Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site foxvax1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!wjh12!foxvax1!sjf 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 Article-I.D.: foxvax1.490 Posted: Wed Oct 17 11:15:36 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 01:45:34 EDT Organization: The Foxboro Co., Foxboro, Mass Lines: 15 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-