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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Professor Wagstaff)
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Subject: Re: Re 'Cheeses'/ Life of Brian
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Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 09:12:55 EST
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> I also saw the movie Life of Brian and here are a few comments about it.
> Much of their religious 'humor' (not all!) is stupid silly and falls flat
> on anyone with a small amount of knowledge of the religious beliefs involved.

TRANSLATION:  I just couldn't take it.  It showed all sorts of emptyheaded
flaws in my thinking, and thus it must have been stupid.

> They HAVE no answer to the larger questions of life
> to present (at least in the picture), only gallows (in this case literally)
> humor!!!  It was chilling to behold!

Actually, they ASK the larger questions of life of those who don't want to hear
the question.

> (I am a great fan of Monty Python, by the way.)

I can only assume that Arndt said this just to annoy us.  (i.e., "Oh, my god,
Arndy likes Python!  I'd better change my tastes immediately...")
-- 
Life is complex.  It has real and imaginary parts.
					Rich Rosen  ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr