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Tim: There he is!
King Arthur: Where?
Tim: There!
King Arthur: What? Behind the rabbit?
Tim: It *is* the rabbit!
King Arthur: You silly sod!
Tim: What?
King Arthur: You got us all worked up!
Tim: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit.
King Arthur: Ohh.
Tim: That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
Sir Robin: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared!
Tim: Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
Sir Galahad: Get stuffed!
Tim: He'll do you up a treat, mate.
Sir Galahad: Oh, yeah?
Sir Robin: You manky Scots git!
Tim: I'm warning you!
Sir Robin: What's he do? Nibble your bum?
Tim: He's got huge, sharp... er... He can leap about. Look at the bones!
King Arthur: Go on, Bors. Chop his head off!
Sir Bors: Right! Silly little bleeder. One rabbit stew comin' right up!
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Rabbit of Caerbannog
"In the film the Cave of Caerbannog is the home of the Legendary Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh. This is guarded by a monster which is initially unknown. King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table are led to the Cave of Caerbannog by Tim the Enchanter, and find that they must face down its guardian beast. Tim verbally paints a picture of a terrible monster with "nasty, big, pointy teeth!". When the guardian appears to be an innocuous white rabbit, surrounded by the bones of the fallen, Arthur and his knights no longer take it seriously. Ignoring Tim's warnings, King Arthur orders Bors to chop its head off. Bors confidently approaches it, sword drawn, and is immediately decapitated by the rabbit to the sound of a can opener. Despite their initial shock and Tim's loud scoffing, the knights attack in force, but are driven to "run away!" as the rabbit leaps and attacks, killing Gawain and Ector. The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch is then used to defeat the beast and allow the quest to proceed."
Rabbit of Caerbannog / Wikipedia
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"Inspired by your favourite movie quote" 52½ weeks of 2009, week #46
Both the rabbit (hand puppet) and the Playmobil knight are my childhood toys from the seventies. It was pretty tricky to get this shot as I was holding the rabbit with my right hand, then focusing, using the timer and then held the knight with my left hand. But I had fun!
But, I am not dead yet.
Here is the short story:
Around Christmas last year I became more and more fatigued with the added aggravation of aches and numbness between my shoulder blades in the afternoons, too much pain and fatigue to even look at Flickr photos. I had extreme difficultly turning over in bed. My knees and the area all the way around
where my thighs meet my torso hurt when trying to sit on the floor or get up off the floor, a problem I have been dealing
with for 12 years. I had shortness of breath when going up or down stairs and difficulty in picking up and carrying slightly
heavy objects. In March my ability to think was worse and I was finding great pleasure in spending more and more time sleeping. Even though I was prefectly happy when I was up and about I decided I must be depressed and without a doctor's prescription started taking Prozac with interesting results. I knew that Prozac really doesn't work for me very well but I took it any way and my back ache and numbness went away after taking Prozac for four days and I could turn over in bed again.....Isn't that interesting????!!!!! Unfortunately the Prozac bad side effects became worse and worse out weighing the good side effects. During the time of worsing side effects I was dealing with crap dumped on me by the Cosmic Outhouse and the Cosmic Jester. I
had begun to suspect that two children that visit us frequently were showing signs of having bed bug bites. I don't really know
how I came to this conclusion. My only knowledge of bedbugs came from the story of a friend of my daughter's who had suffered through the bed bug ordeal. I told the children's mother of my suspensions, started an internet education for myself and OMG
while tiding up for company I found a "bug" on my dust cloth. I had put the "bug" in a ziplock bag, taped it to the car hood
and gleefully watched it die from heat exposure. I was pretty sure "the bug" was a bed bug. One of the sayings I live by is:
"if something is too good to be true then it is." What are the odds of finding the only bed bug in three thousand square feet
of clutter and then there is the basemnt. Panic began to brew in my subconscious. Jerry thought I was crazy but with my
forceful insistence he helped me check all seven beds, every single seam on all sides and we found nothing. The children's mother said she couldn't find any evidence of bed bugs so with after telling my company that our house may have been exposed to bed bugs, they, too, thought I was crazy and came anyway. When three weeks later after spending the weekend here a different child turned up with strange bites on her back, the other children's mother said she was very very very sorry but they did indeed have bed bugs, my daughter's friend stopping by to see if she could identify "the bug" agreeing that it might be the evil bed bug, the brewing panic became full fledged hysteria. Remember I am suffering from fatigue etc. I sent Jerry with "the bug" to the Fayette County Extension Office for identification and took myself to my Physican's Assistant where I confessed my sin of self medicating, jokingly asked to be committed thus saving me from bedbugs, along with a plea of please give me an antidepressant
that will work. My PA while scratching phantom bed bug bites gave me a prescription for Wellbutrin to keep me from gaining weight from the Prozac and for energy. Not yet hearing the results of the bug indentifcation I decide it is better to be safe than sorry and I start the process I have learned from my extensive internet searches of debugging the room the biten child slept in, the doll house room. I am taking all the doll house furniture putting it in ziplock bags and baking them in the
at the lowest setting, putting all bedding in ziplock bags and large toys in heavy duty black plastic bags to bake in the sun.
