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Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Monday, 11 Jan 1993 01:02:12 EST
From: Marty Helgesen <MNHCC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Telephone Sanitizers


On New Year's Eve I watched "A Spinal Tap Reunion" on NBC.  It had a
bit about one of the members of Spinal Tap joining his father's
telephone sanitizer business after the band broke up. He said busi-
ness had fallen off when people realized that they could buy cleaning
supplies at a fraction of the cost of a professional telephone sani-
tizer and do it themselves. I would expect most people to realize
that within a second of being offered the services of a telephone
sanitizer.  The only other time I heard of telephone sanitizers was
in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  I sort of assumed that
unless Adams made them up they worked in large offices.

Are there really telephone sanitizers?  Are there traditions about
them, like about chimney sweeps at weddings?  Is there an Ancient and
Worshipful Guild of Telephone Sanitizers?
-------
Marty Helgesen
Bitnet: mnhcc@cunyvm   Internet: mnhcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu

"Experience beats in vain upon a congenital progressive."
        --  C. S. Lewis
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: catstyle@cathouse.aiss.uiuc.edu (Jason R. Heimbaugh)
Subject: Re: Holy Grail --- and MORE !!!
Reply-To: jrh@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:59:16 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.083546.4234@telesoft.com> kst@telesoft.com (Keith  
Thompson @pulsar) writes:
> In article <28260@dog.ee.lbl.gov> envwpk@epb2.lbl.gov (Werner P.  
Keilholz) writes:
> > > Can you say "copyright violation"?
> > I'm not really sure, since most of the material there was re-written
> > by people who are Python fans just for fun, but hey ...
> 
> > I believe we should thank the guy who is running the server for
> > providing the service instead of bringing 'legalities' into this...
> 
> I'm not sure why you put the word "legalities" in quotation marks; it
> is an extremely relevant issue.  In any case, I'm more concerned with
> ethics.  Theft of intellectual property is still theft.

ftp.uwp.edu the enormous lyrics archive site has the best copyright  
explanation I've seen.  The only comment I have on the whole matter is to  
post their message.

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Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives
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reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be
liable for copyright infringement.

This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order
if, it its judgement, fulfillment of the order would involve violation
of copyright law.

--
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jrh@uiuc.edu
"If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?" --Ronnie Van Zant
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: hhillman@TrentU.CA (teapot)
Subject: Rowan Atkinson Live
Reply-To: hhillman@TrentU.CA
Organization: Trent University, Peterborough
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:53:56 GMT

Help!!!!!!!
 On Christmas Day the CBC broadcast a program simply titled _Rowan Atkinson 
Live_ I think. Anyway, My VCR decided that it was fed up with me and 
refused to record the beginning of the program. I managed to convince it to 
work after the first 3 minutes or so. So I lost almost all of the first 
skit. Please help. The copy I was able to make is not very good and I am 
looking for a complete good copy!
If someone could help me then please e-mail me.
I have called the CBC asking them to rebroadcast it. They told me that some 
people have also requested this. So we can hope. In the meantime please 
help me.
Cheers.
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: baker@nodecg.ncc.telecomwa.oz.au (Mark Baker +61 9 4916081)
Subject: ALL AUSSIEs NOTE: DTDD This Tuesday
Organization: Network Computer Centre
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 04:06:07 GMT

The new series of Drop the Dead Donkey starts on SBS this Tuesday at
8pm. Alex isn't there, but otherwise it is meant to continue on from
the last series.

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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british,alt.fan.monty-python
From: sprooney@unix1.tcd.ie (Simon Rooney)
Subject: Re: Monty Python Filmography +
Keywords: list films television Monty Python
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:41:13 GMT

In <C0p9Br.CFv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> wsherman@ncsa.uiuc.edu (William Sherman -Visualization) writes:

>In alt.comedy.british, Daniel Snoek asks for a list of Monty Python
>Movies.  Several have already been given, but I happen to have a list
>that is probably still not complete, but has more that was has already
>been posted.  I posted this a few months ago too.

