And now for something completely different....

Ahhhh, there's hope for this forum yet
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Rusty, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life...

Tom

(That's from the Life of Brian, in case you wwanted to know)
 
I must have been living right...... I seem to have missed all this stuff, not to memtion Zappa.....who ever he is or was?
Dan
 
Tom, I'm sorry I missed getting back to this thread for the better part of a week. For the record, I, too, am a Monty Python fan and your reference wasn't lost on me. However, my original assessment of the situation still stands; your mind must be a scary place to be. However, please understand that I mean that as a supreme compliment! Who in blue blazes wants to be normal?! Not I! And let's face it, if we forumites were 100 percent normal, we wouldn't be forumites in the first place -- "normal" people aren't obsessed with curvy knives -- and that's a fact. Consider how many people the world over have internet access, then consider how many regular forum members we have, and you have to face the realization that we are, indeed, a very strange little group of people! But ain't it grand!!!
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If it weren't for Monty Python the HI forum's closest equivalent would be Animal House ( or maybe not ).
 
Steven, scary? Nah. Not as scary as facing the Rabbit at the Cave of Kyer Banor (sp?) Not as scary as seeing a giant Blancmange practicing tennis. Or for that matter, as scary as seeing a Scotsman practicing tennis...
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Still, facing a bit of peril might be good for me. Which way to Castle Anthrax?

Tom

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, he's not in this bit...
 
I got it! I got it! That's the same episode with the flying sheep!
I love that one sketch about Arthur Ewing and his Musical Mice:

Originally from www.montypython.net:

Ewing: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen. I have in this box twenty-three white mice. Mice which have been painstakingly trained over the past few years, to squeak at a selected pitch. (he raises a mouse by its tail) This is E sharp... and this one is G. You get the general idea. Now these mice are so arranged upon this rack, that when played in the correct order they will squeak 'The Bells of St Mary's'. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you on the mouse organ 'The Bells of St Mary's'. Thank you.

(He produces two mallets. He starts hitting the mice while singing quietly 'The Bells of St Mary's'. Each downward stroke of the mallet brings a terrible squashing sound and the expiring squeak. It is quite clear that he is slaughtering the mice. The musical effect is poor. After the first few notes people are shouting 'Stop it, stop him someone, Oh my God'. He cheerfully takes a bow. He is hauled off by the floor manager. He comes back and has a few more 'hits' before being dragged off again.)
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If I were a PETA representative instead of someone who's considering buying all the old episodes on DVD, I suppose I'd be offended.
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Animal House + Arthur Ewing and his Musical Mice = ... ~synapse leap to~

.. vision of Flounder shooting a blank .45 at Neidermeyer's horse, which promptly dropped dead... cut to ~synapse leap to~

.. National Lampoon Magazine cover, picture of mutt dog with it's eyes nervously looking to the right at a revolver pointing at it's head, caption reading BUY THIS MAGAZINE OR WE'LL SHOOT THIS DOG!... cut to ~synapse leaps to~

.. "Twit Of The Year" a terribly non-PC Monty Python sketch where obviously impaired twits compete by jumping over matchbook boxes, walking a straight line, backing a car over an old lady, etc.. the winner is the first to successfully shoot himself with a revolver.

See, it's all circular...
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Nick
 
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