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Post by Olive on Jun 8, 2011 10:14:16 GMT -5
Because who doesn't just adore Cleese's silly walks? And Gilliam's almost eternal silence?
Random tidbit: I found a new favorite professor when Herr Sherman did the entire Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch speech... in German... on the spur of the moment. Favorite class moment of the year.
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Post by Umbvix on Jun 8, 2011 11:46:50 GMT -5
I love Monty Python  My brother got me into it back in Jr. High and I've been a fan since. We even managed to get our mom to enjoy some of it! She likes saying "Caribou gooooone". That is an awesome professor. I am Smuckers levels of jelly. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 8, 2011 12:05:08 GMT -5
The professor and two male students of my college's Early Music Ensemble kicked their final concert off by circling the concert hall, chanting in Latin (harmonized, of course) and hitting themselves in the face with folders.
Also, a few years ago my (84-year-old) choir professor sent out a mass email that read along the lines of:
There is a reason he was my favorite. (I have several theories about him being a Timelord, but I'll discuss them elsewhere... crackpot theories thread time!)
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Post by Umbvix on Jun 8, 2011 12:27:40 GMT -5
I wish people here were that cool. ;A; At least I can still make jokes with my friends...at least Holy Grail jokes. They are resistant to watch clips from Flying Circus, but they shall be swayed in due time.
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Post by Olive on Jun 8, 2011 12:46:40 GMT -5
My first glimpse of Monty Python was when I came downstairs at the age of... 11? To find John Cleese sprawled out in a bikini... my dad was watching "And Now for Something Completely Different."
I've been in love ever since. Which spread to an obsession with anything MP related... Fawlty Towers, Jabberwocky (as if I needed a reason to watch that on top of my Alice obsession), and any Gilliam movie.
And that bit about the music ensemble is amazing!
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Post by twobee on Jun 13, 2011 1:51:11 GMT -5
DID YOU KNOW:
The 'SPAM' skit is what inspired all that useless information on the internet that just keeps coming up everywhere to be called spam.
SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM
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Post by cyanea on Jun 13, 2011 2:28:01 GMT -5
My senior year high school English teacher used a George Carlin bit and a few sketches from Monty Python and the Holy Grail to demonstrate to us the flexibility of language and "modern poetics".
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Post by WhatIf on Jun 24, 2011 14:29:53 GMT -5
I love Monty Python. The Holy Grail is so much fun to quote.
My mum is a big Monty Python fangirl, too. I told her my boyfriend and I were watching The Holy Grail and she was so proud.
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Post by velouria on Jun 24, 2011 18:26:35 GMT -5
I went through a big Monty Python phase back in high school. I bought their autobiography "The Pythons" and thought it was brilliantly put together. Although I always found it a shame when people told me they loved Monty Python but only watched The Holy Grail. There is so much they are missing out when they don't watch The Flying Circus.
Love when teachers reference The Pythons. I had a teacher back in high school who referenced The Holy Grail on a test. I was pleasantly surprised, to say the least.
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Post by serpentheart on Jun 24, 2011 20:42:46 GMT -5
Love Monty Python! Grew up with it.  In my Europe, Empire and the World class this semester we got to watch a lot of clips from Holy Grail in lecture which was awesome! (And episodes of Black Adder...) I also love Terry Jones's history books/tv programmes. |
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My brother got me into it back in Jr. High and I've been a fan since. We even managed to get our mom to enjoy some of it! She likes saying "Caribou gooooone". 