>Python Filmography

>Movies under the "Python, Monty" name:
>	And Now For Something Completely Different  (1971)
>	Monty Python and the Holy Grail  (1974)
>	Jabberwocky  (1977)
>	Monty Python's Life of Brian  (1979)
>	Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl  (1982)
>	Monty Python's The Meaning of Life  (1983)

There are also a number of videos brought out by them (while we're
on the subject) that, as far as I know, were never released in the
cinema. The only ones I can think of now are:
	How to irritate people	(all the crew... both original
				 sketches, and a few from the
				 series)
	20 years of Python	(I think that's the name... hosted
			 	 by Steve Martin)
	Parrot Sketch not incl.	(mainly sketches)
	MPFC			(Vids of the series. To the 3rd series)

>Movies with Python members:
>	The Rutles  (1978) - Idle, Palin
>	Whoops Apocalypse  (1981) - Cleese
>	Time Bandits  (1981) - Gilliam, Palin, Cleese
>	The Missionary  (1981/2?) - Palin
>	Yellow Beard  (1983) - Chapman, Cleese
>	A Private Function  (1985) - Palin
>	Silverado  (1985) - Cleese
>	Brazil  (1985) - Gilliam, Palin
>	Clockwise  (1986) - Cleese
>	A Fish Called Wanda  (1988) - Cleese, Palin
>	Consuming Passions  (1988) - Palin, Jones
>	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen  (1989) - Gilliam
>	The Odd Job - Chapman
>	Privates on Parade - Cleese
>	The Saga of Erik the Viking - Jones, Cleese
>	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West - Cleese's Voice
As mentioned in another post, Cleese was also in Romance with a
double bass. I'm pretty sure there's another, but I can't think of
it.

>Series:
>	Monty Python's Flying Circus - 45 episodes
>	Ripping Yarns - 6? episodes (Palin & Jones)
>	More Ripping Yarns - 6? episodes (Palin & Jones)
>	Fawlty Towers - 12 episodes (Cleese & Booth)
>	80 Days Around the World - ? episodes (Palin)
>	Cheers episode - Cleese plays a prominent psychiatrist

>Books:
>	I own 10-15 books on/by the Python troope, but I don't have
>	them typed in, and am not at home at the moment.  Maybe I'll
>	pass that info on tommorow.

MNSiso
Organisation: European Space Technology Centre (E.S.T.E.C)
Date: Tuesday, 12 Jan 1993 12:56:13 CET
From: <MATTWOOD@ESTEC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Waiting For God

 >Am curious if this show saw more than one season.

  Am sure it completed its third series on BBC1 just before Christmas. Maybe.
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: lapierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Lou Anna Pierce)
Subject: Re: Up all night..
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:36:22 GMT

In article <21DEC199212033694@cc.utah.edu> mgb5528@cc.utah.edu (MICHAEL G. BECK) writes:
>     Has anyone on the net have recorded versions of the series
>"UP ALL NIGHT"?  If so please e-mail.  I would like a copy of them.
>I would be most appreciative.  Thanks!!!
>

I can get you some copies of UP ALL NIGHT! If you really want them.
I stay up late studying for exams It will cost you the price if the
videos though and postage. Good deal or what? 

-- 
   Serving Wench lapierce@whale.st.usm.edu    
   Disclaimer: Standard.
"A mysterious naked man has been reported on Cranston Avenue." someone else...
From: ngustas@hamp.hampshire.edu
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Jeeves and Wooster and Peter's Friends
Date: 4 Jan 93 09:34:12 EDT
Organization: Hampshire College
NNTP-Posting-Host: hamp.hampshire.edu

