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Close up of a daisy on a lawn. This is a belly shot, taken in King's Domain , Melbourne.
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" Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life "
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvTnWpQpFIs
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Castle Stalker is a picturesque castle built on a tidal islet in Loch Laich, an inlet of Loch Linnhe in Argyll, the Scottish Highlands. It can only be reached by boat but its' scenic setting makes for a very romantic location.
Used in Monty Python's "In search of the Holy Grail"
the impossible will be done immediately,
miracles take a little longer :-)
There are a lot of ways to fly,
the risks are of different nature and the
Landings too :-)
Monty Python's Flying Circus :-)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM_UFWFh0hc
Beautyful Visions-Van Morisson
Castle Stalker is a picturesque castle built on a tidal islet in Loch Laich, an inlet of Loch Linnhe in Argyll, the Scottish Highlands. It can only be reached by boat but its' scenic setting makes for a very romantic location.
Used in Monty Python's "In search of the Holy Grail"
CASTLE STALKER,where many scenes from Monty Python's "Monty Python and the Holy Grail " were filmed
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This year Monty Python is celebrating its 50th Anniversary. "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" is a comedy song that was first featured in the film Monty Python's Life of Brian.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_-q9xeOgG4
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Castle Stalker is a picturesque castle built on a tidal islet in Loch Laich, an inlet of Loch Linnhe in Argyll, the Scottish Highlands. It can only be reached by boat but its' scenic setting makes for a very romantic location.
Used in Monty Python's "In search of the Holy Grail"
This image of the Common Sandpiper is from the second set of photos taken during January this year. It put me in mind of Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks sketch.
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CASTLE STALKER,where many scenes from Monty Python's "Monty Python and the Holy Grail " were filmed
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Built around 1320, Castle Stalker is possibly Scotland’s most isolated and loneliest castle, located on a small tidal island on Loch Laich.
It featured in Monty Python's Holy Grail
Built around 1320, Castle Stalker is possibly Scotland’s most isolated and loneliest castle, located on a small tidal island on Loch Laich.
It featured in Monty Python's Holy Grail
Castle Stalker is a four-storey tower house or keep picturesquely set on a tidal islet on Loch Laich, an inlet off Loch Linnhe. It is about 1.5 miles north-east of Port Appin, Argyll, Scotland, and is visible from the A828 road about midway between Oban and Glen Coe. The islet is accessible from the shore at low tide. The name "Stalker" comes from the Gaelic Stalcaire, meaning "hunter" or "falconer".
I didn't check the gender of these young feral piglets on the bank of Horsepen Bayou but if they are females, they will be making their own piglets in as little as six months. Males about twice that. As fertile as rabbits but way more destructive (excepting Monty Python's killer rabbit).
The title makes me think of a scene in Monty Python's "Life of Brian," when the throng of followers shout in unison "We are all individuals!" Except one person pipes up with "I'm not...." and is promptly shushed.
clip is here, if you're a fan...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QereR0CViMY
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CASTLE STALKER,where many scenes from Monty Python's "Monty Python and the Holy Grail " were filmed
King Arthur: I am your king.
Peasant Woman: Well, I didn't vote for you.
King Arthur: You don't vote for kings.
Peasant Woman: Well, how'd you become king, then?
[Angelic music plays... ]
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king.
Dennis the Peasant: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis the Peasant: You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Arthur: Shut up
Dennis the Peasant: I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Arthur: [grabs Dennis] Shut up! Will you shut up?!
Dennis: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!
Arthur: [shakes Dennis] Shut up!
Dennis: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being repressed!
Arthur: Bloody Peasant!
Dennis: Ooh, what a giveaway!
A Night Heron striding across a lagoon in Spain. Reminded me of Monty Python’s ministry of silly walks!
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David Hume's statue is on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. People rub his big toe in the hope that some of his intelligence will rub off on them.
I'd herd of him before, but only because of Monty Python's philosopher's song (David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel... I looked it up.) The statue looks like it's been there for a hundred years but it's nearly new - 1996 - and the sculptor is very much alive and sculpting!
