Date   : Sun, 01 Aug 2004 23:43:10 +0000
From   : Richard Gellman <splodge@...>
Subject: Re: A bit pythonesque

Pete Turnbull wrote:

>On Aug 1, 12:27, Ben Newsam wrote:
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>>Pete Turnbull <pete@...> writes:
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>>>On Jul 31, 19:12, Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
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>>>>Nobody expects a Spanish Aquisition! Our method is surprise.
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>Surprise
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>>>>a move into the profitiable UK banking sector... Our *two*
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>methods...
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>>>!! That's the funniest thing I've heard/seen today.
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>>Cribbed from Punt and Dennis on Radio 4.
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>No, actually cribbed from Monty Python:
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>http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Sounds/aiff/spanish.aiff
>http://www.jumpstation.ca/recroom/comedy/python/spanish.html
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>and about 25,700 other references.
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I think what was meant, that the change from "spanish inquisition" 
(original monty python) to "spanish acquisition" was a 
joke-based-on-a-joke that was thought up Punt & Dennis on R4.

Yes, Monty Python did the original, but P&D did indeed re-do it to make 
a joke out of the applicable news story.

-- Richard