Jeeves and Wooster the series is very funny, if a tad more outrageous than 
even Wodehouse's stories.  Fry and Laurie were born to play Jeeves and 
Wooster, although I must admit I pictured Jeeves a tad older.  For all 
Blackadder fans:  while Bertie Wooster is very similar to Prince George,
Stephen Fry's role as Jeeves is very different from any role he played in
Blackadder.
Fry plays another different role as Peter in Peter's Friends.  This time,
he's the wealthy, bisexual friend who invites everyone to visit him.  This
was really neat to watch, esp. since Rudner wrote the role for Fry, which
seems to have some similarity to his real life.  Hugh Laurie plays Roger,
a role in which the Blackadder fans I saw the movie with didn't recognize
him in.  Roger is a very straight role.  In a lot of ways, I found him to
be the most serious role in the movie.  I was very impressed by him.  Go 
see the darn film already!
As always,
Gabrielle de Lioncourt
From: v026ltr5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Monty)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Monty Python Movies
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:04:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <DODD.93Jan11062616@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu>,
dodd@roebling.poly.edu writes...
>>> Holy Grail
>>> Life of Brian
>>> The Meaning of Life
>>> (Various complilations of sketches incl And Now For (etc.), Parrot
>>> Sketch Not Included, and MP live at the Hollywood Bowl (Which just
>>> finished on Channel 4 about 15 mins ago... Tray Nice)

The actual Monty Python movies are:
And Now For Something Completely Different
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Monty Python's Meaning of Life

All were theatrical releases in the US, UK, or both.

> 
>>> Pseudo-Python:
>>> Fish Called Wanda
>>> Jabberwocky
>>> Yellowbeard
>>> (Shit... I can't remember any others... I'm not including pure
>>> Gilliam stuff, like Brazil, coz it's got no others)
>>And my favorite Pseudo-Python movie: "Time Bandits" How about "Eric The
>>Viking" I haven't seen it but maybe it applies.

There's plenty more if you only require 1 python member.
And each Gilliam movie had other Pythons in it.
Time Bandits - Cleese as Robin Hood, Palin as 2 different parts
Brazil - Palin as Jack
Munchausen - Eric Idle as the fast guy

Eric Idle was also in Nuns on the Run. Cleese was in a lot of
things, including Romance With a Double Bass, Clockwise,
Whoops Apocalypse, and so on. 

>I really like Time Bandits.  I think I have seen it at least six times.  I
>still laugh hard in some parts of it:
> Servant: "It your so powerful, Master, then why are you stuck here?"
>      FX:  Boom! (man disappears in an explosion)
>  Master: "Good question."
>wish they would make a sequel to it.

He did. According to Gilliam, Time Bandits, Brazil, and Munchausen
formed a trilogy. It was basically how people deal with fantasy
from childhood to adulthood to old age.

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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Wooster & Jeeves (Blackadder Fans Take Note!)
From: Michael.Norrish@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Norrish)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:59:36 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Victoria Uni. of Wellington, NZ.

>>>>> On Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:42:31 GMT, grove@uk.tele.nokia.fi (Paddy
>>>>> Grove) said:

[I have no attribution for Steven except the header ref which has a
particularly cryptic infoserv address]

Steven> Yes, it's excellent work -- I just saw episode #2. Fry and
Steven> Laurie have to be a couple of the most versatile comic actors
Steven> anywhere.


Paddy>  No offence but I had to laugh at this. If you ever see
Paddy> Spitting Image (a UK show of satire using latex puppets), you
Paddy> may have seen their sketch involving Hugh Laurie trying to say
Paddy> what a versatile actor he was..

Paddy> "I can play someone whose rich and stupid, or stupid and rich,
Paddy> or someone who is very stupid who happens to be rich"

Paddy>     Think about it. I think he's great but all his characters
Paddy> are, well, rich and stupid (Lieutenant George, Prince Regent,
Paddy> Bertie Wooster etc.). Not what I'd call versatile..

While this is true of the characters you mention, and these are
probably his biggest roles so far with the exception of whatever he
does in "Peter's Friends" which I haven't seen, he has also played
lots of non-rich, non-stupid roles in the skit series, "A bit of Fry
and Laurie", and he was also a non-rich, non-stupid German in the
final episode of Blackadder II.

Michael.

