Can you answer 4 questions correctly? Prize give away

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

Maybe I don't understand or am not comprehending the question correctly...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail c1975

Bridgekeeper: What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
King Arthur: What do you mean? An African or European swallow?

an Ornithologist would likely be someone who would know that information but the first guards that King Arthur meets in the film seem extremly well educated in the ways of swallows.

See quote 8: http://www.wavsite.com/sounds.asp?ID=106

BTW this is probably my favorite film of all time.

[Jya-Ning Silver Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close Jya-Ning]

There is only one proper reply, and you must provide a proper and appropriate citation for your answer. You must also tell us what kind of person would know so much about swallows.

Maybe I don't understand or am not comprehending the question correctly...

Defenitely not qualify to answer this type of question. But maybe you miss the 2nd part of requirement?

On the other hand, consider you are one of the richest people in this forum (point wise), it feels rob the wrong side.

Jya-Ning

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

Defenitely not qualify to answer this type of question. But maybe you miss the 2nd part of requirement?

On the other hand, consider you are one of the richest people in this forum (point wise), it feels rob the wrong side.

Jya-Ning

Jya-Ning

Not about the points at all. I'll give them as gifts to others. Steve happened across one of my favorite movies.

What is not to love about a film that has such memorable nonsense quotes like this one:

King Arthur: Old woman.
Dennis: Man.
King Arthur: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?
Dennis: I'm 37.
King Arthur: What?
Dennis: I'm 37. I'm not old.
King Arthur: Well I can't just call you "man".
Dennis: Well you could say "Dennis".
King Arthur: I didn't know you were called Dennis.
Dennis: Well you didn't bother to find out did you?
King Arthur: I did say sorry about the "old woman", but from behind you looked...
Dennis: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior.
King Arthur: Well I am king.
Dennis: Oh, king eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.

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King Arthur: I am your king.
Woman: Well I didn't vote for you.
King Arthur: You don't vote for kings.
Woman: Well how'd you become king then?
[Angelic music plays... ]
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.
Dennis: [interrupting] Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

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Dennis: Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.

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Dennis: Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.

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Dennis: Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
King Arthur: Bloody peasant!
Dennis: Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw him, Didn't you?

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This BBS forum is so much fun! I love reading all of the clever and smart things that people post!

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

Maybe I don't understand or am not comprehending the question correctly...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail c1975

Bridgekeeper: What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
King Arthur: What do you mean? An African or European swallow?

an Ornithologist would likely be someone who would know that information but the first guards that King Arthur meets in the film seem extremly well educated in the ways of swallows.

As the bridgekeeper is thrown in the chasm, this snippet concludes the scene:

Sir Bedevere: How do know so much about swallows?
King Arthur: Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

So what kind of person would know so much about swallows? A king!

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Well, Lawren - I don't want to get myself in peril here with you (well maybe I do - but only if your promise me it's terrible peril), so I guess your answer is close enough.

I anoint you winner!

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

More Grail dialogue:

Sir Bedevere: There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
Peasant 1: Are there? Oh well, tell us.
Sir Bedevere: Tell me. What do you do with witches?
Peasant 1: Burn them.
Sir Bedevere: And what do you burn, apart from witches?
Peasant 1: More witches.
Peasant 2: Wood.
Sir Bedevere: Good. Now, why do witches burn?
Peasant 3: ...because they're made of... wood?
Sir Bedevere: Good. So how do you tell whether she is made of wood?
Peasant 1: Build a bridge out of her.
Sir Bedevere: But can you not also build bridges out of stone?
Peasant 1: Oh yeah.
Sir Bedevere: Does wood sink in water?
Peasant 1: No, no, it floats!... It floats! Throw her into the pond!
Sir Bedevere: No, no. What else floats in water?
Peasant 1: Bread.
Peasant 2: Apples.
Peasant 3: Very small rocks.
Peasant 1: Cider.
Peasant 2: Gravy.
Peasant 3: Cherries.
Peasant 1: Mud.
Peasant 2: Churches.
Peasant 3: Lead! Lead!
King Arthur: A Duck.
Sir Bedevere: ...Exactly. So, logically...
Peasant 1: If she weighed the same as a duck... she's made of wood.
Sir Bedevere: And therefore...
Peasant 2: ...A witch!

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

As the bridgekeeper is thrown in the chasm, this snippet concludes the scene:

Sir Bedevere: How do know so much about swallows?
King Arthur: Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

So what kind of person would know so much about swallows? A king!

****

Well, Lawren - I don't want to get myself in peril here with you (well maybe I do - but only if your promise me it's terrible peril), so I guess your answer is close enough.

I anoint you winner!

Sir Lancelot: We were in the nick of time. You were in great peril.
Sir Galahad: I don't think I was.
Sir Lancelot: Yes, you were. You were in terrible peril.
Sir Galahad: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
Sir Lancelot: No, it's too perilous.
Sir Galahad: Look, it's my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can.
Sir Lancelot: No, we've got to find the Holy Grail. Come on.
Sir Galahad: Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?
Sir Lancelot: No. It's unhealthy.
Sir Galahad: I bet you're gay.
Sir Lancelot: Am not.



You may be in terrible peril.

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

You may be in terrible peril.

By any chance, do you have a twin sister? And maybe a Grail beacon?

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

A Spanking!

and mayhaps we will push the censorship envelope too. Oh I have got to find time to play this one again



DINGO: No, I am Zoot's identical twin sister, Dingo.
GALAHAD: Oh, well, excuse me, I--
DINGO: Where are you going?
GALAHAD: I seek the Grail! I have seen it, here in this castle!
DINGO: No! Oh, no! Bad, bad Zoot!
GALAHAD: What is it?
DINGO: Oh, wicked, bad, naughty Zoot! She has been setting alight
to our beacon, which, I just remembered, is grail-shaped. It's not the
first time we've had this problem.
GALAHAD: It's not the real Grail?
DINGO: Oh, wicked, bad, naughty, evil Zoot! Oh, she is a naughty
person, and she must pay the penalty -- and here in Castle Anthrax, we
have but one punishment for setting alight the grail-shaped beacon. You
must tie her down on a bed and spank her!
GIRLS: A spanking! A spanking!
DINGO: You must spank her well. And after you have spanked her, you
may deal with her as you like. And then, spank me.
VARIOUS GIRLS: And spank me.
And me.
And me.
DINGO: Yes, yes, you must give us all a good spanking!
GIRLS: A spanking! A spanking!
DINGO: And after the spanking, the oral sex.
GIRLS: Oral sex! Oral sex!

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

Yes. Grave peril. Terrible peril. But I must face the peril.

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

Grave peril, indeed.