Monty Python is appropriate for every occasion. Open Thread below...
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The Spam sketch was classic, but my favorites were 'Crunchy frog', the 'Self defense Class' and 'The argument clinic'
Can't handle the screaming on this one but I love monty.
Here's a short clip from The Chasers that I think Monty Python would approve of.
Hitler complains.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3CMNOKvU8Q
by Sir_Arthur_Streeb-Greebling aka Cook and Moore
as in Fox.....Good Evening.
I was always partial to the Fish-Slapping Dance, myself. Also, Conrad Poos and His Dancing Teeth still cracks me up.
I still love the one with the dead parrot! I do an impression of it sometimes...got into the bad habit back in high school! ;)
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
I remember watching Monty Python as a preteen late at night with the lights out and the volume real low on a little 13 in. B&W TV, through snow and crackles. It was carried on an Iowa Public Television station with UHF that was too far away to get a good signal. I was supposed to be sleeping and my parents thought Monty Python was simply too racy for kids to be watching. I thought Monty Python was the bomb.
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
remains one of my favorites, absolutely inspired absurdist drama from the get-go.
remains one of my favorites, absolutely inspired absurdist drama from the get-go.
And I'm a better person for it!
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
I can never completely trust anyone who can't recite at least one Python sketch by heart.
I once broke up with a guy because we watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail together and he barely chuckled. Barely chuckled I tell you ! That relationship was doomed.
mark twain spent a great deal of 1908 using his considerable writing talents to tarnish the name of president theodore roosevelt.
twain had correctly identified the usurpation of american sovereignty that was manifesting in the republican party, but he incorrectly pinned the blame on t.r.
t.r. himself came to stand against the malignancy within his own party -he broke off and started the bull moose party.
t.r. warned of the perils of rule by invisible government.
he ran for president in 1912, but was shot two weeks before the election.
he survived, but never really recovered.
woodrow wilson was elected in 1912. legend has it he was blackmailed over an affair, and the federal reserve (and shadow gov't) were installed in 1913.
I think Wilson lived on to regret the Fed, didn't he?
Ever watch the Canadian comedy show 'The Kids In the Hall'?
That comedy show was heavily influenced by Monty python humor...
and also The Kids In The Hall.
Another great comedy team, CODCO (from Newfoundland), was one of my faves. Greg Malone, of CODCO, used to do a great impression of CBC's Barbara Frum (the mother of David Frum, speechwriter to dubya). Rick Mercer is also from Newfoundland. Lots of funny people from The Rock!
should be taught in all schools.
...especially the skits of "I'm squishing your head"
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
the Chicken Lady ...
Are We Experiencing Depression-Level Unemployment?
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/02...
The best family humor there is, cept for the Old Testament!
I read Joseph Smith's "D and C"s every once in a while for a good laugh.
132 is my favorite of Smith's D&Cs. He really lays down the law for Emma. Kinda reminds me of The Honeymooners. "One of these days Alice.....
"54 And I command mine handmaid, Emma Smith, to abide and cleave unto my servant Joseph, and to none else. But if she will not abide this commandment she shall be destroyed, saith the Lord; for I am the Lord thy God, and will destroy her if she abide not in my law."
This is right after Joseph gets the OK, nay duty, to take multiple wives.
What a card he was.
Check out Monty Python's "Galaxy Song" on:
http://www.larrythepenguin.com/commercial.html
Click on the blue and white hexagon at the bottom of the page.
I've loved that song ever since I saw The Meaning of Life when it first came out. Easily the sweetest and most easily memorable rundown of the Earth's place in the Universe.
Plus, the image of the Mother Goddess giving birth to the Universe - added bonus!
I've been watching these debates in the Senate for three days and I'm very disappointed by the way the Stimulus Bill is turning out. As it stands now they have put 42% of the Bill as TAX CUTS.... and tax cuts don't stimulate a thing!
Because of the 60 vote minimum needed to pass this thing in the Senate, Democrats have let Republicans re-insert the very things that caused the economy to dive into the pits over the last eight years... TAX CUTS!
This is a STIMULUS BILL! That means we have to SPEND MONEY that will go into the economy and be re-spent two or three times. It has to be money spent to make people BUY THINGS!
If we give $100.00 to a poor family in food stamps that money will be spent and re-spent by the grocery store and equal $173.00 in economic activity.
If we give a banker a $100.00 tax cut, that money will stay in an investment account and will not be re-spent and will not generate other spending on other things which will guarantee that jobs exist to provide those things... well, you see what I mean.
SPENDING increases the economy. TAX CUTS keep the economy in chains.
President Obama told the Democratic Representatives meeting in Williamsburg that STIMULUS MEANS SPENDING. We all support him, don't we? We elected him over a competitor whose economic policies and the economic policies of his Party had dragged us into the worst situation since the 1930s. Yet we have listened to McCain steer the Republican side of the debate to TAX CUTS, TAX CUTS, TAX CUTS.
McCain and McConnell and Graham and all the other damned fool Republicans have been using their ability to prevent a 60 vote majority as a whip. Democrats better stand up to them. If not, the economy will continue to fail, more jobs will be lost, less and less will be manufactured or sold, less and less employment of workers will be necessary... it will just continue to spiral into the toilet.
Under The LobsterScope
are window dressing.
The deals are done in secret. The votes are known in advance.
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AP Impact: Pentagon boosts spending on PR
WASHINGTON (AP) — As it fights two wars, the Pentagon is steadily and dramatically increasing the money it spends to win what it calls "the human terrain" of world public opinion. In the process, it is raising concerns of spreading propaganda at home in violation of federal law.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/A...
Hopefully blogs like C&L can counter this propaganda.
Just cannot be legal in the American system.
They are public servants, PR is political even if done under orders.
Is Laurie Mylroie working on this, too?
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Dennis Kucinich Explains Our Current Economic Situation
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2864...
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
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Todd Palin held in contempt of Alaska state Senate
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Todd_Palin_held...
... Sucks to be a Palin, NO?
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
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me-oww!
Gawd kitty, it tuk me three thymes to understood yoos.
Speak 'Murican next time. K?
LOL
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
http://www.youtube.com/user/MontyPython
Since, in their words:
For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It's time for us to take matters into our own hands.
We know who you are, we know where you live and we could come after you in ways too horrible to tell. But being the extraordinarily nice chaps we are, we've figured a better way to get our own back: We've launched our own Monty Python channel on YouTube.
My favorite from there, The Lumberjack Song.
think alike! (See below)
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3 months ago Monty Python started giving away thier content on youtube. Now amazon says that caused their DVD sales to skyrocket 23,000%.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5137827/monty-python-put...
Wonder if the RIAA and all those dunderheaded media conglomerates have heard about that? (I'm looking at you, Viacom!)
That is great news indeed. Thanks, Hechicera!
[Deleted. Don't start a war on this thread-Sitemonitor]
Dude, don't be uncool. If Hechicera doesn't want to rumble with you, just drop it. As Wil says, Don't be a dick.
I'll open a comment on the next open thread, and you can shout at me if you like. I honestly can't remember ignoring you before, if that's what this post was about.
But, last night I did enjoy Monty Python and then some board games with my kids. I really wasn't on much.
Don't worry. I'm leaving.
Without any relation to your deleting my post, I'd like to remind you, that the blood of the dead children in Gaza is on every American's hands. The same goes for Afghanistan and Iraq and Lebanon, Vietnam, Japan, Iran and Pakistan .... you know, those one-post-every-two-days stories, once in a blue moon, as opposed to the Glenn Beck, or Bill O'reilly four-times-a-day dealies.
What's interesting is that you consider Republican "trouble makers" trolls and ban them for, say, calling Liberals "terrorist appeasers".
A thread about a CIA agent raping local women in Algiers is preceded with a disclaimer against the use of "violent" language.
But, some schmuck says that if it were up to him, he'd blow the humanitarian aid ship intended for Gaza "out of the water", you leave it on as if you're A OK with it. Then you accuse me for starting a "war".
Going by the book must be an American state of mind. Just like those robots at the assembly line.
I'm actually ashamed to be a part of this stinkin nation. Perhaps I was out of line earlier, but you need to re-examine your priorities.
Goodbye.
