THE BRITISH THREAD II

crazy terry jones and the Dove World Outreach are coming to a town near you...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101212/wl_nm/us_britain_islam_pastor

It's fairly romantic Mac.

Terry Jones bears a famous name, revered and beloved in this country for his work on Monty Python.

The American one was interviewed on our TV screens tonight and he's learning to talk the talk. What he said was, in the main, eminently reasonable.
He wants to draw attention to Islamic extremism. He professes equanimity about Islam itself.
I don't believe him when he says that. But I think Teresa May would be making a mistake if she bars him.

And not the #1 ambition the people of Britain would expect to be harboured by their future sovereign, I would guess.

But it's imaginative, I'll allow.

this one is fuzzier and not as funny as the more famous one.

nice muttonchops, though...

Mr T Jones is not revered and beloved by me.

Did you know that the "Dead Parrot" dialogue is cribbed neat from Roget?

Actually the Dead PArrot sketch was plagiarized from Roman Burlesque where "Mr Praline" (the Roman Philagrius) enters the stage and exclaims

"Fulvius, Is that a scroll under your toga or are you just happy to see me?"

Then they go into a discussion about a slave who died under Fulvius care.
The punch line was
Funny, he never did that before"

It's in Aristophenes fm. Somewhere. Lysistrata probably. I think.

Mae West did it. It's corny. It's gone stiff with age. Like a fossil.

You just cant keep saying "Its in Lysistrata" when youre not aure. Its actually from here,(The Romans wwre the Milton Berles of the Ncints. ITs actually from the Joke Book of Herocles and Philagrius

I saw Lysistrata performed on telly once and the joke was in that. Well done too. It's in the cave paintings in France. That's how old it is. A reproduction of it is only to be seen in that very expensive book of those wondrous images. I don't suppose an anti-ID school-board would recommend it for the libraries. And I hardly think they would give their reasons either.

I sometimes think that in the beginning was the joke. The joke probably started with farts. If the joke did come first it is a fantastic "sport" on Darwin's Tree of Life. It's unheard of elsewhere in organic existence. I've seen horses stood in groups and none of them ever titterneighed when one of them farted.

My first Christmas song to get you into the Christmas Spirit - what ya'll doing for this festive season?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0vBsfHc-ZQ

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Buying gifts ... (which consist more or less of home-printed Amazon gift certificates.
[We are staying for more than a week over Christmas in Vienna, there attending a tv-mass in a picturebook-church, watching the 'Christmas candles' being delivered by horse-driven sledges, attending the Christmas market in Schönbrunn castle, listening to a Christmas concert by the Vienna Whateversymponic Orchestra, dining in a restaurant in the Vienna Forest, eating with my (new) Croation relatives (adopted by my cousin), ...]

Nice, Walt.
I've been in a Wienerwald. Groovy.

Smorgs, good tune, but when the trombone played a solo, the picture was of a trumpet player. And when the ladies sang, the picture showed reindeer. It's hard to believe in anything, these days.

Our band played "White Christmas" and other Xmas songs on Sunday at our concert.

I like the sound of this outfit.

Hmm, I was told to get a new outfit for that ... something baroque, I fear ...

pictures....????

Oh don't be so cynical McT!

Do you like this video better?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzf_TWwoN_k&feature=related

I googled who was the singer in the annoying 'go compare' adverts, apparently, he's a proper opera singer called Wynne Evans. His character is Gio Compario.

Just thought I'd share.

Off work today - yippee!!!!!

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I's rather have your Christmas, Walter. Sounds really festive.

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And my Tuesday sessions are finished.

We could have gone running across the meadows together.

Lumbering morelike Mac.