Just smart enough to be into Monty Python

[Mangrove]

Godawful show. Can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would watch it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'd quote from Jabberwocky, but that's probably too underground for you guys.

TGRR,
MP Hipster.

I actually love it, now, when people quote from Lewis Carroll. Even though when I was a kid that seemed like the height of pinealism.

At least now I can think "YOU READ A BOOK!"

Ahem.

[EK WAFFLR]

I'd quote from Jabberwocky, but that's probably too underground for you guys.

TGRR,
MP Hipster.

Pah. I'm going to start quoting from Yellowbeard.

[Luna]

Oh, and, uh... "NI!"

And a shrubbery.

I don't run into them as much as I used to, honestly. Which makes it all the more offputting when I'm alone in a room with one and everything seems to elicit a Monty Python quote.

And your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries.


What irritates ME the most is tat they quote the least amusing lines from the sketch.  We have a couple in our regular Friday night game wo just won't shut the fuck up AUGH.  It's more the newest guy who does that, and he is otherwise cool, but Jesus Crist we get it, you watched fucking Monty Python.

SHUT

UP.

fucking "h" key won't register I press it sometimes. 

Quarter jar, Freeky.  Set out a jar, they have to put in a quarter for every Python quote.

We had one for puns (they'd gotten bad enough to disrupt the game).  The worst offender got into the habit of walking in, tossing a fiver in the jar, and we let him know when it ran out.

It funded pizza every couple weeks.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh, and, uh... "NI!"

And a shrubbery.

I don't run into them as much as I used to, honestly. Which makes it all the more offputting when I'm alone in a room with one and everything seems to elicit a Monty Python quote.

And your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries.


What irritates ME the most is tat they quote the least amusing lines from the sketch.  We have a couple in our regular Friday night game wo just won't shut the fuck up AUGH.  It's more the newest guy who does that, and he is otherwise cool, but Jesus Crist we get it, you watched fucking Monty Python.

SHUT

UP.

fucking "h" key won't register I press it sometimes. 

Quarter jar, Freeky.  Set out a jar, they have to put in a quarter for every Python quote.

We had one for puns (they'd gotten bad enough to disrupt the game).  The worst offender got into the habit of walking in, tossing a fiver in the jar, and we let him know when it ran out.

It funded pizza every couple weeks.

THIS.

is

BRILLIANT!

I have no idea why I've never thought of this before. It's such a great idea.

[LMNO]

Godawful show. Can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would watch it.

Aha!  Antisemitism!

[Mangrove]

 

Godawful show. Can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would watch it.

Aha!  Antisemitism!

[East Coast Hustle]

I kind of suspect that everyone here knows exactly what I mean.

It takes a bit of above-average, for the most part, to appreciate the humor in Monty Python. I'd be a lying asshole if I said I didn't find that shit mostly pretty funny.

But we all know (especially since we are almost universally from nerd-ass backgrounds) people for whom that is the pinnacle of humor and intellect.

Is it elitist? We all know that one guy, or five or ten of them, who love to advertise how much they love Monty Python, and who quote the shit out of them endlessly.

My question is this: is it wrong, is it elitist, to judge those people as being not smart enough, not independent enough, not jailbroken enough?

Not only is it not wrong to judge those people, it's also not wrong to slap them until their fucking mouth falls off.

[Luna]

Oh, and, uh... "NI!"

And a shrubbery.

I don't run into them as much as I used to, honestly. Which makes it all the more offputting when I'm alone in a room with one and everything seems to elicit a Monty Python quote.

And your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries.


What irritates ME the most is tat they quote the least amusing lines from the sketch.  We have a couple in our regular Friday night game wo just won't shut the fuck up AUGH.  It's more the newest guy who does that, and he is otherwise cool, but Jesus Crist we get it, you watched fucking Monty Python.

SHUT

UP.

fucking "h" key won't register I press it sometimes. 

Quarter jar, Freeky.  Set out a jar, they have to put in a quarter for every Python quote.

We had one for puns (they'd gotten bad enough to disrupt the game).  The worst offender got into the habit of walking in, tossing a fiver in the jar, and we let him know when it ran out.

