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Not sure if you're being brilliantly disingenuous, but your aside at the end leads me to believe that there's a possibility you honestly don't get it. (That and the fact that I met someone in real life who'd never seen, nor even heard of, "The Princess Bride" two days ago, and who was being utterly serious with me.) It's funny because it refers to a running joke in Monty Python's The Holy Grail:
Scene 1, swallow carrying a coconut
And spoiler alert if you've not seen the movie, don't read this (it really is much better to experience the dénouement by watching the film): Scene 23, the Bridge of Death

Not sure if you're being brilliantly disingenuous, but your aside at the end leads me to believe that there's a possibility you honestly don't get it. (That and the fact that I met someone in real life who'd never seen, nor even heard of, "The Princess Bride" two days ago, and who was being utterly serious with me.) It's funny because it refers to a running joke in Monty Python's The Holy Grail:
Scene 1, swallow carrying a coconut
And spoiler alert if you've not seen the movie, don't read this (it really is much better to experience the dénouement by watching the film): Scene 23, the Bridge of Death

Not sure if you're being brilliantly disingenuous, but your aside at the end leads me to believe that there's a possibility you honestly don't get it. (That and the fact that I met someone in real life who'd never seen, nor even heard of, "The Princess Bride" two days ago, and who was being utterly serious with me.) It's funny because it refers to a running joke in Monty Python's The Holy Grail:
Scene 1, swallow carrying a coconut
And spoiler alert if you've not seen the movie, don't read this (it really is much better to experience the dénouement by watching the film): Scene 23, the Bridge of Death

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Chinese ever done for Tibet?

(Sorry. Sudden Life of Brian flashback.)

Go here and look up accountancy.

...in the world today, you'd better learn to love them, that's what I say. http://www.mwscomp.com/sounds/mp3/chinese.mp3

probably pining for the fjords.

And now...

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-02.htm

Someone mod that jerk down into oblivion. As pointed out in the headlines, France already has more laws restricting free speech online than other Western countries; and speaking of obscenity, we don't have Bill O'Reilly here.

Sometimes I wish I could set up a web page with Smell-O-Vision enabled, to fart in your general direction.

You mean This?

Four? For this gourd? Four?! Look at it. It's worth ten if it's worth a shekel.

Or this guy :^) (and for those who like Lego).

BRIAN: Good morning.
FOLLOWERS: A blessing! A blessing! A blessing!...
BRIAN: No. No, please! Please! Please listen. I've got one or two things to say.
FOLLOWERS: Tell us. Tell us both of them.
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!
FOLLOWERS: Yes, we're all individuals!
BRIAN: You're all different!
FOLLOWERS: Yes, we are all different!
DENNIS: I'm not.
ARTHUR: Shhhh.
FOLLOWERS: Shh. Shhhh. Shhh.
BRIAN: You've all got to work it out for yourselves!
FOLLOWERS: Yes! We've got to work it out for ourselves!
BRIAN: Exactly!
FOLLOWERS: Tell us more!
BRIAN: No! That's the point! Don't let anyone tell you what to do! Otherwise-- Ow! No!

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian-19.htm

Narrator: In the frozen land of nVidia, they were forced to eat 900 pages of ATI documentation.
Slashdot: Yay!

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian-07.htm

Ducks are birds, and birds are the last remnant dinosaurs, and dinosaurs and reptiles are related, but that doesn't mean ducks are reptiles.

SOLDIER #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.

ARTHUR and BLACK KNIGHT:

Aaah!, hiyaah!, etc.

[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's left arm off]

ARTHUR:

Now stand aside, worthy adversary.

BLACK KNIGHT:

'Tis but a scratch.

mind you that you should take care to choose the right artist to do this.

I did SANS GSEC in Amsterdam and can vouch for their training. You actually use your computer during Class unlike CISSP course which are pure book learning. They give you a pile of documentation to read and practice with. I do agree with the people who say get a spare box install linux and mess with it. You have to destroy the village in order to save it. Install it, break it, install it again...but when you are done you will have the strongest castle in the swamp: http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-14.htm

On the other hand, it could be said that the continual forking and rewriting of open source projects is like the tendency of radical left-wing groups in 1970s/1980s Britain (and elsewhere) to continually split into smaller and smaller pieces along ideological grounds, something the right- like them or not- seemed less inclined to do.

