Monty Python
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A lot of programmers say they are into Monty Python books and films. I really can't figure why. I once tried watching a Monty Python sketch, it was unbearable!. Someone enlighten me, what's the big deal with Monty Python?
I'm surprised by the responses. When this topic has come up before it's usually met with a lot of replies similar to "you just don't get British humour." I haven't watched much of it but mostly because it is not very funny. I had friends who loved it though.
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A lot of programmers say they are into Monty Python books and films. I really can't figure why. I once tried watching a Monty Python sketch, it was unbearable!. Someone enlighten me, what's the big deal with Monty Python?
Well, in the IT world the entire name of unwanted mail became named SPAM because of a Monty Python sketch... Spam stems from Monty Python sketch - YouTube[^] But, I believe, the reason Monty Python was (seemed) so great was because we did not have any forms of humor back then. Well, there was less that was funny and especially less that was avant-garde at that time. Monty Python did things to do them and that is how a lot of technology starts out too. "Let's just see if we can do this thing." This is what made me laugh when I saw it when I was 10 on PBS (public broadcasting system): How Not To Be Seen Monty Python's Flying Circus - YouTube[^]
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First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out! Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.
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Part of me wants to believe you didn't look that up, and instead have it memorized. :laugh:
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I'm surprised by the responses. When this topic has come up before it's usually met with a lot of replies similar to "you just don't get British humour." I haven't watched much of it but mostly because it is not very funny. I had friends who loved it though.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
It's difficult stuff, because humour is very personal. Watch Dave Allen - if you can find his stuff, and I'll howl with laughter the whole way through. But even when Falwty Towers was brand new I found it funny, but only in small, five minute doses. Any more, and I'd be chewing my knuckles with embarrassment. Take this bit: Whose Fault is It? | Fawlty Towers | BBC Comedy Greats - YouTube[^] and it still works perfectly despite all the time that has passed.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Well, in the IT world the entire name of unwanted mail became named SPAM because of a Monty Python sketch... Spam stems from Monty Python sketch - YouTube[^] But, I believe, the reason Monty Python was (seemed) so great was because we did not have any forms of humor back then. Well, there was less that was funny and especially less that was avant-garde at that time. Monty Python did things to do them and that is how a lot of technology starts out too. "Let's just see if we can do this thing." This is what made me laugh when I saw it when I was 10 on PBS (public broadcasting system): How Not To Be Seen Monty Python's Flying Circus - YouTube[^]
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A lot of programmers say they are into Monty Python books and films. I really can't figure why. I once tried watching a Monty Python sketch, it was unbearable!. Someone enlighten me, what's the big deal with Monty Python?
Yes, they're like an ALBATROSS!
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Part of me wants to believe you didn't look that up, and instead have it memorized. :laugh:
I do remember it, but copy'n'paste was quicker! :-D
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yes, they're like an ALBATROSS!
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A lot of programmers say they are into Monty Python books and films. I really can't figure why. I once tried watching a Monty Python sketch, it was unbearable!. Someone enlighten me, what's the big deal with Monty Python?
Even if Monty Python is old, it belongs to my generation. It represents the absurd slapstick that was great when I was a boy. Even if old, it is "mine". I picked up a DVD with one of my father's favorite comedians (Norwegian, not much know abroad, Leif Juster). As I watched through the sketches, some of them I knew from my childhood, I nodded again and again: That would certainly have made daddy laugh! And that one. That punch line would have made him jump up and down! All the way, it was dad's humor, just like I knew it to be. I can pinpoint a lot of funny lines, but I do not laugh out loud myself. But it is not my humor. Actually, I feel it worse with the humor of today's youth: I do not know why they find that moderne humor funny, the way I know daddy's humor. But my own inability to laugh at the humor a generation older than myself, and similar with that a generation younger than myself, I fully accept that those generations of people will not understand my humor. Even if you are of my generation: If you have not grown up with, say, Monty Python style humor, you will not get it. It doesn't belong to you. It is as strange as the humor of another generation. Obviously, this is just a main rule - there are lots of exceptions, both in people and specific comedians etc. - and the combination of those.
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Part of me wants to believe you didn't look that up, and instead have it memorized. :laugh:
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What flavour is it?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
It's a bird, innit? It's a bloody sea bird ... it's not any bloody flavour. Albatross!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's a bird, innit? It's a bloody sea bird ... it's not any bloody flavour. Albatross!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Do you get wafers with it?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Do you get wafers with it?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
'Course you don't get :elephant:ing wafers with it, ya ****! And we'd probably better leave it there ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Do you get wafers with it?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
I think you just had the last word. :)
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'Course you don't get :elephant:ing wafers with it, ya ****! And we'd probably better leave it there ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Right, you! Stop that! You're not even a proper woman! :-D Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do, except perhaps my wife and some of her friends. Oh yes, and Captain Johnson. Come to think of it, most people like a good laugh more than I do, but that's beside the point.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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A lot of programmers say they are into Monty Python books and films. I really can't figure why. I once tried watching a Monty Python sketch, it was unbearable!. Someone enlighten me, what's the big deal with Monty Python?
Well, it's an acquired taste - and for their TV series, I hadn't acquired it. It was a funny at first, but as is often the case, there's a cultural side to the humor which, having fortunately not been brought up in the UK, I have mercifully avoided.* The movies - Holy Grail and Life of Brian - now that was a time for something completely different. * How to take these comments: 1 - Just havin' some fun, and/or 2 - Just rubbing it in.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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It's difficult stuff, because humour is very personal. Watch Dave Allen - if you can find his stuff, and I'll howl with laughter the whole way through. But even when Falwty Towers was brand new I found it funny, but only in small, five minute doses. Any more, and I'd be chewing my knuckles with embarrassment. Take this bit: Whose Fault is It? | Fawlty Towers | BBC Comedy Greats - YouTube[^] and it still works perfectly despite all the time that has passed.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Dave Allen would come on Public Broadcasting here (Gov't run educational TV. It's where all the BBC shows aired when I was a kid) He was very funny for someone who could only count to 9 and a half.
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A lot of programmers say they are into Monty Python books and films. I really can't figure why. I once tried watching a Monty Python sketch, it was unbearable!. Someone enlighten me, what's the big deal with Monty Python?
My own take: Some of their humor may seem pretty tame nowadays. But back then, it was groundbreaking. They were pioneers. I'd qualify a lot of today's humor as derivative. Just like Elvis and The Beatles predate me - I wouldn't necessarily spend a lot of my time listening to their music, but I can appreciate and respect their contributions, and the doors they've opened for others.
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Well, it's an acquired taste - and for their TV series, I hadn't acquired it. It was a funny at first, but as is often the case, there's a cultural side to the humor which, having fortunately not been brought up in the UK, I have mercifully avoided.* The movies - Holy Grail and Life of Brian - now that was a time for something completely different. * How to take these comments: 1 - Just havin' some fun, and/or 2 - Just rubbing it in.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
I probably learned more about British culture from Monty Python than from anywhere. I was 16 and a friend of mine had recently moved from the UK with 5 or 6 Monty Python LPs that we'd listen to. Most of it works quite well without video. I still remember the diatribe from the Travel Agency sketch, which is packed with cultural references.
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