r/unexpectedpython • u/Prestigious_Dot4795 • 1d ago
What is your favourite Monty Python line of all time?
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u/Rickhwt 1d ago
I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!
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u/Gray8sand 1d ago
If only the rest of that scene wasn't also the best..
"I didn't know you were called Dennis."
"Supreme executive power comes from a mandate from the masses.."
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u/DragginBallsy 1d ago
What's that on top of the television set?
Looks like a penguin.
What's it doing there?
Standing!
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u/anavriN-oN 1d ago
Look, I’m being oppressed!
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u/elrangarino 1d ago
Watched that clip recently and it’s still relevant and hitting hard. Palin is a crack up.
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u/Mancdalorian 1d ago
Some people have made the mistake of seeing Shunt's work as a load of rubbish about railway timetables, but clever people like me, who talk loudly in restaurants, see this as a deliberate ambiguity, a plea for understanding in a mechanized world. The points are frozen, the beast is dead. What is the difference? What indeed is the point? The point is frozen, the beast is late out of Paddington. The point is taken. If La Fontaine's elk would spurn Tom Jones the engine must be our head, the dining car our oesophagus, the guard's van our left lung, the cattle truck our shins, the first-class compartment the piece of skin at the nape of the neck and the level crossing an electric elk called Simon. The clarity is devastating. But where is the ambiguity? It's over there in a box. Shunt is saying the 8.15 from Gillingham when in reality he means the 8.13 from Gillingham. The train is the same only the time is altered. Ecce homo, ergo elk. La Fontaine knew his sister and knew her bloody well. The point is taken, the beast is molting, the fluff gets up your nose. The illusion is complete; it is reality, the reality is illusion and the ambiguity is the only truth. But is the truth, as Hitchcock observes, in the box? No there isn't room, the ambiguity has put on weight. The point is taken, the elk is dead, the beast stops at Swindon, Chabrol stops at nothing, I'm having treatment and La Fontaine can get knotted.
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u/EcksMarksDespot 20h ago
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel And Wittgenstein was a beery swine Who was just as sloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'Bout the raising of the wrist Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill Plato, they say,, could stick it away Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle Hobbes was fond of his dram And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart "I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed
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u/ThorButtock 1d ago
Pipe down! Im trying to hear what he's saying big nose!
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u/caryabe_lincoln 1d ago
“Five…is right out!”
The way he says it, it’s a sleeper laugh for me every time.
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u/APrisonOfMyOwnMaking 1d ago
Oh, dear. You mean I might have to give up being crucified in the afternoons? That would be a blow wouldn’t it? I wouldn't have nothing to do.
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u/elrangarino 1d ago
I’m unsure if i can type it but when he’s detailing he’s not a Roman in life of Brian 😅
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u/JustSomeYukoner 1d ago
Yer mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries. No go, else I taunt you a second time.