Talk:The full monty

message: Many english words in the field of cooking , love-making , toilette , perfumes , feminine underwear  etc... come from the ( more or less deformed) french vocabulaire . For me " monty" comes obviously  from the french " monté" . A strip-tease joint owner advertising full-nudity sketches would of course prefer to hire actors who are " bien montés" ( i.e. in french :  endowed with nice secondary sexual organs )   signed arapaima  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.164.81.114 (talk) 10:01, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the word  " monty"  

message: This reference is to the 1980s. The interviewee uses the phrase to refer to events forty years previously. The usage is thus from the 1980s and not the 1940s; he is not saying that the phrase was used then, he is using it "now".   pablohablo. 10:27, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The full Monty treatment 

message: The phrase should be capitalized only when it is the title of a movie or the name of a shop; simply as a phrase, it is lowercase, and the article should be retitled accordingly. Languagehat (talk) 13:44, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur. Actually I think it should be at "The full monty", with the film article at "The Full Monty (film)", while we're at it.   pablohablo. 14:36, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur! Languagehat (talk) 15:48, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{anchor|Incorrect capitals}} Capitalisation 

message: The Full Monty is ONLY about Field Marshall Montgomery, my uncle served in the 51st Commando Regiment under his command in the Western Dessert, Libya, if you don't know the dates too bad.
Monty was famous for wearing a black beret with two emblems, from his WWI tank days and the High Command General Service badge.
Forget about Demob suits, the Full Monty is his breakfast even in the hot as hell desert, the nights are freezing in any desert, so he ate well before sunrise and it was two fried eggs at least,  2 boiled eggs, for later, a lot of bacon, toast, fried tomatoes and if possible chips, if meat was available it would preferably be steak, but as a VERY practical man it could be horse or donkey rump, goat if someone shot one quick enough.
How do I know this? Apart from my uncle in the 51st Commando, my neighbour when I was a kid was his batman. Look it up, its an officers personal butler, but like the over dressed guards regiments still a fully professional soldier. He considered being Monty's batman as the highest point of his life.
Monty also like his major opponent wasn't scared to pick up a gun and let it go when needed, Rommel was cursed by the lack of equipment getting through by air from Italy, Sardinia and secretly from Spain.
We had the control of the seas, the Septics had their first taste of WW2 in North Africa, and in general screwed up, lost lots of boys straight out of training whereas the British, the under commented on brave Canadians and South Africans had been at this for three years.
The desert where you can fry an egg on a shovel or anything iron or steel is not a pleasant firld of battle, but I prefer it to jungle CQB
Anyway, The Full Monty is a large breakfast that he was known for, and anyone you know who's been at the pointy end of the stick will do the same as you may not have a real meal for days or weeks....so bys, stuff yourself silly, tke two metal flasks of 10os of single malt scotch, and take as many rounds as you can carry, grenades and an FSB, a Smachet and a tri-bladed stilleto if you're in a unit that can get one, or buy it for yourself.
I took a very cut down Victorian 20gauge double barrel over my right shoulder for awkward moments...it was loaded with lead balls and horrible carpet tacks.
Nasty last resort weapon...but sometimes just fun to use.
Like all of us that have been at the pointy end of the stick Monty's batman went a bit off the rails later in life, that's why I won't beseach his name  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaxworld2525 (talk • contribs) 08:34, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  July 2017