"This is all getting a bit silla really."
From: IO20746@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Monty Python Movies
Date: 10 Jan 93 20:16:33 GMT
 <DODD.93Jan10065155@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu>
Organization: University of Maine System


In article <DODD.93Jan10065155@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu>,
dodd@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu (Lawrence R. Dodd) says:
>
>>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Rooney <sprooney@unix1.tcd.ie> writes:
>  Simon> Nntp-Posting-Host: unix1.tcd.ie
>
>>How many Monty Python Movies have been produced?  Grail, Life of Bryon, what
>>else?
>
>  Simon> Welll it depends on what you call a "Python Movie"... there's stuff
>  Simon> like Fish Called Wanda, Yellowbeard etc. that have a good few of the
>  Simon> cast in them, but not all... anyway,
>  Simon> True Python:
>
>  Simon> Holy Grail
>  Simon> Life of Brian
>  Simon> The Meaning of Life
>  Simon> (Various complilations of sketches incl And Now For (etc.), Parrot
>  Simon> Sketch Not Included, and MP live at the Hollywood Bowl (Which just
>  Simon> finished on Channel 4 about 15 mins ago... Tray Nice)
>
>  Simon> Pseudo-Python:
>  Simon> Fish Called Wanda
>  Simon> Jabberwocky
>  Simon> Yellowbeard
>  Simon> (Shit... I can't remember any others... I'm not including pure
>  Simon> Gilliam stuff, like Brazil, coz it's got no others)
>
>And my favorite Pseudo-Python movie: "Time Bandits" How about "Eric The
>Viking" I haven't seen it but maybe it applies.

Erik the Viking is good, but it's not pure comedy, it's similiar to
Baron Munchausen which also has some cast members (maybe only Eric
Idle but i want to say that John Cleese is in it as well). Both are
enjoyable movies. Also Michael Palin does have a cameo at the end
and beginning I believe in Brazil.

Of course if you like Terry Gilliam movies I would suggest Fisher King
which is a classic movie.

-some guy
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: graeme@abekrd.co.uk (Graeme Griffiths)
Subject: Re: Stephen Fry , 'The liar'
Followup-To: rec.arts.books
Organization: Abekas Video Systems, Reading, UK.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:04:33 GMT

In <s0454850.105.0@let.rug.nl> s0454850@let.rug.nl (J.P. Prenger) writes:

>Hi there!

>Anybody already seen Stephen Fry's debut-novel? It's called 'The liar' & 
>that's about all I can tell you, because I just bought it (10 minutes ago). 
>It was first published in 1991, so I can imagine that this book's already 
>been talked about 'round here, but than again, in 1991 I'd never heard about 
>this newsgroup. So don't blame me, just tell me what you thought about the 
>book.

	Well, I liked it. It's not for the closed-minded, it has an awful
lot of homosexuality-based culture in it (Well public schools etc) not
that that is a problem but it might just offend people picking it up cold.
It's sort of John le Carre meets Tom Sharpe while Charles Dickens cadges a
quiet fag in the corner. (No pun intended). You do have the feeling that
Stephen is actually reading it to you, which is wierd, it's written in
such a style that the only voice you can imagine reading it is Mr Fry (you
know like when he does commercial voice-overs).

	Anyway, good book IMHO, follow-ups to rec.arts.books.
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From: grove@uk.tele.nokia.fi (Paddy Grove)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Monty Python Movies
Date: 11 Jan 93 07:01:11 GMT
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications, Transmission Product Development,
	Cambridge, UK

>>>>> On Sun, 10 Jan 1993 02:05:41 GMT, sprooney@unix1.tcd.ie (Simon Rooney) said:
Simon> Nntp-Posting-Host: unix1.tcd.ie

>How many Monty Python Movies have been produced?  Grail, Life of Bryon, what
>else?

[Stuff deleted]

Simon> Pseudo-Python:
Simon> Fish Called Wanda
Simon> Jabberwocky
Simon> Yellowbeard
Simon> (Shit... I can't remember any others... I'm not including pure
Simon> Gilliam stuff, like Brazil, coz it's got no others)

_Brazil_'s got Palin in it, _Baron Munchausen_'s got Idle.

