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From: sjf@foxvax1.UUCP (S.J. Foley )
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Snake Quoting-- you know who you are!
Message-ID: <490@foxvax1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 11:15:36 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 17 11:15:36 1984
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Somewhere between the BBC and the signature line of a netnews article
there is definitely something lost in the quotation of the Pythons.
I find that, the sight of Graham Chapman, a flight instructor, hanging from the
ceiling, verbally assaulting a prospective student for wanting to learn how
to fly an "Aeroplane" is inherently wittier and funnier than some tinny sort 
taking a line from one of the Python's movies (or Flying Circuses) and using it
as a sign-off. Then again wit and humor may never have been the intention
of these quoters.


				-sf-