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When l saw this shot it reminded me of the "Monty Python's Holy Grail sketch with the French in the Castle...So please be careful while passing "You English types." and watch out for flying Cows,Horses, Ducks, Chickens. etc etc. :-)
I first came across the Biggles joke in 'Monty Python's Brand New Bok' (sic) in 1973 - and, child that I am, it still raises a titter after all these years. And as Frankie Howerd would doubtlessly have said, 'Never resist a titter - you never know when another will come your way'.
The SE5A was a major British fighter from WW1 - the 'Spitfire' of its day. A great aircraft, but completely unfunny in every respect. I haven't read a Biggles story for many decades, and I dread to think how politically incorrect those novels from the 1930s must now be.
Monastir was founded on the ruins of the Punic–Roman city of Ruspina.
The city features a well preserved Ribat, built by the Abbaside's caliph Harun ar-Raschid in the year 796, that was used to scan the sea for hostile ships.
Several ulema came to stay in the Ribat of this peaceful city for contemplation.
The Ribat was also one of the filming locations for Monty Python's Life Of Brian.
Since I don't want to show two lavender photos in a row, I'll stick with the brilliant and unforgettable Monty Python's "And now for something completely different...".
If you enjoy swimming in natural bodies of water, you've probably encountered this insect, as they frequent them a lot in the summer.
Of course, they don't usually hunt humans, but rather suck the blood of cattle or horses (hence the name).
But when so much human skin is exposed at swimming lakes, they probably can't resist. Besides, they tend to be near water in the summer anyway, as that's where they lay their eggs.
As with mosquitoes, it's only the female horseflies that suck blood, while the males feed on flower nectar.
By the way, they've caught me several times while swimming and even while riding.
Da ich nicht zwei Lavendelfotos hintereinander zeigen möchte, halte ich es mit dem genialen und unvergesslichen Monty Python "Und nun zu etwas ganz anderem ...".
Wenn Ihr gern in natürlichen Gewässeren baden geht, dann seid Ihr diesem Insekt bestimmt schon begegnet, denn dort sind sie im Sommer viel unterwegs.
Natürlich jagen sie in der Regel keine Menschen sondern saugen dass Blut von Rindern oder Pferden (daher der Name.
Doch wenn an Badeseen so viel menschliche Haut frei gelegt wird, können sie wohl nicht widerstehen. Außerdem sind sie im Sommer sowieso gerade in Gewässernähe unterwegs, da sie hier Ihre Eier ablegen.
Wie bei den Mücken, so sind es auch bei den Pferdebremsen ausschließlich die Weibchen, die Blut saugen während sich die Männchen von Blütennecktar ernähren.
Mich haben sie übrigens schon mehrfach beim Schwimmen aber auch schon beim Reiten erwischt.
Nobody expects the "Spanish Inquisition".
The Spanish Inquisition was a Catholic tribunal that operated in Spain and its colonies from 1478 for about three centuries. It was established by Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon.
"The Spanish Inquisition" is an episode and recurring segment in the British sketch comedy TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus, specifically series 2 episode 2 (first broadcast 22 September 1970), that satirises the Spanish Inquisition. The sketches are notable for the catchphrase, "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!", which has been frequently quoted and become an Internet meme.
To the tune of Monty Python's Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam.
Reading my RoadRunner Magazine there was a story of a couple riding the great, casual county roads of Wisconsin. The wife entertained them by chanting either Cows, cows, etc etc or Spam, spam etc. as they rode on by.
Guess what I thought about while cruising in my rental car...
Here the county road inhabitants are swallowed up by the ever-present ground cover.
Castle Stalker aka ah, the famous "Castle A-a-a-argh" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail! It's a classic moment in comedy history. The castle is humorously named after the last words of the castle's builder, who died while carving the name. This scene is a perfect example of Monty Python's unique blend of absurdity and wit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLjxXa9Izzc
As they used to say on Monty Python's Flying Circus "And now for something completely different..."
Mid-afternoon sun, backlit, blown out sky.
