Just the right amount of Japan - A post

ZOMBIE USER 7833 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 7833** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 5:57 pm

I think his comic was just the words "Taa Daa!"... which isn't really a very good comic.

ZOMBIE USER 9264 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 9264** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 6:00 pm

I dunno, I kinda chuckled...wait, that's just the Turkey Day trytophans...or how ever the hell they're spelled...

*zzzzz*

MiniFoo · Post by **MiniFoo** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 6:45 pm

*heh heh*

The comic's for tomorrow...

And it's ready!!!

Saganaki · Post by **Saganaki** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 7:04 pm

mmm.... turkey coma...

Smoot · Post by **Smoot** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 7:20 am

oh dear. i read this thread about an hour or two ago, and i still have "i'm a lumberjack" stuck in my head. weeeee o_O

Melancholy Chinese · Post by **Melancholy Chinese** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 7:52 am

All right all right, what's all this then! Get on with it or I'll bite you.

F'TANG F'TANG!

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 7:59 am

Cut down a tree with a herring? It can't be done!

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 8:16 am

I watched that things first in... hm, what year was it? 86'-87', I think.
Why isn't John Cleeze apearing in "History of balooning"?

Odd1 · Post by **Odd1** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 8:25 am

Eep! I wasn't even born until '87

It looks like I have missed a classic worth seeing!

ZOMBIE USER 9264 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 9264** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 11:35 am

'87!?

Uh oh. You're gonna regret having mentioned that. Here come the wise-cracking hoardes...

ZOMBIE USER 10963 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 10963** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 12:26 pm

Everyone who said her avatar was cute is now a pedophile pervert.

Way to go, perverts.

ZOMBIE USER 7833 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 7833** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 2:01 pm

Hey, that's enough out of you, Mr. I-don't-watch-Monty-Python.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 2:02 pm

So, 15, right? Yeah, you did miss the show worth watching, unless if you've seen reruns or something.

Odd1 · Post by **Odd1** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 2:29 pm

I am most certainly familiar with Monty Python! It's one of the funniest shows ever created!

But I've never seen the episode with the forementioned lumberjack song. Did someone post the title yet by any chance? I'll try to download it.

ZOMBIE USER 10963 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 10963** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 2:36 pm

Isn't that "The Holy Grail" movie? I never saw, either, but it's all I hear about when someone mentions that movie.

ZOMBIE USER 7833 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 7833** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 2:38 pm

I have every episode of Flying Circus on DVD...

The infamous Lumber Jack song originally aired on Episode 9, which was called "The Ant, an Introduction", but it's far easier to find in the movie "And Now For Something Completely Different", which is sort of a "Best of" Monty Python. (Though it doesn't have the Spanish Inquisition...)

MiniFoo · Post by **MiniFoo** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 3:34 pm

JasterW wrote:I have every episode of Flying Circus on DVD...

The infamous Lumber Jack song originally aired on Episode 9, which was called "The Ant, an Introduction", but it's far easier to find in the movie "And Now For Something Completely Different", which is sort of a "Best of" Monty Python. (Though it doesn't have the Spanish Inquisition...)

You lucky bastard...

"NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!"

ZOMBIE USER 9264 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 9264** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 7:02 pm

On the top ten list of things 665 hates:

-People who think quoting Monty Python is witty.

Well damn. There goes my wit.

Saganaki · Post by **Saganaki** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 7:08 pm

You know, I don't think I've ever met another 665 reader online. Odd, that.

ZOMBIE USER 7833 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 7833** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 8:33 pm

Y'know, by that argument, quoting anything isn't really witty. True wit, of course, lies in originality, and as such you aren't actually making it up yourself, you're just regurgitating stuff you've heard from someone else. People do this all day long with obscure things they've heard other people say, the difference is when it's something like Monty Python, everyone's perfectly aware of the fact that the person saying it... isn't being original at all. But at least they aren't passing it off as their own work.

I'm constantly amazed by how often I see jokes stolen almost directly from a Monty Python sketch, and changed just enough to where it was instantly recognizable. There was a Nickelodeon commercial that bastardized the Spanish Inquisition gag in such a way that it actually began my cycle of losing all respect for that network. I'll take someone who quotes, doing an impression of true wit than someone who's trying to change it to something else and pass it as wit of their own.