Since the extension office isn't calling me with their results I call them, the person I want is out to lunch and after several
days of phone tag, continued toy baking the Extension office calls with the BAD news, it is no longer "the bug" but indeed
a "bed bug" capable of reproduction. Jerry can no longer think I am crazy and over reacting. We call an Exterminator.
While checking the first bed the Exterminator being blown away by my clutter says and preparing me for her estimate is saying,"This is going to cost you thousands and thousands of dollars. I tell her about our deep love of the children that exposed us and keep telling her and myself that these kids are worth it!!!! I help the exterminator in everyway I can finally she says, "I really really don't think you have bedbugs and I want you to know I work on commission." (what kind of conflict of interest is that?) She gave us a plan: 1. no company for one month 2. traps for the bed legs 3. Sleep only in the room with the leg traps and see if you catch any bugs. GOOD NEWS!!!!!! We never catch one bug or get one bite!!!!!! The Comic Jester thinks he has played a big joke on me but really it was a blessing in disguise! We bought clothes which we keep at our house which the family changes into BEFORE they come into our house or car and We gave the family tools and instructions to rid themselves of the
bugs. OOOOOPPPPPPSSSSS back to the medical story. I keep going back to my PA with theories....the Prozac was driving me
crazy. She switched me to Zoloft and tried to encourage me to go to a Psychiatrist. Then the Zoloft is driving me crazy: my hands are shaking, my voice is quivering, my knees, thighs, muscles are in EXTREME pain. I cannot get up off the floor without the aid of something to use my arms to pull myself up. I decide I will quit all these antidepressants and maybe my real problem was the lack of vitamin D so off I go to my PA asking for a blood test. She says OK I will do as you
ask but I notice your eye is dropping and I am going to order an autoimmune test. I was defencient in Vitamin D and the
autoimmune test was positive. MY PA made an appointment for me with a rheumotogist and while I waited I looked up autoimmune diseases related to muscle weakness on the internet and decided that Myasthenia Gravis fit my symptoms. The rheumotogist ran 17
different test and GOOD NEWS I did not have Myasthenia Gravis but BAD NEWS I was positive for scleroderma. My son, DIL, several friends and I have been trying to educate ourselves about scleroderma enough to be able to ask the right questions. My test of my muscles showed that my muscles are normal. My doctor does not think I have any symptoms worth consideration but says I should
still be worried and gave me a computer print out on scleroderma from the Mayo Clinic (how Micky Mouse is that?) and told me to watch for the symptoms listed
on that print out....bad word bad word...I already have some of the symptoms on that print out and I happen to know that John Hopkins has a much much much better print out. I guess all in all it really doesn't matter if I am in denial or the doctor is in denial I don't think I am going to die from it and at least after sitting in the sun and taking lots of vitamin D I am starting to have more energy than I have had in years and years and that is a mighty good thing.
I have really missed each and one of you and can't wait to catch up!!!!!!!
His unwitting audience is BBC Nationwide’s roving reporter, John Dull (Graham Chapman).
Ageing folk like myself might remember this scene from the fourth Monty Python series (Episode 4), first broadcast in November 1974.
Photo from a postcard that was attached to my lunch bill at the Mad Dogs & Englishmen bar/restaurant, Tampa.
"Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night, he can join us in our quest for the Holy Grail."
I think this was the opposite of a cakewreck if I do say so myself. The top picture is what she gave me. I think I improved on the cake a little. The helmet cake was a triple barrel. I rolled out my fondant and before I even draped it over the cake I knew it wasn't enough, but I put it on there anyway. D'oh! It didn't fit!! I had to peel it off, scrape off the icing and chunks of cake that came with it, make more fondant and try again. Using freshly made fondant is not a good thing. Fortunately the terrible finish of the fondant made the helmet have a weathered look. It worked in my favor, I guess.
For those who are wondering, this is a real sign at the pedestrian crosswalk of Sparks St. (pedestrian mall) and Metcalfe St. in downtown Ottawa. The business association for Sparks St. wanted to bring a little fun to the area, and it seemed fitting with the view of Parliament in the background.
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at nine-hundred miles an hour.
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, a Sun that is the source of all our power.
The Sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see, are moving at a million miles a day,
In an outer-spiral arm at forty-thousand miles an hour, of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred-billion stars, it's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen-thousand lightyears thick, but out by us it's just three-thousand lightyears wide.
We're thirty thousand lightyears from Galactic central point, we go round every two-hundred-million years.
And our Galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding Universe
The Universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding in all of the directions it can whizz.
As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know, twelve-million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure how amazingly unlikely is your birth.
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'cos there's bugger all down here on Earth!
Monty Python The Galaxy Song, Eric Idle singing....
LISTEN HERE: www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/astro/music/Galaxy_Song.html
“Pero las llamas son peligrosas. Si usted ve una llama donde hay gente nadando, usted [debe] gritar: ¡Cuidado! ¡Llamas!"