I'm not done with the Maritimes trip, but figured it was time for "something completely different" as they said on Monty Python's Flying Circus. So this is Miss Katy in her red dress, before she put on her "bilious green" as my late friend Frank Tribbey called it. That's him on the far right, talking with the service track personnel. The Missouri Kansas Texas was going through a transition, from years of decay to a phoenix-like revival, which finally culminated in acquisition by the Union Pacific. Denison was an important yard and mechanical facility, as well as an important point for re-arranging their passenger trains that ran between St.Louis/Kansas City and Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Houston. The passenger trains ended finally in 1965, and the Katy almost ended as well, but heroic efforts, underway at this time, revived the railroad.
I described this idea and process yesterday in my picture "Camera Lucida". This is not quite Marcel Duchamp's moustache on the Mona Lisa en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.H.O.O.Q. but I did make use of our bust of William Shakespeare. It is the sort of thing Terry Gilliam would have done in Monty Python's Flying Circus.
I think not. Taking a break from wood cutting---the manliest of manly activities (despite what Monty Python's "Lumberjack" song would lead you to believe).
The Ministry of Silly Walks was a comedy sketch in a 1970 episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_of_Silly_Walks A deadpan John Cleese dressed in a suit and bowler hat walks in a bizarre high-stepping manner. I found this old photo on Flickr depicting him: www.flickr.com/photos/mwm4444/7889666446/in/photolist Anyway, you can probably see why this high-stepping Corncrake reminded me of that sketch. This was taken in the back garden of the place we were staying on Iona this spring.
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This is dear.eRic of Mokum, Amsterdam.
dear.eRic: would you stand up please.
(nothing happens)
dear.eRic has learnt the first lesson of not being seen: not to be seen.
However he has chosen a very obvious piece of cover.
adaptation of © Monty Python's Flying Circus, episode 24: Not Being Seen
Relax, don't do it.
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Listen and enjoy: Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax (Official Video)
Completely relevant today with stupid Brexit:
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?... - Monty Python's Life of Brian
(BTW, if you voted Brexit and make a pro-Brexit comment, it'll be deleted).
(As Halloween approaches ... 😨💀 After the Monty Python's throat-cutting rabbit ... Here is "the" squirrel killer. "Descendant of Nosferatu.) Je me suis enfuit après. (I ran away after.).😂
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It snowed yesterday and I was fooling around with the camera ... these are my new blue suede running shoes. Whenever I wear them, the Shoe Follower from Monty Python's 'Life of Brian' comes to mind.
Ofcom estimated that 44.6 million UK people may have received scam calls and text messages during just the three months of last summer, with 2% of recipients being duped by them.
Using the word “spam” to describe pesky messages came from the TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus. A sketch in one of the episodes featured Vikings who passionately chant about Spam, the brand name for canned, processed meat.
Monty Python - Spam:
This shot of the Old State House in Boston brings back memories of the great opening scene in Monty Python's the Meaning of Life'.
The film begins with a stand-alone 17-minute supporting feature entitled The Crimson Permanent Assurance (directed by Gilliam). A group of elderly office clerks in a small accounting firm rebel against their emotionlessly efficient, yuppie corporate masters. They commandeer their building, turn it into a pirate ship, and sail into a large financial district, where they raid and overthrow a large multinational corporation.
In reality, the Old State House completes an incredible 250 year history of American architecture in one shot. Built in 1713, it was the seat of the Massachusetts General Court until 1798, and is the oldest surviving public building in Boston.
Wikipedia: Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBE was an Irish actor, comedian, writer, musician, poet, and playwright. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, Milligan was born in British Colonial India, where he spent his childhood, relocating in 1931 to live and work the majority of his life in the United Kingdom. Disliking his first name, he began to call himself "Spike" after hearing the band Spike Jones and his City Slickers on Radio Luxembourg.
Milligan was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the characters Eccles and Minnie Bannister. He was the earliest-born and last surviving member of the Goons. Milligan parlayed success with The Goon Show into television with Q5, a surreal sketch show credited as a major influence on the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Milligan wrote and edited many books, including Puckoon (1963) and a seven-volume autobiographical account of his time serving during the Second World War, beginning with Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1971). He also wrote comical verse, with much of his poetry written for children, including Silly Verse for Kids (1959).
