Dean expected to end campaign today

[Gustaf]

It's about time. Dean has been behaving like the political version of The Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail...LOL

Of course, in all honesty, the Democratic Party owes him an awful lot. He kept the faithful interested when it looked hopeless for their party, and he provided Kerry with the rhetoric that made him the frontrunner.

To non-Democrats, Howard Dean sounded like an escaped mental patient, but apparently it is exactly that type of rhetoric which the Democratic Party base wanted to hear after four years of Bush. Kerry and Edwards took his message, toned down the anger without toning down the vitriol, and they became the frontrunners.

That's a great film, and I agree the similarities are quite striking...

[Gustaf]

Gustaf,

That is likely the funniest movie ever made.

Yes, right up there with Life of Brian...the parody of Communist fringe groups is hilarious, especially considering the fact that it was made around the time when that movement was peaking in Europe.

'What have the Romans ever done for us?'

[Gustaf]

It's about time. Dean has been behaving like the political version of The Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail...LOL

Of course, in all honesty, the Democratic Party owes him an awful lot. He kept the faithful interested when it looked hopeless for their party, and he provided Kerry with the rhetoric that made him the frontrunner.

To non-Democrats, Howard Dean sounded like an escaped mental patient, but apparently it is exactly that type of rhetoric which the Democratic Party base wanted to hear after four years of Bush. Kerry and Edwards took his message, toned down the anger without toning down the vitriol, and they became the frontrunners.

That's a great film, and I agree the similarities are quite striking...

We can all unite in a bipartisan way in support of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Don't you just love bipartisan agreement?

[Gustaf]

Have you ever watched Monty Python's flying circus? It is good, lots of sketches rather than a full movie, My friend and I are probably going to do the "Cheese Sketch" from it for a laugh at school.

Yes, I have, the video tapes of it can be purchased in my video store. There are so many good ones...'Prawnfish Ltd. (It just fell!)' and 'The Welsh Coalminers' come to mind immediately...as does the election night one, a must for any political junkie...

[Gustaf]

Another good one, I cannot remember its name, but it is about the designs for an apartment building, the first guy has basically designed an abbattoir and the second guy has one he says is indestructable yet the model like explodes as he takes them through the design.

The one with the Hitchcock plagiarizer is also brilliant: 'man opens window, sees the murder. The murderer comes up to kill him. He kills the murderer and looks out of the window again. The End. Hitchock stretched that out to 3 hours and everyone thinks he's so bloody great!'



This could go on forever, btw...

[Gustaf]

Another good one, I cannot remember its name, but it is about the designs for an apartment building, the first guy has basically designed an abbattoir and the second guy has one he says is indestructable yet the model like explodes as he takes them through the design.

The one with the Hitchcock plagiarizer is also brilliant: 'man opens window, sees the murder. The murderer comes up to kill him. He kills the murderer and looks out of the window again. The End. Hitchock stretched that out to 3 hours and everyone thinks he's so bloody great!'

Haha, yes, I remember that one. My favourite has got to be the Spam sketch, or the Hungarian phrasebook...

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Indeed.

Yes, those are good ones too...and there's the invisibility sketch

[Gustaf]

This parrot IS NO MORE! It has CEASE TO BE!

The classic...

How could I forgot? The 4 Yorkshire Men is a huge favourite!

'...and when we came home our dad would beat us to death with his belt and dance on our graves singing hallelujah! And when you tell the young people today they won't believe ya...'

[Gustaf]

This parrot IS NO MORE! It has CEASE TO BE!

The classic...

How could I forgot? The 4 Yorkshire Men is a huge favourite!

'...and when we came home our dad would beat us to death with his belt and dance on our graves singing hallelujah! And when you tell the young people today they won't believe ya...'

Another favourite of mine:
"Let's take a look at the sales chart. When you took over this account, Conquistador Coffee were a brand leader. Here you introducted your new campaign, 'Conquistador Coffee brings a new meaning to the word vomit.' Here you made your special offer of a free dead dog with every jar, and then followed your second campaign 'the tingling fresh coffee which brings you exciting new cholera, mange, dropsy, the clap, hard pad, and athlete's head'."

I wonder how long it's gonna be until someone yells at us for incessantly quoting Monty Python in a Howard Dean thread...? But then, in a way Howard Dean's campaign was rather comic... let's face it, that Iowa speech was pure Monty Python, so I suppose in a way we still are on-topic...

Oh yes, that's really funny one as well! Isn't that the one where John Cleese holds up a banner that says 'joke' to trigger the audience?

We'll keep going until we're stopped I think...