seem almost irrelevant.

"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was the first film feature from a troupe that revolutionized sketch comedy. First seen on British television in 1969 with the series "Monty Python's Flying Circus," this group of Oxbridge-erudite young Brits (John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Mr. Idle) and one American soul mate (Terry Gilliam) combined the anarchy of the Marx Brothers with a rarefied British spirit of absurdity and a straight-faced irreverence regarding all sacred cows. "The Holy Grail" stayed true to the formula of the Python television series, channeling the troupe's vision of a disjointed world of colliding sensibilities and cultural references into a retelling of the myth of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

Much of the joy of "The Holy Grail" lies in its imaginative use of its low budget, turning limited locations and homemade props into a comment on the bogusness of cinematic authenticity. And the cast peerlessly delivered its fatuous material with unconditional sincerity.

The moviemaker's self-consciousness that infused "The Holy Grail" has been reconceived in theatrical terms for "Spamalot." (Tim Hatley's deliriously artificial sets and costumes bring to mind a collaboration between a cynical Las Vegas resort designer and a stoned class committee for a junior-senior prom.) So the fractured tale of the quest of King Arthur (Mr. Curry) and his ditsy knights for the Holy Grail has been woven into another quest: that of bringing the king and his entourage to the enchanted land called Broadway.

This expressed goal makes "Spamalot" a two-tiered operation. On the one hand there is the dutiful acting out of the movie's most famous set pieces (the killer-rabbit scene, the bring-out-your-dead scene, the taunting Frenchman scene, etc.). On the other hand, and (surprisingly) it's the friskier hand, the show spoofs classic song-and-dance extravaganzas, suggesting what the satiric revue "Forbidden Broadway" might be like if it had an $11 million budget.

The vignettes lifted straight from the movie have an ersatz quality, in the way of secondhand jokes that are funnier in their original context. Broadway performance demands an exaggeration that doesn't always jibe with the unblinking earnestness of the Python style. (The interpolated song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" loses the shock appeal it had when it was first sung, by a chorus of men nailed to crucifixes, in another Python movie, "Life of Brian.")

That said, Mr. Azaria (part of the brilliant team of voices behind "The Simpsons" cartoon series) plies his sterling mimetic skills to evoke exactly such fabled figures from the film as the towering Knight of Ni (he wears stilts), the inept warlock known as Tim the Enchanter and the nasty French Taunter who specializes in English-baiting insults. (Mr. Azaria's main role, by the way, is Lancelot, who finds happiness when he discovers his inner Peter Allen.)

Mr. Curry, of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show," is the best of the cast at translating classic Python style into a musical-comedy idiom. His stalwart, plummy-voiced Arthur wears a smile as inflexible as armor, and it deflects any suggestion that this manly king is in on the show's jokes.

Christopher Sieber - who, like most of the cast, plays an assortment of roles - is delightful as a Sir Galahad who tosses his blond tresses as if he were auditioning for a Clairol commercial. And Mr. Hyde Pierce (famous as the neurotic Niles on the sitcom "Frasier") appears to be having such a fine time that it seems impolite to observe that he is not a natural for this material. Still, in the role of the cowardly Sir Robin, he brings a genial Rex Harrison-style dapperness to a patter number about the importance of including Jews in any Broadway show.

The moments when "Spamalot" rises into the ether are those in which it pays homage - à la "The Producers" - to other kinds of Broadway musicals, with bobble-headed nods to the Vegas revue thrown in. The "Knights of the Round Table" number that introduces the swinging pleasure palace called Camelot is a deliciously cheesy, cheesecake-laden floor show, with Arthur morphing into a Rat Pack-style master of ceremonies. (Casey Nicholaw is the choreographer.)

But the tastiest satiric juice is provided by Ms. Ramirez, who plays Arthur's buxom but ethereal love interest, the Lady of the Lake. Whether warmly overseeing her (yes) Laker girls as they cheer the knights, mangling a soul ballad "American Idol"-style or working the stage like Liza at Caesars Palace, Ms. Ramirez knows how to send up vintage performance styles until they go into orbit. The evening's high point involves Ms. Ramirez and Mr. Sieber floating on stage in a boat, illuminated by a newly descended chandelier.

