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scottennis

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Dec 14, 2002, 1:21:35 AM12/14/02
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"I wave my private parts at your aunties, you brightly-colored,
mealy-templed, cranberry-smelling, electric donkey-bottom biters."

Sound familiar? Then this message is for you.

Soupyet.com is pleased to announce the arrival of the "The Ultimate
Monty Python Holy Grail Quiz."

Not for the casual Grail watcher. These three questions (ten sir) will
challenge even veterans of Grail lore.

Now, take the quiz or I shall taunt you a second time!

http://www.soupyet.com/modules.php?name=Grail_Quiz

Jack

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Dec 14, 2002, 2:23:07 PM12/14/02
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> Not for the casual Grail watcher. These three questions (ten sir) will
> challenge even veterans of Grail lore.
>

Indeed they are as one of them is wrong
7. Whose squire is hit by a cow and a wooden rabbit?
Arthur's Galahad's Launcelot's


The correct answer is in fact, Sir Robins!

This is Nieal Inness who plaied Sir Robin's minsuel,
"brave, brave, Sir Robin", etc, etc. There is a close
up of his face just before the wooden rabbit hits him.
It is Neal Inness, we see him with Sir Robin singing
just before they meet the 3 headed knight!


Cardinal Fang

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Dec 14, 2002, 2:47:48 PM12/14/02
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I disagree. Neil Innes played Sir Robin's Minstrel but also played The First
Self-Destructive Monk, The Page Crushed by a Rabbit and The Owner of a Duck.

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Cardinal Fang

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Dec 14, 2002, 2:51:15 PM12/14/02
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Ohh ask me a difficult one!

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Mysty

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Dec 18, 2002, 12:54:23 PM12/18/02
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> Now, take the quiz or I shall taunt you a second time!
>
Please taunt me a second time! I didn't enjoy the first time enough.
*snicker*
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Morgands1

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Dec 18, 2002, 10:22:10 PM12/18/02
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Neil played Robin's minstrel, not his squire (no heavy lifting involved).

According to the script it was Gawain's page who gets crushed by the rabbit.

Jack

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Dec 19, 2002, 1:23:03 PM12/19/02
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"Cardinal Fang" wrote

> I disagree. Neil Innes played Sir Robin's Minstrel but also played The
First
> Self-Destructive Monk, The Page Crushed by a Rabbit and The Owner of a
Duck.
>

Duh? That is what I said it is Neil Innes who played
Sir Robin's Minstrel and got hit by a wooden rabbit,
so I should have said you AGREE!

This is what the question says:

7. Whose squire is hit by a cow and a wooden rabbit?
Arthur's Galahad's Launcelot's

it should have given Sir Robin as an option as well!


Jack

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Dec 19, 2002, 1:25:44 PM12/19/02
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> According to the script it was Gawain's page who gets crushed by the
rabbit.
>

Then in that case I am still right, as the question is WRONG

7. Whose squire is hit by a cow and a wooden rabbit?
Arthur's Galahad's Launcelot's

as it don't give Gawain as a choice, but as I have already
posted, it is Iness who got hit by the rabbit, and he was
Sir Robin's minstral, so the question is COMPLETELY
WRONG.


Darrel Hoffman

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Dec 21, 2002, 7:51:02 PM12/21/02
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To be really nit-picky, it does say "squire", and Sir Robin's minstrel is
not a squire, technically... Then again, since the credits list him as "The
PAGE Crushed by a Rabbit", the question is still wrong, since a page is not
a squire either...

Belsambar

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Dec 22, 2002, 4:01:35 AM12/22/02
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"Darrel Hoffman" <I.don't...@think.so.net> wrote in
news:qU7N9.23774$C06....@news.bellsouth.net:

> To be really nit-picky, it does say "squire", and Sir Robin's minstrel
> is not a squire, technically... Then again, since the credits list
> him as "The PAGE Crushed by a Rabbit", the question is still wrong,
> since a page is not a squire either...

Umm, since a page was often the son of a noble friend of the knight, it is
very well possible for a page to be a squire..

TTFN,
B.

Alan

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Dec 22, 2002, 7:21:49 AM12/22/02
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On 22 Dec 2002 09:01:35 GMT, Belsambar
<wd...@die.spammers.die.hetnet.nl> wrote:

I thought a page was part of a quire...
(technically a sheet is)

Cardinal Fang

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Dec 22, 2002, 11:49:04 AM12/22/02
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In medieval times, the son of a nobleman would enter the household of
another noble at the age of around 7 to become a page. Here he would learn
manners, and all the nicities of being a lord and being in court.

At the age of about 12 he would become a squire and train to become a
knight. Eventually when he came of age, he would become a knight.

In later times, as wars became the preserve of standing armies rather than
lords serving their feudal duties, squires attended the lord on the
battlefield and around the manor. A page became someone who attended to the
lady of the manor rather than the lord. It is likely that they would still
have been of noble birth sent to another nobleman's house to learn manners.

In either case, neither the page nor the squire would be carrying the lord's
baggage. That would be the preserve of servants and ordinary soldiers in the
lord's retinue. But then they wouldn't be carrying coconuts anyway...

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Jack

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Dec 22, 2002, 1:13:23 PM12/22/02
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"Alan " <bogf...@hotmail.com> wrote

> I thought a page was part of a quire...
>

No, a page is part of a book!


Larry Krzewinski

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Dec 22, 2002, 1:51:24 PM12/22/02
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:49:04 -0000, "Cardinal Fang"
<cardinal_f...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>But then they wouldn't be carrying coconuts anyway...

Did they just sort of roll them along then? There must have been
someway they were able to transport the coconuts from place to place.
I mean coconuts don't have legs. <g>

fnxtr

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Dec 22, 2002, 3:28:53 PM12/22/02
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"Jack" <ja...@du.de> wrote in message news:YgnN9.3059$h43.444132@stones...

> "Alan " <bogf...@hotmail.com> wrote
> > I thought a page was part of a quire...
> >
>
> No, a page is part of a book!

And a tenor is part of a quire, squire.

pfunk aka or maybe a soprano... no, that's part of a mob...


David Simpson

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Dec 23, 2002, 8:24:52 AM12/23/02
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On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:51:02 -0500, "Darrel Hoffman"
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Right. A page is one side of a leaf.

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David Simpson

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Dec 23, 2002, 8:24:53 AM12/23/02
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On 22 Dec 2002 09:01:35 GMT, Belsambar
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Her ladyship liked to curl up with a good book ... or a page.

raven1

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Dec 23, 2002, 1:08:05 PM12/23/02
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:51:24 GMT, Larry Krzewinski <larr...@gte.net>
wrote:

They probably had a swallow carry them.


Steve Dale

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Jan 4, 2003, 5:10:15 PM1/4/03
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....oh.


scottennis

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Jan 25, 2003, 12:53:08 PM1/25/03
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The logic behind the answer in the quiz is based on comparing the
device on the page's (or squire's) shirt with their corresponding
knight's shield or banner.

Using this logic, whose page (or squire) was crushed by the cow and
the rabbit?

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> ....oh.

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