    Paddy

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From: ECL2B08@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Susan L. Minobe)
Subject: Re: Monty Python Filmography +
Date: 11 Jan 93 12:18:23 PST

In article <C0p9Br.CFv@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, on 11 Jan 1993 17:16:37 GMT,
wsherman@ncsa.uiuc.edu (William Sherman -Visualization) writes:

>
>In alt.comedy.british, Daniel Snoek asks for a list of Monty Python
>Movies.  Several have already been given, but I happen to have a list
>that is probably still not complete, but has more that was has already
>been posted.  I posted this a few months ago too.
>
>Python Filmography
>
>Movies under the "Python, Monty" name:
>        And Now For Something Completely Different  (1971)
>        Monty Python and the Holy Grail  (1974)
>        Jabberwocky  (1977)
>        Monty Python's Life of Brian  (1979)
>        Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl  (1982)
>        Monty Python's The Meaning of Life  (1983)
>
>Movies with Python members:
>        The Rutles  (1978) - Idle, Palin
>        Whoops Apocalypse  (1981) - Cleese
>        Time Bandits  (1981) - Gilliam, Palin, Cleese
>        The Missionary  (1981/2?) - Palin
>        Yellow Beard  (1983) - Chapman, Cleese
>        A Private Function  (1985) - Palin
>        Silverado  (1985) - Cleese
>        Brazil  (1985) - Gilliam, Palin
>        Clockwise  (1986) - Cleese
>        A Fish Called Wanda  (1988) - Cleese, Palin
>        Consuming Passions  (1988) - Palin, Jones
>        The Adventures of Baron Munchausen  (1989) - Gilliam
>        The Odd Job - Chapman
>        Privates on Parade - Cleese
>        The Saga of Erik the Viking - Jones, Cleese
>        An American Tail: Fievel Goes West - Cleese's Voice
>
>Series: 
>        Monty Python's Flying Circus - 45 episodes
>        Ripping Yarns - 6? episodes (Palin & Jones)
>        More Ripping Yarns - 6? episodes (Palin & Jones)
>        Fawlty Towers - 12 episodes (Cleese & Booth)
>        80 Days Around the World - ? episodes (Palin)
>        Cheers episode - Cleese plays a prominent psychiatrist
>
>Books:
>        I own 10-15 books on/by the Python troope, but I don't have
>        them typed in, and am not at home at the moment.  Maybe I'll
>        pass that info on tommorow.
>
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Eric Idle did an episode of "Faerie Tale Theatre" (sic?)--
"The Pied Piper" (PS: excellent music by J.Horner!). And Michael
Palin is now doing "Pole to Pole" on A&E, a similar series as
"Around the World in 80 Days". Saw the 1st episode last night
(or was it the night before? Sorry, I lose track of time SO
easily...). -SLM/UCLA BIOMED-
From: dodd@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu (Lawrence R. Dodd)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Monty Python Movies
Date: 10 Jan 93 06:51:55
Organization: Dept of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic Univ, NY, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: sprooney@unix1.tcd.ie's message of Sun, 10 Jan 1993 02:05:41 GMT

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Rooney <sprooney@unix1.tcd.ie> writes:
  Simon> Nntp-Posting-Host: unix1.tcd.ie

>How many Monty Python Movies have been produced?  Grail, Life of Bryon, what
>else?

  Simon> Welll it depends on what you call a "Python Movie"... there's stuff
  Simon> like Fish Called Wanda, Yellowbeard etc. that have a good few of the
  Simon> cast in them, but not all... anyway,
  Simon> True Python:

  Simon> Holy Grail
  Simon> Life of Brian
  Simon> The Meaning of Life
  Simon> (Various complilations of sketches incl And Now For (etc.), Parrot
  Simon> Sketch Not Included, and MP live at the Hollywood Bowl (Which just
  Simon> finished on Channel 4 about 15 mins ago... Tray Nice)

  Simon> Pseudo-Python:
  Simon> Fish Called Wanda
  Simon> Jabberwocky
  Simon> Yellowbeard
  Simon> (Shit... I can't remember any others... I'm not including pure
  Simon> Gilliam stuff, like Brazil, coz it's got no others)

And my favorite Pseudo-Python movie: "Time Bandits" How about "Eric The
Viking" I haven't seen it but maybe it applies.
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british,alt.fan.monty-python