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January 17 - Orange
Candles have been a popular thing for my daughter to read and eat by these days. Along with them there lies a new card game we have yet to try out.
Taken for the Jules Photo Challenge
Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.
Monty Python
On the way to Thorpe In The Hollow near Burnsall, Yorkshire Dales. They weren't very good guardians unlike the one in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Then again he failed.
An ambling white rhino from the Erindi Game Reserve in central Namibia.
In the highly unlikely case the name of the image does not ring any bells: youtu.be/FWBUl7oT9sA?feature=shared
Been out sick all week so I haven't had the energy to even think about lifting my camera. I was trying something else but found my Monty Python Black Knight doll and knew the opportunity couldn't be missed! If you haven't seen this skit from Holy Grail check it out here
especially if they are the crackermakers and winemakers too....
I have never seen a Monty Python film - I don't know why - both my brothers can quote these movies from beginning to end. Something got lost in translation for me. My favorite laughs came from Carol Burnett show (Harvey Korman & Tim Conway), Mary Tyler Moore (Ted Knight and Gavin MacLeod), SNL (Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Bill Murray, John Belushi). Oh, and of course, The Muppet Show (Kermit, Fozzi Bear, Miss PIggy, Swedish Chef)
FGR - Monty Python
Explore: #92
Not too happy with this one, but I thought I'd fire it up anyway.
I had planned this shot, however I had planned to take it when the tide was IN. Sadly the tide was pretty far out, and although the wading seabirds seemed fairly happy, I wasn't.
There are plus sides though - the sunset happened. A few minutes before this was a wee sleet shower, but there was a hint of the clouds clearing a bit, so I stuck around. I also love the effect the exposure had on the clouds here, and the slight warmth the foreground has picked up.
As Arnold says..."I'll be back"
Canon Eos 5D, 17-40L at 25mm, f16, 9 minute exposure with the B&W ten stop filter and a hi-tech 0.9 hard grad.
This could probably have done with another 3 or 4 minutes before it was properly cooked, but the under expsoure adds some mood to it.
John Cleese (from Monty Python and Pink Panther) getting married in Montreal @ Just For Laughs Festival (Juste Pour Rire) on July 26th, 2009.
Headlining the Just For Laughs Festival (along with Bill Cosby, Lewis Black, Martin Short, Whoopi Goldberg, Russell Peters, Jim Gaffigan) , John Cleese hosted the All-Star Galas in Montreal.
Due to illness, John had to cancel his first appearance and was replaced by Lewis Black (who did a brilliant job). The Festival authorities was kind enought to give those attendiees free tickets to the another John Cleese show.
So apparently, I'll be soon on 'Comedy Central', with my 1 second of fame - in the TV audience. The video camera kept flying over my head. Now I know how 'Video killed the radio star'.
Click for more photos from the Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival.
Wensleydale: Good morning, sir.
Mousebender: Good Morning. I was sitting in the public library on Thurmon Street just now, skimming through 'Rogue Herries' by Horace Walpole, when suddenly I came over all peckish.
Wensleydale: Peckish, sir?
Mousebender: Esurient.
Wensleydale: Eh?
Mousebender: (broad Yorkshire) Eee I were all hungry, like!
Wensleydale: Oh, hungry.
Mousebender: (normal accent) In a nutshell. So I thought to myself, 'a little fermented curd will do the trick'. So I curtailed my Walpolling activities, sallied forth and infiltrated your place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles. (smacks his lips)
Wensleydale: Come again?
Mousebender: (broad northern accent) I want to buy some cheese.
Wensleydale: Oh, I thought you were complaining about the music!
Mousebender: (normal voice) Heaven forbid. I am one who delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse.
Wensleydale: Sorry?
Mousebender: I like a nice dance - you're forced to.
Quick cut to a Viking.
Viking (broad Northern accent): Anyway.
Cut back to cheese shop.
Wensleydale: Who said that?
Mousebender: (normal voice) Now my good man, some cheese, please.
Wensleydale: Yes certainly, sir. What would you like?
Mousebender: Well, how about a little Red Leicester.
Wensleydale: I'm, afraid we're fresh out of Red Leicester, sir.
Mousebender: Oh, never mind. How are you on Tilsit?
Wensleydale: Never at the end of the week, sir. Always get it fresh first thing on Monday.
Mousebender: Tish tish. No matter. Well, four ounces of Caerphilly, then, if you please, stout yeoman.
Wensleydale: Ah well, it's been on order for two weeks, sir, I was expecting it this morning.
Mousebender: Yes, it's not my day, is it? Er, Bel Paese?
Wensleydale: Sorry.
Mousebender: Red Windsor?
Wensleydale: Normally, sir, yes, but today the van broke down.
Mousebender: Ah. Stilton?
Wensleydale: Sorry.
Mousebender: Gruyere? Emmental?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Any Norwegian Jarlsberger?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Liptauer?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Lancashire?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: White Stilton?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Danish Blue?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Double Gloucester?
Wensleydale: ...No.
Mousebender: Cheshire?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Any Dorset Blue Vinney?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Brie, Roquefort, Pont-l'Évêque, Port Salut, Savoyard, Saint-Paulin, Carre-de-L'Est, Boursin, Bresse-Bleu, Perle de Champagne, Camembert?
