The Conservative Cave

Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Baruch Menachem on November 25, 2009, 11:49:51 PM

Title: An oldie but goodie
Post by: Baruch Menachem on November 25, 2009, 11:49:51 PM
This is from an old Monty Python episode, voiced by Eric Idle.   I found it in 2003, and I have been posting it here and there ever since.  Now it is your turn:

Quote from: Eric Idle 1977
A D I S C L A I M E R
'WE WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE WAY IN WHICH POLITICIANS ARE REPRESENTED IN THIS PROGRAMME. IT WAS NEVER OUR INTENTION TO IMPLY THAT POLITICIANS ARE WEAK-KNEED, POLITICAL TIME-SERVERS WHO ARE CONCERNED MORE WITH THEIR PERSONAL VENDETTAS AND PRIVATE POWER STRUGGLES THAN THE PROBLEMS OF GOVERNMENT, NOR TO SUGGEST AT ANY POINT THAT THEY SACRIFICE THEIR CREDIBILITY BY DENYING FREE DEBATE ON VITAL MATTERS IN THE MISTAKEN IMPRESSION THAT PARTY UNITY COMES BEFORE THE WELL-BEING OF THE PEOPLE THEY SUPPOSEDLY REPRESENT NOR TO IMPLY AT ANY STAGE THAT THEY ARE SQUABBLING LITTLE TOADIES WITHOUT AN OUNCE OF CONCERN FOR THE VITAL SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF TODAY. NOR INDEED DO WE INTEND THAT VIEWERS SHOULD CONSIDER THEM AS CRABBY ULCEROUS LITTLE SELF-SEEKING VERMIN WITH FURRY LEGS AND AN EXCESSIVE ADDICTION TO ALCOHOL AND CERTAIN EXPLICIT SEXUAL PRACTICES WHICH SOME PEOPLE MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE. WE ARE SORRY IF THIS IMPRESSION HAS COME ACROSS.'
Title: Re: An oldie but goodie
Post by: jinxmchue on November 26, 2009, 09:56:04 AM
 :bow:
Title: Re: An oldie but goodie
Post by: longview on November 26, 2009, 11:08:59 AM
Love it!
Title: Re: An oldie but goodie
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on November 26, 2009, 02:12:09 PM
Yet the Pythons put in an appearance with the bowel-cramping Kieth Olbermann.
Title: Re: An oldie but goodie
Post by: Baruch Menachem on November 26, 2009, 04:04:57 PM
to be a lefty does not mean you don't see the truth, just that you turn your back to it.