Music of the night, indeed. But what turns this fanged tribute to "The Phantom of the Opera" into more than a one-joke routine is the song, a cunning deconstruction of the repetitive, voice-taxing Andrew Lloyd Webber method titled "The Song That Goes Like This." "Spamalot" also cheerfully invokes the gleaming anthems of hope from shows like "Man of La Mancha" and the camp, pelvis-pumping chorus of "The Boy From Oz."

Do these disparate elements hang together in any truly compelling way? Not really. That "Spamalot" is the best new musical to open on Broadway this season is inarguable, but that's not saying much. The show is amusing, agreeable, forgettable - a better-than-usual embodiment of the musical for theatergoers who just want to be reminded now and then of a few of their favorite things.

'Monty Python's Spamalot'

Book and lyrics by Eric Idle; music by John Du Prez and Mr. Idle. Inspired by the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Directed by Mike Nichols; choreography by Casey Nicholaw; sets and costumes by Tim Hatley; lighting by Hugh Vanstone; sound by Acme Sound Partners; hair and wigs by David Brian Brown; special effects by Gregory Meeh; projection design by Elaine J. McCarthy; music director/vocal arrangements, Todd Ellison; orchestrations by Larry Hochman; music arrangements by Glen Kelly; music coordinator, Michael Keller; associate producers, Randi Grossman and Tisch/Avnet Financial. Presented by Boyett Ostar Productions, the Shubert Organization, Arielle Tepper, Stephanie McClelland/Lawrence Horowitz, Elan V. McAllister/Allan S. Gordon, Independent Presenters Network, Roy Furman, GRS Associates, Jam Theatricals, TGA Entertainment and Clear Channel Entertainment. At the Shubert Theater, 225 West 44th Street; (212) 239-6200. Running time: 2 hours, 20 minutes.

WITH: David Hyde Pierce (Sir Robin, Guard 1 and Brother Maynard), Tim Curry (King Arthur), Hank Azaria (Sir Lancelot, the French Taunter, Knight of Ni and Tim the Enchanter), Christopher Sieber (Sir Dennis Galahad, the Black Knight and Prince Herbert's Father), Michael McGrath (Mayor, Patsy and Guard 2), Steve Rosen (Dennis's Mother, Sir Bedevere and Concorde), Christian Borle (Historian, Not Dead Fred, French Guard, Minstrel and Prince Herbert) and Sara Ramirez (the Lady of the Lake).

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python soundboard

2005-03-10T23:53:19Z

saw this on www.milkandcookies today

http://www.audiocomedy.net/soundboards/soundboards/montypython.swf

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SPAMALOT

2005-02-04T16:53:05Z

Has anyone heard any buzz about the new Broadway production of Spamalot? Here's the link to the website:
http://www.montypythonsspamalot.com/HighBand/homepage.html

Spam, Spam, Spam, Ludo, fried eggs, and Spam.

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Live a Monty Python Lifestyle

2004-12-12T20:00:52Z

I seem to be living in Monty Python World, each day I come across people who think they are trapped in a sketch! The 'jobsworth 'guys I meet are acting like Terry, Eric,John etc and so I enjoy acting like a character in python sketches in both the real world as well as in my RPG group- HA Ha Life is never boring but the silly walk attracts a lot of attention LOL.

Have yu got a father who looks like Michael Fish but travels like Michael Palin?

Trev

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cheese shop entire...one of my all time faves

2004-12-11T15:57:35Z

The Cheese Shop by Monty Python

(a customer walks in the door)

Customer: Good Morning.

Owner: Good morning, Sir. Welcome to the National Cheese Emporium!

Customer: Ah, thank you, my good man.

Owner: What can I do for you, Sir?

Customer: Well, I was, uh, sitting in the public library on Thurmon Street just now, skimming through Rogue Herrys by Hugh Walpole, and I suddenly came over all peckish.

Owner: Peckish, sir?

Customer: Esuriant.

Owner: Eh?

Customer: 'Ee, ah wor 'ungry-loike!

Owner: Ah, hungry!

Customer: In a nutshell. And I thought to myself, "a little fermented curd will do the trick," so, I curtailed my Walpoling activites, sallied forth, and infiltrated your place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles!

Owner: Come again?

Customer: I want to buy some cheese.

Owner: Oh, I thought you were complaining about the bazouki player!

Customer: Oh, heaven forbid: I am one who delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse!

Owner: Sorry?

