Today's Good Morning Quote

Today's Good Morning Quote

“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!”

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

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Man: "That was not five minutes just now."
Mr. Vibrating: "I told you I'm not allowed to argue with you unless you've paid."
Man: "I just paid."
Mr. Vibrating: "No you haven't."
Man: "Yes I have."
Mr. Vibrating: "No you haven't."
Man: "Look, I don't want to argue about this."
Mr. Vibrating: "Well you didn't pay."
Man: "Aha! If I didn't pay, why are you arguing? See, I've got you."
Mr. Vibrating: "Not necessarily. I could be arguing in my spare time."
Man: "I've had enough of this."
Mr. Vibrating: "No you haven't."

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John Cleese: [on how they came up with the name] Someone shouted out Python and then someone else shouted out Monty which made us all laugh because Monty to us means Lord Montgomery, our general from the second world war.
Terry Jones: Oh I see!
Michael Palin: I thought it was Monty Sunshine the jazz player.
Terry Jones: Yes, Monty Sunshine the jazz clarinetist.

from Monty Python's Flying Circus: Live at Aspen (1998)

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Announcer: And now for something completely different.

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“Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean?”
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The Ruby Jubilee. Forty Years of Monty Python as of 10/6/09!
40 years ago..."Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuted on TV.

Opening Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49c-_YOkmMU


Monty Python - Philosophers' World Cup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vV3QGagck

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http://pythonline.com/daily

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http://sharetv.org/images/monty_pythons_flying_circus_uk-show.jpg

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"Steve: Good evening. In the late 1960s, a comic force emerged which was so original, so zany, so fabulously different that many people felt that the world of entertainment had been changed forever. Intelligent - some would even say intellectual, yet massively popular. Subtle, but also simple. Dangerous but warm; visual but still enormously literate. Big-hearted, generous, anarchic, and above all, funny. Brilliantly funny. But enough about me. What about this "Monty Python" crowd? Well, some people like 'em, I guess."

~Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python (1989)

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More Monty Python's Flying Circus's Videos


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Themes in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy as Reflected in the Work of Monty Python


Gary L. Hardcastle
Department of Philosophy
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
Stevens Point, WI
U.S.A.

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Trivia (Source: IMDb):
Other possible names for the series were "Gwen Dibley's Flying Circus", "Owl-Stretching Time" (which was used as the name for one episode), "Bun, Whackett, Buzzard, Stubble and Boot", "A Toad Elevating Moment", "Sex and Violence", "A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon". One early working title for the series was simply, "It's..."


The phrase "And now for something completely different" is taken from a real phrase often used by the BBC during their TV and radio broadcasts.

The first U.S. broadcast of the show was in July of 1974 on PBS station KERA in Dallas, TX.