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by maecuff

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Okay, I've watched this time after time, and this drives me nuts. The scene where they come upon the witch. After they determine that she is made of wood and they put her on the scales and she weighs the same as a duck, what it is it, that the actress says? I've watched this over and over, and can't quite get it. Who can clear this up for me?

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by oz_media

An English expression.

That witch is actually Connie Booth, whom you may know as Polly from Fawlty Towers.

I have the script if you want, I can email it to you as a PDF. (131KB).

I also have a realy funny script for the Life of Brian, 'The Red Paper Bok'. The pages are not bound, so if you flip it oipen quickly, you have to go through the whole script page by page to put it back together. (It is now shrink wrapped!)

I used to collect thier albums, one is a cardboard box, twisted and collapsed through the middle so it appears to be a double album record jacket. You untwist it and the box opens up,it has record spines printed all across one side, so when you place it in on a shelf, it looks like a record collection. Thus the title, Monty Pythons Instant Record Collection.

Gotta love em!

by maecuff

That's one more mystery solved. Now, if you can tell me where all my socks are, I'd have nothing left to fret over.

by mlandis

Oh man.

God rest Graham Chapman who played my hero, Mr. Neutron.

The skit with the caskets gets me going every time.

This summer while visiting the cousins, we took the kids to the Tower of London. We were getting our bits and pieces together in the backpacks and whatnot because we were ambitious and wanted to get to the observatory at Greenwich also.

So we were sitting on a bench and I offered my husband a mint. He declined, and I launched into the whole "wafer thin mint" routine. Three people burst out laughing, and came over to speak with us. They had never heard it done in a NooYawk axent befo-ah, and were laughing at my delivery which amused them no end.

Sigh.And here I thought they recognized my talents.

Maureen

by oz_media

Quite a vivid mental picture and then the accent just threw it over the top!

A mentor of mine (advertising and copy guru)used to be a very big artist promoter in Vancouver and brought many acts to North America in the late 60's early 70's, such as David Bowie, Supertramp and others.

He was hired as a young apprentice in the early 70's to pick up Monty Pythons at Vancouver airport on thier first visit to North America. He was to pick them up in a flat deck truck with a cage on the back and drive them to a few appearances while they performed impromtu in the cage.

Well they were doing fine, skits via bullhorn until Eric Idle started hanging from the side of the cage and doing monkey impressions while my friend turned Georgia and Robson (downtown Vancouver's core intersection), the added weight and Eric hanging from the cage on one side, flipped the truck in the intersection.

He has a couple of pictures of the MP gang all talkng into bullhorns, continuing thier skits from this cage on the back of a truck as it lay on it's side in the middle of a busy intersection.

Now THERE's one I am sure he'll never forget!

As I say, my mentor...maybe I should rethink who I admire?! :p

by Member 25348569

A righteous arrest - caught in the act. Now (possibly only ever) used solely by UK headline writers bereft of any ideas.

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