It funded pizza every couple weeks.

THIS.

is

BRILLIANT!

I have no idea why I've never thought of this before. It's such a great idea.

Thanks, but I can't take credit.  The idea was adapted from the "cussing jar" from when I was a kid.  (Back then, a quarter was a whole comic book.)

[East Coast Hustle]

I dunno, I guess unless I knew the person I wouldn't read too much into it.  We all have things we really like and enjoy.  I'm not sure that this really speaks as a detriment to a person's character, not on its own anyway. 

I mean, my daughter for a time was really into Justin Bieber, and would sing Justin Bieber songs.  Now, this is a very smart little girl who also is really into and really good at art. 

I guess what I'm saying is that I'm not sure that being into a kind of mindless entertainment is necessarily indicative of the quality of one's mind, again, without knowing more about the person. 

I am not sure it is completely fair to compare a four-year-old with grown adults, but OK.

On the other hand, maybe it is completely fair to compare a four-year-old with people who constantly quote Monty Python. Hmmmm.

All I know is that frequent Monty Python quotes, in and of themselves,  are enough to let me know that I don't want to know more about the person. Unless they are four years old, in which case, I'ma cut them some slack.

Okay, change it to a 23 year old who really likes The Office.  So what?  Your question was about using this as a method for judging a person's intelligence.  What I'm saying is that I don't think it is an accurate, nor fair, test.  I mean, this board has gone through phases where internet memes were repeated ad nauseum.  Does that make us a bunch of dullards?  Of course not.

All I'm saying is that I don't think it is a fair assessment in and of itself without knowing more about a person.  They could be stuck.  They could just really, really like Monty Python.  Who knows? 

I'm judging your intelligence for going into paladin mode and trying to make a serious discussion out of what started as an obvious piss-take on some of the world's most obnoxious people.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh, and, uh... "NI!"

And a shrubbery.

I don't run into them as much as I used to, honestly. Which makes it all the more offputting when I'm alone in a room with one and everything seems to elicit a Monty Python quote.

And your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries.


What irritates ME the most is tat they quote the least amusing lines from the sketch.  We have a couple in our regular Friday night game wo just won't shut the fuck up AUGH.  It's more the newest guy who does that, and he is otherwise cool, but Jesus Crist we get it, you watched fucking Monty Python.

SHUT

UP.

fucking "h" key won't register I press it sometimes. 

Quarter jar, Freeky.  Set out a jar, they have to put in a quarter for every Python quote.

We had one for puns (they'd gotten bad enough to disrupt the game).  The worst offender got into the habit of walking in, tossing a fiver in the jar, and we let him know when it ran out.

It funded pizza every couple weeks.

THIS.

is

BRILLIANT!

I have no idea why I've never thought of this before. It's such a great idea.

Thanks, but I can't take credit.  The idea was adapted from the "cussing jar" from when I was a kid.  (Back then, a quarter was a whole comic book.)

I totally get that, but the brilliant part is adapting it from swearing to take advantage of something that's actually obnoxious.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I kind of suspect that everyone here knows exactly what I mean.

It takes a bit of above-average, for the most part, to appreciate the humor in Monty Python. I'd be a lying asshole if I said I didn't find that shit mostly pretty funny.

But we all know (especially since we are almost universally from nerd-ass backgrounds) people for whom that is the pinnacle of humor and intellect.

Is it elitist? We all know that one guy, or five or ten of them, who love to advertise how much they love Monty Python, and who quote the shit out of them endlessly.

My question is this: is it wrong, is it elitist, to judge those people as being not smart enough, not independent enough, not jailbroken enough?

Not only is it not wrong to judge those people, it's also not wrong to slap them until their fucking mouth falls off.

Seriously, man, in my head I am totally doing  that all the time. 

[LMNO]

Jeez, I'm glad I didn't know you when I was younger.




...I got better...

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Jeez, I'm glad I didn't know you when I was younger.




...I got better...

[Luna]

It helped. Didn't cure the problem, but it cut back.

Jeez, I'm glad I didn't know you when I was younger.




...I got better...