*FLOUNCE*
Started watching them in 7th or 8th grade, beginning of my formative years...and I'm a better man for it!
Dead parrot, and one of my all time favorites, the Lumberjack Song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2QvXzZpVaM
Love the Lumberjack Song and those strapping Mounties!
I'd strap on a Mountie too...
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
Might be kind of fun, eh?
Wish I was a woman like my old pa-pa!
Another fave, John Cleese and his Ministry of Silly Walks.
Ohmigosh, that one is crazy fun too!
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
:)
Monty python - universe song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0SY
I've never seen that before. Beautiful!
I'm partial to Inspector Tiger of the Yard. Also, it's good to know how to defend yourself against someone attacking you with fresh fruit.
...what about a POIN-TED STICK??
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Nuclear Scientist A.Q. Khan Is Freed From House Arrest
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
... Bush's best buddy, Pakistan, keeping terrism alive.
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
Ah, yes. The world's biggest nuclear proliferator and how many people even know who he is?
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AP CEO: Bush Turned Military Into Propaganda Machine
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/A...
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
Hey, does anybody else think that, with Nadya Suleman, the sociopathic mother of the octuplets, we've found Sarah Palin her running mate for 2012?
Palin/Suleman 2012 -- Because We'll Win Even if Only our Families Vote For Us!
Sarah's tainted by her husband(see here)...
... Palin/Suleman 2012.
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
"I, Joe The Plumber, do solemnly swear I wish she had never picked me to be her running mate. It detracted from my book tour: How I Managed to Sell Innuendo to America."
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Obama considering at least 2 Iraq withdrawal plans
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090207/ap_on_go_...
... Change of mind you can believe in.
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
Ground Zero residents still have lung problems. Obama tells it like it is. The PB plant knew
about the salmonella and even found insecticide as early as '01. Want a blanket and pillow on U.S. Airways? Pay $7. Condi continues to be delusional. Here's a schadenfreude moment for victims of Arnie's purge. The people who will be most affected by his cuts are those who live in GOP districts. The U.N. gives up on aid to Gaza, because the "oppressed" people at Hamas keep looting
their warehouse. If global warming continues, D.C. could be the next New Orleans. Senate Republicans hate buying American. Looks like Congress overpaid for those bad stocks. Suicides went up in the Army last month. Obama wants to work with the Russkies to reduce nukes. Palin bitches about bloggers. One of the Cole bombing suspects had charges against him dropped for the time being.
Barry is flip-flopping on the duration of the withdrawal. The Christian Reich thinks a DoJ guy who doesn't waste our resources on prosecuting porn is bad. Obama wants trials for the detainees.
You really haven't had spam until you had a slice of spam with a slice of rice wrapped in seaweed. Loco Moco
Is that the name of the concoction? Because I'll be damned if I'm going to put something called Crazy Snot in my mouth.
I'm having the Spam, Eggs and Spam...
the python monties.
But I am having so much fun adding the numbers of the Wall Street via Washington Kleptocracy. I can't give it up.
$9.1 trillion committed, $3.6 trillion spent. Here.
If only the python monties would do a skit on that.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Subprime crisis explanation by The Long Johns
The South Sea Bubble of 1720 - John Bird, John Fortune - George Parr - 20081103
Part 1/2 Bird & Fortune - Financial crisis - Silly Money, Nov 08
Part 2/2 Bird & Fortune - Financial crisis - Silly Money, Nov 08
the new ones are a riot.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
The first third is a helicopter TV crew having a narrow escape at the ship, the rest is the Clarke/Dawe interview, very funny.
The Front Fell Off
Those guys are hilarious.
Bloody Vikings!!
NBC News tonight had a segment about, you guessed it, Spam!
Sales are skyrocketing!
Spam........the other red meat!
'Talk to the hand'
When everyone is laughing the serious guy is the funny one. When everyone is crying the one that is eating something is funny. Anyone that can walk normally and then suddenly stop with their leg in the air for a count of four and continue walking without ever offering an explaination is funny. A man in a tie is funny, but a man in a fish suit wearing a tie is funnier.
