“Graves, eh? You had it really good. We’d have loved to have our da dancing on our grave. They would just pile our corpses under an old broken down beer wagon behind the sewer works.”
SkorpionSeptember 23, 2021, 12:15 PM
When John Cleese and Graham Chapman (the two inside guys) went on to form Monty Python’s Flying Circus, they adapted this sketch for their live show. I remember as a teenager hearing a tape of them performing it, and laughing so hard my sides hurt for hours afterwards. The routine NAILS the we-had-it-tough rhetoric that so many of us indulge in our later years, as well as the eternal guy-group impulse to one-up each other’s anecdotes.
Haw, I had it even liverwurst and had liverworts all over my body!
Thinking about it the liverworts didn’t have it easy either; life of a liverwort starts from the germination of a haploid spore to produce a protonema, which is either a mass of thread-like filaments or else a flattened thallus. The protonema is a transitory stage in the life of a liverwort, from which will grow the mature gametophore.
AnonymousSeptember 23, 2021, 1:08 PM
I always liked Marty Feldman – didn’t know he used to perform with Cleese.
JV, fuck the Feds. “ Their” terrified of freedom loving Americans,,,,,,
But then I’m not sure which is worse, feds posing as patriots,,,,,,,,,,or patriots, posing as patriots? Can be sooooo confusing sometimes
VI
MICHAEL NASHSeptember 24, 2021, 1:08 AM
My only problem with the video is that it cuts out the very beginning of the sketch and what’s worse, they leave off the punch line! “And you try an’ tell th’ young people of today that. They won’t believe yez!” Otherwise classic comedy. I always thought Tim Brooke-Taylor was very underrated. Loved him in “The Goodies”.
Up all night thinking about my predicament, the real problem has to be Patriots, posing as Patriots!
Fear not ,,, I’ve a solution anybody under suspicion,,,,,we water board with Carlo Rossi’s cheapest red wine. Not even the most devout pretend patriots can pass that definitive test.
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My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
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Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
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Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
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Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
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Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
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Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
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And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
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Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
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“Graves, eh? You had it really good. We’d have loved to have our da dancing on our grave. They would just pile our corpses under an old broken down beer wagon behind the sewer works.”
When John Cleese and Graham Chapman (the two inside guys) went on to form Monty Python’s Flying Circus, they adapted this sketch for their live show. I remember as a teenager hearing a tape of them performing it, and laughing so hard my sides hurt for hours afterwards. The routine NAILS the we-had-it-tough rhetoric that so many of us indulge in our later years, as well as the eternal guy-group impulse to one-up each other’s anecdotes.
Rubbish! Aye had it much worse!
You had it much worse?
Haw, I had it even liverwurst and had liverworts all over my body!
Thinking about it the liverworts didn’t have it easy either; life of a liverwort starts from the germination of a haploid spore to produce a protonema, which is either a mass of thread-like filaments or else a flattened thallus. The protonema is a transitory stage in the life of a liverwort, from which will grow the mature gametophore.
I always liked Marty Feldman – didn’t know he used to perform with Cleese.
“What hump?’
Gerard: You nailed it.
Group is already infiltrated by the feds, hey?
JV, fuck the Feds. “ Their” terrified of freedom loving Americans,,,,,,
But then I’m not sure which is worse, feds posing as patriots,,,,,,,,,,or patriots, posing as patriots? Can be sooooo confusing sometimes
VI
My only problem with the video is that it cuts out the very beginning of the sketch and what’s worse, they leave off the punch line! “And you try an’ tell th’ young people of today that. They won’t believe yez!” Otherwise classic comedy. I always thought Tim Brooke-Taylor was very underrated. Loved him in “The Goodies”.
Up all night thinking about my predicament, the real problem has to be Patriots, posing as Patriots!
Fear not ,,, I’ve a solution anybody under suspicion,,,,,we water board with Carlo Rossi’s cheapest red wine. Not even the most devout pretend patriots can pass that definitive test.
Problem solved!
VI