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* Foreigners (usually Americans, but also Europeans and others) quoting Python incessantly as though they' | * Foreigners (usually Americans, but also Europeans and others) quoting Python incessantly as though they' | ||
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* Saturation of British audiences of the best sketches due to appearing on compilation shows every five minutes since 1978 means that they have lost most of their humour. | * Saturation of British audiences of the best sketches due to appearing on compilation shows every five minutes since 1978 means that they have lost most of their humour. | ||
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* Monty Python, like most classic comedy, was much spottier than most people would have you believe, and there were usually only a couple of really good sketches in each hour-long programme (as noted by [[Flocculencio]]). Most of the more irritating mindless Python-quoters appear to have only seen the 'best of' compilations, | * Monty Python, like most classic comedy, was much spottier than most people would have you believe, and there were usually only a couple of really good sketches in each hour-long programme (as noted by [[Flocculencio]]). Most of the more irritating mindless Python-quoters appear to have only seen the 'best of' compilations, | ||
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Over-Pythoning behaviour in a thread is sometimes curtailed with the announcement " | Over-Pythoning behaviour in a thread is sometimes curtailed with the announcement " | ||
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+ | The first point given here has begun to apply to other British comedic creations: mindless over-quoting by foreigners now threatens to make //[[Red Dwarf]]//, //[[the Hitchhiker' | ||
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