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  • proper noun Monty Python's Flying Circus, a former British comedy troupe.

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  • We should, to borrow a phrase from Monty Python, be dancing on the super committee's grave, singing Hallelujah.

    Robert Naiman: Dancing on the Super Committee's Grave, Singing Hallelujah Robert Naiman 2011

  • We should, to borrow a phrase from Monty Python, be dancing on the super committee's grave, singing Hallelujah.

    Robert Naiman: Dancing on the Super Committee's Grave, Singing Hallelujah Robert Naiman 2011

  • Yes, he's very high-profile thanks to boingboing.net, but nonetheless that high profile itself would, if the pro-DRM parties were correct, lead to less sales, not more as I write this, I recall Monty Python's strategy of putting high-quality clips of their most famous sketches up on Youtube for free a few years back, resulting in an increase in DVD sales of something like two thousand percent.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Yes, he's very high-profile thanks to boingboing.net, but nonetheless that high profile itself would, if the pro-DRM parties were correct, lead to less sales, not more as I write this, I recall Monty Python's strategy of putting high-quality clips of their most famous sketches up on Youtube for free a few years back, resulting in an increase in DVD sales of something like two thousand percent.

    Pirate Dilemma 2009

  • To paraphrase Monty Python sketch, "You're not dead yet!"

    Watching and waiting for me to die: I want to live. Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • I recall a Monty Python record with a song called "Do What John?" and lo Google delivers:

    languagehat.com: DO WHAT? 2004

  • It also reminds you that, back then, it was possible for formality to sit comfortably alongside informality: it appeared, after all, at a time when the paper was showing its readers how to make a kaftan, and writing approvingly of a new comedy called Monty Python's Flying Circus.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Off course we saw Gondola's and while it took about four hours for us to walk back to the train station I recalled the Monty Python short film on

    TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • To paraphrase Monty Python, what has online anonymity ever done for us?

    PC Plus 2009

  • To paraphrase Monty Python, nobody voted for the Queen.

    Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2009

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