I was going to use an example from Alexei Sayle to illustrate this, but I can't find it, so I'll resort to the ever popular People's Front of Judea scene from "Life of Brian" instead. :-)

You should read it.

Life of Brian is a great movie. http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian-09.htm

You sound like a Monty Python sketch.

Follow the link ;o)

Romani Ite Domum x100

(with apologies to Monty Python)

ARTHUR: You fight with the strength of many men, Sir Knight. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. I seek the finest and the bravest knights in the land to join me in my court at Camelot. You have proved yourself worthy. Will you join me?

[pause]

ARTHUR: You make me sad. So be it. Come, Patsy.
BLACK KNIGHT (in monotone robot voice): None shall pass.
ARTHUR: What?
BLACK KNIGHT: None shall pass.
ARTHUR: I have no quarrel with you, good Sir Knight, but I must cross this bridge.
BLACK KNIGHT: Then you shall die.
ARTHUR: I command you, as King of the Britons, to stand aside!
BLACK KNIGHT: I move for no man.
ARTHUR: So be it!
ARTHUR and BLACK KNIGHT: Aaah!, hiyaah!, etc.
        [ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's left arm off]
ARTHUR: Now stand aside, worthy adversary.
BLACK KNIGHT: 'Tis but a scratch.
ARTHUR: A scratch? Your arm's off!
BLACK KNIGHT: No, it isn't.
ARTHUR: Well, what's that, then?
BLACK KNIGHT: I've had worse.
ARTHUR: You liar!
BLACK KNIGHT: Come on, you pansy!

        [clang]
        Huyah!
        [clang]
        Hiyaah!
        [clang]
        Aaaaaaaah!
        [ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's right arm off]

ARTHUR: Victory is mine!
        [kneeling]
        We thank Thee Lord, that in Thy mer--
BLACK KNIGHT: Hah!
        [kick]
        Come on, then.
ARTHUR: What?
BLACK KNIGHT: Have at you!
        [kick]
ARTHUR: Eh. You are indeed brave, Sir Knight, but the fight is mine.
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh, had enough, eh?
ARTHUR: Look, you stupid bastard. You've got no arms left.
BLACK KNIGHT: Yes, I have.
ARTHUR: Look!
BLACK KNIGHT: Just a surface wound.
        [kick]

etc.

Shamelessly ripped off from here: http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-04.htm

Well, of course, warfare isn't all fun. Right. Stop that! It's all very well to laugh at the Military, but, when one considers the meaning of life, it is a struggle between alternative viewpoints of life itself, and without the ability to defend one's own viewpoint against other perhaps more aggressive ideologies, then reasonableness and moderation could, quite simply, disappear. That is why we'll always need an army, and may God strike me down were it to be otherwise.

(Now for some marching up and down the square.)

History tells us the Romans forced the locals to speak Latin. Quod erat demonstrandum.

then it must be made of wood!

I think they're hoping for one thing - that the judges will get (too) pissed off and make a mistake.

Or, quoting from SCO's litigation strategy documents:

ARTHUR:
... And we'd better not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit's dynamite.

ROBIN:
Would it help to confuse it if we run away more?

ARTHUR:
Oh, shut up and go and change your armour

GALAHAD:
Let us taunt it! It may become so cross that it will make a mistake.

ARTHUR:
Like what?

GALAHAD:
Well... ooh.

No, but i'm fairly sure it was the Romans who were the first to be effectively trolled, however, in a classic early post: 'Romanes Eunt Domus'

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian-08.htm

That's funny, the easter bunny paid me a visit shortly have that post. He had huge sharp teeth and he could leap about!

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-21.htm

Reference for the Python-imparied

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/g-titles.htm

I'm not swedish, and my reply was an attempt to ... well, forget it, you're swedish, aren't you?

We hate the Chinese, don't we?

No. I like Chinese.

Obligatory: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit! ;)

You mean, like Brian?

Anonymous Coward is on a text based browser right now, so I have to log in to reply. Anyway, here's the philosopher's song: mp3 file.
You crappy mods should listen to it. Maybe it'll help your sense of humour!

