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Thread: The Order Of The Stick: January
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2005-01-05, 08:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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2005-01-05, 08:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Glaive-dy glaive-dy glaive... Glaive-de glaive, wonderful glaive-glaive...
As for the Cheese Shop, it's something you should check out, at the very least. I'm sure you can check online and find out which of their various compilations to find it on, and then rent it at your local movie rentie place thing. (Unl;ess they're completely out of movies, which would be ironic, wouldn't it?)
In faaaaact, you can find a fraction of the sketch, animated, and using the audio track from the record, here: http://www.daminator.com/older.htmLurkaholic. Fetch me some more lurkahol.
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2005-01-05, 09:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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And googling on "Monty Python cheese shop" will instantly provide you with links to about a zillion transcriptions.
As will "Monty Python Spam", "Monty Python dead parrot" and "Monty Python Lumberjack Song", should you not be acquainted with any of those.The member of the Australian Society for the Encouragement and Propagation of Beards. - Custom avatar by Moonsinger. Technical assistance by Quasimodo.
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2005-01-05, 09:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Order Of The Stick: January
Originally Posted by Invariel
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2005-01-06, 01:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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The Kamikaze Highlands! I loved that skit!
And the one where the extraterrestrial blancmanges invaded Wimbleton and took over the whole of the Northlands. (The OOTS so needs to face an advanced blancmange.)Alignments are objective. Right and wrong are not.
Good: Will act to prevent harm to others even at personal cost.
Evil: Will seek personal benefit even if it causes harm to others.
Law: General, universal, and consistent trump specific, local, and inconsistent.
Chaos: Specific, local, and inconsistent trump general, universal, and consistent.
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2005-01-06, 02:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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what the heck's a blancmage?
"Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire." - Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved with a suitable application of high explosives.
"Time to throw the dice." - Mat Cauthon, Wheel of Time
"Nothing good can ever come from staying with normal people."
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2005-01-06, 02:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Some sort of white pudding.
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2005-01-06, 03:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ah, Monty Python -- there's nothing better for when you need a quick substitute for humour... ::)
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2005-01-06, 04:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ha! Python IS funny!
The Goon Show, now that's just plain weird. Talk about humour only the British could appreciate...The member of the Australian Society for the Encouragement and Propagation of Beards. - Custom avatar by Moonsinger. Technical assistance by Quasimodo.
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2005-01-06, 05:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Hello everybody! I just joined right now because I, too, had to tell Keith
how much I enjoy the comic...
In addition to the Python reference I seem to detect some references to
Steve Jacksons old 'Random Pole-arm Generation Table'. Am I right, or are they just both parodying Gary Gygax strange fascination with pole-arms?
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2005-01-06, 05:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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In the immortal words of the Giant himself...
"Who the hell is Keith"
<psst.... his name is Rich Burlew>Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.&&Courage is what stupid people say.
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2005-01-06, 05:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Originally Posted by SeanHeavyfoot
No... I'm pretty sure it's Keith... :)
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2005-01-06, 05:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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We are talking about Order of the Stick, are we not?
Order of the Stick = Rich Burlew
Perhaps you are thinking of Keith Baker, the maker of Ebberon.Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.&&Courage is what stupid people say.
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2005-01-06, 06:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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And why should we not tell Keith Baker how much we enjoy Order of the Stick?
Are you trying to keep it a secret or something?
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2005-01-06, 06:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Sean, either you're giving the pot another stir or you haven't read pp. 4-5 of this thread. :-)
- The former, I see. Right, carry on... :DThe member of the Australian Society for the Encouragement and Propagation of Beards. - Custom avatar by Moonsinger. Technical assistance by Quasimodo.
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2005-01-06, 06:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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And Banjo's back!!!
So Thor's really Thor Junior?
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2005-01-06, 06:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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YES, Banjo returns! Elan did the right thing, the Asgardean pantheon are a bunch of pansies! Not even in the same league as almighty Banjo.
Uh, Rich? When you say Church of Freya, do you mean the rat lady from Final Fantasy 9?
So Thor's really Thor Junior?"Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire." - Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved with a suitable application of high explosives.
"Time to throw the dice." - Mat Cauthon, Wheel of Time
"Nothing good can ever come from staying with normal people."
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2005-01-06, 06:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Originally Posted by pumpkinetics
- Snap, Knight13 :-)The member of the Australian Society for the Encouragement and Propagation of Beards. - Custom avatar by Moonsinger. Technical assistance by Quasimodo.
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2005-01-06, 06:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Sean, either you're giving the pot another stir or you haven't read pp. 4-5 of this thread.
- The former, I see. Right, carry on...Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.&&Courage is what stupid people say.
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2005-01-06, 06:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Tee hee ...
