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Subject: Re: A bet!
From: djohnson@gutenberg.gac.edu (Daniel P Johnson)
Date: 21 Aug 92 02:31:47
Organization: Fallen Prey to Entropy
In-reply-to: mfc1493@venus.tamu.edu's message of Thu, 20 Aug 1992 05:31:00 GMTLines: 77

In article <20AUG199200313760@venus.tamu.edu> mfc1493@venus.tamu.edu (Ratboy) writes:

.>I've been watching the shows for years, but I have just one question.  Which
.>one person is Monty Python?

I am, and so is my wife, Josephine.

.Ho-HO! We *have* to burn this guy!!! BURN HIM!!! TURN HIM INTO A NEWT!!! He
.*won't* get better!!!

Yick!  Don't burn 'im, he'll stink up the whole lawn, and then I'll
NEVER get to have tea with my dolls!

.>I have a bet with a friend of mine and he says that they all are part of the
.>troupe called Monty Python but I think that he is full of it.

He is!  He's full of Schmuckers Rasberry preserves, and probably
minutely proud of it, too!  I wish I could pound 'im one, the slithery
rapscallion...

.I'm afraid your fine friend is right, Concord. The tall statesman-looking one
.that played the undertaker, King Arthur, etc is Graham Chapman. The other tall

Liar!  His name is Delphred Wingle IV, Duke of Spleenhopper, and he'd
take you to court for defamation of character if he hadn't died in a
horrible can-opener accident in 1342.  God bless him!

.one, with darker hair, is John Cleese. The short chubby one that sits naked on

It was a wig!  A wig!!?!

.the pianos stool is Terry Jones. The one who does all the long monlogues (i.e.

Quite right!  I'm glad to see they taught you *something* in school!

.the travel agent sketch) is Eric Idle. The one that does all the funny voices

Actually, Eric Idler, but you can see why he shortened it.

.and plays Missus Niggerbaiter is Michael Palin. And the one that does the

By the way, an interesting anagram of that is Michael Plain.  Not bad, eh?

.animation and was Mao Tse-Tung in The Hollywood Bowl is Terry Gilliam.

No no, Mao Tse-Tung did the animation, and he played Terry Gilliam at
the Hollywood Bowl.  Quite extraodinary, really.

.Occasionally there is Carol Cleveland and Neil Innes. And that choir that I
.can't remember the name of...

The Morman Tabernacle, if I'm not mistaken.

.>Send me e-mail please so that I can prove him wrong.
.Sorry. It's much more fun to post and watch the aka's pile up...

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.>Thanks.
.It was nada... <- Not a Shovel

.>	-Tom-  <- Possibly a shovel

.Ratboy aka if you want to know how they got the name Monty Python's Flying
.  Circus just request a transcription of Life of Python...I'll start it here
.  any day now...

Dan aka Was a shovel, but I had an operation.
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