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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess he didn't make a habit of reading what they wrote.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or couldn't read, and the scribes left it out when reading it out loud

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I hope they put like a big asterisk next to it. What happens when the main guy is on vacation and there’s a scribe from out of town filling in for a few days. He gets like half way through the sentence while he’s reading out loud and then he’s like “oh…”

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"You can cut that out, right?"

"We can.... But we won't."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm seeing John Cleese carrying a clipboard, alongside some hapless customer or client or something, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, but am unable to remember which sketch it was: "Ah! Yes. Can do... but won't!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Can do! But, won’t.

ETA: Looks to be from season 2, episode 2, The Spanish Inquisition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Imagine that... someone made a clip of that exact line - and nothing else - on YouTube five years ago! Amazing. And thank you!

Ok, he's saying it to Graham Chapman, when my glitching memory saw Michael Palin or Terry Jones hazily... and erroneously.
From what I recall, Cleese is a sketch assembly supervisor or something meta like that, after the sketch is over he is denying giving a lift back to Chapman, having transported him to the sketch location in the first place.

And that's as far as my memory will take it. I can't remember what the sketch was, what comes before or after... zip. Nada. Zilch.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

It looks like you could wind that hat up with the little lever on the side, and then it would spin with the tassels flying outward.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How the fuck did they wojack the horse lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The kids are alright

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

History is written by the historians.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

This meme is top shelf.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Should have just sung a Beatles song all the way through.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Could have been improved by the left one being a crying soyjak, and the right one being a chad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Like those podcasts where someone bloops and the host says - "It's okay, we'll fix it in post [production]... just kidding, we don't do any post".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Don't write that down. Do you hear me?

We hear you loud and clear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Then King Taejong said "I see you writing something down... are you writing down that I fell off the horse? Why are you still writing? Are you writing this down too? STOP WRITING! Ok fine. Write this down then..." after which he gave many compliments about my thoroughness which I'm too humble to recount.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Cambyses II, in the afterlife: "shit happens, bro"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Any further reading on this? I don't know this story.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's not the gaff, but the cover up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Fast forward to 2024: ""Let me do the dumbest thing I can think of and film it for Tik Tok"