Apparently, I am the only one to remember John Cleese’s warning about llamas.
I believe that's Carol Cleveland, best known for her work with Monty Python's Flying Circus, in the center.
John Cleese of Monty Python and "A fish called Wanda" fame is probably the most important comedian, author and actor in the field of intelligent entertainment, that GB gave the world in the last 83 years. Nevertheless I passed the chance to see him. It would have been my only time and I hate to see old stars repeat their repertoire for the 5000th time.
An American goldfinch feeds well past the point of feeling full in preparation of leaner months to come.
With grateful thanks to:
Wall Decoration :GothicBohemianStock: evelivesey.deviantart.com/favourites/42165127#/d3exf11
Knight:mzacha: www.sxc.hu/photo/793236
Painting: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27Jupiter_Among_the_Cory...
',_oil_on_copper_painting_by_Giuseppe_Maria_Crespi.jpg){kind=link}
Picture Frame :ChantiiGG: evelivesey.deviantart.com/favourites/42179227#/d30dhgz
Cock .mariamurphy: mariamurphy.deviantart.com/gallery/11766650#/d3fyoxd
Throne :jiffy: officialpsds.com/Throne-gold--red-PSD43260.html
Queen mine and available as stock on Deviant Art: evelivesey.deviantart.com/gallery/27280431#/d3h0dha
Now I realise my historical periods may be a little mixed up - but I can't get the vision of a man in full body armour, running around trying to catch the cockerel, out of my head tee hee :-)))))
"you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you" (Monty Python and the Holy Grail). This sword at Chatsworth awaits Arthur Pendragon
Tiny bit of photoshopping required to make the tower lean more and to make my finger tip look right!
September 10, 2009
"With government backing I can make it very silly,"
from Monty Python's Flying Circus "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch
Winner: Ryan Lantrip
As seen on MrXStitch
...when you might want to take a photo. I like to have at least one camera, preferably two, on me at all times.
Above the bookshop we can find a private apartment where there is something going on. It was once owned by a respectable but stubborn family who refused to move when the building was being turned nonresidential. However, at some point the apartment was occupied by a group of dangerous criminals. Some said that this apartment became the very center of criminal activity in the city. Despite evil intentions of these people, let us hope that nobody was inside the bathroom when it was smashed.
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Does anyone remember the Monty Python character, D.P. Gumby?
Here is a reminder: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNV1U34p6jk
Strobing info:
One Canon Speedlite 550EX. Placed on the table to the left of camera.
One Nissin i40 as slave placed on the table to the right
Despite watching the film countless times, it only took until fairly recently to realise this location in Epping Forest in Loughton, Essex is the filming location for the famous 'Black Knight' scene in the 1975 film.
Watch this video of it, and see if you can recognise it. It may be difficult considering how the vegetation changes, but strangely some of the trees have hardly changed in it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690
Does anyone remember the Monty Python character, D.P. Gumby?
Here is a reminder: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNV1U34p6jk
Strobing info:
One Canon Speedlite 550EX. Placed on the table to the left of camera.
One Nissin i40 as slave placed on the table to the right
Tracklist
A1 Introduction/The Llama 2:35
A2 Gumby Flower Arranging 1:15
A3 Short Blues 0:50
A4 Wrestling 3:05
A5 World Forum 3:45
A6 Albatross/Colonel Stopping It 1:30
A7 Nudge Nudge 2:36
A8 Crunchy Frog 3:49
A9 Bruces Song 4:10
A10 Travel Agent 6:35
B1 Camp Judges 2:00
B2 Blackmail 3:52
B3 Protest Song 4:05
B4 Pet Shop 4:56
B5 Four Yorkshiremen 3:31
B6 Argument Clinic 4:16
B7 Death Of Mary Queen Of Scots 1:18
B8 Salvation Fuzz 3:29
B9 Lumberjack Song 3:22
For FGR and the Euphemisms group. I took these within a 40 minute time frame between double shifts at work, and I've finally "finished" editing it. It still looks a bit rough, like marionettes or paper dolls, but I'm so dead (HAAA, no pun intended) I just want to go to bed.
EXPLORE #112
Can half a pear still be a pear when half the pear simply is not there? Does it become something less than a pear when there is obviously less of it sitting there? If half a pear is no longer a pear, what would it be, or are we splitting hairs? And if you have two halves of a pear, are they each still just one pear or have they morphed into a pair of pears? Do you care? Please feel free to share. Just open up and let your soul be laid bare.
(With many thanks to Monty Python for the inspiration from "Eric, the Half a Bee")
Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Ways
On the 13th of November 2008, Michael Palin will be giving a talk called 'Around the World in 80 Ways', at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, SE1 8XX.
Tickets are available from Ticketmaster by calling 0844 844 0 444, or from the Ticketmaster website, www.ticketmaster.co.uk.
Around The World In 80 Ways is a fundraising event for Campaign for Better Transport.