"The Ministry of Silly Walks" is a sketch from the Monty Python comedy troupe's television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, season 2, episode 1, which is entitled "Face the Press". The episode first aired at some point in 1970. A shortened version of the sketch was performed for Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. This sketch involves John Cleese as a bowler hatted civil servant in a fictitious British government ministry responsible for developing silly walks through grants. Cleese, throughout the sketch, walks in a variety of silly ways. It is these various silly walks, more than the dialogue, that has earned the sketch its popularity. Cleese has cited the physical comedy of Max Wall, probably in character as Professor Wallofski, as important to its conception.
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The Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster in London. Its red-brick facade dominates the west side of Cambridge Circus behind a small plaza near the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road. The Palace Theatre seats 1,400.
Richard D'Oyly Carte, producer of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, commissioned the theatre in the late 1880s. It was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt and intended to be a home of English grand opera. The theatre opened as the "Royal English Opera House" in January 1891 with a lavish production of Arthur Sullivan's opera Ivanhoe. Although this ran for 160 performances, followed briefly by André Messager's La Basoche, Carte had no other works ready to fill the theatre. He leased it to Sarah Bernhardt for a season and sold the opera house within a year at a loss. It was then converted into a grand music hall and renamed the Palace Theatre of Varieties, managed successfully by Charles Morton. In 1897, the theatre began to screen films as part of its programme of entertainment. In 1904, Alfred Butt became manager and continued to combine variety entertainment, including dancing girls, with films. Herman Finck was musical director at the theatre from 1900 until 1920. The Marx Brothers appeared at the theatre in 1922, performing selections from their Broadway shows.
In 1925, the musical comedy No, No, Nanette opened at the Palace Theatre, followed by other musicals, for which the theatre became known. The Marx Brothers appeared at the theatre in 1931, performing selections from their Broadway shows. The Sound of Music ran for 2,385 performances at the theatre, opening in 1961. Jesus Christ Superstar ran from 1972 to 1980, and Les Misérables played at the theatre for nineteen years, beginning in 1985. In 1983, Andrew Lloyd Webber purchased and by 1991 had refurbished the theatre. Monty Python's Spamalot played there from 2006 until January 2009, and Priscilla Queen of the Desert opened in March 2009 and closed in December 2011. Between February 2012 and June 2013, the Palace hosted a production of Singin' in the Rain.
From June 2016 the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ran at the theatre until performances were suspended in March 2020 owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. The play returned to the stage on 14 October 2021, after a 19-month break. [Wikipedia]
"BRIAN: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't NEED to follow ME, you don't NEED to follow ANYBODY! You've got to think for yourselves! You're ALL individuals!
THE CROWD (in unison): Yes! We're all individuals!
BRIAN: You're all different!
THE CROWD (in unison): Yes, we ARE all different!
MAN IN CROWD: I'm not... "
~from Monty Python's Life of Brian
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Welcome to Blairskaith Muir, where the farm animals appear to be able to speak Latin.
Interesting and funny graffiti tribute to Monty Python's "Life of Brian", suggesting that "Humans go home".
In a wonderful example of life imitating art, I think the Latin here is grammatically incorrect; this should be "homines ite domum" by my reckoning.
www.cultus.hk/Latin_vocab/noun3/homo.html
Now write it out 100 times....
"Romanes Eunt Domus" explained: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfH6gjxTTgE
While mama stayed in the river, her six ducklings decided something was very interesting on the dry river bed, so they all came aground....to be quickly surprised by a small, leashed dog and then they all ran very quickly back to join mama in the river. I had just re-watched Monty Python's Holy Grail so the phrase "run away, run away!" was playing in my head watching them retreat.
Yesterday Mags and I had the pleasure of the company of Blue Passacaglia, one of my Flickr contacts from Germany. We drove her through scenic Glendevon, enjoyed Monty Python's Castle Swamp/Anthrax (Castle Doune), and visited the Scottish Antiques Centre at Burn of Cambus. We then made friends with Hamish, the giant highland cow at Kilmahog. In the beautiful Trossachs mountain region, we saw Lochs Vennachar, Katrine and Achray. We then photographed birds of prey at Aberfoyle, had a sandwich on the banks of the river at Callander, watching the gulls and ducks. On the way home we saw and patted Clydesdale and Shetland Pony foals at Dunning. Apart from that we didn't do much, just talked and took photos. :0)) Thanks for a nice day out my friend.