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From: ughenry@sunybcs.UUCP (Henry Neeman)
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Subject: Re: Witch question
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Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 15:40:27 EDT
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> In "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", villagers accuse a local
> maiden of being a witch.  After going through some rather twisted
> and amusing logic, they finally put her to the test - if she weighs
> the same as a duck then she is surely a witch.  As the balance is
> struck, the maiden speaks under the noise and celebration of the
> delighted villagers.  What did she say?

"It's a fair cop."

> ...who played the witch?  (Hint - She is a regular contributor
> to the troupe and teamed with John Cleese to write and star in
> "Fawlty Towers".)  This I do know.

Connie Booth, of course.  She not only wrote and starred with Cleese, she
was married to him (no longer, though).

>             - Wink Swain d/b/a Marlow Hinton
> "Tarts dispensing swords from the bottom of a lake is no basis
> for a system of government."
Actually, the quote is
"Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system
of government."

  If anybody would like me to post the entire scene, I have it transcribed
somewhere (although in a few places it's not 100% intelligible on _The_
Album_of_the_Soundtrack_of_the_Trailer_of_the_Film_of_Monty_Python_and_
the_Holy_Grail_).  Also the scene from the above quote.

-- 

                     Henry J. Neeman (ughenry@buffalo)

  "Yes, well, that's just the sort of blinkered, Philistine pig-ignorance
I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage.  You sit there on your
loathsome, spotty behinds, squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's
cuss for the struggling artist, you EXCREMENT!  You WHINING, HYPOCRITICAL
TOADIES with you COLOR T.V. SETS and your Tony Jacklin GOLF CLUBS and
your BLEEDING Masonic handshakes!"