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It's "Ni."

From the Logician

Silly Walks Director: Mr. Stagback, the very real problem is what I find out. You see, there's defense, education, housing, health, social security, silly walks. They're all supposed to get the same. But last year the government spent less on Silly Walks than they did on industrial organisation. We're supposed to get 348 millions pounds a year to cover our entire Silly Walks proposal. Coffee?

Silly Walks Applicant: Yes, please.

Silly Walks Director: Hello, uh, Mrs. Twolumps, uhm, could we have two cups of coffee, please.

Mrs. Twolumps: Yes, Mr. Teabag.

Silly Walks Director: Mad as a hatter. You see, the Israelis they have a man who can take his own left leg off and swallow it with every alternate step, whereas the Japanese, cunning electronically obsessed little...

What, do I really need to explain?

Brian Cohen was, however, the eponymous hero of Monty Python's Life of Brian. Bloody Romans.

The moderators are clearly culturally lacking.

So PLEASE don't mention Java Applets. You're likely to get stoned for it.

Look. I-- I'd had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was "That piece of applet was good enough for Java".

Too bad I can't mod the story flaim bait

Splitter.

this sounds like The legendary Black Beast of Aaauugh
http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/jpgs/blackbea. jpg

Hang on, someone calling himself my king is ordering me to be quiet.

But you're fooling yourself. We're actually living in a dictatorship.

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> the outer spiral arm

I daresay you're familiar with this Python ditty.

> either he's an extremely inefficient

Well.... it's difficult to make assertions about inefficiency concerning God. If it costs him nothing to create, why not create a lot?

> we are just one life form of many

Hm, could be, dunno.

> the only technique he could use
> was a brute force semi-random

Possibly.

> I don't just come out and say
> "there cannot be a god"

Quite right.

> the god described by Christianity
> is not possible given the universe
> as it exists

Well... _not possible_, them's pretty strong words.

Concerning the "outer spiral arm" bit - yes, the universe is big and the earth is small. But an odd thing happended several thousand years ago - a fellow was born under odd circumstances, made all sorts of outlandish claims about being God, did many very interesting things, and then died and came back to life again. This gave many people pause for thought, and still does to this day.

So if California floats... like wood. And wood burns... like a witch... it's a witch!
Burn it! Burn it! Burn it! Burn! Burn!...

Bring out your dead!
[clang]

and here's the rest of the scene.

Talk about rewriting history. Everyone knows that it was a rabbit/

Yeah, they send out this guy.

Great, now I've got the Crimson Permanent Assurance song playing in my head...

Brian: Can I join your group?

Reg: No. Piss off!

Brian: I didn't want to sell this stuff. It's only a job. I hate the Romans as much as anybody.

Judith: Are you sure?

Brian: Oh, dead sure! I hate the Romans already.

Reg: Listen. If you really wanted to join the P.F.J., you'd have to really hate the Romans.

Brian: I do!

Reg: Oh yeah, how much?

Brian: A lot!

Reg: Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean People's Front.

PFJ.: Yeah...Splitters!

PFJ: And the Judean Popular People's Front.

Francis: And the Judean Popular People's Front.

PFJ: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Splitters. Splitters...

Loretta: And the People's Front of Judea.

PFJ: Yeah. Splitters. Splitters...

Reg: What?

Loretta: The People's Front of Judea, splitters.

Reg: We're the People's Front of Judea!

Loretta: I thought we were the Popular Front.

Reg: PEOPLE'S FRONT!

Francis: Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg?

Reg: He's over there.

PFJ: SPLITTER!

TIM: I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it? Well, it's always the same. I always tell them--

Call me a nit-picker, but Black Knight clearly states "NONE shall pass", although it's still a likely Tolkien reference. Full description of the scene is here.

For those just down off the tree, the original post talks about Monty Python's 1974 movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The movie was recently mentioned by soon-to-be-nearly-knight Bill Gates as being his only source of information on how/why knighthood is given.

Gates references Monty Python on his impending knighthood.
Gates, sword, knight, Monty Python, a very certain scene comes to mind.
"Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!"

I assume you haven't watched Monty Python alot?

reference

If you are offended, it's your fault, fuck you. For example, nothing you can say can possibly offend me.

Oh yeah? You obviously haven't met the Knights of Ni

NI!
NI!

The relevant pieces in the script :
A swallow carrying a coconut? and The Bridge of Death

The relevant pieces in the script :
A swallow carrying a coconut? and The Bridge of Death

Dear Mr The Monster,

I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! ...

but the contries in Europe are far from being a single contry.