Wensleydale: Ah! We do have some Camembert, sir.
Mousebender: You do! Excellent.
Wensleydale: It's a bit runny, sir.
Mousebender: Oh, I like it runny.
Wensleydale: Well as a matter of fact it's very runny, sir.
Mousebender: No matter. No matter. Hand over le fromage de la Belle France qui s'apelle Camembert, s'il vous plaît.
Wensleydale: I think it's runnier than you like it, sir.
Mousebender: (smiling grimly) I don't care how excrementally runny it is. Hand it over with all speed.
Wensleydale: Yes, sir. (bends below counter and reappears) Oh...
Mousebender: What?
Wensleydale: The cat's eaten it.
Mousebender: Has he?
Wensleydale: She, sir.
Mousebender: Gouda?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Edam?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Caithness?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Smoked Austrian?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Sage Darby?
Wensleydale: No, sir.
Mousebender: You do have some cheese, do you?
Wensleydale: Certainly, sir. It's a cheese shop, sir. We've got...
Mousebender: No, no, no, don't tell me. I'm keen to guess.
Wensleydale: Fair enough.
Mousebender: Wensleydale:.
Wensleydale: Yes, sir?
Mousebender: Splendid. Well, I'll have some of that then, please.
Wensleydale: Oh, I'm sorry sir, I thought you were referring to me, Mr
Wensleydale:.
Mousebender: Gorgonzola?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Parmesan?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Mozzarella?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Pippo Crème?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Any Danish Fynbo?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Czechoslovakian Sheep's Milk Cheese?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?
Wensleydale: Not today sir, no.
(pause)
Mousebender: Well let's keep it simple, how about Cheddar?
Wensleydale: Well, I'm afraid we don't get much call for it around these parts.
Mousebender: Not call for it? It's the single most popular cheese in the world!
Wensleydale: Not round these parts, sir.
Mousebender: And pray what is the most popular cheese round these parts?
Wensleydale: Ilchester, sir.
Mousebender: I see.
Wensleydale: Yes, sir. It's quite staggeringly popular in the manor, squire.
Mousebender: Is it.
Wensleydale: Yes sir, it's our number-one seller.
Mousebender: Is it.
Wensleydale: Yes sir.
Mousebender: Ilchester, eh?
Wensleydale: Right.
Mousebender: OK, I'm game. Have you got any, he asked, expecting the answer no?
Wensleydale: I'll have a look, sir...nnnnnnooooooooo.
Mousebender: It's not much of a cheese shop really, is it?
Wensleydale: Finest in the district, sir.
Mousebender: And what leads you to that conclusion?
Wensleydale: Well, it's so clean.
Mousebender: Well, it's certainly uncontaminated by cheese.
Wensleydale: You haven't asked me about Limberger, sir.
Mousebender: Is it worth it?
Wensleydale: Could be.
Mousebender: OK, have you...will you shut that bloody dancing up! (the music stops)
Wensleydale: (to dancers) Told you so.
Mousebender: Have you got any Limberger?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: No, that figures. It was pretty predictable, really. It was an act of purest optimism to pose the question in the first place. Tell me something, do you have any cheese at all?
Wensleydale: Yes, sir.
Mousebender: Now I'm going to ask you that question once more, and if you say 'no' I'm going to shoot you through the head. Now, do you have any cheese at all?
Wensleydale: No.
Mousebender: (shoots him) What a senseless waste of human life.
Anyone see this?
Monument for a Dead Parrot, by John Readon.
Devonport House, Greenwich.
Mr. Praline: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!
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Taking this photo I couldn't help but wondering if the gentleman on the right was a member of The Royal Society For......
(see video)
Anyone that can explain the title can feel smug about themselves.
FGR- Bench Monday
TRP - Snortypeople
TOTW - Alter-Ego (not mine)
In a scene from the BBC TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus John Cleese demonstrates some athletic footwork.
Submitted to Monthly Scavenger Hunt - Oktober 2009 ("Have I got a big nose, mum?")
Back in my childhood days I loved sticking those maple seeds on my nose...
Image source:
www.flickr.com/photos/montypython/4074525329/
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Three unspoken blockers that prevent professors from teaching open source community participation
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And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy." And the Lord did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large ...
And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."
a wonderful market in the center of the little town of L'Isle sur la Sorgue.
(I just got back... and now for something completely different... I'm off to BALLS this evening)
Sometimes, a cup of coffee is not enough and you must have the entire coffee pot!
I'll attempt the 52 self portratis a year beggining on the last day of 2012 to add a bit of irony! Anyways, this is pic # 1.. Hope it's enjoyable.
"I kissed the Lord and I liked it,
the taste of his cherry chapstick..."
"...it felt so wrong - it felt so right..."
I Kissed a Girl (Katy Perry)
"Let us praise God. Oh Lord, oooh you are so big. So absolutely huge. Gosh, we’re all really impressed down here I can tell you. Forgive us, O Lord, for this dreadful toadying and barefaced flattery. But you are so strong and, well, just so super. Fantastic. Amen." (Michael Palin as the chaplain in The Meaning of Life)
TOTW - 10 Commandments
MSH - 9 - "So absolutely Huge" Monty Python video clip here