The only thing funny about sex is when your having it and there are half a dozen people around commenting on your form as though they were watching a sporting event is funny, although she still tells me she thought they were my friends.
I love these guys' routines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPOqFZ66_BI&NR=1
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_overpaid_7...
i need someone to explain to me why madoff is under house arrest while bush and paulson are walking around free
i really want to thank nancy for making sure that impeachment was off the table
the greatest organized crime family ran our country for 8 years
i think im gonna be sick
they've ran it far longer than eight years.
well yes, id like to thank nancy ried and and obama OBAMA also, its funny how some forget , er conveiently forget , obama is was and allways going to be the fox who is and was a corporate slug, no justice no peace!iraq , afganistan, israels tool!
The cop that shot and killed a man who was handcuffed, then fled to another state, is now OUT ON BAIL. After murder, then fleeing, the guy gets bail (because he's not a flight risk or a threat to the public?)
Oh well. Membership has its privileges.
I will have to find a link for this later, but today the Kern County Superior Court has ruled that my hometown needs to do a more thorough study before they can go ahead with a deal to build a Wal-Mart here (a couple of small grocery stores that have been here for ages sued to halt the process).
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Hopefully, your home town will come to it's senses and run away screaming from even the idea of allowing a Wal-Mart in their town limits. It's truly amazing that any court in the land was willing to say no to anything that Wal-Mart or any other giant multi-national corporation wants.
Definitely. Our town has had enough problems with mom and pop businesses having to shut down without the Behemoth setting up shop here... I kind of understand why it's so tempting for people to want Wal-Mart here, people need jobs, and it is hard for us to get to certain needs and wants in this town because we don't have anything here and the closest is 40 miles away, but Wal-Mart's not the answer! I think it may be time for me to write a letter to our paper about this.
Oh, and our county seat Bakersfield has been in talks for a third Wal-Mart in their city limits for a while, but it's tied up in Kern County Supreme Court too.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
A black guy in Texas(Where else?) doesn't live long enough to have a judge clear his rape conviction through DNA evidence. The Pentagon continues to award KBR.
sucks big time. Anybody says differently is ..... probably a Texan!
Naomi Klein: Tide of Anger
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
Naomi Klein has helped to change the way that I look at the world. The Shock Doctrine is a must for anyone who wants to understand the way the world is today and some of the reasons that it got this way.
Tide of Anger
by Naomi Klein
Watching the crowds in Iceland banging pots and pans until their government fell reminded me of a chant popular in anti-capitalist circles in 2002: "You are Enron. We are Argentina."
Its message was simple enough. You--politicians and CEOs huddled at some trade summit--are like the reckless scamming execs at Enron (of course, we didn't know the half of it). We--the rabble outside--are like the people of Argentina, who, in the midst of an economic crisis eerily similar to our own, took to the street banging pots and pans. They shouted, "¡Que se vayan todos!" ("All of them must go!") and forced out a procession of four presidents in less than three weeks. What made Argentina's 2001-02 uprising unique was that it wasn't directed at a particular political party or even at corruption in the abstract. The target was the dominant economic model--this was the first national revolt against contemporary deregulated capitalism.
It's taken a while, but from Iceland to Latvia, South Korea to Greece, the rest of the world is finally having its ¡Que se vayan todos! moment.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Mr. Bean at the hospital waiting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJYTU-uYwgM
too funny....
That was hilarious!
Thanks for a fun night. GNA.
is out
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090129/pl_usnw...
the corporatist bubble he's in doesn't help at all. These people are sloppy, just like the Clinton people.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Spam has entered the vernacular not just as "unwanted junk mail" but almost to mean unwanted propaganda.
Witness the latest spam/propaganda to come out of Venezuela: the false claims of anti-semitism. The Venezuelan majorirty are poor and have lived through decades of oppression and state terrorism by right wing thugs, especially against those of more indigenous descent.
The people of Venezuela are speaking out against Israel's oppression of its minority Palestinian population, and criticism in the form of protest is being falsely equated to calls for genocide. Why does this dishonesty not surprise?
