Monty Python's Terry Jones Passes Away At 77 (bbc.com) 58
Mogster shares a report from the BBC: Monty Python stars have led the tributes to their co-star Terry Jones, who has died at the age of 77. The Welsh actor and writer played a variety of characters in the iconic comedy group's Flying Circus TV series, and directed several of their films. He died on Tuesday, four years after contracting a rare form of dementia known as Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). Here are some of Jones' best lines:
"Now, you listen here! He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!" -- as Brian's mother in Monty Python's Life of Brian
"I'm alive, I'm alive!" -- as the naked hermit who gives away the location of a hiding Brian in Life of Brian
"I shall use my largest scales" - as Sir Belvedere, who oversees a witch trial in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"What, the curtains?" -- as Prince Herbert, who is told "One day, lad, all this will be yours" in Holy Grail
"Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam" -- as the greasy spoon waitress in a Monty Python sketch
"Now, you listen here! He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!" -- as Brian's mother in Monty Python's Life of Brian
"I'm alive, I'm alive!" -- as the naked hermit who gives away the location of a hiding Brian in Life of Brian
"I shall use my largest scales" - as Sir Belvedere, who oversees a witch trial in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"What, the curtains?" -- as Prince Herbert, who is told "One day, lad, all this will be yours" in Holy Grail
"Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam" -- as the greasy spoon waitress in a Monty Python sketch
He's not dead (Score:5, Funny)
Re:He's not dead (Score:4, Insightful)
Death. "You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means".
His work guarantees he will live on, at least in our memory, for generations. RIP entertainer.
Re:He's not dead (Score:5, Funny)
He's merely pining for the fjords.
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Re:He's not dead (Score:5, Funny)
Look, I'm not allowed to argue unless you pay.
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That wasn't an argument, that was merely contradiction.
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Wink, wink.
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Say no more, say no more.
Re:So long, Mrs. Brown... (Score:2)
Thanks for all the laughs. [youtube.com] Enjoy the bleedin' choir invisible...
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Wewease Wodewick!!!!!!
Brightened Our Days, What More Can You Ask For? (Score:5, Funny)
I won't add what I think are Mr. Jones' funniest lines - just that I'm sad there won't be any more new ones.
RIP.
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I won't add what I think are Mr. Jones' funniest lines - just that I'm sad there won't be any more new ones.
RIP.
Why were you moderated funny for that comment? What passes for a sense of humor on today's Slashdot?
Anyway, I express my concurrence with your sentiments.
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I was wondering that too.
Maybe the first moderator clicked "Funny" and the algorithm continues that label onwards.
John Cleese tweets.... (Score:2)
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"Just heard about Terry J
It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away...
Of his many achievements, for me the greatest gift he gave us all was his direction of 'Life of Brian'. Perfection
Two down, four to go"
https://twitter.com/JohnCleese... [twitter.com]
Maybe not his line but... (Score:3)
Tis but a flesh wound...
May the laughter never die, though all of us eventually will.
FTD is a disorder? (Score:2)
We can't FTD being slammed this so close to Valentine's Day!
Not Jones but apropos (Score:3)
Thanks for all the laughs... (Score:3)
...and that falsetto "spam!' will never leave me. God I miss that show, what could they do with the world today
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They wouldn't be allowed to do their show. The woke crowd would be triggered and demand the show be cancelled.
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And the Fox crowd would declare it to be fake news.
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Sure, that's exactly what they do. And then switch the channel. The Fox crowd is averaging 65 years of age.
If a comedian pisses off the SJW crowd however, they cancel him. They write to employers, advertisers, hosting provider, payment processor, bank... demanding they drop the Evil Nazi, or else! Let's face it, one of the extremist groups is more vicious than the other.
I hope that 2019 was the peak of this nonsense. There are signs it's losing power.
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The Million Mom March pushes gun control, which is primarily a left wing talking point.
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Who is not paying attention? Speaking of Monty Python... John Cleese recently said that London was no longer an English city. This caused a SJW outrage in the UK. They called him the usual -ist and -phobe names. And in the same breath explained that London is indeed a "vibrant", and "rich" multi-cultural multi-ethnic global megalopolis. In other words, he was correct, they just did not agree with the way he said it.
When is the last time a right-wing mob got a lefty comedian, actor, or musician to canc
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OOOOH! INTERCOURSE THE POLITICS!!!
Oooh, for mod points.. but were you Funny, or Insightful?
Bit o' both I'm afraid.
Especially if you say it in a Pythonesque falsetto!
Congratulations! (Score:2)
Congratulations, you've made the first culture warrior post in a thread morning the loss of a beloved comedian! How wonderfully distasteful!
Amusingly enough, but in true culture warrior style, your post wasn't even about something that is or that happened. Instead it was just an idiot projection of your own distaste of the other side onto them.
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Strangely enough, only comedians can say the truth now, like Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais. That's why we need them more than ever.
I suspect this is true going as far back as Comicus. Maybe even before that.
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The world today is absolutely crackers...
I could see this coming (Score:1)
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"You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road."
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And now for something completely (Score:2)
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He didn't "pass away" he died.
It is even in the quoted article ffs.
OP here
Who's afraid to mention death? I even quoted it in the article as you pointed out
I do however like to stretch my use of the English language once in a while after hours of hacking code together. And those with sufficient grasp of said language read "passed away" and know it means death
Don't be scared to stretch your vocab every so often. I recommend 4 seasons of Monty Python to get you started
Re:Why are you so scared to mention death? (Score:5, Informative)
He has ceased to be, bereft of life, he rests in peace, he has kicked the bucket, hopped the twig, bit the dust, snuffed it, breathed his last, and gone to meet the Great Head of Light Entertainment in the sky.
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But has he joined the Bleedin' Choir Invisible?
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Heh, even the Markov Bots are being somewhat oddly respectful.
Re: NSigga (Score:1)
The Fragile âoeMeâ (Score:3)
The warez we call âoeIâ are so easily corrupted:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/dis... [mayoclinic.org]
RIP, Terry. You made all our Warez happy...
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The warez we call âoeIâ are so easily corrupted:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/dis... [mayoclinic.org]
RIP, Terry. You made all our Warez happy...
Deserves an informative mod for the link to FTD (which had appeared earlier in the discussion without explanation), though I still don't know what OEL refers to in this context.
Naked Organist. (Score:2)
He'll always be the naked man playing his organ to me.
Belvedere?! (Score:2)
What is this, autocorrect? His name (in the film) was Sir Bedevere the Wise.
Did he Explode in a Restaurant? (Score:2)
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Here's an exchange I had with my wife after I told her Terry Jones had passed. She had no idea who he was:
Wife: Nothing on BBC . Isn't he British?
Me: yes. https://www.bbc.com/news/enter... [bbc.com]
Wife: Doesn't ring any bells .. still nothing. I don't know this guy
Wife: I'll check a young photo
Wife: I looked at younger photos
Me: He was the guy who "exploded" after eating a waffer thin mint in Meaning of Life.
Me: (includes screen grab)
Wife: Ok.. you should have started with that
Wife: Now I remember!
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he's not dead..... (Score:1)
Sad News (Score:2)
Michael Palin was interviewed yesterday and was in floods of tears. He described him as his best friend for 52 years.
Goodbye Terry Jones (Score:2)
Terry Jones and Monty Python made me laugh and think, lightened, inspired, and influenced my life for the better in countless small immeasurable ways. Thank you.