And now for something completely different

[[JiF]Lt Gav]

If you know Monty Python you'll probably have seen the original of this sketch "How not to be seen"
Some people just have a great imagination

[[JiF]phantomx]

too funny.

[[JiF][AARP]Tissueman]

Now I really enjoyed that.

[[JiF][AARP]Grimp]

Well done and very funny.

[[JiF]ALargeWoodenBadger]

Memories...

I was pretty young the first time I became aware of that skit or Monty Python for that matter. CBC radio was broadcasting an hour long Sunday report on the “puzzling” phenomenon known as Monty Python. The “on air personality” played the audio portion of the skit while trying to describe the video to the listening audience. I can't remember the announcers name but he was one of those guys they deemed too dull to do the weather and was only allowed to cover serious news such as house fires with loss of life or mass Nun extinctions. Something where the even the hint of a snicker could lead to trouble.

There was something wondrously hypnotically dull about his tone. He was a living sedative, extraordinarily soothing, calming and relaxing. – YAWN – powerful memories. Sometimes when I can’t sleep I think of him saying things like “the school bus plunged 250 feet before bursting into flames…none of the orphans survived” and the memory washes over me bringing peace and rest.

The fact that he was referred to as an “on air personality” was an oxymoron. Here was a reporter who, by the time he got to the part where he gave his name, his entire audience would have suffered whiplash from suddenly nodding off. Forget Cell phones – car radios were hazardous to your health – news related C4 injuries threatened to bankrupt the whole medical system.

I shudder to think of what he was like at home, when he didn’t have to be “on.” A friend of mine decided we had to meet the guy in person, when I protested he wasn’t in the phone book and we didn’t know where he lived my buddy merely suggested we search the newspapers for suicide clusters. Cold man, really cold (and surprisingly accurate but that’s another story).

I often wondered what we would see if we overlaid a graph of his voice with that of brainwaves during non-REM N3 sleep. It would be like the Star Trek episode where Lt. Mira Romaine (Mr. Scotts’ one episode squeeze – not exactly a red shirt but definitely a red skirt) has her brain waves altered by Memory Alpha.


What possessed the world’s least interesting reporter to prepare an hour long report on Monty Python has always mystified me. Though even if he answered that question I doubt any of us could stay awake long enough to hear it. Perhaps he has already explained his interest in Monty Python but like Cassandra a curse forbids the listener from hearing it, wow – deep. It was however the reason I went to see “And Now for Something Completely Different” when it was screened (much to the dismay of city Council) at the local Arts Centre in 1975 or 76.

I believe he retired in 1986 after people started phoning the station requesting he repeat the word “Bueller”

[[JiF]Gib]

+1!

Riiiight, anyone for marchin' up and down the square!?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLJ8ILIE780[/youtube]

[[JiF]Lt Gav]

And here's Gib's video embeded in the post

[[JiF]DaftGeordie]

Gosh such a loooong story Badger I almost fell asleep LOL

[[JiF]Sgt Shellshocked]

go on go on go on go on

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w0ZyfkukUs[/video]

go on

[[JiF]Top321us]

Thanks all.
That made a bad Monday much better!