Perhaps the term anarcho-syndicalist commune would be more accurate?

...how would the system react (even one with a 'brain') to people who participated in the Ministry of Silly Walks?

An editorial in today's NY Times notes that one of the ways the TIA will track people is by their walk. Observantly, Dowd parallels this to Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks. Apparently, this method of detection can be overridden by wearing a long coat.

I feel safer already.

Most dangerous rabbit of all? Don't you mean this one?

Dancing and singing "Bright Side of Life" while on the crucifix. THAT is the appropriate Python for Easter.. Bright Side of Life .wav for ya
Have a look at the script, including some small pics of our friends up on their Roman Mounts

The deadliest rabbit ever (from Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

This patch, along with the fact that MS won't be releasing a patch for that recent gaping hole in NT4, reminds me of a scene...

(Read along in a mock British-imitating-French accent, ala the castle scene in Monty Python's Holy Grail)

Microsoft Engineer: We've got a problem here, chaps!
MS Users (All, Amongst Selves): Well, how about a patch then?
Microsoft Engineer: Uh, we've already got one, you see.
MS User 1: Are you sure he's got one?
MS User 2: He says they've already got one!
Microsoft Engineer: Oh, yes. It's very nice-a.
MS Engineers: [chuckling]
MS Users: Well, u-- um, can we come up and have a look?
MS Engineer: Of course not! You are clueless types-a!
MS Users: If you will not show us the patch, we shall switch all our systems to Linux!
MS Engineer: You don't frighten us, clueless pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Linux King, you and all your silly open source k-nnnnniggets. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt!
MS User 1: What a strange person.
MS User 2: Now look here, my good man--
MS Engineer: I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
MS Users: Is there someone else up there we could talk to?
MS Engineer: No. Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a! [sniff]

(With aplogies to Monty Python)
Script here.

What does obo mean?

Damn! You beat me to the reference!

And I was even going to link to it as well..

As soon as I saw "Libraries are 31337", I was immediately reminded of The Crimson Permanent Assurance.

Ooooh I can finally hack together my own version (GPLed naturally) of the infamous Venezuelan Beaver Cheese .

CHAIRMAN: ...Which brings us once again to the urgent realisation of just how much there is still left to own. Item six on the agenda: the meaning of life. Now, uh, Harry, you've had some thoughts on this.

HARRY: That's right. Yeah, I've had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and, uh, what we've come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One: people are not wearing enough hats. Two: matter is energy. In the universe, there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However, this soul does not exist ab initio, as orthodox Christianity teaches. It has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved, owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia. [pause]

BERT: What was that about hats, again?

HARRY: Oh, uh, people aren't wearing enough.

CHAIRMAN: Is this true?

EDMUND: Certainly. Hat sales have increased, but not pari passu, as our research initially--

BERT: But when you say 'enough', enough for what purpose?

GUNTHER: Can I just ask, with reference to your second point, when you say souls don't develop because people become distracted,... [rumble] ...has anyone noticed that building there before?

MICROSOFT:
Here's one.

APPLE:
I'm not dead!

CART MASTER:
'Ere. He says he's not dead!

MICROSOFT:
Yes, he is.

APPLE:
I'm not! I had a 40 million dollar profit last quarter!

CART MASTER:
He isn't?

MICROSOFT:
Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.

APPLE:
I'm getting better!

MICROSOFT:
No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.

To see the original: Bring out your dead.

Seriously, I think I made a bad bet.

(The rabbit of Caerbannog ): And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either 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.'

Regards, Ralph.

So when the bubble bursts there's going to be piles of cheap networking kit about. We just have to wait for the corporate world to go belly up. then all we need to do is lay our hands on the hardware that is no longer being used and we can build the new internet, with no ad's and a thrilling lack of spammers.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is only one group that can save us from this corporate hell. and that is the sharks of capitalism. at some point they are going to turn on all those tasty internet startups, and strip them of everything that isn't nailed down. So far we have seen the startup's getting one over on the financiers because they have managed to sell the idea that pure ideas have a value. however when the time comes for the financiers to rip the guts out of the company, they will find that what they have to sell is more than a little insubstantial. this may be why the bubble has not burst yet. the financiers see there being far too much chance that they will be left carrying the can for the inherant problems in internet company production. They have put vast ammounts of money in, and if one person panics, it might bring the whole system down.

Bring on the Crimson Permanent Assurance

I couldn't agree more. Criminalize masturbation NOW!

This is incredibly stupid.

At least you got one thing right.

Cheers,
-j.