where did name "Monty Python" come from
Haynes Lee
I don't think this is in the FAQ but where did the name "Monty Python"
come from? Is it a name like Led Zeppelin or Def Leppard which is not
supposed to make any sense in the first place?
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Haynes Lee (l...@adan.kingston.net) wrote:
: I don't think this is in the FAQ but where did the name "Monty Python"
: come from? Is it a name like Led Zeppelin or Def Leppard which is not
: supposed to make any sense in the first place?
: http://www1.kingston.net/ik/lee/
E. Ian Allen here.
I noticed a few weeks ago that Monty Python is maddenly close to a palin-drome
if you squint the eyes:
NOHTY PYTNOM
But haven't you noticed that most everything in this world has at least
17 good reasons and histories for existing?
Hey did anyone here ever read National Lampoon's parody of Monty Python
which came out about 1978 or so? Incredibly vicious and essentially lame,
titled MONTY SNAKE and going on and on about how maybe they were homosexuals
or fags or british or something. Very wierd, as if the magazine HAD to deal
with Monty Python somehow, but just could not "grapple with the beastie".
PS is there a "most-lost (censored?) episode" or a "barely-released record" or
maybe some ... radio shows! around? I seem to have seen all the TV shows
(though I'm sure I haven't, really), and I used to own all the records,
and when I got the Greatest Slices tape from the record club, I could
virtually say everything on it word for word even though I haven't
had my records since The Great Disaster Of 1989, which covered them
all with thick furry allergy-inducing moldfuzz.
Ian. 21:25 21jun97. 42lines, so a nod of the tip of the cap to Douglas A.
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Scott Curtis
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997 09:25:28 GMT, l...@adan.kingston.net (Haynes Lee)
wrote:
>
>I don't think this is in the FAQ but where did the name "Monty Python"
>come from? Is it a name like Led Zeppelin or Def Leppard which is not
>supposed to make any sense in the first place?
>--------------------
>I wish to make a complaint about this assimilated parrot.
>It's not assimilated, it's pining for the Borg.
>
>http://www1.kingston.net/ik/lee/
>
Actually the name Led Zeppelin has some meaning. While Keith Moon was
listening to the band, he said: "this band is going to go down like a
lead Zeppelin" The rest is history.
oops I was lurking........back to my hole
Scott
John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997 14:13:55 +0100, Douglas Weir <big...@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>The name "Monty Python" was devised by Terry Jones and Gilliam.It was
>named after a a small side show that was popular around Frace in the
>early 1800's.The side show was Monty Pythons Flea acrobatics.John Clees
>wanted Circus in the name so they took out flea and repalced it with
>Circuis.Leaving them with "Monty Python's Flying Circuis"
Where in the world did you get this info from?
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Heidi L Sackerson
I tuned into Sanity FM when Douglas Weir <big...@ukonline.co.uk>
wrote:
>The name "Monty Python" was devised by Terry Jones and Gilliam.It was
>named after a a small side show that was popular around Frace in the
>early 1800's.The side show was Monty Pythons Flea acrobatics.John Clees
>wanted Circus in the name so they took out flea and repalced it with
>Circuis.Leaving them with "Monty Python's Flying Circuis"
That's not what Michael Palin and Eric Idle said. Palin said the BBC
thought "Flying Circus" was a suitably wacky name, and suggested they
call it "John Cleese's Flying Circus," and none of them, including
Cleese, wanted the show to be named after only one of them. So Eric
came up with the name "Monty" because the pub that he used to write
in, he said there was always a guy named Monty, everybody's pal type,
and people were always going up to the barman and saying, "Has Monty
been in yet?" And someone else came up with Python.
I got that from the Showtime special on Python about five years or so
back. Can't remember what it's called now -- Life of Python? Is that
right? Anyway...
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On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 01:44:50 GMT, Heidi L Sackerson
<heid...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>I tuned into Sanity FM when Douglas Weir <big...@ukonline.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>>The name "Monty Python" was devised by Terry Jones and Gilliam.It was
>>named after a a small side show that was popular around Frace in the
>>early 1800's.The side show was Monty Pythons Flea acrobatics.John Clees
>>wanted Circus in the name so they took out flea and repalced it with
>>Circuis.Leaving them with "Monty Python's Flying Circuis"
>
>That's not what Michael Palin and Eric Idle said. Palin said the BBC
>thought "Flying Circus" was a suitably wacky name, and suggested they
>call it "John Cleese's Flying Circus," and none of them, including
>Cleese, wanted the show to be named after only one of them. So Eric
>came up with the name "Monty" because the pub that he used to write
>in, he said there was always a guy named Monty, everybody's pal type,
>and people were always going up to the barman and saying, "Has Monty
>been in yet?" And someone else came up with Python.
Cleese came up with the "Python" part. He claimed it sounded like the sort
of slithery character that would watch their show.