Customer: 'Ooo, Ah lahk a nice tuune, 'yer forced too!

Owner: So he can go on playing, can he?

Customer: Most certainly! Now then, some cheese please, my good man.

Owner: (lustily) Certainly, sir. What would you like?

Customer: Well, eh, how about a little red Leicester.

Owner: I'm, a-fraid we're fresh out of red Leicester, sir.

Customer: Oh, never mind, how are you on Tilsit?

Owner: I'm afraid we never have that at the end of the week, sir, we get it fresh on Monday.

Customer: Tish tish. No matter. Well, stout yeoman, four ounces of Caerphilly, if you please.

Owner: Ah! It's beeeen on order, sir, for two weeks. Was expecting it this morning.

Customer: 'T's Not my lucky day, is it? Aah, Bel Paese?

Owner: Sorry, sir.

Customer: Red Windsor?

Owner: Normally, sir, yes. Today the van broke down.

Customer: Ah. Stilton?

Owner: Sorry.

Customer: Ementhal? Gruyere?

Owner: No.

Customer: Any Norweigan Jarlsburg, per chance.

Owner: No.

Customer: Lipta?

Owner: No.

Customer: Lancashire?

Owner: No.

Customer: White Stilton?

Owner: No.

Customer: Danish Brew?

Owner: No.

Customer: Double Goucester?

Owner: (pause) No.

Customer: Cheshire?

Owner: No.

Customer: Dorset Bluveny?

Owner: No.

Customer: Brie, Roquefort, Pol le Veq, Port Salut, Savoy Aire, Saint Paulin, Carrier de lest, Bres Bleu, Bruson?

Owner: No.

Customer: Camenbert, perhaps?

Owner: Ah! We have Camenbert, yessir.

Customer: (suprised) You do! Excellent.

Owner: Yessir. It's..ah,.....it's a bit runny...

Customer: Oh, I like it runny.

Owner: Well,.. It's very runny, actually, sir.

Customer: No matter. Fetch hither the fromage de la Belle France! Mmmwah!

Owner: I...think it's a bit runnier than you'll like it, sir.

Customer: I don't care how fucking runny it is. Hand it over with all speed.

Owner: Oooooooooohhh........! (pause)

Customer: What now?

Owner: The cat's eaten it.

Customer: (pause) Has he.

Owner: She, sir.

Customer: (pause) Gouda?

Owner: No.

Customer: Edam?

Owner: No.

Customer: Case Ness?

Owner: No.

Customer: Smoked Austrian?

Owner: No.

Customer: Japanese Sage Darby?

Owner: No, sir.

Customer: You...do *have* some cheese, don't you?

Owner: (brightly) Of course, sir. It's a cheese shop, sir. We've got--

Customer: No no... don't tell me. I'm keen to guess.

Owner: Fair enough.

Customer: Uuuuuh, Wensleydale.

Owner: Yes?

Customer: Ah, well, I'll have some of that!

Owner: Oh! I thought you were talking to me, sir. Mister Wensleydale, that's my name.

Customer: (pause) Greek Feta?

Owner: Uh, not as such.

Customer: Uuh, Gorgonzola?

Owner: No.

Customer: Parmesan,

Owner: No.

Customer: Mozarella,

Owner: No.

Customer: Paper Cramer,

Owner: No.

Customer: Danish Bimbo,

Owner: No.

Customer: Czech sheep's milk,

Owner: No.

Customer: Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?

Owner: Not *today*, sir, no.

Customer: (pause) Aah, how about Cheddar?

Owner: Well, we don't get much call for it around here, sir.

Customer: Not much ca-- it's the single most popular cheese in the world!

Owner: Not 'round here, sir.

Customer: (slight pause) and what IS the most popular cheese 'round hyah?

Owner: 'Illchester, sir.

Customer: IS it.

Owner: Oh, yes, it's staggeringly popular in this manor, squire.

Customer: Is it.

Owner: It's our number one best seller, sir!

Customer: I see. Uuh...'Illchester, eh?

Owner: Right, sir.

Customer: All right. Okay. 'Have you got any?' he asked, expecting the answer 'no'.

Owner: I'll have a look, sir........nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnno.

Customer: It's not much of a cheese shop, is it?

Owner: Finest in the district!

Customer: (annoyed) Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please.

Owner: Well, it's so clean, sir!

