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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Snake Quoting-- you know who you are!
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Date: Sat, 20-Oct-84 15:06:54 EDT
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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.

Eh-oooo!  Wittt and huh-YOOOOmur may never have been the inteNNNNNNtion of
these quOHters!!   Pardon me, I'm off to play the grAHHHHHnd piAHHHHHno!
-- 
"Come with me now to that secret place where
 the eyes of man have never set foot."		Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr