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- From: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
- Subject: Imminent death of culture predicted
- References: <1993Jan20.181204.8080@mixcom.com>
- Message-ID: <ben.727590403@ipoint>
- Originator: ben@ipoint
- Summary: some things will endure, others will not
- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Reply-To: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
- Organization: Ancient Illuminated Sears of Bavaria
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 04:26:43 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- yywwyy@mixcom.com (Steven Pearson) writes:
-
- > the mood for the clinton administration has been set.
- > about five minutes before the president-elect became the president,
- > the band struck up the theme to monty python.
- > be afraid.
-
- Once, long ago, before John Cleese or TV was even born, there was a
- piece of music called "The Liberty Bell", a march by John Philip
- Sousa. Sousa's marches have long been used at patriotic celebrations,
- and only occasionally for British comedy programs.
-
- Along came Cleese, Chapman, Idle, et al., and TV, or telly, as the
- Brits like to call it, and later the birth of the program called
- "Monty Python's Flying Circus". This phenomenal program was quite
- funny, even on second and occasionally even third viewing, and hence
- was quite popular with the masses.
-
- Some of them liked it SO much that they decided it was the Canonical
- comedy program, and thus rearranged causal relationships between
- events and features of the programs in such a manner as to imply that
- "Monty Python" (as they liked to call it) came first, and that other
- things (such as Sousa marches and blancmanges) grew out of the
- program. Such items were then annexed by the ignorant masses, and
- thus "The Liberty Bell" became "The Theme to Monty Python."
-
- These people were, however, sadly mistaken.
-
- In summary: *PLONK*
-
- --
- Ben Cox
- thoth@uiuc.edu
-