Customer: It's certainly uncontaminated by cheese....

Owner: (brightly) You haven't asked me about Limburger, sir.

Customer: Would it be worth it?

Owner: Could be....

Customer: Have you --SHUT THAT BLOODY BAZOUKI OFF!

Owner: Told you sir....

Customer: (slowly) Have you got any Limburger?

Owner: No.

Customer: Figures.Predictable, really I suppose. It was an act of purest optimism to have posed the question in the first place. Tell me:

Owner: Yessir?

Customer: (deliberately) Have you in fact got any cheese here at all.

Owner: Yes, sir.

Customer: Really?

(pause)

Owner: No. Not really, sir.

Customer: You haven't.

Owner: Nosir. Not a scrap. I was deliberately wasting your time, sir.

Customer: Well I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to shoot you.

Owner: Right-Oh, sir.

(The customer takes out a gun and shoots the owner)

Customer: What a *senseless* waste of human life.

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Tribe has Moved

2004-12-08T19:28:09Z

Just in case others haven't seen the recent postings we're moving to a new tribe because the moderator here does not exist.

pythonorama.tribe.net/

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Tennis, anyone?

2004-12-04T19:16:47Z

I remember an episode on TV where it's a summer picnic, and someone says "Tennis, anyone?" and hits a tennis ball into the crowd. This starts a chain of horrifying bloody events where people get injured in various ways. It's hilarious.

Anyone know the exact episode/season?

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damn damn damn blast it

2004-10-15T17:06:14Z

what i wouldn't give to be spat at in the face.

(life of brian)

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WHAT ?...OVER ?...DID YOU SAY OVER ?...

2004-08-05T20:52:36Z

CART MASTER:
Bring out your dead!
[clang]
Bring out your dead!
CUSTOMER:
Here's one.
CART MASTER:
Ninepence.
FORUM MODERATOR:
I'm not dead!
CART MASTER:
What?
CUSTOMER:
Nothing. Here's your ninepence.
FORUM MODERATOR:
I'm not dead!
CART MASTER:
'Ere. He says he's not dead!
CUSTOMER:
Yes, he is.
FORUM MODERATOR:
I'm not!
CART MASTER:
He isn't?
CUSTOMER:
Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.
FORUM MODERATOR:
I'm getting better!
CUSTOMER:
No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
CART MASTER:
Oh, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
FORUM MODERATOR:
I don't want to go on the cart!
CUSTOMER:
Oh, don't be such a baby.
CART MASTER:
I can't take him.
FORUM MODERATOR:
I feel fine!
CUSTOMER:
Well, do us a favour.
CART MASTER:
I can't.
CUSTOMER:
Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
CART MASTER:
No, I've got to go to the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.
CUSTOMER:
Well, when's your next round?
CART MASTER:
Thursday.
FORUM MODERATOR:
I think I'll go for a walk.
CUSTOMER:
You're not fooling anyone, you know. Look. Isn't there something you can do?
FORUM MODERATOR: [singing]
I feel happy. I feel happy.
[whop]
CUSTOMER:
Ah, thanks very much.
CART MASTER:
Not at all. See you on Thursday.
CUSTOMER:
Right. All right.

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FCC song

2004-07-27T20:49:41Z

Go there, download the mp3. Listen with headphones if you're at work:

http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/index.shtml

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Monty Pyton Pie-A-Thon

2004-07-01T14:39:29Z

I was recently invited to watch Holy Grail and eat a lot of pie. Strange but why not. So when they asked what pie I was going to bring I though it appropriate to bring a spam, spam, eggs and spam pie. I was quickly un-invited. So my question to the tribe of Pythonites is what would be the appropriate pie to bring?

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Life Of Brian

2004-06-09T01:10:29Z

It is supposed to be re-released today isn't it?
is it playing in your city ?

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Where's our main photo?

2004-05-31T03:30:48Z

I know we have some kick a$$ pics in the album! Why don't we have a main photo?

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I've created a new tribe...please feel free to join

2004-05-26T19:17:41Z

In response to our lack of leadership here, I've created a new tribe Python-o-rama. Please feel free to join, and don't talk to the audience!

http://pythonorama.tribe.net/

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Did we all fall asleep in here or what?

2004-05-25T21:28:28Z

Don't make me break out the mackeral.

