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Was watching Monty Python tonight, it has been many years and I have to say not all the humour is as timeless as it seemed when I was 16. That said, at the very end, in the very last sketch, "Upper-Class Twit of the Year has an MGB and an MG Midget. Neither redeemed the sketch but, both looked lovely.
 
Last night we watched a movie on Amazon Prime which starred John Cleese. It's a movie we'd seen years before, and when I saw it was available on Amazon Prime, we decided to watch it again. The movie is called "Clockwise" and is about a punctuality-obsessed school headmaster (Cleese) who is nominated to be the Head-head master or something at some gathering of headmasters in a town a few hours away. The fun begins when he misses his train for the town where the event is to be held. His wife, who dropped him off at the station, assumes he's made the train and drives off (just as he come running out of the station to catch her). The hilarity begins in ernest when he talks a young female student into driving him to the event band the get terribly lost. If you like Cleese, I recommend this movie.
 
I agree about some of those sketches not being as "funny" as they were when I first saw them. But ... considering how different television (and the rest of the world) are so different these days, maybe that explains the change.

But for the '60s and '70s, it really was "completely different".

Feed me enough scotch and I'll show you an old photo of me with long hair, flower shirt, and bell bottom pants. When my parents saw me, dad said "here's five dollars for a haircut".

Try to find a haircut for five dollars these days!

Tom
 
and for some even harder to find hair! :grin:
 
and what was the Wizard's name ...?
 
Some call him Tim?
 
GregW said:
Some call him Tim?
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DING DING DING DING DING - WE HAVE A WINNAH!

Bonus question: what is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

(those below a certain age will be clueless about that one ...)
 
NutmegCT said:
DING DING DING DING DING - WE HAVE A WINNAH!

Bonus question: what is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

(those below a certain age will be clueless about that one ...)
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African or European?
 
Well, we did add the carrot ...
 
This fits
 

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I used to watch it on PBS years ago too. One thing I always noticed, you needed to have some knowledge of 60s/70s British politics, policy education and so on to get many of the references since they spent considerable time making fun of then society. Unfortunately topical humor tends not to age well as the driving information is lost.
 
Møøse ist nö laüfink mätter, as ani Svede kan tëll. Llamas, ön die øder hænd, ist nicht so tuff.
 
I think Ralph the Wonder Llama and all of his crack llama staff would take umbrage at the above statement.
 
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