Just when my coworkers began to think I'm serious, the apperance of the Puppt Civil Liberties Union have me ROFL :-[
I guess all this OotS stuff is only here to discredit me, isn't it ? 8)Why should I use a sig ?
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2005-01-06, 06:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Originally Posted by Knight13
Either that or the little gray guy who was a bit stubborn about fixing that one sun, but I doubt that's the case."So when your back's up against the wall and there's no tomorrow, just take one day at a time and remember: the bigger they are... etcetera." - Jack O'Neill, Stargate SG-1 (S1, ep 04)
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2005-01-06, 07:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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No, Frey was the god of light in the Norse pantheon. Freya was his sister and was godess of love and fertility.
Actually, she was a bit more than that, but they tend to tone down that side of things nowdays.
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2005-01-06, 07:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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"But I like puppets."
Me too! Especially Banjo.
I had such a good laugh.You do realize that bringing people back from the dead is an act of utter evil and having the consent of the deceased only means you have an accomplice for your foul deed.&&&&-Shirwill Jack&&&&[currently NOT taking avatar requests]
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2005-01-06, 07:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Originally Posted by Arian
"Python's hilarious!"
"When?"
"Dead Parrot Sketch!"
"And why's that funny?"
"Because it's Python!"
"So when have they been funny?"
"Spam sketch!"
"And what makes that funny?"
"Because it's Python?"
"And what makes you find them so funny?"
"The Sargeant-Major sketch!"
"And it's funny because--?"
Seriously, that's usually as far as most people can explain it. It's like Pavlovian conditioning.
Don't get me wrong. There were a group of intelligent, clever gentlemen with more than a few good insights, but most of their collective work within the ensemble was dreck. Even SNL couldn't beat a joke to death as well as these folks.
Then again, SNL has never had a collection of fans willing to keep beating the joke to death for them more than twenty years later, either. ::)
The Goon Show, now that's just plain weird. Talk about humour only the British could appreciate...
I've seen people laugh at the Dead Parrot sketch too, but it's always seemed mechanical to me.
"Ha-ha, it-is-the-Dead-Parrot-Sketch. How-it-never-fails-to-leave-me-rolling-in-the-aisle-even-after-the-hundredth-time-I-heard-it-ha-ha-ha."
I don't think I've ever known anyone to even chuckle at the Spam sketch. But since Python plays to most of Mr. Burlew's audience and it was a strip posted on his normal day off, I can't really grumble all that much about it, can I?
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2005-01-06, 08:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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I wanted to see a puppet lawsuit :).
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2005-01-06, 08:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Odin the All-Father never looked so cool. And so approachable!
Good one, Rich. Well, they're all good ones. But they don't all get me to post. ;)Ashlock.org
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2005-01-06, 08:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Monty Python is quite amusing if you view it by itself. The humor is mostly based on surrealism: taking a normal situation and adding a bizzare twist to it. The distortion is augmented, most often by establishing a sort of internal logic in the scene and then applying further twists to it.
This surreal humor, however, is rooted in very accurate observation of human nature, and in particular the various foibles of the Brisitsh middle-class in the early-to-mid 20th century.
I do agree that Monty Python references are a tad overused. It's like the "pants" thing (where you take any written work and replace various nouns with the word "pants"): Side-splittingly hilarious the first twenty times or so, but really *really* dull afterwards.
It doesn't help that the bulk of Monty Python re-writes is based on only four or five sketches from the entire run of Flying Circus (and selected fragments of Holy Grail). There is no reasonable explanation for this other than a particular sort of herding instinct.
The tendency to "flog the dead parrot" is unfortunately quite prevalent in Internet culture, which by and large tends to be unable to just let a joke die. (See also: All Your Base, MY HED IZ PASTED ON YAY!, or any other meme/running joke of your choice.)"So when your back's up against the wall and there's no tomorrow, just take one day at a time and remember: the bigger they are... etcetera." - Jack O'Neill, Stargate SG-1 (S1, ep 04)
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2005-01-06, 08:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Originally Posted by Shatteredtower
On the other hand, when Python humour hits it's the funniest thing since sliced bread. The reason it's funny is because it takes real world scenarios and takes them out of any real world sensibility. The discord between expectation and the result are what makes it funny (like the Spainish Inquisition poking people with soft cushins), with a few clever lines and comical stupidity (like the range of descriptions of the Dead Parrot being dead, combined with the shopkeeper's insistance that it's not).
Mind you, my mum doesn't find Monty Python funny, and I can see why. Sometimes it's just TOO much. But it's not all UNfunny. :p
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Oh, and all hail BANJO!
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2005-01-06, 08:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Could I interest you in some string? O: )
Lurkaholic. Fetch me some more lurkahol.
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2005-01-06, 10:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm just wondering why Thor is blonde? Despite what Marvel wants to tell you... Thor is a Readhead :)