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Terry Gross interviews with Pythons! Now! Go!

2004-05-14T21:50:37Z

Web radio rocks...check it out!

"Monty Python's Life of Brian, the biblical satire about Brian Cohen who was born one stable over from Jesus -- and gets mistaken for him –- is back in theatres. The movie was first released 25 years ago. Hear from members of Monty Python."

http://freshair.npr.org/

These interviews will be available under "current show" all day today (Friday), then archived.

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not to be nitpickingly anal, but re: our assignment for the day

2004-05-14T21:44:20Z

I thought the idea (reading the instructions of that thread) was to post MP quotes and then "answer" the previous quote with another one, to create a funny flow of MP quotes. But it seems with the exception of a couple of posts there, people are just throwing out quotes without specific regard to the "topic/subject" of the previous thread. I'm not the author of that thread, but I suppose that was the intention.

I'm posting my concern here on another post because I don't want to further adulterate that thread with posts that don't fit.

@-;-;-;---

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Assigment Take 2

2004-05-14T21:29:45Z

Assigment for the day

Let us play a dialog game...
each post a line from MP in response to the previous one.
Do not be affraid to mix movies and skits... let us be creative (and check your quotes)
And Now for Something Completely Different:

Good morning, I'd like to have an argument, please.

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Idle on Craig Kilborn

2004-05-14T13:02:00Z

Eric Idle was on the Craig Kilborn (sp?) show earlier tonight. He also sang "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life".

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Is there really a moderator here?

2004-05-06T20:14:56Z

Is "Enchanter" still around? We really must get a tribe picture up. I've belonged to this tribe for over three months now, and no picture. What's up with that?

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MP Clean recordings

2004-05-04T22:26:27Z

My son, who is about to turn 13, is a big Monty Python fanatic. I think he can recite the entire Holy Grail with little prodding. I'd like to get him a collection of Monty Python songs cd for his birthday. Now, I'm pretty open-minded, and don't object to him using certain *objectionable* language at home, but I don't want to fill his head with too much inuendo either. Can anybody recommend a compilation that might be ... well, closer to PG-13 than others?

Thanks!

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Life of Brian contest

2004-05-04T15:38:55Z

Thought some of you dead parrots and young Christians might be interested:

http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/contest/12.html

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Is anyone else having problems with the Assignment #2 thread?

2004-05-01T05:31:30Z

It keeps cutting off the last 20 or so posts for me, ending with "No one expects the Spanish Inquistion!" and a bunch of garbled error codes. It's been doing this for me since at least yesterday, and I've had to completely get out of the tribe and come back in to be able to read the last posts on the thread. Is it just me????

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And now for something completely different...

2004-04-30T04:39:39Z

http://www.humorlinks.com/python/pictures/different/26.html

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Assigment for the day

2004-04-27T21:05:29Z

Let us play a dialog game...
each post a line from MP in response to the previous one.
Do not be affraid to mix movies and skits... let us be creative (and check your quotes)
here we go:

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Favorite sketches/skits/etc.

2004-04-20T10:26:34Z

OK, let's hear which sketches from various Monty Python episodes and movies make anyone's Top Ten list. Which ones have you memorized?

On my tops list:

Cheese Shop
Ministry of Silly Walks
Dead Parrot
Spam Spam Spam
University of Wallamaloo staff meeting for the Philosophy department
Spanish Inquisition
The Pet License
Scott of the Antarctic
The Barbershop/Lumberjack Song

That's a start...

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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins / out off topic ?

2004-04-17T10:47:37Z

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, Graham Stark (1971)
Graham Chapman wrote "Gluttony" and "Wrath"
I would love to see this movie again. I know it is not a Monty Python but it is definitely in the Python spirit.

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200!!!

2004-04-16T13:29:31Z

Hey! I'm the 200th member! What do I get?

And don't say a slap in the face with a big fish.

C'mon, something witty...because there is only one thing worse than being witty...

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Fav Quotes, take two

2004-04-16T10:48:24Z

Last thread getting kinda long, let's continue here...

My fav:

"You vacuous, malodorous, toffee-nosed pervert!!! "

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best parody about MP original work

2004-04-15T19:14:55Z

without a doubt, the Lego version of "Knights of the Roundtable" [animation]
http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=2405283

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Favorite Quote?

2004-04-15T13:20:56Z

Holy Grail:

"ARTHUR:
Well, what is it you want?
HEAD KNIGHT:
We want... a shrubbery!
[dramatic chord]"

"Bring out your dead!
CUSTOMER:
Here's one.
CART MASTER:
Ninepence.
DEAD PERSON:
I'm not dead!
CART MASTER:
What?
CUSTOMER:
Nothing. Here's your ninepence.
DEAD PERSON:
I'm not dead!
CART MASTER:
'Ere. He says he's not dead!
CUSTOMER:
Yes, he is.
DEAD PERSON:
I'm not!
CART MASTER:
He isn't?
CUSTOMER:
Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.
DEAD PERSON:
I'm getting better!
CUSTOMER:
No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
CART MASTER:
Oh, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
DEAD PERSON:
I don't want to go on the cart!
CUSTOMER:
Oh, don't be such a baby.
CART MASTER:
I can't take him.
DEAD PERSON:
I feel fine!
CUSTOMER:
Well, do us a favour.
CART MASTER:
I can't.
CUSTOMER:
Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
CART MASTER:
No, I've got to go to the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.
CUSTOMER:
Well, when's your next round?
CART MASTER:
Thursday.
DEAD PERSON:
I think I'll go for a walk.
CUSTOMER:
You're not fooling anyone, you know. Look. Isn't there something you can do?
DEAD PERSON: [singing]
I feel happy. I feel happy.
[whop]
CUSTOMER:
Ah, thanks very much.
CART MASTER:
Not at all. See you on Thursday.
CUSTOMER:
Right. All right."

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Favourite Python Song...

2004-04-08T14:47:48Z

What's everyone's fave Python song? "Bright Side of Life"? "Eric the Half-a-Bee"? "Henry Kissinger"? "Sit on my face"?

My fave is the "Medical Love Song". Any song that opens with "inflammation of the foreskin reminds me of your smile" is bound to appeal to my warped sense of humour.

And you?

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Re: BBC has pulled all British programming in the US including python

2004-04-02T00:08:58Z

just wanted you to look, . . .it worked.

This is a slightly naughty way of getting you to come look at and join the new tribe: Daffy English Knnnniggits

"ello. . . daffy english. . . knnnnnnnnnnnnnniggitts"

Who doesn't love a bad French accent when taunted from the castle keep?

Join us. . the knnnniggits (that's 4 Ns and 2 Gs) and our love of medieval, renaissance, Arthurian, Melmacian,. . .no wait. . .that's ALF. . . wrong group. . .uh. . . scratch that last item.

Sorry. The gentleman who became the moderator has just been sacked.

We are extentions of Monty Python's Holy Grail trilogy in which the demon of chaggrinthviala carried the holy arsenal in the follow up, yet rare and unseen Monty Python sequel to Grail: "Monty Python's unseen sequel to Grail". . .then in the third episo. . . .

The gentleman who just replace the gentleman who acted as moderator who was sacked. . . has just been sacked.

BRING ON THE LLAMAS!

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Life of Brian Rerelease!

2004-03-31T17:41:38Z

That's true! Amazing it's 25th Anniversary the same year that Passions of Christ is released!!! Something to give them a run for their money... LOL! yeah right, I'm not going to go see Passions. Bollocks to that!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3563405.stm

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The League of Extraordinarily Silly Gentlemen

2004-03-24T23:11:37Z

There is a great two-page photo of the Pythons (including Graham's ashes *wink wink*) in the March 2004 issue of Vanity Fair. It's toward the back of the Hollywood photo section in the latter third.

Enjoy! :)

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Just waving hi...

2004-03-22T22:08:40Z

Just a new member waving hi to all of you...now I have an excuse to watch my Python DVD's again!

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Conefuse-a-Cat

2004-03-22T19:05:29Z

Found this while looking thru my daily sites...

http://home.earthlink.net/~cacltd/index.htm

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Yellowbeard

2004-03-20T02:03:00Z

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Monty Python's Flying Circus

2004-03-19T16:36:32Z

What's everyone's favorite sketch? For me it would have to be "How Not to Be Seen" or "Attilla the Hun"
~Jester

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lumberjack lyrics....

2004-03-14T09:58:29Z

has *anyone* got the complete lyrics to THE LUMBERJACK SONG?

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see if you can guess this....

