It’s amazing how on the money Monty Python were about politicians in general, considering they were writing in the early Seventies about politicians in the United Kingdom.

Here’s another of Monty Python’s famous sketches, the Hungarian Phrasebook sketch, featuring the always brilliant John Cleese as the clueless Hungarian, Terry Jones as the patient (male) tobacconist, and once again Graham Chapman as a clueless authority figure, this time a policeman with sharp hearing, but without a patrol car.

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This scene is from Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the story of Brian Cohen, a man who happened to be born in the manger next to Jesus Christ, and how he went from mama’s boy to freedom fighter to reluctant messiah.

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Well, it’s finally happened: I’ve missed a day of posting. Apparently some power transformer blew up somewhere, taking out a large chunk of the power grid, including my condo. My electronics are out of power and I’m at a net cafe charging my phone.

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On October 5, 1969, a small comedy group of 3 Cantabrigians, 2 Oxonians, and a lone American unleashed a concentrated dose of sheer lunacy upon an unsuspecting world.

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