31 March 2013

Red Sea pedestrian

Monty Python's The Life of Brian

(1979)
As many times as I've seen this, and as attuned as I am to the commonest British slang term for masturbation, I've never before gotten r-challenged Pilate's declaration that Biggus Dickus "ranks as high as any man in Rome."

Also: a few weeks ago, on the ESPN telecast of an English Premier League match, after a yellow card was issued to a player for a nasty foul, commentator Steve McManaman pronounced him, like Brian, "a very naughty boy," thus referencing for a select audience (boothmate Ian Darke took a few moments, but seemed to get it) the one postcoital full-frontal-nudity scene. I've never been so proud of Macca.

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