2004-03-12T00:42:39Z

I just figured this out today. What is the mutual title of three separate projects with three different Pythons and which Pythons were in them?

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Want to play a Python in a movie?

2004-03-07T19:09:35Z

A biographical film about Graham Chapman is being made, and they're doing casting calls to find people to play all members of the Python crew during their youth.

http://www.dailyllama.com/news/2004/llama227.html

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did you hear

2004-03-07T19:06:28Z

they want to bring the holly grail
to broadway

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M.P Live! 2 disc set

2004-03-04T03:11:24Z

I just got the A&E Monty Python live 2DVD set.
First the good,if you've never seen the "lost" German episodes than you'll want to check this out.
Second the bad, shitty prints were used, in this day and age you would expect a better job done.Only episode one of the "lost German episode is on this..where the fuck is the 2nd "Lost"episode..the $200 megaset 14 DVD?The Life of Python 2dvd set?Just bad "collecting" if you ask me..

list of set
1 Live at the Hollywood Bowl: watch as the pythons corpse it when TJ loses his wig during the Church Police skit.Many skits never preformed else where incl.stuff from the Contractual Obligation record released earlier that yr.Includes some stuff from the german episode??..Bad Transfer

2 Live at Aspen 1989?: w/ Robert Klein as host.Nice look into the Python's origins ect. for as new as this one is why is it such a crappy transfer?

3 20 yrs of Python: A best of "not including the Parrot sketch..hmmmm

4 M.P's Fliegender Zirkus episode 1: Nice to have if you've never seen this "lost" episode, mostly in german with English subtitles.bad transfer again..where's episode 2??Lot's of new material not in the regular english show

I give it 3 stars,only for having some unreleased stuff,the downside is the bad transfer

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Worldwide Open Auditions Being Held to Play Young Monty Pythons

2004-03-03T06:52:44Z

Sorry about the length of this post--

WORLDWIDE OPEN AUDITIONS BEING HELD TO PLAY YOUNG MONTY PYTHONS IN GRAHAM CHAPMAN BIOGRAPHY FILM
press release from Hippofilms
Friday, 6 February 2004

Los Angeles, CA (February 2, 2004) -- Hippofilms, a Los Angeles-based film production company, has announced a worldwide casting call for the roles of the young members of Monty Python, for the upcoming theatrical film, Gin and Tonic, a comic-drama based on the life and times of late Python Graham Chapman.

Visit the Gin and Tonic movie website for more information

The first open audition is scheduled in Hollywood, California, on March 20th, 2004. It will be supervised by Hippofilms president, David Eric Brenner. Subsequent auditions, in New York, London and Tokyo will be announced in the near future.

Hippofilms will work closely with The Literary Executor of Graham Chapman estate, Jim Yoakum, to select six young actors to portray the world-famous comedians (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin).

Brenner stated, "We wanted to cast as wide a net as possible for the Pythons. Our goal isn't just to find six look-alikes, but to discover six incredibly talented performers who embody that Pythonic brilliance and lunacy."

The auditions will also be an opportunity for Python fans to display their unusual brand of fanaticism. Outside the audition hall, local actors and die-hard fans will perform original comic sketches for their peers on a community stage.

"We want these auditions to be fun, somewhat silly affairs that Graham would be proud of. That's why we're giving away prizes for the most absurd costumes," says Brenner.

Toy Vault, a U.S.-based toy company, will unveil their latest prototypes of Monty Python-related toys -- including a stuffed bunny with huge, pointy teeth -- at the Hollywood audition.

Those seeking further information about the auditions can visit the GIN AND TONIC movie website: www.ginandtonicmovie.com

The address for the Hollywood audition is 5540 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California 90028. Reservations: 310-445-9157, ext. 4.

Hippofilm's last movie was the 2002 romantic comedy, Rent Control, written and directed by Brenner, and starring Melissa Joan Hart, Ryan Browning and Carmen Electra. Also in development at Hippofilms is the Olympic-themed motion picture, Pepper in the Blood, which Brenner is co-producing with Brian Dyson, former Vice-Chairman of The Coca-Cola Company.

Prior to founding Hippofilms in 2001, Brenner spent four years in the international distribution department of Alliance Atlantis Entertainment. He was also a playwright in New York City.