100 years ago, anti-semitism was result of hundreds of years of christian dogma, e.g. Mel Gibson's idiotic and drunken tirade. Today's events aren't anti-semitism or anti-jewish words, they are criticism of state terrorism. Anything happening now in countries like Venezuela, Turkey or elsewhere are a result of Israel's own actions. Israel has brought the backlash upon itself and is not an innocent victim.
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4179
it appears that mossad took over there when the US got the boot
The GOP has made a mess of the United States. The GOP policies and ideas never work when actually implemented. Let the GOP know if they do not start to get some things right on the first call soon, we will vote the GOP bums out!
42% tax cuts = fuck jobs, fuck the middle class.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Army looking for new ways to curb suicide rate
By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER – 13 hours ago
FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) — To battle a growing suicide rate, the Army may have to start teaching soldiers how to handle stress from the first day they take their entry oath, the service's top trainer said Friday.
"The new idea I suppose I would offer is getting at it right from the beginning of the career," said Gen. Martin Dempsey, the new four-star commander of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, which operates 33 schools and training centers at 16 Army installations.
Dempsey, who led soldiers during two combat tours in Iraq, was questioned about the issue after addressing 1,150 soldiers who graduated from basic training at Fort Jackson, the Army's largest training installation.
According to figures obtained by The Associated Press, there were seven confirmed suicides last month, compared with five a year earlier. An additional 17 cases from January are under investigation.
Army Secretary Pete Geren acknowledged last week that officials have been stumped by the spiraling number of cases.
Dempsey said the issue was vital to an Army that has been at war for seven years and may well be at war for several more.
Some stuff you can't make up!
DON'T JOIN THE ARMY IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I mean, seriously, does anybody join the Army thinking they're going to "get a good education" anymore? It can't be a secret that the first thing they'll do is ship your ass to the Middle East, where you'll most likely either get killed or have various body parts blown off.
Anybody who signs up for that...damn.
(Or, a NSFW plan to ram the stimulus bill home, told via downloadable mp3 ring tones.)
In his bestselling autobiography, Dreams From My Father, President Obama introduces us to his high school friend, “Ray,” who, like him, is bi-racial. Who, also like him, is casting about to find his place in the world. But, who, unlike him, has a potty mouth that would make a sailor blush.
Best of all? When reading the audiobook version of his bio, Obama does impressions of Ray’s manner of speech. Swear words and all. It’s fucking awesome. And it’s a way of talking we probably won’t be hearing from him now that he’s POTUS.
Or will we?
http://www.rawstory.com
Some stuff you can't make up!
Obama (hacking Rethugs out of the way):
I have HAD IT...(slice)...with these MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES...(chop)...in this MOTHERFUCKING GOVERNMENT!!!
Extreme foreclosure, ocean view property
http://woodsnbeaches.blogspot.com/2009/02/oce...
My favorite is when Graham Chapman was a yuppie type trying to provide a romantic night for his girlfriend at his home, and everybody from his pub seems to drop over including Eric Idle telling dirty jokes, a screaming couple fighting each other played by John Cleese and Terry Jones (they thought of it as humor). Cleese actually grabs one of the girl's boobs, and when she screams calls her a silly b***h. Then a shepherd with emphysema, and his new lover, a guy wearing nothing but a bikini, a cape, heavy eye makeup, and a cigarette holder doing a Betty Davis imitation, "What a dump."
And this was produced in 1969, when in America we were all watching The Brady Bunch.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Oh, and for you Texas haters, Monty Python was discovered for American TV at the local Dallas PBS station, Channel 13, in 1973. Then their popularity spread, AFTER their show was cancelled in England. The Goodies lasted longer, but bombed in America.
For years whenever channel 13 had a pledge drive they would have one or two Monty Python guys addressing the audience, usually in the form of impromptu sketches. I seem to remember one with John Cleese tied to a chair saying only if we sent money would PBS let him go.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Classic. Thanks for the history ys.
I ride a suburban route to work everyday where the riders know each other. When we get a new rider, someone always introduces us to some effect. One guy once referred to me as the bus historian, which I thought odd.
To them and where I work, I'm largely known as the guy who's relatively silent, distant, and not fond of loud noise (like people talking or laughing loud.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
and you have the Republican solution to everything from recessions to the common cold. Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are unwilling to say "I don't like SPAM."
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