Obligatory:

FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN: I want to be one.
REG: What?
STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'.
REG: What?!
LORETTA: It's my right as a man.
JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
LORETTA: I want to have babies.
REG: You want to have babies?!
LORETTA: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But... you can't have babies.
LORETTA: Don't you oppress me.
REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: [crying]
JUDITH: Here! I-- I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG: What's the point?
FRANCIS: What?
REG: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can't have babies?!
FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.

You might want to obtain government backing to help develop your walk.

For a summary of all the stories that would qualify for that section read here

Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Randoids are the fucking Judean Anarcho-Capitalist Objectivist's Front.

the aqueduct.

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian-09.htm

I find it too bad to still see so many on the tracks of faulty and damaging prescriptive grammar proselytizing. It's like pushing a failed political ideology long after such an ideology has proven itself untenable (Communists, please raise your hands, yes you know who you are). Anecdotal experience has shown that most prescriptive grammarians don't even know the source of their beloved rules. Allow me to enlighten. Most rules of proper English usage and spelling were developed during the 1600s to 1700s. The need to do this stemmed partially from the understandable need for a consolidating influence on the many various dialects (yes I said dialects) of the English language. It is instructive to look at the roughly comparable example of the Chinese Empire. When the Chinese faced the problem of spreading official law and philosophy throughout polyglot masses, they realized they could never force every citizen to abandon their perfectly functional native tongue for the "Emperor's own". Instead they enforced what they could, writing. They codified and standardized their ideograms and learned people used the official imperial version of the script. Even if the local populace used words differently in their dialect from the written form, it was considered proper and correct to write one way and speak another. Because of China's vast influence throughout Asia, the remnants of this system of education and learning are still with us. The Japanese still use Kanji, Koreans have Hanja and until the French introduced a heavily modified Latin based system, the Vietnamese used Hantu. Now, this analogy is a bit loose, but more or less accurate. The solution was to thus model English grammar on the language of the West's version of China, the language of the Romans -- Latin! Yes, that is correct, Latin. A few language busybodies (such as Bishop Robert Lowth ) had the bright idea that we should take principles from Latin grammar and apply them to a largely Germanic language. This is why we have rules fraught with so many errors and awkward "sounding" results. Most people of decent linguistic education laugh at these rules when they are brought up under such flags as "correct English" or "proper usage". This aged and archaic Enlightenment linguistic philosophy has resulted in such preposterous and often humorous rules such as: "don't split an infinitive", "don't end a sentence with a preposition", etc. Creating rules for one language based on rules for another is akin to throwing a woman in a river to see if she is a witch. Due to the same group of ignorant prescriptivists (http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/writin g/grammar.html), spelling in turn became a complete disaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_spelling). I personally attribute much of the awkwardness of modern English spelling to the stubborn refusal of prescriptivists to introduce a letter for the schwa sound (which FYI is statistically the single most common vowel sound in the English language yet we do not have a single letter for it). Every vowel is at some point used as a placeholder for the schwa sound in unstressed syllables. Ask yourself sometime what the homophonic overlap is between any two vowels (I mean, common, the letter "o" in "women" has the same sound as "i" in "is" for goodness sake!). That's just for the vowels! English consonants are an absolute disaster. There are many reasons for this, most often attributed to the incredible number of loan words in the English lexicon and the representation the source languages uses for those sounds. Even more distressing are the wide variety of representations for common homophones. Take for example the common construct "ough". Let's play a game and see how many different sounds "ough" can represent: "cough", "rough", "through"

I'm really sorry everyone, but a story like this is just begging for it.

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-02.htm

FreeBSD:
I'm not dead!
CART MASTER:
What?
CUSTOMER:
Nothing. Here's your ninepence.
FreeBSD:
I'm not dead!
CART MASTER:
'Ere. He says he's not dead!
CUSTOMER:
Yes, he is.
FreeBSD:
I'm not!
CART MASTER:
He isn't?
CUSTOMER:
Well, he will be soon. Netcraft confirms it.
FreeBSD:
I'm getting better!

until they discover evidence of the existence of Biggus Dickus?

It would be funnier if they would taunt each other like Britain and France.