For more information or interview requests, please contact: Tex Wall, Director of Creative Affairs, Hippofilms, (310) 445-9157 or pubdept@ginandtonicmovie.com

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02/23/03Letter to the London Observer, from Terry Jones

2004-02-27T02:11:07Z

Letter to the London Observer, from Terry Jones (Monty Python)
by Terry Jones •Sunday February 23, 2003 at 03:06 PM

Monty Python's Terry Jone's letter re: the war in Iraq

Sunday January 26, 2003

I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's running out of patience. And so am I!

For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover what.
I've been round to his place a few times to see what he's up to, but he's got everything well hidden. That's how devious he is. As for Mr Patel, don't ask me how I know, I just know - from very good sources - that he is, in reality, a Mass Murderer. I have leafleted the street telling them that if we don't act first, he'll pick us off one by one.

Some of my neighbours say, if I've got proof, why don't I go to the police? But that's simply ridiculous. The police will say that they need evidence of a crime with which to charge my neighbours. They'll come up with endless red tape and quibbling about the rights and wrongs of a pre-emptive strike and all the while Mr Johnson will be finalising his plans to do terrible things to me, while Mr Patel will be secretly murdering people. Since I'm the only one in the street with a decent range of automatic firearms, I reckon it's up to me to keep the peace. But until recently that's been a little difficult.

Now, however, George W. Bush has made it clear that all I need to do is run out of patience, and then I can wade in and do whatever I want! And let's face it, Mr Bush's carefully thought-out policy towards Iraq is the only way to bring about international peace and security. The one certain way to stop Muslim fundamentalist suicide bombers targeting the US or the UK is to bomb a few Muslim countries that have never threatened us. That's why I want to blow up Mr Johnson's garage and kill his wife and children.

Strike first! That'll teach him a lesson. Then he'll leave us in peace and stop peering at me in that totally unacceptable way.

Mr Bush makes it clear that all he needs to know before bombing Iraq is that Saddam is a really nasty man and that he has weapons of mass destruction - even if no one can find them. I'm certain I've just as much justification for killing Mr Johnson's wife and children as Mr Bush has for bombing Iraq. Mr Bush's long-term aim is to make the world a safer place by eliminating 'rogue states' and 'terrorism'. It's such a clever long-term aim because how can you ever know when you've achieved it? How will Mr Bush know when he's wiped out all terrorists? When every single terrorist is dead? But then a terrorist is only a terrorist once he's committed an act of terror.

What about would-be terrorists? These are the ones you really want to eliminate, since most of the known terrorists, being suicide bombers, have already eliminated themselves. Perhaps Mr Bush needs to wipe out everyone who could possibly be a future terrorist?

Maybe he can't be sure he's achieved his objective until every Muslim fundamentalist is dead? But then some moderate Muslims might convert to fundamentalism. Maybe the only really safe thing to do would be for Mr Bush to eliminate all Muslims? It's the same in my street. Mr Johnson and Mr Patel are just the tip of the iceberg. There are dozens of other people in the street who I don't like and who - quite frankly - look at me in odd ways. No one will be really safe until I've wiped them all out. My wife says I might be going too far but I tell her I'm simply using the same logic as the President of the United States. That shuts her up. Like Mr Bush, I've run out of patience, and if that's a good enough reason for the President, it's good enough for me. I'm going to give the whole street two weeks - no, 10 days - to come out in the open and hand over all aliens and interplanetary hijackers, galactic outlaws and interstellar terrorist masterminds, and if they don't hand them over nicely and say 'Thank you', I'm going to bomb the entire street to kingdom come. It's just as sane as what George W. Bush is proposing - and, in contrast to what he's intending, my policy will destroy only one street.

Terry Jones

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The Pythons autobiography

2004-02-16T00:21:17Z

Have you guys read this? It is the heaviest book I've ever read, I had to towel off each time I lifted it. It took me less than a week to finish. Fun.

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Good for what 'ails ya.

2004-02-02T06:13:21Z

Just the other day I bought a bottle (couldn't help myself) of "Monty Python's Holy Ail" (actually spelt "Grail" with an "X" over the "Gr"). It says it was "tempered over burning witches".

I was appalled yet driven to try it out. It's not a bad ale. I probably won't buy it again, but just 'cause the marketing seems sorta crass to me. It's from the Black Sheep Brewery in Yorkshire and "It's official" merchandise.

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