Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!rocksvax!sunybcs!ughenry From: ughenry@sunybcs.UUCP (Henry Neeman) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.games.trivia Subject: Re: Witch question Message-ID: <1893@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 15:40:27 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1893 Posted: Sun Jul 7 15:40:27 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jul-85 01:23:33 EDT References: <767@burl.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 38 Xref: watmath net.movies:6916 net.games.trivia:2030 > 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!"